Criminal Law News Ishrat encounter case: Suspended IPS officer PP Pandey gets bail February 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Suspended IPS officer PP Pandey was on Thursday granted bail by a special CBI court here in the 2004 case of fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others after remaining in jail for 18 months. Special Judge K R Upadhyaya granted bail to additional director general of police Pandey on executing a personal bond […] Read more » Amjad Ali Rana Ishrat encounter case Ishrat Jahan Pranesh Pillai alias Javed Sheikh Special Judge K R Upadhyaya Zeeshan Johar
Top Law News SC to examine term ‘grossly offensive’ of IT Act provision February 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will examine the term “grossly offensive” used in a provision of the Information Technology Act which empowers police to arrest web users for posting objectionable content. “What is grossly offensive to you, may not be grossly offensive to me and it is a vague term. We are only […] Read more » 'grossly offensive' of IT Act justices J Chelameswar Rohinton F Nariman said
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Accused can’t be kept in custody for indefinite period: SC February 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Wednesday said speedy trial was the “right of the accused” who cannot be kept in custody for an indefinite period if trial is unlikely to conclude within a reasonable time. “It is well settled that at pre-conviction stage, there is presumption of innocence. The object of keeping a person in custody is […] Read more » Accused can't be kept in custody SAIMS Shri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences speedy trial was the "right of the accused
Top Law News HC stays CIC order to disclose LG-Kejriwal communications February 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order directing the Lt Governor’s secretariat to disclose communications made between the LG and Arvind Kejriwal when he was Delhi Chief Minister. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, while restraining operation of the CIC’s December 30, 2014 order, also issued notice to the RTI applicant, who had sought […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Shakdher LG-Kejriwal communications standing counsel Zubeda Begum
Bar, Bench & Firm News HC permits 292 bars to function February 5, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court today extended the interim order permitting 292 bars to function in the state until further orders. The order in this regard was issued by a division benchcomprising justices K T Sankaran and Babu Mathew P Joseph while hearing appeals by bar owners and the state government against the ruling of a […] Read more » 292 bars to function Abkari policy HC permits 292 bars to function Justice Babu Mathew P Joseph Justice K.T. Sankaran Kerala High Court
Consumer Law News CBI conducts searches against chit fund company February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today conducted search operations in West Bengal and Odisha against a chit fund company. The search was conducted at eight places in West Bengal and one in Odisha against Real Tulip India Limited, the chit fund company, a CBI spokesperson told PTI. The offices and residential premises of its directors Tirtha Halder, Malay […] Read more » chit fund company Real Tulip India Limited
Bar, Bench & Firm News Provision on punishing for attempted suicide ‘barbaric’: Court February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court, which held a man guilty of attempting to commit suicide after being allegedly harassed by a policeman, said “it is unfortunate” that such “arbitrary, barbaric and anti-human” penal provision still stands in the statute book. The court’s observation came in a case of attempt to suicide in which a man consumed phenol […] Read more »
Top Law News Kejriwal correctly enrolled in voters’ list: ECI to HC February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment AAP chief Arvind Kerjiwal is correctly enrolled in the voters’ list for the upcoming assembly polls in the national capital, the Election Commission today told the Delhi High Court. The poll body made the submission before the bench of Justice Vibhu Bakhru, which had on Monday sought its response on Congress leader Kiran Walia’s plea […] Read more » AAP chief Arvind Kerjiwal Delhi electoral rolls HC Kejriwal correctly enrolled Kiran Walia's plea seeking removal of Kerjiwal's name voters' list: ECI
Consumer Law News Courier firm asked to compensate woman February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A consumer court here has asked a courier firm to compensate a woman for misplacing two ‘rakhis’ sent by her to Haryana’s Hissar district and for the late delivery of another one sent to Mumbai while holding it guilty of deficiency in service. A bench of Central Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, presided by […] Read more » compensate woman Courier firm
Criminal Law News Two men acquitted in kidnapping and rape case February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two youths, accused of abducting and gangraping a girl in 2009, have been acquitted by a local court as the charges against them could not be proved. However, the case of another minor boy, also allegedly involved in the offence, has been referred to juvenile court. The accused and the girl’s family are residents of […] Read more » advocate C D Deshpande kidnapping and rape case Thane Additional Sessions Judge V V Virkar
Criminal Law News Life term for man in murder case February 4, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court for looting and murdering two persons in 2011.District and Sessions Judge Vijai Laxmi also imposed a fine of Rs 24,000 on the accused Sanoj Kumar after holding him guilty yesterday. According to district government counsel Dushyant Tyagi, Mangeram and Ompal were strangulated by […] Read more » .District and Sessions Judge Vijai Laxmi Life term for man murder case
Top Law News Delhi election 2015: Court to record pre-summoning evidence in plea against Kejriwal February 3, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Tuesday fixed April 9, for recording of pre-summoning evidence in a criminal complaint seeking action against AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly exhorting voters to take bribes from BJP and Congress and vote for his party. “I am fixing it for April 9, for recording of the pre-summoning evidence,” metropolitan magistrate […] Read more » advocate Arun Kumar Delhi election 2015 Metropolitan Magistrate Richa Gusain Solanki
