Legal India Parents refuse to take back child, child panel to take action January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment As parents of abandoned Chiku refused to accept him, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) Tuesday said they will take action against the parents if they don’t take the child back. Chiku, now six months old, was abandoned by his parents, Rajiv Kumar and Sunita in June last year soon after he […] Read more » Amod Kanth Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Legal India If Binayak convicted wrongly, it’ll be corrected legally: Chidambaram January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said if rights activist Binayak Sen had been convicted wrongly for his Maoists links then it would be corrected through legal ways. ‘If he is wrongly convicted, it will be corrected in lawful ways,’ Chidambaram said, adding that the doctor-activist has been convicted by a court of law and ‘those […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram rights activist Binayak Sen
Legal India Kalmadi ducks CBI, aides Bhanot and Bhore questioned January 4, 2011 / January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who was supposed to appear before the CBI for questioning about financial irregularities in the conduct of the October Games, evaded the investigative agency Tuesday, an official said.”We have no idea when he (Kalmadi) will appear for qestioning,” a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official told. However, Commonwealth […] Read more » Bhanot Bhore CBI Kalmadi
Legal India Delhi’s slum dwellers to get 15,000 low-cost flats January 4, 2011 | 1 Comment on Delhi’s slum dwellers to get 15,000 low-cost flats Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday initiated the process of allotting around 15,000 low-cost flats to make the city slum-free, an official said. The allotment of flats, constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission project, commenced after Dikshit chaired a meeting of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB). ‘In order to […] Read more » dwellers slum
Legal India Gujjar leader Bainsla to meet Ashok Gehlot January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment Colonel (retd) K.S. Bainsla, leader of Rajasthan’s agitating Gujjar community, will Tuesday hold talks with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, even as the community’s stir for five percent reservation in government jobs entered its 16th day, disrupting some train services. Bainsla left Piloo Ka Pura near Bayana in Bharatpur district and is expected in Jaipur by […] Read more » Ashok Gehlot Bainsla
Legal India Chhattisgarh High Court gets new building January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh High Court has got a new sprawling building spread over 44,500 sq metres of land, an official said Tuesday. The new building has come up at Bodri locality on the outskirts of Bilaspur town, some 100 km from state capital Raipur. It became operational Monday. A staggering Rs.108 crore has already been spent […] Read more » Chhattisgarh High Court Public Works Department
Legal India Court pulls up lawyer facing contempt charges January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment Pulling up a lawyer facing contempt of court proceedings, the Gujarat High Court has been directed him to remain present before it Jan 24. The bench comprising Justices A.M. Kapadia and B.N. Mehta directed Girish Das, in a suo motu contempt proceeding, to be present in court as he failed to do so during a […] Read more » charges contempt lawyer
Legal India Baby’s death in womb: Surgeon, two others found guilty January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment A surgeon and two others have been found guilty of negligence by a magisterial probe in the death of a pregnant woman’s baby in her womb due to wrong blood transfusion at a government hospital here last month. The probe report was given Monday. Transfusion of blood from a wrong blood group led to the […] Read more » Surgeon womb
Legal India Ex-judge asked me not to complain against Balakrishnan: Iyer January 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment Stepping up pressure for a probe into graft allegations against former chief justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, retired Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna Iyer Monday said a former high court judge approached him recently to persuade him not to raise the matter with the prime minister. ‘He (the judge) requested me that I should not […] Read more » K.G. Balakrishnan V.R. Krishna Iyer
Legal India CBI points finger at Aarushi’s parents, but lacks evidence January 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) casting strong aspersions on the role of Aarushi Talwar’s father in her murder, the parents Saturday again lashed out at the agency for making “wild” allegations without a shred of evidence. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents’ Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, Delhi’s […] Read more » CBI
