Legal India HC quashes KSERC order on commercial tariff August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Kerala High Court quashed the State Electricity Regulatory Commission’s decision to levy commercial tariff on self financing schools and colleges. A division bench comprising Justices P R Raman and P Bhavadasan set aside the commission’s December 2007 order. The commission had stated that self financing educational institutions were using air conditioners and so it had […] Read more »
Legal India SC seeks government response on gay sex verdict August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court sought the central government’s stand on decriminalizing of gay sex between consenting adults after a set of two fresh lawsuits challenged the Delhi High Court’s verdict. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam issued a notice to the central government on lawsuits filed by Christian Apostolic Churches Alliance and […] Read more »
Legal India Court gives road accident victim’s family Rs.2.3 mn August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court awarded a compensation of Rs.2.3 million to the family of a man killed in a road accident in 1998. Justice J.R. Midha enhanced a lower court’s compensation of Rs.1 million to Rs. 2.3 million and said: “The future prospects of the deceased should be taken into consideration while assessing compensation for the […] Read more »
Legal India Lawyers boycott work at Allahabad HC August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judicial work was paralysed at the Allahabad High Court as advocates abstained from work in protest against a recent indication from the Centre that it might consider setting up a separate bench of the court in western Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the protesting lawyers, president of the High Court Bar Association V C Mishra decried the […] Read more »
Legal India Court convicts four in Buddha Jayanti rape case August 17, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi Court Monday convicted four members of President’s Bodyguards (PBG) in the six-year-old Buddha Jayanti Park gang rape case. Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria held Harpreet and Satendra guilty of gang rape, kidnapping and robbery under the various provisions of the Indian Penal Code.The court also held Kuldeep and Manish of guilty of kidnapping […] Read more »
Legal India Reduce pendency of cases: PM August 17, 2009 / August 17, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon the judiciary and the executive to work together to eliminate the “scourge.” Addressing a joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices here, Prime Minister said, “I can assure this august gathering with all the emphasis at my command that my government will not be found wanting at any […] Read more »
Legal India ‘Chronic shortage’ of judicial officers: CJI August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishanan expressed concern over the ‘chronic shortage’ of judicial officers.He said, There are structural obstacles which discourage talented law graduates from joining the judicial services and over 17 per cent posts of judicial officers remained vacant in the subordinate judiciary. “There has undoubtedly been a chronic shortage of judicial […] Read more »
Legal India Delhi HC pulls up DCP August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court pulled up the DCP ‘West Delhi’ for not taking effective measures to prevent sale of spurious liquor in the Capital’s Dabri area despite several people dying after consuming hooch in May this year. Justice Kailash Gambhir made these observations while going through an affidavit filed by the West District Police in response […] Read more »
Legal India Support SC, ST to help them compete general candidates:SC August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has held that SC, ST candidates must be provided with all facilities to enable them to compete with general category candidates in specialised institutions. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Mr Justice P Sathasivam and Mr Justice B S Chauhan, in a 26 page judgment today directed IIT, Delhi to reconsider […] Read more »
Legal India HC pulls up D.Police for detaining Good Samaritan August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court pulled up Delhi Police for detaining a man who had helped someone injured in a roadside brawl, and ordered a vigilance inquiry into the incident. Taking suo moto cognisance of a report, a division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan said, “Why can’t your officer, who is […] Read more »