Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi HC junks plea to allow political posters on pvt property February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today dismissed a plea challenging the city government’s move prior to 2013 assembly polls to remove political posters from houses of people who were willing to put them up on their premises. The petition had been filed after Delhi Police, ahead of the 2013 Delhi Assembly polls, had removed posters from private […] Read more » allow political posters on pvt property Chief Justice G Rohini Delhi High Court Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 2007 Justice R.S. Endlaw
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Activist Teesta Setalvad and her Husband Will Not Be Arrested : Supreme Court February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Activist Teesta Setalvad, accused of embezzling funds meant for a museum for riot victims, will not be arrested, the Supreme Court told the Gujarat police today. “The value of freedom cannot even be compared to the stars in the sky,” the court said as it questioned the need to arrest her. The Gujarat government had […] Read more » Gulbarg Society in Ahmedabad Teesta Setalvad and her Husband Will Not Be Arrested
Criminal Law News Coal scam: CBI completes probe in Hindalco case February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CBI on Thursady filed its final probe report in a coal block allocation case allegedly involving former Coal Secretary P C Parakh, Hindalco and others before the special court which will consider it on March 11. Senior public prosecutor V K Sharma told the court that the agency has completed the investigation and one more […] Read more » allocation of Talabira II coal block in Orissa coal block allocation coal scam Hindalco case Prevention of Corruption Act Principal Secretary T K A Nair secretary B V R Subramanyam. Senior public prosecutor V K Sharma Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar
Bar, Bench & Firm News Par should decide what is good for democracy: SC February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judiciary cannot step into the legislature’s arena to bar elected members with criminal antecedents from becoming ministers and it should be left to parliamentarians to decide what is good to save democracy, Supreme Court said today Read more » Par should decide SC what is good for democracy
Family Law News HC junks plea to register live-in cases as cheating February 19, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the government to keep the cases of live-in relationships out of the purview of the crime of rape under the Indian Penal Code. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw dismissed the plea which said that the complaint […] Read more » Delhi High Court live-in cases live-in cases as cheating live-in cases not as rape plea to register live-in cases
Criminal Law News Man gets life term for murdering paramour February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 28-year-old man was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a court here for murdering a woman with whom he had an illicit relationship. III Additional Sessions Judge A. Kayalvizhi held A. Ravikumar, an employee of a mobile service provider, guilty of murdering his paramour in a gruesome manner after she refused to hand over […] Read more » life term for murdering paramour
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Centre opposes in SC guidelines to regulate its advertisements February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government on Tuesday opposed in Supreme Court the framing of guidelines on regulating its advertisements, saying this did not fall under the ambit of judicial purview as an elected dispensation was answerable to Parliament. The government also asked as to how would the court decide which of the advertisement has been issued to gain political […] Read more » AG Mukul Rohatgi Justice Pinaki Chandra Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh justices Ranjan Gogoi SC guidelines to regulate its advertisements
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Employee can’t be kept under suspension for over 3 months: Supreme Court February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has prescribed that a government employee cannot be kept under suspension for over 90 days in the absence of a chargesheet against him as such persons “suffer the ignominy of insinuations, the scorn of society and the derision of their Department”. Observing that “protracted period of suspension of delinquent government employee has become […] Read more » Justces Vikramajit Sen Justice n
Criminal Law News Nikam seeks death for Salem February 18, 2015 / February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The prosecution today sought capital punishment for extradited gangster Abu Salem in the builder Pradeep Jain murder case while the defence contended that it would be a violation of the treaty with Portugal. The special TADA court yesterday convicted Salem, his driver Mehendi Hassan and builder Virendra Jhamb for the 1995 murder. “The accused (Salem) […] Read more » death for Salem Pradeep Jain murder case Salem's lawyer advocate Sudeep Pasbola
Bar, Bench & Firm News Man’s unwillingness to work no ground for depriving wife maintenance: Delhi Court February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An engineer husband has been denied any relief from paying interim maintenance to his spouse by a Delhi court which said his unwillingness to work for last many years was not a sufficient ground “to deprive his wife and child to claim maintenance for their survival”.Additional Sessions Judge Sudesh Kumar, while dismissing the appeal of […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Sudesh Kumar depriving wife maintenance DIR Domestic Incident Report
Consumer Law News HC junks Sarda plea against two-phased coal auction process February 18, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today lifted the stay on final bidding for three Chhattisgarh coal blocks and dismissed a plea of Sarda Energy and Minerals Ltd’s challenging the two-phased coal auction process saying it was not arbitrary or irrational. A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva said the bid procedures were “working well” […] Read more » advocate Akshay Makhija ASG Sanjay Jain Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed justice Sanjeev Sachdeva Sarda Energy and Minerals Ltd two-phased coal auction process
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC bars CM from announcing decisions with financial implications February 17, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Patna High Court restrained from taking any policy decisions which have financial and major administrative implications A division bench of the court comprising Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh passed the order while hearing a petition filed by JDU MLC Neeraj Kumar, a Nitish Kumar loyalist. On February 13, Neeraj filed […] Read more » Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi decisions with financial implications Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh Patna High Court
