Consumer Law News Family Law News Top Law News Farmer on leased land after expiry period can’t be evicted: SC July 10, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that a farmer, who is in possession of leased land even after expiry of the lease period, cannot be evicted if the owner either acknowledges the tenancy or is accepting the rent. Referring to a provision of the Transfer of Property Act, a three-judge bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi […] Read more » featured Justice Arun Mishra Justice P C Pant Justice Ranjan Gogoi leased land Punjab Security of Land Tenure Act) of 1953 Punjab Tenancy Act 1887 Transfer of Property Act
Top Law News PIL seeks transfer of probe in Road, Desilting scams July 10, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) A PIL in the Bombay High Court has sought transfer of probe from city police to Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) in the alleged road contract and desilting scams, saying it would expose the “unholy nexus” between contractors and civic staff. The PIL, filed by Vivekananda Gupta, is placed for hearing before a division bench of […] Read more » ACB Anti-Corruption Bureau Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) Azad Maidan Police station Desilting scams economic offence wing Economic Offence Wing (EOW) EOW featured Justice V.M. Kanade M S Sonak PIL transfer of probe in Road
Top Law News Ensure no unauthorised structures come up in Delhi July 10, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) The Delhi High Court has pulled up the municipal corporations here for allowing people to build unauthorised constructions in the city and directed the civic bodies to ensure no such structures come up anywhere. “There are so many unauthorised constructions in the city. How could you allow them to come up? How can you […] Read more » Chief Justice G Rohini Delhi demolition of unauthorised constructions featured Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal no unauthorised structures in Delhi unauthorised structures
Top Law News Plea in HC on capping airfares July 10, 2016 / July 10, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court for capping airfares across the country so that customers are not fleeced arbitrarily by airlines. The PIL urged the court to direct the authorities to frame “guidelines so as to put a cap on airfares and prevent the private airlines here from charging arbitrarily, […] Read more » capping airfares Delhi High Court for capping airfares featured Plea in HC on capping airfares
Criminal Law News HC acquits man in rape case, says it was live-in relationship June 19, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) The Delhi High Court has acquitted a man, who was jailed for 10 years by a trial court for raping a woman here in 2011, observing that she was in a live-in relationship with him and her statement regarding the alleged incident was suffering from “serious infirmities”. The court set aside the order passed […] Read more » acquits man in rape case featured HC live-in relationship
Top Law News Three sent to civil prison for defying HC order June 19, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three persons, including a 79-year-old woman, have been sentenced to “civil prison” for varying time period ranging from 15 days to two months by a court here for violating Delhi High Court’s order in a property dispute. In civil prison, persons are kept in jail but not with undertrials and the diet money for their […] Read more » Additional District Judge Kaveri Baweja civil prison featured HC order
Consumer Law News Top Law News AIIMS asked to pay 1 L for negligent eye treatment June 19, 2016 / June 19, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The premier health institute, AIIMS, has been directed to pay Rs one lakh by a consumer forum here to the parents of a girl child for alleged negligence in carrying out transplantation of cornea in her eye. South Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum bench presided by Justice N K Goel asked the hospital to […] Read more » AIIMS featured Justice N K Goel negligent eye treatment pay 1 L for negligent eye treatment
Consumer Law News Top Law News HC cautions ebay against violation of its order June 19, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) Delhi High Court has warned e-commerce company, ebay, that violation of its order stopping the site from selling products under any name deceptively similar to the ones coined by Eicher Motors Ltd, the makers of Royal Enfield motorbikes, would be “viewed seriously”. “The defendant No.3 (www.ebay.in) has been put to caution that the infringement […] Read more » ebay ebay against violation of order Eicher Motors Ltd featured Justice Vipin Sanghi Royal Enfield motorbikes
Criminal Law News Top Law News Kin dare court order that Jafri’s firing provoked mob June 19, 2016 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Kin dare court order that Jafri’s firing provoked mob (PTI) Kin of the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre victims and eye-witnesses today contested a special court’s conclusion that firing by former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri acted as a catalyst for mob fury. While Jafri’s son Tanvir said that court has relied on a “totally false” evidence, kin of some other victims said that the firing […] Read more » 2002 Gulberg Society massacre Ehsan Jafri featured Gulberg carnage Jafri's firing Jafri's firing provoked mob
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News New Key Dates for Last date to apply and Admission Selection Process in Alliance School Of Law, Alliance University May 30, 2016 / May 30, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Alliance School of Law, Alliance University is approved by the Bar Council of India (BCI), New Delhi. The Alliance School of Law offers two five-year, integrated undergraduate courses in law, viz., Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Law Honors—B.A. LL. B. (Hons.)) and Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Law Honors—B.B.A LL. B. (Hons.) that have […] Read more » Admission Selection Process in Alliance School Of Law Alliance School Of Law Alliance University - featured New Key Dates for Last date to apply Alliance School Of Law
Top Law News Don’t issue ownership certificates to elephant owners: SC May 8, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) The Supreme Court has restrained Kerala government from issuing ownership certificates to elephant owners. A bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and S K Singh also directed that people in possession of elephants do not transfer the pachyderms outside the state. The apex court made it clear that if any ownership certificate has been issued, […] Read more » Dipak Misra elephant owners featured ownership certificates S.K. Singh SC
Top Law News HC rejects bail of Micheal Ferreira in QNet case May 8, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment (PTI) The Bombay High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of World Billiards champion Michael Ferreira and four others who are facing charges of money laundering in the multi-crore QNet case. Their plea for liberty was rejected on May 6 by Justice Mridula Bhatkar who took on record the statement of public prosecutor Pradeep […] Read more » bail of Micheal Ferreira featured HC Micheal Ferreira QNet case
