Criminal Law News Man acquitted of charges of kidnap and rape of minor February 6, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has acquitted a man of charges of kidnapping and raping a 17-year-old girl after she turned hostile, saying she had lodged the complaint due to misunderstanding and under pressure from her parents. Additional Sessions Judge Gulshan Kumar absolved the man of the offences under sections 363 (kidnap) and 376 (rape) of the […] Read more » kidnap and rape of minor POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
Criminal Law News Nitish Katara murder case: HC rejects death plea, but enhances punishment of killers February 6, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected a plea for death penalty and enhanced the sentence for Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal from life imprisonment to 25 years without remission for the murder of Nitish Katara, a friend of Vikas Yadav’s sister. The court also increased the jail term of another convict Sukhdev Pehelwan […] Read more » Justice Gita Mittal Justice JR Midha murder of Nitish Katara Nitish Katara murder case
Top Law News Aircel-Maxis case: SC recalls order asking Marans to move Delhi HC February 6, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The court had earlier refused to entertain the plea of the former Telecom Minister and his brother and said they could approach the Delhi High Court against the 2G court order summoning them as accused. The Supreme Court on Friday recalled its order refusing to entertain the petitions of former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran and […] Read more » 2G spectrum scam Additional Solicitor-General (ASG) Pinky Anand Aircel-Maxis case Delhi High Court Justice Gowda Justice R. Banumathi Kalanithi Maran senior advocate C A Sundaram
Top Law News Hastinapur sanctuary land grab: Court cancels 547 leases February 6, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Cancelling over five hundred leases of the Hastinapur sanctuary land, a local court here has directed revenue officials to register the property as government land, authorities said today. The revenue court yesterday declared as “illegal” the allotment of 547 leases, comprising 6,000 bigha of land, to 480 people and ruled that the land cannot be […] Read more » Additional District Magistrate Ramkishan Sharma Court cancels 547 leases Hastinapur sanctuary land grab
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
