High Profile Cases PWD scam: Police transfer complaint against Kejriwal to ACB March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A criminal complaint filed against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his brother-in-law and a government official in the alleged PWD scam has been transferred to the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), Delhi Police told a city court on Saturday. Delhi Police’s Economic Offence Wing (EOW) submitted a report before Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra stating that it has enquired […] Read more » ACB Advocate Kislay Pandey Arvind Kejriwal complaint against Kejriwal economic offence wing EOW featured PWD scam
High Profile Cases Paswan favours legal solution to Ayodhya temple issue March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan today said the vexed issue of construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya should be resolved legally. “The Ayodhya issue must be resolved through a court verdict,” the Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister told reporters. “Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak on contentious issues like Ram […] Read more » Ayodhya temple issue construction of Ram Temple at Ayodhya featured Paswan favours legal solution Paswan favours legal solution to Ayodhya temple issue Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan
Criminal Law News Top Law News 13 Maruti ex-employees get life term for 2012 violence March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Gurgaon court today awarded life sentence to 13 former employees of Maruti-Suzuki India Limited, who it had found guilty of murder, in connection with the violence at the automobile giant’s Manesar plant in 2012 in which a senior company officer had died. Additional district and session judge RP Goyal granted life sentence to the […] Read more » 13 Maruti ex-employees 2012 violence Additional district and session judge RP Goyal Defense counsel featured get life term for 2012 violence Maruti ex-employees get life term prosecution counsel Anurag Hooda Rebbecca John
Criminal Law News Top Law News Halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners urgent: HC March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has issued a slew of directions to expedite setting up of halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners and recruiting trained staff to be deployed there, saying these homes should start working with “utmost urgency”. Halfway homes are residences for individuals who are released from institutions treating the mentally ill or drug addicts […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured Halfway homes Halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners HC IHBAS Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences Justice Anu Malhotra Justice Gita Mittal mentally-ill prisoners
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT transfers Darjeeling pollution case to Eastern Bench March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has transferred a case relating to the indiscriminate dumping of municipal waste in the picturesque Darjeeling and pollution in Mahananda river to the Eastern Zonal Bench. A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, passed the order after lawyers appearing for the parties informed it that a similar case was […] Read more » Darjeeling pollution case Eastern Bench featured NGT NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar pollution in Mahananda river Siliguri Municipal Corporation State of West Bengal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News New chief justice of MP High Court Justice Hemant Gupta takes charge March 19, 2017 / March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Hemant Gupta today took oath as the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court at a brief ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here. Governor O P Kohli administered the oath of office and secrecy to Justice Gupta. The function was attended by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and members of the judiciary […] Read more » chief justice of MP High Court chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan featured Governor O P Kohli High Court Justice Hemant Gupta Justice Rajendra Menon New chief justice of MP
High Profile Cases HC chides man claiming to be Jaya’s son;threatens to send him to jail March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today reprimanded a man, who claimed to be the “secret son” of former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa, questioning the genuineness of documents submitted by him. “I can send this man straightaway to jail. I will ask police officers to take him to jail now itself,” Justice R Mahadevan said. The […] Read more » "secret son" of former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa "secret son" of Jayalalithaa featured J Krishnamoorthy J Krishnamoorthy born to Jayalalithaa and late Telugu actor Shoban Babu Jayalalithaa Justice R Mahadevan late Telugu actor Shoban Babu Madras High Court
Top Law News Look for techonology to detect objects on tracks: HC March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Railways and the Maharashtra government should explore if there is any technology to detect presence of foreign objects on railway tracks so as to avert accidents, the Bombay High Court today suggested. A division bench headed by Justice V M Kanade had last week asked the railway authorities and the state government if they […] Read more » Advocate Suresh Kumar detect objects on tracks featured Justice Kanade Justice V.M. Kanade techonology
High Profile Cases HC reserves verdict on pleas against MCD election March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today reserved its verdict on pleas seeking quashing of the notification laying down the manner of allocation of wards for reserved categories and women in the upcoming MCD polls. “Arguments heard. Judgement reserved,” a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar said. Terming the petitions as “absurd”, the Delhi state […] Read more » advocate Sumeet Pushkarna East Delhi Municipal Corporation featured Justice Chander Shekhar Justice Sanjiv Khanna MCD election MCD polls North Delhi Municipal Corporation pleas against MCD election South Delhi Municipal Corporation
Top Law News Protests at JNU indicate something is wrong somewhere: HC March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The large number of student protests at JNU only indicates “there is something wrong somewhere”, the Delhi High Court told the varsity today while allowing the students to agitate near the admin block. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva made the observation after the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) said that in the past nine months there have been […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured JNU justice Sanjeev Sachdeva Protests Protests at JNU
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Will have last say on recommendations on national security: SC Collegium March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court collegium has made it clear that it will have the last say in cases where its recommendation for appointment of a judge is returned by the government on the grounds of national security and public interest. While accepting national security and public interest as the new ground of objection to appoint a […] Read more » featured National Judicial Appointments Commission Act recommendations on national security SC Collegium
Criminal Law News Top Law News Three arrested in Dharavi ATM cash van loot March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three persons have been arrested from Satara district in western Maharashtra in connection with the Rs 1.5 crore ATM cash van loot in Dharavi here, police said today. The trio–Sureshkumar Pandurangam, Arumugam Subramanyam Sherve and Kamala Nagraj Devendra– who were trying to flee, was nabbed from a private travels bus last night after Dharavi police, […] Read more » Arumugam Subramanyam Sherve Dharavi ATM cash van loot Dharavi ATM loot featured Kamala Nagraj Devendra Sureshkumar Pandurangam
