High Profile Cases PMLA case: Robert Vadra moves Delhi court seeking permission to travel abroad May 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: Robert Vadra, who is an accused in a money laundering case, Tuesday moved a Delhi court seeking permission to travel abroad. The counsel for Vadra requested Special judge Arvind Kumar to ensure details of his itinerary are not shared with a third party as it was a matter of his security. The counsel […] Read more » Delhi court PMLA case Robert Vadra
Bar, Bench & Firm News Delhi High Court notifies Vacation Bench for Summer Break 2019 May 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has notified its Vacation Bench for Summer Break 2019. The vacation Bench will hear matters which require immediate or prompt intervention.As per the Notification dated May 17, the Judges will sit in Division Benches and also singly to hear urgent Civil and Criminal matters. Ordinarily, the Judges will sit […] Read more » Bench for Summer Break 2019 Delhi High Court notifies Vacation
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi High Court merged with Delhi Judicial Academy May 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi Judicial Academy has been merged with the Delhi High Court for administrative and financial purposes. A recommendation to this effect had been made in February this year by the Judicial Education and Training Programme Committee. This recommendation was accepted in a Full Court meeting of the High Court. Accordingly a notification […] Read more » Delhi High Court delhi judicial academy merged
Criminal Law News New Delhi : A special MCOCA court here Friday acquitted nine people accused of murdering a man in 2012. May 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: A total of 12 persons were accused of killing Haris alias Bittu Sultan Shah (25) in February 2012 in a room in Kalyan’s Bail Bazar area and then burning the body in Igatpuri near Nashik. The accused believed Shah had stolen 30 kg of charas, a narcotic substance, from them, the prosecution claimed. […] Read more » A special MCOCA court accused of murdering a man acquitted nine people in 2012 murder case
Human Rights Supreme Court to hear plea of Muslim woman against talaq notices May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi : The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a Muslim woman’s plea challenging the two Talaq notices given by her husband and sought direction for registration of FIR against him. A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna said it will hear the plea on Friday. Advocate M M Kashyap, appearing […] Read more » against talaq notices muslims women Supreme Court
Environment Law News Bombay High Court refuses to vacate stay imposed on BMC’s Tree Authority May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused the BMC’s plea to vacate a stay imposed on the working of Mumbai civic body’s Tree Authority that has the power to approve cutting of trees for development projects or repair and upgradation work. A vacation bench of justices A S Gadkari and N J Jamadar, however, refused […] Read more » BMC's Tree Authority Bombay High Court
education law Supreme Court seeks response from Centre, CBSE on plea seeking 10% quota for economically weaker sections in CTET 2019 May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday sought responses from the Centre and CBSE on a plea seeking ten per cent reservation for economically weaker sections in Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET), 2019. The petitioners told the apex court that CBSE published an advertisement on January 23, 2019 for conducting CTET in which benefit of ten per cent […] Read more » 10% quota CTET Exam Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Bofors case : CBI withdraws application from Delhi court seeking permission for further probe in Bofors case May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI Thursday withdrew from a Delhi court its application that had sought permission to further probe the politically sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors payoff case. The agency told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Navin Kumar Kashyap that it wants to withdraw the application filed on February 1, 2018. It had moved the trial court seeking permission for […] Read more » Bofors case Delhi court further probe in bofors case
Top Law News Man gets 7-yr RI for sodomising minor boy in Maharashtra. May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Maharashtra’s Thane has awarded seven-year rigorous imprisonment to a 26-year-old man for sodomising a minor boy in 2016. Special judge S P Gondhalekar last week pronounced the accused, Mohammad Akram Jaki Ansari, guilty under Indian Penal Code Section 377 (unnatural offences) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. […] Read more » 7-yr RI 7-yr RI for sodomising minor boy accused Mohammad Akram Jaki Ansari POCSO sections sodomising minor boy Special judge S P Gondhalekar
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court refuses to entertain PIL against Kamal Haasan’s remark May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a PIL filed by a BJP leader seeking directions to the Election Commission to “restrict” misuse of religion for poll gains. The high court also asked the EC to decide BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay’s representation against the remarks of actor-cum-politician Kamal Haasan that “free India’s […] Read more » Delhi High Court Kamal Haasan Mahatma Gandhi Nathuram Godse Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi. PIL against Kamal Hasan
Top Law News Maharashtra’s Court acquits 4 accused of dacoity at actor’s house in Maharashtra. May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Maharashtra’s Thane has acquitted four persons of charges of dacoity at the residence of a television actor here in 2016. District and Sessions Judge S B Bahalkar in his order on Tuesday said the prosecution miserably failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt the charges against the accused. According to the prosecution, on the […] Read more » dacoity at actor's house dacoity in actress home Indian Penal Code sections 395
Top Law News Mamata Meme Row : Supreme Court Says Arrest Of Activist Prima Facie Arbitrary. May 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court termed as “prima facie arbitrary” the arrest of Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing leader for posting morphed image of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media and pulled up the West Bengal government for the delay in releasing her. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna was informed by […] Read more » Mamata Meme Row
