Legal India SC pulls up UP over memorials September 8, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court pulled up the UP government over the construction of various memorials in State capital ‘Lucknow’ dedicated to Dalit icon BR. Ambedkar and Chief Minister Mayawati. Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice Aftab Alam asked the UP government not to make “any further construction on various properties” in Lucknow which are facing litigation in the […] Read more »
Legal India Advocates started signature compaign for allow Hindi in courts September 7, 2009 / September 7, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of lawyers have started a signature campaign in the Delhi High Court of Delhi and the five district courts of the Capital, requesting that they be allowed to argue their cases in Hindi also apart from the English. “We have received a huge response from the lawyers and collected over 3,000 signatures so […] Read more » Hindi in Courts
Legal India SC grants bail to BMW case convict September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court granted bail to Rajiv Gupta who was convicted by the Delhi High Court for destroying evidence in BMW hit-and-run case. The main accused of this case Sanjeev Nanda sentenced to two years imprisonment. A Bench comprisng Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan allowed the plea by Gupta […] Read more »
Legal India Rajasthan HC judges to make public their assets September 5, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Rajasthan HC judges to make public their assets All 29 judges of Rajasthan High Court unanimously decided to make public their assets and also those owned by their dependents. Chief Justice Jagdish Bhalla told reporters, “All the judges of the HC have taken a consensus decision to disclose their assets. Besides, it has also been resolved that the assets of the dependents and […] Read more »
Legal India NSUI’s Petition against DUSU Election Nomination rejection was dismissed September 5, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court a bench of comprising Justices B N Aggarwal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, upheld the Delhi High Court order dismissing the petition filed by two NSUI candidates for the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections against cancellation of their nominations. The Returning Officer had cancelled the nomination papers of the two petitioners, […] Read more » DUSU Election
Legal India CJI comes under RTI: Delhi HC September 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court upheld the Chief Information Commissioner’s order that the RTI Act covers the Chief Justice of India’s office because he is a public authority. For practical purposes, the judgment throws open the Chief Justice of India to public scrutiny. It also means that a person can move an RTI to seek information about […] Read more »
Legal India Right To Education Bill gets assent September 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, which makes education a fundamental right of every child in the 6 to14 age group, has come into force with the Presidential assent. The assent was given on August 26 and the Act was notified the following day. Read more »
Legal India court summons Nitish Kumar September 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bihar court has summoned Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to appear before it on September 9 in connection with a petition alleging his involvement in the murder of a Congress activist at Barh in November 1991. Additional CJM Ranjan Kumar passed the order on September 1, asking Kumar and LJP MLA Dularchand Yadav to appear […] Read more »
Legal India No any functions in delhi parks: HC September 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court expressed concern over the damage done to the parks in the capital. The parks were not meant for such functions and if these events were allowed to be held there, an irreparable damage would be caused to the flora and fauna of the capital,” a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit […] Read more »
Legal India Living Separately for years? Then divorce: SC September 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has said it is “not acceptable” that a husband and wife go on living separately for years because one of them does not agree to a mutual divorce. A bench of Justice Altmas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph gave this ruling, while dissolving a sour marriage between a man and his wife, who […] Read more »