Top Law News Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie move Supreme Court seeking review of Dec 14 Rafale verdict January 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie and advocate Prashant Bhushan Wednesday moved the Supreme Court, seeking review of its December 14 verdict dismissing all PILs alleging irregularities in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France. In their review plea, they alleged that the judgment “relied upon patently incorrect claims made by the […] Read more » 36 Rafale jets from France Arun Shourie Rafale verdict review of Dec 14 Rafale verdict Supreme Court Yashwant Sinha
Top Law News Security forces not to harass militants’ families: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti to Governor Satya Pal Malik January 4, 2019 / January 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Thursday said Governor Satya Pal Malik should issue directions to security forces not to harass the families of the terrorists while fighting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. “Our police is a disciplined force. The Governor should issue clear cut directions that families of militants should not be harassed,” Mehbooba told reporters […] Read more » Governor Satya Pal Malik. Mehbooba Mufti not to harass militants' families PDP president
Top Law News Man gets one-month imprisonment for stalking minor girl January 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 25-year-old man was sentenced to one-month imprisonment by a court here for stalking a minor girl. District Judge V Y Jadhav, in his order passed on Tuesday, also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on the accused, Shivkumar Mourya, after pronouncing him guilty under the Indian Penal Code’s Section 354D (stalking) and relevant provisions […] Read more » stalking minor girl
Top Law News 2018: Supreme Court came down heavily on real estate honchos January 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Corporate legal battle involving big business houses like ArcelorMittal and Nmetal on taking over of Essar Steel and tough stand against the automobile industry on emission norms kept the Supreme Court busy in 2018 during which it also gave a body blow to real estate honchos. Be it real estate majors Unitech Ltd, Jaypee Group […] Read more » Supreme Court
Top Law News Telangana and Andhra Pradesh High Courts come into being January 2, 2019 / January 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Separate high courts for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh came into being on Tuesday, more than four years after the latter was bifurcated to create the youngest state in the country. Thottathil B Radhakrishnan took over as the first Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court in Hyderabad, while C Praveen Kumar took oath as the […] Read more » A V Sesha Sai Andhra Pradesh High Courts D V S S Somayajulu G Shyam Prasad J Uma Devi Justices S V Bhatt K Vijaya Lakshmi M Ganga Rao M Satyanarayana Murthy M Seetharama Murti N Balayogi T Rajani T Sunil Chowdary Telangana High Court U Durga Prasad Rao
Consumer Law News Top Law News 2018: Corporate legal cases kept Delhi HC busy January 2, 2019 / January 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Corporate legal cases saw companies from various sectors including telecom, aviation, banking and agro knocking on the doors of the Delhi High Court for relief in 2018. In the year gone by, the pharma sector also witnessed an ugly legal fight between the former promoters of healthcare major Ranbaxy — Malvinder and Shivinder Singh — […] Read more » Corporate legal cases
Top Law News The Bombay High Court notice to prosecutor who ‘slapped’ judge over decision December 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has taken suo motu (on its own) notice of an incident where a sessions court judge was allegedly assaulted by an assistant public prosecutor on the court premises. Vacation judge Justice R K Deshpande of the high court’s Nagpur bench said Wednesday that such incidents are a “threat to independence of […] Read more » the Bombay High Court
High Profile Cases 1984 riots case: Sajjan Kumar likely to surrender before court on Dec 31 December 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar is likely to surrender before a court here on December 31 to serve the life imprisonment awarded to him by the Delhi High Court in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. “We will comply with the high court’s judgment,” his counsel Anil Kumar Sharma told PTI. The counsel said Kumar’s appeal […] Read more » 1984 riots case Sajjan Kumar
Top Law News HC pulls up CBI and Maharashtra government for ignoring orders in Agnelo Valdaris custodial death case December 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has comedown heavily on the Maharashtra government and the CBI over their “failure” to implement a list of orders passed by several benches of the court in the 2014 case of sexual assault and alleged custodial death of Agnelo Valdaris. In an order passed earlier this month, a bench of Justices […] Read more » Agnelo Valdaris custodial death case
Consumer Law News Top Law News HC seeks Centre’s reply on plea of visually impaired man who lost out on Railway job December 30, 2018 / December 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has taken suo motu (on its own) notice of an incident where a sessions court judge was allegedly assaulted by an assistant public prosecutor on the court premises. Vacation judge Justice R K Deshpande of the high court’s Nagpur bench said Wednesday that such incidents are a “threat to independence of […] Read more » Bombay High Court Vacation judge Justice R K Deshpande visually impaired man
Top Law News HC declines to stay implementation of TRAI regulations for TV services December 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court Friday declined to stay implementation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s March, 2017 regulations and tariff order relating to fixation of charges for free and pay channels. Rejecting the interim prayer plea in a petition filed by a cable TV association, Justice S Vaidyanathan issued notice to the TRAI and […] Read more » TRAI
Top Law News HC extends deadline to apply for Delhi Judicial Service Exam till Dec 24 December 25, 2018 / December 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has extended the deadline to apply for the Delhi Judicial Service Examination 2018 till December 24. A bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and A K Chawla said once the schedule for filling the online application form and last date had been declared as December 22, the same could not have been brought to […] Read more » featured Justice Vipin Sanghi justices A K Chawla
