Court, Judiciary & Legal System Husband Legally and Morally Bound to Maintain His Wife: Delhi High Court March 10, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man working as a disc jockey (DJ) has been asked to pay interim maintenance to his estranged wife by a Delhi Court which observed that the husband is legally and morally bound to maintain her.”He being the husband of complainant (woman) is legally and morally bound to maintain her and cannot shirk his responsibility […] Read more » Delhi High Court Husband Legally and Morally Bound to Maintain His Wife Metropolitan Magistrate Mona Tardi Kerketta
High Profile Cases Court sets Apr 9 as final date for verdict in Satyam case March 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here trying the multi-crore accounting fraud in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited (SCSL) today said it will pronounce its judgement in the CBI-probed case on April 9. Citing voluminous documents in the case, Special Judge BVLN Chakravarthi said, “On April nine, the judgement will be pronounced. I am making it very clear.” […] Read more » B Rama Raju B Suryanarayana Raju B. ramalinga raju CBI counsel K Surender Ch Srisailam D Venkatpathi Raju former Chief Financial Officer Vadlamani Srinivas former employees G Ramakrishna former PwC auditors Subramani Gopalakrishnan multi-crore accounting fraud in Satyam Computer Satyam case Satyam's former internal chief auditor V S Prabhakar Gupta Special Judge BVLN Chakravarthi T Srinivas
Criminal Law News Maharashtra seeks death for watchman who murdered woman lawyer March 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra government has approached the Bombay High Court seeking death penalty for 24-year-old watchman Sajjad Mugal Pathan, who was convicted for the 2012 murder of lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha. In July last year, a sessions court had convicted and sentenced Pathan to life imprisonment for committing the murder of Purkayastha. The trial court refused to […] Read more » 2012 murder of lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha death for watchman Excel Entertainment Private Limited Farhan Akhtar’s firm Excel Entertainment Private Limited Justice P V Hardas lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha watchman Sajjad Mugal Pathan watchman who murdered woman lawyer
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC compounds offence in consensual sex case March 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on HC compounds offence in consensual sex case Bringing an end to a 15-year-old case of consensual sex with a woman on the false promise of marriage, the Madras High Court has compounded the offence after the accused agreed to bear the expenses of their child till he turns 18. Allowing an appeal by the man, Justice M Sathyanarayanan set aside his conviction […] Read more » consensual sex case Madras High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Can’t keep live-in relations outside purview of rape: HC March 8, 2015 / March 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court has refused to keep live-in relationships outside the purview of rape under the IPC, saying it would amount to giving them the status of matrimony, which the legislature has chosen “not to do”. The court made the observation while hearing a PIL, which had sought direction to the government to keep […] Read more » Can't keep live-in relations outside Chief Justice G Rohini Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw live-in relations outside purview of rape
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Vendor goods being seized under anti-sabotage measures: HC March 8, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An association for street vendors has alleged before Delhi High Court that goods of roadside sellers were being seized by police as part of its “anti- sabotage measures”, which the organisation has dubbed as a “fresh modus operandi” to harass squatters. The allegation made by National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) prompted a bench of […] Read more » anti-sabotage measures Vendor goods being seized under anti-sabotage measures
Criminal Law News Asassination of senator: Bail plea of French woman dismissed March 8, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has denied bail to a 55-year-old French woman, who was arrested here pursuant to a red corner notice against her for her alleged role in a terror attack in Chile leading to the death of a senator in 1991. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Ajay Garg dismissed the bail plea of Verhoeven Marie Emmanuelle observing […] Read more » ACMM Ajay Garg Asassination of senator Bail plea of French woman dismissed
Criminal Law News I suffer mentally everyday, says Uber rape victim on Women’s Day March 8, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The 25-year-old woman executive, allegedly raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi, on Sunday said she is suffering mentally everyday and lashed out at the web-based US taxi firm for “insult to her injury”, saying it has only made cosmetic changes to its policies to operate in India. “Until women can legitimately feel safe, […] Read more » I suffer mentally everyday Uber rape victim on Women's Day
Media & Entertainment News Court rejects intervenor’s plea in suit against Godse movie March 8, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Pune court has rejected a plea by a group of people seeking to intervene in a civil suit which prayed for a ban on the release of forthcoming film ‘Desh Bhakt Nathuram Godse’. The suit, filed by activist Hemant Patil, urges the court to restrain the defendant Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha from releasing the […] Read more » intervenor's plea in suit against Godse movie Joint Civil Judge K M Pingle Nathuram Godse suit against Godse movie the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Ex-CM’s Secy denied issuing recommendation letter:Delhi Cops March 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s political secretary Pawan Khera has denied issuing any recommendation letter to a man for a job in NMDC, Delhi Police today told a court hearing a case of cheating. Investigating Officer of the case filed his Action Taken Report (ART) in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja, saying […] Read more » Ex-CM's Secy denied issuing recommendation letter Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja
Consumer Law News Mediclaims should be settled by insurance co and not TPAs: HC March 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Mediclaims should be settled by insurance co and not TPAs: HC The Bombay High Court today asked the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority to ensure that insurance companies did not involve Third Party Administrators (TPA) in the claim settlement. The TPAs act as intermediaries between hospitals, insurers and consumers. “IRDA shall inform insurers to implement (Health Insurance) Regulation 12 in letter and spirit to see that […] Read more » Mediclaims should be settled by insurance co
Family Law News Child Marriage Prevention Act secular in nature: HC March 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High court bench here today ruled that Child Marriage Prevention Act was secular in nature and Muslims could not rely on their personal law to claim the right to give minor girls in marriage even at the age of 15 presuming that the girl had attained puberty. , dismissing an appeal against an […] Read more » Child Marriage Prevention Act Justice C.T.Selvam Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2006
