Top Law News Ambiguity in notification extending time to give suggestions to draft EIA 2020: Delhi High Court June 29, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Monday said there was “ambiguity” in the Centre’s decision extending time till June 30 for giving objections and suggestions to its draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification of 2020, terming it as “unfair” to the public. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan said there […] Read more » Ambiguity in notification Delhi High Court EIA notification Environment Impact Assessment Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification
Top Law News Can’t expect poor patients to give proof for free treatment: Bombay High Court June 28, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court observed that COVID-19 patients from poor and indigent sections cannot be expected to produce documentary proof to avail subsidised or free treatment while getting admitted to hospitals. The court on Friday was hearing a plea filed by seven residents of a slum rehabilitation building in Bandra, who had been charged Rs 12.5 […] Read more » Justice Madhav Jamdar Justice Ramesh Dhanuka patients to give proof for free treatment
Top Law News Cheating case:ED opposes closure of probe against promoter Naresh Goyal of now-defunct Jet Airways. June 28, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has objected to the Mumbai Police filing a closure report in a cheating case registered earlier against now-defunct Jet Airways, its promoter Naresh Goyal, and his wife. Stating that the police didn’t consider crucial facts of the case, the ED has filed an intervention application before a court. Jet Airways, Goyal and […] Read more » promoter Naresh Goyal of now-defunct Jet Airways
Top Law News Bihar shelter home cases: Recommended action against erring govt servants, CBI tells SC June 28, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI has informed the Supreme Court that its probe into allegations of sexual and physical exploitation in 17 shelter homes in Bihar has been completed, except in two cases where further investigation is on, and they have recommended departmental action against “erring” public servants including district magistrates in several matters. The CBI has said […] Read more » allegations of sexual and physical exploitation in 17 shelter homes in Bihar
Top Law News Complaint filed against Ramdev in Bihar court over COVID-19 medicine claim. June 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A criminal complaint has been filed in a Bihar court against yoga guru Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved MD Acharya Balkrishna, alleging that they have misled and put at risk the lives of lakhs of people by claiming to have developed a medicine to treat COVID-19. The complaint seeking registration of an FIR on cheating, criminal […] Read more » Baba Ramdev coronavirus treatment Coronil COVID-19 medicine Patanjali Ayurved Patanjali Ayurved MD Acharya Balkrishna Ramdev in Bihar court over COVID-19
Top Law News SC approves CBSE’s scheme on cancellation of board exams and re-assessment formula. June 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Centre and the CBSE to cancel the remaining board examinations due to COVID-19 pandemic and gave the go-ahead to its scheme to award marks to students for the cancelled papers scheduled to be held in July. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna permitted […] Read more » CBSE's scheme on cancellation of board exams
Top Law News Hinduja family legal dispute : $11 billion empire at stake. June 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A USD 11 billion business empire spread over 38 countries that includes banks, India’s second-largest truck maker and lubricant making firms is at the heart of a legal dispute in the Hinduja family that is now playing out in a London court. The four Hinduja brothers — Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash and Ashok — had in […] Read more » Ashok Leyland Gulf Oil Lubricants India Ltd Hinduja family legal dispute Parmanand Deepchand Hinduja
Top Law News Sheena Bora case: Court rejects Sanjeev Khanna’s bail plea. June 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here denied temporary bail to Sanjeev Khanna, an accused in the Sheena Bora murder case, who had sought relief citing the risk of contracting coronavirus in Arthur Road Jail. Khanna was arrested in August 2015 for his involvement in Sheena’s killing and has since been lodged in Arthur Road Jail. While rejecting […] Read more » Arthur road jail denied temporary bail to Sanjeev Khanna Former media baron Peter Mukerjea Sheena Bora case
Top Law News Delhi violence : Delhi High Court refuses to grant bail to accused who pointed pistol at policeman June 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to grant bail to an accused who allegedly pointed a pistol at a police head constable during the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February, saying his intention was to become a hero and now he will have to face the law. Justice Suresh Kumar Kait said he was […] Read more » Additional Public Prosecutor Amit Chadha Advocate Asghar Khan refuses to grant bail to accused who pointed pistol at policeman Shahrukh Pathan
Top Law News Bombay High Court allows BMC to use private building as quarantine facility. June 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has permitted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to use a private residential building it requisitioned as a quarantine facility, after the civic body gave an undertaking to pay a monthly rent of over Rs 28 lakh for such use. In an order passed last week, a bench of Justices S J Kathawalla […] Read more » Bombay High Court Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Justice N R Borkar Justice S J Kathawalla Neelkamal Realty Tower
Top Law News Plea in Delhi High Court challenges ban on export of PPE kits. June 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Centre and the AAP government on a plea by a private firm challenging the ban on export of personal protective equipment (PPE) kits and medical masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva directed that the Delhi government be also made a party in the matter […] Read more » ban on export of PPE kits. Delhi High Court justice Sanjeev Sachdeva
Top Law News NGT directs UPPCB to file action taken report on restoration of water body in Jaluan district June 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal Wednesday directed the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) to file an action taken report on a plea seeking restoration of a water body in Jaluan district. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that in view of the pitiable condition of the water body, as depicted […] Read more » NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel restoration of water body in Jaluan district
