Criminal Law News Top Law News NCDRC orders Railways to compensate for jewellery theft from train December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex consumer commission has directed the Railways to pay Rs 2.7 lakh to a passenger for theft of her jewellery, including diamonds, from a Rajasthan- bound train, noting that no official came to her rescue even after she raised an alarm. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench, while dismissing the revision petition […] Read more » compensate for jewellery theft from train featured jewellery theft jewellery theft from train NCDRC NCDRC orders Railways NCDRC orders Rlys to compensate for jewellery theft from train Train
Top Law News None has right to use government land as burial ground: Delhi HC December 28, 2017 / December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No one has the right to indiscriminately use any open land, especially that belonging to the government, as a burial ground, the Delhi High Court has held. The ruling by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar came on a PIL challenging a sub- divisional magistrate’s order questioning use […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal burial ground Delhi HC featured government land as burial ground Justice C Hari Shankar Kabristan Intzamia Association
Top Law News Bill criminalising triple talaq introduced in Lok Sabha December 28, 2017 / December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bill to make instant triple talaq illegal and void and awarding a jail term of three years for the husband, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, calling it a “historic day” amid opposition to its introduction by members […] Read more » Bill criminalising triple talaq featured jail term of three years Lok Sabha non-bailable offence triple talaq triple talaq bill
Top Law News Sadhvi Pragya, Purohit to go on trial for terrorism in Malegaon blast case December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and six others accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast will stand trial on stringent terror charges, a special NIA court today ruled in the politically-sensitive case that raised speculation of saffron militancy. However, Special NIA judge S D Tekale dropped organised crime charges against them under the […] Read more » Colonel Purohit featured Malegaon blast case Sadhvi Pragya Special NIA judge S D Tekale trial for terrorism in Malegaon blast case
Top Law News NGT directs AAP govt to take decision on steel pickling units December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to decide in a week whether steel pickling units fall under the prohibited list of industrial activity as per norms set by the Central Pollution Control Board. A bench headed by acting chairperson Justice U D Salvi warned that in case of non-compliance with the order […] Read more » AAP govt decision on steel pickling units featured NGT steel pickling units
Top Law News Meticulous planning done before printing Class 9 book : HC December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Publication and Curriculum Research has told the Bombay High Court that meticulous planning and preparations were done before the publication a Class 9 history and political science textbook. Sunil Magar, director of the textbooks bureau, filed an affidavit last week in response to a petition by city resident Amritpal […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured High Court Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Publication and Curriculum Research Meticulous planning Operation Blue Star printing Class 9 book
Top Law News No coercive action against Deepak Talwar in FCRA case: HC December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has asked the CBI not to take any coercive action against corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar and his NGO in a criminal case lodged against them over alleged violation of foreign funding laws. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta, however, made it clear that this protection would be […] Read more » Deepak Talwar FCRA case featured High Court Justice S. Muralidhar JusticeI S Mehta No coercive action No coercive action against Deepak Talwar in FCRA case: HC
Top Law News Defamation complaint: Court sets aside summons to Cyrus Mistry December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Mumbai sessions court today quashed and set aside summons issued by a magistrate’s court to ousted Tata Group chairman Cyrus Mistry and others in connection with a Rs 500 crore defamation complaint filed by Tata Trusts’ R Venkatramanan. Mistry and the other accused had approached the sessions court after the metropolitan magistrate issued the […] Read more » Cyrus Mistry defamation complaint featured
Top Law News Indian Army kills 3 Pak soldiers in cross border operations in Jammu and Kashmir December 27, 2017 / December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of five Army commandos crossed the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir and killed three Pakistani soldiers, in a swift and daring operation last evening. The “tactical strike” in Rukh Chakri sector in Rawlakot, which brought back memories of last year’s ‘surgical strikes’, is seen as avenging the killing of four Indian […] Read more » "tactical strike" "tactical strike" in Rukh Chakri sector in Rawlakot featured Indian Army. Kulbhushan Jadhav Rawlakot Rukh Chakri sector Surgical strike
Top Law News 1 month jail term for Jagdambika Pal for violating code December 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has awarded one-month jail term to BJP MP Jagdambika Pal for violating Model Code of Conduct during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The MP, however, was granted bail by the court soon after. Pal had been charged for using vehicles more than the permissible limit during a rally in Bansi while campaigning […] Read more » BJP Court featured Jagdambika Pal Law Legal News Lok Sabha elections model code of conduct
Criminal Law News Top Law News Bhopal gangrape case: Life imprisonment for four accused December 23, 2017 / December 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today sentenced four men to life imprisonment for raping a 19-year-old woman near the Habibganj railway station in the city in October. Additional District and Sessions Judge Savita Dubey awarded the sentence to Golu alias Bihari Chadhar (25), Amar alias Ghuntu (24), Rajesh Chetram alias Raju (26) and Ramesh Mehra alias Raju […] Read more » Bhopal gangrape case Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News
Top Law News ‘Deterrent punishment is vital in road accident cases’ December 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A deterrent punishment is vital in fatal road accident cases so that persons plying vehicles bear in mind that they will face serious consequences, a Delhi court has said while upholding a truck driver’s two-year jail term for crushing a man under the wheels. Refusing to sympathise with the convict, Additional Sessions Judge Suresh Kumar […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News road accident cases
