Top Law News Art of Living event: NGT notice to Delhi government on review plea April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “We have gone through the review plea. The whole emphasis in your petition is on the delay and laches. See, we have only passed an interim order and the matter is yet to be heard finally on merits. All rights and contentions are kept open and no direction is required at this stage…Issue notice,” the […] Read more » Advocate Sanjay Parikh Art of Living event Delhi government featured NGT
Top Law News PIL seeks HC order to protect women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A criminal public interest litigation filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday sought a direction to Maharashtra government and Director General of Police to protect women who enter the Shani temple at Shingnapur in Ahmednagar district to worship the deity. The petition also urged the court to direct the Shaneshwar Devasthan Trust, which manages […] Read more » activist Hemant Patil Bombay High Court entrance of women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple featured HC Maharashtra’s Shani temple PIL protect women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple
Top Law News Dalit man’s death: HC orders fresh postmortem March 29, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chennai, The Madras High Court today ordered a fresh postmortem of a 45-year old Dalit man who was found dead in a well under mysterious circumstances in Erode district recently. Allowing a plea by the deceased’s son who suspected that his father had been murdered, Justice R Mala directed the second post-mortem be done by […] Read more » Dalit man's death featured HC orders fresh postmortem Madras High Court
Top Law News Rawat moves HC against imposition of Prez rule March 29, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dehradun, Dislodged former chief minister of Uttarakhand today moved the Uttarakhand High Court in Nainital challenging the imposition of President s rule in the state. Rawat’s petition came up before the single bench of Justice U C Dhyani, who after hearing both sides, said the matter would be taken up again tomorrow. The petition, filed […] Read more » chief minister of Uttarakhand featured Harish Rawat High Court in Nainital imposition of Prez rule Rawat moves HC against
Top Law News Goa Land Act: SC dismisses pleas challenging validity of amendments March 29, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, The dismissed petitions challenging the validity of amendments made in the 114-year-old Land Acquisition Act to save a portion of a five-star resort in Goa which was earlier ordered to be demolished. “We find no merit in the petitions. We uphold the validity of the amendments made to the Land Acquisition Act,” a […] Read more » 114-year-old Land Acquisition Act justices Ranjan Gogoi Prafulla C Pant Supreme Court
Consumer Law News Top Law News Plea in Delhi HC against shutting of Seed PUHC dispensary March 20, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea was filed in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to immediately stop closing of one of the Seed Primary Urban Health Centre (PUHC) dispensaries run by the Delhi government. A plea, filed by the resident welfare association of the area concerned, alleged that the order to shut one of 69 such dispensaries was […] Read more » Delhi HIgh Court against shutting of dispensary featured Plea in Delhi HC Seed Primary Urban Health Centre Seed PUHC shutting of Seed PUHC dispensary
Consumer Law News Top Law News MACT awards Rs 43L to man in vegetative state after mishap March 20, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded over Rs 43 lakh to the family of a man, who suffered severe head injuries in a road mishap leaving him in an “almost vegetative state”. “The injuries suffered by the injured has made his life almost vegetative and he is totally confined to bed and […] Read more » featured MACT Motor Accident Claims Tribunal
Top Law News Delhi Court Acquits Juvenile Charged for Sodomising Minor Inmate in 1997 March 20, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has acquitted a juvenile of the charge of sodomising a minor inmate at an observation home here in 1997 after the alleged victim went untraceable and could not be examined. Metropolitan Magistrate Pawan Kumar let off the juvenile while noting that the complainant was the only eyewitness who could have identified the […] Read more » Delhi court featured juvenile Juvenile Charged for Sodomising Minor Inmate Metropolitan Magistrate Pawan Kumar Sodomising Minor Inmate
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News Don’t have juris to ask Mumbai jail to provide books March 20, 2016 / March 20, 2016 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Don’t have juris to ask Mumbai jail to provide books The Delhi High Court said it has no jurisdiction to ask authorities of Mumbai Central Jail as to why a prisoner, who has been incarcerated there, was not provided books required for a course on homeopathy. “It requires debate. I cannot direct the state or Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH). If he (petitioner) […] Read more » books books to Tihar Jail free of cost CCRH Central Council for Research in Homeopathy featured juris Mumbai jail provide books
Media & Entertainment News National Security Top Law News Freedom of expression gives no right to destroy nation: BJP March 20, 2016 / March 20, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the debate on nationalism coming to the fore, BJP today said freedom of expression does not give a right to seek the country’s destruction, as the issue found the pride of place in the political resolution adopted at its National Executive meeting here. The issue of nationalism continued to take the centre stage in […] Read more » BJP featured
Top Law News HC criticises IO for not arresting woman MLA E S Bijimol March 15, 2016 / March 15, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Kochi,The Kerala High Court today slammed the Investigating Officer concerned for not effecting the arrest of a woman MLA in Kerala in connection with a criminal case related to assault of an additional district magistrate in Idukki district while discharging his official duty. Rejecting the police report that there was no need for arresting CPI […] Read more » anticipatory bail application filed by Bijimol B Kemal Pasha Bijimol CPI MLA E S Bijimol featured HC criticises IO MLA E S Bijimol not arresting woman MLA
Top Law News Chhota Rajan passport case: 3 ex-officials get bail March 15, 2016 / March 15, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court today granted bail to three retired public servants, chargesheeted along with underworld don Chhota Rajan in an alleged fake passport case, after they appeared before it in pursuance to the summmons issued to them. Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar gave the relief to retired passport officers — Jay Shree Rahate, Deepak Natvarlal […] Read more » Chhota Rajan passport case Prevention of Corruption Act Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar
