Top Law News SC Issues Notice On Plea By 21 Political Parties For 50% VVPAT Verification March 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today issued notice on a petition filed by leaders from 21 political parties seeking a direction to the Election Commission of India(ECI) to randomly verify at least 50 per cent votes using Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) in the polls to 17th Lok Sabha. The bench headed by Chief Justice of […] Read more » Election Commission of India Electronic Voting Machine EVM Lok Sabha polls VVPAT
Top Law News IIM-Indore’s Journal published “How Vested Interests Eroded the Best ‘Make in India’ Story” March 14, 2019 / March 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A year-long evidence-based research titled ‘How Vested Interests Eroded the Best ‘Make in India’ Story’, has been published in the IIM-Indore journal. This research by noted Prof. Ganapathy Lakshman Sharma explains how regulatory overreach can lead to a market crisis, hugely impacting the growth of financial markets. The research also explores the crucial role of […] Read more » How Vested Interests Eroded the Best ‘Make in India
Top Law News How the RBI Dodged RTI Appeals For Minutes Of Meeting On Demonetisation. March 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After two years of stubborn refusal to part with any details regarding the minutes of its board meeting on demonetisation, the RBI has demonstrated its sheer disdain for the RTI Act. While India’s leaders make a mockery of the constitution and the economy, the Reserve Bank of India made a mockery of the Right to […] Read more » Demonetisation Meeting On Demonetisation Minutes Of Meeting On Demonetisation. political economy RBI Reserve Bank of India RTI Appeals
Top Law News Rafale Petitioners Guilty Of Leakage Of Sensitive Information: Centre Submits In Supreme Court March 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Even though the Central Government maintains secrecy, the petitioners and the deponent of the affidavit of the Review Petition are guilty of leakage of sensitive information, which offends the terms of the agreements. Additionally, those who have conspired in this leakage are guilty of penal offences under the Indian Penal Code including theft by unauthorized […] Read more » Rafale
Top Law News Why No Mechanism To Monitor Assets Of MPs And MLAs : Supreme Court March 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to explain in two weeks why it has not set up a permanent mechanism to monitor the undue accretion of assets by elected representatives as directed by it last year. On Feb 16 last year, the apex court had said the undue accretion of assets by lawmakers […] Read more » Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Sanjiv Khanna Justices deepak gupta Lok Prahari NGO Supreme Court Why No Mechanism To Monitor Assets Of MPs And MLAs
Top Law News Supreme Court Curious About Fate Of Persons Whose Name Appears In Electoral Roll But Not In Final NRC . March 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “The question that looms large and what the Court would like to be informed about is the precise relationship between the final N.R.C. which is due to be published on 31.7.2019 and the electoral rolls.” What would be fate of the persons whose names appear in the electoral roll but are not included in the […] Read more » cji ranjan gogoi Election Commission of India Fate Of Persons Whose Name Appears In Electoral Roll But Not In Final NRC Justice Deepak Gupta Justice Sanjeev Khanna Name Appears In Electoral Roll Name Appears Not In Final NRC nrc assam Supreme Court
Top Law News Over 10 Lakh Cases Settled In National Lok Adalat. March 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment About 10.19 lakh cases were settled in the first National Lok Adalat of 2019 held on March 9,2019 across the country under the aegis of National Legal Services Authority. The settled cases include 5.45 lakh pending and 4.73 prelitigation cases. In the year 2019, four National Lok Adalats will be held. Second National Lok Adalat […] Read more » National Lok Adalat
Top Law News Man gets 10 years in jail for sexually assaulting girl March 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man was awarded 10 years imprisonment by a court here for sexually assaulting a girl three years ago, a police official said Tuesday. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Mithlesh Chaudhary who was convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said. “A case was registered […] Read more » sexually assaulting girl
Top Law News Failure To Pay Mobile Bills Is Not A Crime : Kerala High Court March 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “I find that the transaction involved as between the parties is one arising out of a civil dispute. ” The Kerala High court recently quashed a criminal ‘cheating’ case against a man accused of not paying Mobile bills, observing that the transaction involved as between the mobile operator and the customer is one arising out […] Read more » crime not to pay mobile bill Failure To Pay Mobile Bills Justice TV Anilkumar mobile bill non payment of Mobile Bills Is Not A Crime
High Profile Cases Death Sentence Can Be Imposed Only When Life Imprisonment Appears To Be An Altogether Inappropriate Punishment: Supreme Court March 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “We are not convinced that the probability of reform of the accused/appellant is low, in the absence of prior offending history and keeping in mind his overall conduct. ” While commuting death sentence awarded to a man convicted for rape and murder of a five year old girl, the Supreme Court observed that death sentence […] Read more » death sentence Justice Indira Banerjee Justice Mohan M. Shanthanagoudar Justice NV Ramana Life Imprisonment Inappropriate Punishment Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Litigants can change Lawyer If Case Is Not Being Attended Properly: Supreme Court March 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “If the appellants noticed that their lawyer was not taking interest in attending to the brief in question, then they should have immediately engaged some other lawyer to ensure that the appeal be filed in time by another lawyer.” The Supreme Court, in a judgment delivered on Tuesday, has given a subtle message to litigants […] Read more » Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Justice Dinesh Maheshwari Litigants can change Lawyer
High Profile Cases Bar Council Of India to reconsider Upper Age Limit For Admission To LL.B. Courses : SC March 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Bar Council of India to reconsider, after hearing the various stakeholders, the upper age-limit for taking admission to the five-year and three-year law degree courses. The bench headed by Justice SA Bobde was hearing a plea by Rishab Duggal for setting aside a 2016 circular by which the […] Read more » Upper Age Limit For Admission To LL.B. Courses
