High Profile Cases Verdict in Salman Khan’s illegal arms case deferred by Jodhpur court February 25, 2015 / February 25, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court on Wednesday deferred the judgement in the Arms Act case against actor Salman Khan related to the 1998 black buck poaching incident, saying four pending applications from the prosecution have come to light on which it will decide on 3 March.The pending applications came to the notice of the court after the […] Read more » Arms Act case against actor Salman Khan illegal arms case illegal arms case deferred by Jodhpur court prosecution counsel N.K. Sankhla Verdict in Salman Khan’s illegal arms case
Bar, Bench & Firm News Five advocates debarred from practice February 24, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Five advocates allegedly involved in the murder of another lawyer at a local court have been debarred from practising in courts or having any other lawyer appear on their behalf until completion of disciplinary proceedings against them. The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry issued the orders today to this effect. It passed a […] Read more » Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry Egmore Advocates Association Five advocates debarred
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Corporate espionage: Court sends 4 to jail till March 6 February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four accused, who were arrested in the corporate espionage case, were on Monday remanded to judicial custody till March 6 by a Delhi court where they alleged that they were forced to sign on blank papers by the police during their custodial interrogation. The four accused–Lalta Prasad, Rakesh Kumar, Prayas Jain and Shantanu Saikia — […] Read more » Corporate espionage
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Seeking nod to prosecute official in coalscam: CBI February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CBI today told a special court that it has sent the necessary records of a coalscam case to the authority concerned for considering grant of sanction to prosecute a Ministry of Coal (MoC) official for his alleged role in the matter. The agency’s move came after the court on January 30 had said that former […] Read more » Coalscam Ministry of Coal MoC Prevention of Corruption Act Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Pachauri granted interim protection from arrest till Feb. 26 February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment TERI Director-General R.K. Pachauri, facing sexual harassment allegations from a woman employee, was on Monday granted interim protection from arrest till February 26 by a Delhi court.Ruling on his anticipatory bail plea, Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi also issued notice to investigating officer of the case and sought his response on Dr. Pachauri’s application. […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kumar Tripathi Advocate Prashant Mendiratta Pachauri granted interim protection TERI Director-General R.K. Pachauri
Criminal Law News Delhi court denies bail to juvenile February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has rejected the bail plea of a juvenile, accused in an attempt to murder case, saying his parents have no control over the boy who indulged in a similar crime when he was out on bail in another offence.Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma upheld the order of a Juvenile Justice Board […] Read more » bail to juvenile Care and Protection Act Delhi court denies bail to juvenile JJB Juvenile Justice Board offence.Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma says boy out of parents control
Criminal Law News Mamata Banerjee’s aide Shibaji Panja granted bail February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Local court in Barrackpore in West Bengal has granted bail to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s close aide and businessman Sibaji Panja, who was arrested on Saturday on charges of financial fraud. The court granted him bail on a personal bond of rupees 50 thousand. Panja was a member of a delegation during West Bengal […] Read more » Mamata Banerjee's aide Shibaji Panja Shibaji Panja granted bail
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Court penalises pvt firm in tax evasion case February 23, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A private firm has been penalised with a fine of Rs eight lakh in a tax evasion case by a Delhi court which noted that increasing cases of tax evasion by firms has been causing huge loss to the state exchequer and needed to be curbed with a firm hand. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devendra […] Read more » Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma Radiant Polymers Pvt Ltd tax evasion case
Criminal Law News Bombay High Court gives lifer to man who killed wife and child February 21, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Setting aside the death penalty, the Bombay High Court awarded life imprisonment to a 35-year-old resident of suburban Nalasopara who had stoned his wife and minor daughter to death and later chopped off their heads in July 2011. A bench of justices V M Kanade and Anuja Prabhudessai sentenced Ayare to life on Friday, saying […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Anuja Prabhu Dessai Justice V.M. Kanade lifer to man who killed wife and child
Court, Judiciary & Legal System DD can share feed of WC matches with pvt cable: SC February 21, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In good news for lakhs of cricket lovers dependent on cable TV, the Supreme Court today gave a go-ahead to public broadcaster Doordarshan to continue sharing live feed of World Cup cricket matches with private cable operators. The apex court continued its stay on the Delhi High Court verdict that had allowed the plea of […] Read more » Justice Prafulla C. Pant justices Ranjan Gogoi WC matches with pvt cable
Criminal Law News “Interim relief is for assisting woman & child” February 20, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has asked a man to pay Rs 15,000 per month to his estranged wife and children in a domestic violence case, saying the object of interim relief is to prevent “vagrancy and destitution” and assist the family in distress. Read more » Interim relief
Criminal Law News Delhi police constable acquitted in rape case as woman turns hostile February 20, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi Police constable, accused of raping and deceitfully marrying a woman after concealing his first marriage, has been acquitted by a court here after the alleged victim turned hostile and said she had lodged the complaint because he stopped bearing her expenses. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain absolved the police man, a resident of […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain constable acquitted in rape case
