High Profile Cases Lack of interest by CBI in Najeeb case: Delhi HC October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today said “there is complete lack of interest” on the CBI’s part in probing the disappearance of JNU student Najeeb Ahmed. The court had handed over the probe to the CBI five months ago. A bench of Justices G S Sistani and Chander Shekhar observed that there was “no result either […] Read more » CBI Court Delhi High Court featured JNU Law Legal News Najeeb Ahmed Najeeb case
Top Law News Year after Najeeb went missing from JNU, CBI still clueless October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Exactly a year after JNU student Najeeb Ahmed went missing from the campus following a scuffle with some other students, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had taken over the probe into the case from the city police, remains clueless. The high court had first gone after the Delhi Police to solve the mysterious […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Court featured JNU Law Legal News Najeeb Ahmed
High Profile Cases Every writer has fundamental right to speak: SC October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has refused to ban the controversial book–Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu (Vysyas are social smugglers) penned by prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah, saying every author has a fundamental right to voice ideas freely. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud junked a PIL […] Read more » Court Every writer has fundamental right to speak featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Aarushi case: HC castigates CBI on theory on Hemraj’s murder October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has castigated the CBI for its theory on the murder of domestic help Hemraj in the Aarushi murder case, saying it is an “impossible hypothesis” and “patently absurd”. In its 273-page verdict acquitting dentists Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, it also said the […] Read more » Aarushi case Allahabad High Court CBI Court Criminal news featured Hemraj's murder Law Legal News
Corporate Law News Top Law News Indian economy on ‘very solid track’: IMF chief Christine Lagarde October 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Days after the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecast for the current and the next year, IMF chief Christine Lagarde today said the Indian economy is on a “very solid track” in the mid-term. “Turning to India…we have slightly downgraded India; but we believe that India is for the medium and long-term on a […] Read more » Christine Lagarde Demonetisation featured Goods and Services Tax GST IMF IMF chief Christine Lagarde International Monetary Fund
Top Law News Ensure no posters, pamphlets are put up on DU walls: NGT October 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment To avoid defacement of the campus, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi University to strictly ensure that no posters or pamphlets are put up on the walls of its premises. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the Delhi government to provide requisite help to the university in ensuring […] Read more » Election Officer of the Delhi University featured Justice Swatanter Kumar NGT NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar no pamphlets on DU walls no posters on DU walls
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT directs Centre to submit report on steps to clean Ganga October 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh and the Uttarakhand governments to file affidavits stating what steps they have taken to comply with its directions to clean the Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Unnao. The green panel, in a detailed judgement, had passed a slew of directions to […] Read more » featured Ganga NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar steps to clean Ganga
High Profile Cases Presence of outsider in Talwars’ flat cannot be ruled out on Aarushi case October 15, 2017 / October 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has said that the possibility of presence of outsiders and persons other than domestic help Hemraj in the Noida residence of the Talwars could not be ruled on the fateful night in the Aarushi murder case. On the basis of the record and statements of witnesses, justices B K Narayana and […] Read more » Aarushi case Aarushi murder case featured Hemraj murder Justice A K Mishra Justice B.K. Narayana Presence of outsider in Talwars' flat The Allahabad High Court
Top Law News TN Speaker defends notices to DMK MLAs on Gutka issue October 15, 2017 / October 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal was well within his powers in referring the issue of DMK members displaying banned gutka pouches inside the House to the Privileges Committee, the Madras High Court was informed by Assembly Secretary K Boopathy today. The Speaker was of the prima facie opinion that acts of the petitioners involved […] Read more » banned gutka pouches inside the House to the Privileges Committee DMK MLA K S Ravichandran featured M K Stalin Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker P Dhanapal
Top Law News Mere lodging of FIR cannot be reason to expel student: Bombay HC October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court quashed an order passed by a college expelling a computer engineering student, observing that an FIR cannot be treated as “gospel truth” and cannot be a reason for expulsion. A division bench of Justices B R Gavai and S K Shinde quashed and set aside an August 5 order passed by […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Mere lodging of FIR cannot be reason to expel student
Top Law News Delhi HC stays proceedings against DCW chief Maliwal October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today stayed the proceedings against Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal in a case of allegedly disclosing the identity of a 14-year-old Dalit rape victim who had succumbed to injuries. Justice Ashutosh Kumar granted the interim relief to Maliwal who was summoned by the trial court to appear before […] Read more » Court DCW chief Maliwal Delhi Commission for Women Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Swati Maliwal
Criminal Law News Top Law News 7 days police custody for Hindu Munnani functionary murder accused October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today sent Subair, a key accused in the murder of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar, to seven days police custody. Subair, who was arrested by the CB-CID on Wednesday from the Mullapadi Railway Gate near Pollachiand, is lodged in the Central Jail. Sasikumar (36), district spokesperson of the Munnani, was murdered with […] Read more » C Sasikumar Court featured Law Legal News murder case police custody
