Top Law News Uttarakhand HC dismisses plea seeking ban on Kedarnath for hurting religious sentiments December 7, 2018 / December 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment UTTARAKHAND: The Uttarakhand High Court Thursday dismissed a PIL filed against Sara Ali Khan and Sushant Singh Rajput starrer Kedarnathfor allegedly hurting religious sentiments and ‘lowering the dignity’ of the eponymous deity. The Uttarakhand government has now decided not to impose any prohibition on the screening of the film. Set against the backdrop of the 2013 deluge, the […] Read more » featured Kedarnath
Top Law News Nirav Modi’s illegal bungalow in Alibaug to be razed: Maha govt to HC December 7, 2018 / December 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has informed the Bombay High Court that Nirav Modi’s bungalow at Alibaug beach has been razed by the state authorities. State government counsel PB Kakade told a bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and Justice MS Karnik that it also intends to demolish 58 other private properties for which notices have been served. […] Read more » Chief Justice Naresh Patil Justice MS Karnik Nirav Modi
Top Law News CBI top 2 were fighting like cats we watched with amazement: Centre defends tells SC December 5, 2018 / December 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The central government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the top two officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation Alok Verma and his deputy, Rakesh Asthana were fighting like cats, and was becoming critical and matter of public debate asserting it was forced to strip CBI director Alok Verma on leave. “Slamming both Verma and special CBI director […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi featured
Top Law News AgustaWestland Scam: ‘Middleman’ Christian Michel to be produced before CBI court December 5, 2018 / December 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Fourteen days after the Supreme Court of Dubai passed an order to extradite AgustaWestland the UAE has extradited Christian Michel to India the alleged middleman in the multimillion-dollar AgustaWestland helicopter deal. The 54-year-old is wanted in the Rs. 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal, which involves the purchase of 12 luxury helicopters for use by the President, Prime […] Read more » AgustaWestland scam featured
Top Law News SC approves Centre’s draft witness protection scheme December 5, 2018 / December 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The draft witness protection scheme of the Central government was on Wednesday approved by the Supreme Court and asked all the states to implement it till the Parliament comes out with a legislation. A bench headed by Justice AK Sikri said that they have made some changes in the scheme. The issue of witness protection scheme […] Read more » featured Justice AK Sikri
Top Law News Pune-based company fired employee for being HIV positive back job after 3 years December 5, 2018 / December 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment PUNE: A Pune-based woman was reportedly terminated by her company, after she was diagnosed with HIV+ finally got her job back and got justice from the Labour Court which ruled in the complainant’s favour and ordered the company to reinstate her in the same post she was in. The court ordered the company to restore her in the same […] Read more » featured
Top Law News Petition in HC challenging Maharastra govt’s Maratha quota move December 4, 2018 / December 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: A petition was filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday seeking to strike down the reservation to Marathas as it is unconstitutional. According to the petitioner, advocate Gunaratna Sadavarte, the 16 per cent quotas for the Marathas recently announced by the state government was violative of the Constitution. On Nov 29, the Maharashtra legislature passed […] Read more » featured Maratha quota
Top Law News Supreme Court takes up plea for SIT probe on encounter killings in Gujrat December 4, 2018 / December 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on December 3 gave the Gujarat government a week to file an affidavit giving reasons why an apex court-appointed committee’s report on 22 ‘fake’ police encounters between 2002 and 2006 on which a report has been filed by an apex court appointed committee. A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi […] Read more » featured
Top Law News SC wasn’t going in right direction under CJI Dipak Misra says Justice Kurien Joseph December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Justice Kurian Joseph, said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra who was being controlled from outside and was allocating cases to judges with political bias. It had become a question of the independence of the judiciary, protection of democracy and the institution of the Supreme Court, […] Read more » featured former cji dipak misra Justice Kurian Joseph
Top Law News SC defers Zakia Jafri’s plea plea challenging clean chit to PM Modi in Gujarat riots till January December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the plea of Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots till January third week. Zakia Jafri is the widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri who was killed in one of the worst incidents during the riots in […] Read more » 2002 gujrat riots featured
Top Law News Supreme Court directs Maharashtra government to submit charge sheet by December 8 in Koregaon-Bhima violence case December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to submit before it the chargesheet filed against arrested rights activists before a Pune court in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case. The charge sheet in the case was earlier filed before a Pune court. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it wanted to see the […] Read more » Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi featured justices km joseph Justices S.K. Kaul Koregaon-Bhima violence
Top Law News Madras HC grants two weeks’ parole to life convict to make conjugal visit December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CHENNAI: A division bench of justices CT Selvam and P Ramathilagam Friday permitted Perumal, arrested in connection with a murder in 2008 lodged in the central prison in Cuddalore to exercise his conjugal rights. The Additional Public Prosecutor had pointed out that since the petitioner’s husband is an undertrial prisoner in two cases, the jail authorities are precluded […] Read more » featured justices CT Selvam justices P Ramathilagam Madras HC
