Top Law News Petition filed in SC challenging central law on land acquisition near disputed site in Ayodhya February 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The plea filed in the apex court on Monday alleged that Parliament has no legislative competence to acquire land belonging to the state. More A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Monday challenging the constitutional validity of the Acquisition of Certain Area At Ayodhya Act, 1993. This comes days after the Centre moved […] Read more » Acquisition of Certain Area At Ayodhya Act
Top Law News Court sends Sunanda Pushkar death case against Shashi Tharoor to Sessions court February 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday, 4 February, sent Sunanda Pushkar’s death case against Congress leader Shashi Tharoor to a Sessions court for further proceedings. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal sent the case to Additional Sessions Judge Arun Bhardwaj, since the offence under Section 306 (abetment of suicide) of the Indian Penal Code was triable by […] Read more » Sunanda Pushkar's death case
Top Law News ‘Death warrant’ against teacher for raping 4-year-old girl February 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A trial court in Madhya Pradesh has issued a ‘death warrant’ against a school teacher who has been convicted of raping a four-year-old girl. The trial court in Satna district has sent the death warrant of Mahendra Singh Gond (28) to the Central Jail in Jabalpur, a prison official said on Monday. The rape convict’s […] Read more » 'Death warrant for raping 4 year girl Death warrant
Top Law News Finalise shrine board for temples in Govardhan in 15 days: NGT to UP govt February 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to enact legislation to constitute a shrine board for three temples in the pilgrimage town of Govardhan in Mathura district and get it approved within 15 days. The green panel directed the state government to take up the bill in the next session and get […] Read more » Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore NGO Muskan Jyoti Samiti pilgrimage town of Govardhan in Mathura
Top Law News VVIP chopper case: Delhi court extends ED custody of Rajeev Saxena by 4 days February 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday extended by four more days the ED custody of Rajeev Saxena, an accused in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland case. Saxena, a Dubai-based businessman, was extradited from Dubai on January 31 and sent to four-day custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) the same day. The court had allowed his custodial interrogation after […] Read more » VVIP chopper case
Top Law News Defence Ministry not giving land to shift 99-yr-old school: AAP government to Delhi High Court February 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The AAP government has told the Delhi High Court that since the Centre was refusing to hand over land to shift a 99-year-old school, whose building is in a dilapidated state, the students studying there would be relocated to other schools from the next academic year. At a meeting held on November 28 last pursuant […] Read more » AAP AAP government Defence Ministry Delhi High Court land to shift 99-yr-old school Rajputana Rifles Heroes Memorial Senior Secondary School
Top Law News Left leaders call for removal of BJP from Centre and Mamata from WB February 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Left Front Sunday called for throwing out the BJP from power at the Centre and the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, accusing both of being “corrupt and throttlers of democracy”. Alleging that the BJP and the TMC were hand in glove with each other, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury sought to know why Mamata […] Read more » BJP from power Centre CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal
Top Law News 26/11 case: Court issues non-bailable warrants against two Pakistan Army officials February 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A sessions court here has issued non-bailable warrants against two Pakistan Army officials – Major Abdul Rehman Pasha and Major Iqbal – in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case. While Major Pasha has retired, the prosecution believes Major Iqbal is still serving as an ISI official in Pakistan, as disclosed by US born […] Read more » 26/11 case LeT operative Sayyed Zabiuddin Ansari non-bailable warrants
Top Law News Government proposes single stamp duty rate for financial securities transactions February 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Friday proposed to bring in a single stamp duty rate for all financial securities transactions, a move that would help in reducing procedural requirements for brokers. The proposal is part of the Finance Bill 2019-20 introduced by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal after presentation of the Interim Budget. In his speech, he said, the […] Read more » CEO Dhiraj Relli financial securities transactions HDFC Securities MD HDFC Securities MD and CEO Dhiraj Relli single stamp duty rate single stamp duty rate for financial securities transactions
Top Law News Elgar Parishad case: Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde arrested February 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dalit scholar Anand Teltumbde was Saturday arrested in Mumbai by the Pune Police in the Elgar Parishad case for his alleged Maoist links, officials said Police detained Teltumbde, a professor at Goa Institute of Management, at the Mumbai airport early hours Saturday after his arrival from Kerala He was detained by the Mumbai Police, who […] Read more » Anand Teltumbde Dalit scholar Elgar Parishad case
Top Law News Supreme Court expresses displeasure at non-appointment of regular CBI director February 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the Centre why it has not appointed a regular CBI director and said it was “averse” to the appointment of an interim chief for the agency for a long period. A bench comprising justices Arun Mishra and Naveen Sinha said the post of CBI director was sensitive and the government […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal CBI director displeasure at non-appointment of regular CBI director interim CBI director. IPS officer M Nageswara Rao as the interim CBI director. Justice Arun Mishra Justice Naveen Sinha M Nageswara Rao non-appointment of regular CBI director Supreme Court
Top Law News Govt doubles tax exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh February 1, 2019 / February 1, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major relief to the middle-class, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal Friday proposed to double the threshold tax exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh and increased the standard deduction to Rs 50,000 from Rs 40,000. The proposal will benefit 3 crore middle-class tax payers, Goyal said while unveiling the Budget proposals for 2019-20. Doubling the […] Read more » Rs.5 lakh tax exemption limit tax exemption limit to Rs 5 lakh
