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
Top Law News ICICI Bank-Videocon Loan Case: Chanda Kochhar Appears Before Enforcement Directorate. May 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on Monday in connection with the Videocon loan case, where she is accused of fraud and money laundering. Kochhar arrived before the ED office in New Delhi’s Khan Market shortly before her scheduled appearance time of 11 a.m., people familiar with […] Read more » Chanda Kochhar Former ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Former ICICI Bank Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar ICICI Bank-Videocon loan case Videocon loan case
Top Law News Karti Chidambaram Moves Supreme Court To Refund Rs 10 Crore Deposited To Travel Abroad. May 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Karti Chidambaram, facing criminal cases being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate, moved the Supreme Court seeking return of Rs 10 crore which he had earlier deposited with the court’s registry for travelling abroad. He claims that he had taken the money on loan and was paying interest on it. The […] Read more » Karti Chaidambaram Karti Chidambaram in Aircel-Maxis Cases Karti Chidambaram in money laundering matters money laundering matters
Top Law News Supreme Court dismisses plea to advance poll timing in Lok Sabha election May 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea seeking a direction to the Election Commission to advance poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am for the seventh phase of Lok Sabha polls in view of searing heat and the month of Ramzan. A vacation bench comprising Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna rejected the plea, […] Read more » advocate Mohammad Nizamuddin Pasha Election Commission to advance poll timings to 5:30 am from 7 am Justice Sanjiv Khanna Justices Indira Banerjee Justices Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna plea to advance poll timing in Lok Sabha election poll timings to be increased in ramzan ramzan poll timings to be increased Supreme Court
Top Law News Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala moved Kerala HC alleging ‘postal ballot fraud’ in LS polls May 15, 2019 / May 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala on Monday moved the Kerala High Court alleging a postal ballot fraud in Lok Sabha elections held in the state on April 23. In his PIL, Chennithala demanded a probe alleging that a serious postal vote fraud has been practised by “pro-government” Police Association office bearers […] Read more » Kerala HC Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly Leader of the Opposition in Kerala Assembly Ramesh Chennithala postal ballot fraud Ramesh Chennithala
Top Law News Bombay High Court asks Maharashtra government about steps taken to tackle drought May 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has sought to know from the Maharashtra government what measures it proposes to tackle “serious” issues like drought in the state. A vacation bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and N J Jamadar was hearing a petition filed by activist Sanjay Lakhe Patil, seeking setting up of independent disaster management committees in […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Ajey Gadkari Justice N J Jamadar measures to be taken to tackle drought in the Maharashtra
Top Law News Husband and in-laws acquitted in dowry death and harassment case May 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Thane court in Maharashtra has acquitted a man and his two family members of charges of dowry death and cruelty to wife, citing delay in filing of the complaint. District Judge S A Sinha last week freed Balu Gaikwad (38), his mother Shobha Gaikwad (50) and sister Vanita Gaikwad, saying the prosecution’s explanation about delay […] Read more » dowry death and harassment case Thane court in Maharashtra
