Family Law News Top Law News Maternity leave is to protect workers’ health: HC June 12, 2015 / June 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ruling that maternity leave is given for protection of the health of women government workers, the Madras High court on Thursday stayed the order of Joint Director of School Education (personnel) for recovering over Rs two lakh from the salary of a teacher who took 179 days maternity leave for her second delivery. The woman […] Read more » featured Maternity leave protect workers' health
Criminal Law News Death sentence to husband for murdering wife June 12, 2015 / June 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man was today awarded death sentence for mudering his wife and their maid at their residence in the city about five years ago by hiring a contract killer. The contract killer Somnath Tanti was awarded life imprisonment by the Alipore Judges Court. Judge Siddhartha Kanjilal, delivering the judgement, said it was a rarest of […] Read more » death sentence Death sentence to husband featured Judge Siddhartha Kanjilal murdering wife
Top Law News Court asks Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy CM Manish Sisodia & AAP leaders to appear on May 15 May 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and four other AAP leaders, accused of violating prohibitory orders here and obstructing public servants in discharge of their duty during an agitation, were today directed to appear before a Delhi court on May 15. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain was irked that Kejriwal and other […] Read more » AAP leaders to appear on May 15 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Deputy CM Manish Sisodia featured
Criminal Law News Top Law News Court acquits youth of charges of raping minor May 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth has been acquitted of the charges of kidnapping and raping a minor after enticing her to marry him by a Delhi court, which said he was not on the wrong side of the law and the girl had voluntarily gone with him. Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav freed the youth, saying the element […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Yadav Court acquits youth of charges of raping minor fearured raping minor
Criminal Law News Top Law News Woman gets RI for forcing minors into flesh trade May 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Thane sessions court sentenced Kalpana Tularam Bahadur Tamang (45) to seven years of rigorous imprisonment (RI) and Rs 5,000 fine on Friday for dragging two minor girls into prostitution. Tamang had brought the two minor girls from West Bengal under the pretext of giving them jobs as domestic helps but forced them into flesh […] Read more » featured flesh trade forcing minors into flesh trade Head constable Ashok Palkar Kalpana Tularam Bahadur Tamang minor girls into prostitution Thane session court judge S J Kale Woman gets RI for forcing minors
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News Judge threatens Madras HC chief justice with contempt May 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice C S Karnan of Madras high court has plunged the HC into a huge crisis by threatening contempt of court proceedings against Chief Justice Sanjay K Kaul accusing him of interfering in his judicial work and seeking a CBI probe into alleged forged educational qualification of another Judge of the HC. Apart from contempt […] Read more » Chief Justice of India H.L.Dattu Chief Justice Sanjay K Kaul featured Judge threatens Madras HC chief Justice Karnan Madras HC chief justice threatened
Media & Entertainment News Top Law News Piracy: ‘Bombay Velvet’ producers move HC May 10, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Producers of upcoming Bollywood crime drama “Bombay Velvet” have moved the Delhi High Court seeking a restraint on local cable operators and websites from showing or providing online access to pirated versions of the Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma starrer movie. Distributors Fox Star Studios India Ltd has moved the court on the ground that piracy […] Read more » 'Bombay Velvet' 'Bombay Velvet' producers 'Bombay Velvet' producers move HC featured
Top Law News Court convicts 3 in 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case May 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has sentenced three persons to life imprisonment in a 15-year-old case of kidnapping and murder of a boy. Additional Sessions Judge Amarpal Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 each on the convicts yesterday. The trio kidnapped the Class II student living in Narhi area for ransom on April 3, 2000 […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Amarpal Singh featured kidnapping kidnapping and murder case murder case
Environment Law News Top Law News Rs 5,000 fine for dumping waste into drains : NGT May 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Green Tribunal today restrained individuals, including the municipal corporation employees, from throwing or dumping any kind of waste into the drains in the national capital and ordered a fine of Rs 5,000 for violating these directions. A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, directed the municipal corporations of Delhi to clean all […] Read more » dumping waste dumping waste into drains featured NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar waste into drains
Environment Law News Top Law News Delhi households to pay environmental compensation for Yamuna treatment May 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday ordered that every household in Delhi will have to pay environmental compensation for the treatment of Yamuna. Tribunal also said that the compensation in this regard will be directly proportional to the property tax or water bill, whichever is higher and in the case of unauthorised colonies, the […] Read more » environmental compensation environmental compensation for Yamuna treatment featured National Green Tribunal Yamuna treatment
Bar, Bench & Firm News Court, Judiciary & Legal System Strike by DHCBA over pecuniary jurisdiction bill hits HC work May 9, 2015 / May 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judicial work in Delhi High Court was today hampered with a majority of cases getting adjourned as DHCBA called a two-day strike to protest against passage of a bill by Rajya Sabha to increase the pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts. Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) put up notices outside each court informing the lawyers […] Read more » Delhi High Court Bar Association DHCBA featured Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda pecuniary jurisdiction bill pecuniary jurisdiction bill hits HC Strike by DHCBA over pecuniary jurisdiction bill
Criminal Law News Rahul Gandhi appears in Maharashtra court in RSS defamation case May 8, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today appeared in a local court in connection with a criminal defamation case against him, notwithstanding the Supreme Court stay on the proceedings in the matter. He presented himself before Magistrate D P Kale in line with the commitment given by his counsel on March 30. The court posted the […] Read more » blaming the RSS for the Mahatma Gandhi's assassination criminal defamation featured Justice P C Pant justices Dipak Misra Magistrate D P Kale Mahatma Gandhi's assassination Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi in RSS defamation case Rahul Handhi appears in Maharashtra court
