Consumer Law News Criminal Law News Rs 2 cr compensation to kin of youth who died in an elevator January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex consumer commission has awarded nearly Rs two crore compensation to the father of a 25 year-old youth, who was choked to death in a defective elevator in a high-rise in Mumbai a decade ago. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench, presided by Justice V K Jain, asked the owners of the […] Read more » National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission NCDRC Rs 2 cr compensation
Court, Judiciary & Legal System It’s driver’s duty to take care of other users of road, says Delhi court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has awarded eight months jail term to a man in a 2001 case of rash and negligent driving in which a woman pedestrian had died after being hit by a blueline bus, observing that it was his duty while driving on public way to take care of other users of the […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Narinder Kumar
Criminal Law News Uber cab rape case: Victim identifies driver in the court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment US-based cab service provider Uber’s driver, who is facing trial in a rape case, was on Thursday identified in a Delhi court by the victim, a 25-year-old woman executive. During the trial, which commenced on Thursday, the victim’s statement was recorded before Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja in an in-camera proceeding. The woman, who came […] Read more » Uber cab rape case
Criminal Law News Youth gets 10-year imprisonment for raping minor in Haryana. January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a local court in Hisar on Thursday for raping an 11-year-old girl in January last year. Additional District and Sessions Judge Narender Sharma also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on 25-year-old Azad Ali. The judge pronounced that in case of default in payment of the fine, […] Read more » 506 (criminal intimidation) POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences raping minor in Haryana section 376 (rape)
Bar, Bench & Firm News Equipped cops needed for efficient & independent probes: SC January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court today said well- equipped and trained police officers have to be there to conduct “efficient and independent” probe into serious offences without “political interference” and asked the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) to mull over it. “We want efficient investigation by trained police officers in serious offences like murder and rape […] Read more » Adarsh Kumar Goel Equipped cops justices R K Agrawal Supreme Court
Criminal Law News No legally admissible evidence to frame charges: Tytler to court January 16, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday told a Delhi court that there was no legally admissible evidence to frame charges against him in a defamation complaint filed by a senior advocate representing the victims in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. Tytler’s counsel argued that the complaint was filed by senior counsel HS Phoolka regarding the […] Read more » evidence to frame charges Metropolitan magistrate Gaurav Rao senior counsel HS Phoolka Tytler to court
Consumer Law News Kids of woman accident victim get over Rs 69 L compensation January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two minor children of a 32-year-old woman, who died in a road accident in 2012, have been awarded a compensation of over Rs 69 lakh by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. MACT Presiding Officer Deepak Jagotra, while noting that victim’s husband (petitioner) expired during pendency of the proceedings, directed the National Insurance Company […] Read more » compensation of over Rs 69 lakh by MACT MACT
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC praises DoE for online facilities in schools for disabled January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today closed the contempt proceedings against the Directorate of Education (DoE) while lauding its efforts for providing on its website all data pertaining to facilities for disabled kids in private unaided schools. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and R K Gauba while appreciating the efforts of the DoE also […] Read more » HC praises DoE Justice R K Gauba Justice S. Ravindra Bhat online facilities in schools for disabled
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Court decision or arbitration can resolve Assam-Nagaland border row: SC January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Wednesday said the half century old border dispute between Assam and Nagaland could be resolved either by deciding the 1988 law suit filed by Assam or by referring the matter for arbitration. “There are only two legal ways of dealing it. One is that we should decide the suit or the other […] Read more » Assam-Nagaland border
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Which law mandates LS Speaker to appoint LoP : Delhi HC January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought to know about the legal provision which makes it mandatory for the Speaker to appoint Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. “You have to draw your right from the Constitution and not from the laws made under the Constitution. You are arguing (that) LoP (Leader of Opposition) […] Read more » Delhi HC LS Speaker to appoint LoP
Court, Judiciary & Legal System PIL seeks mandatory sealing of cosmetic and hygiene products January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the Centre to file a reply, within four weeks, to a public interest litigation demanding that cosmetic goods, personal hygiene products, skin and hair care creams and lotions should be sold only in sealed packets or containers. Advocate Gitanjali Dutta, the petitioner, contends that currently such products are often […] Read more » Advocate Gitanjali Dutta Bombay High Court Justice Ajay Gadkari Justice Naresh Patil mandatory sealing of cosmetic mandatory sealing of hygiene products
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Government must alter fraudulent records in reasonable time : Supreme Court January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government has to exercise its powers to take corrective course within a reasonable period to change an order that has been secured by a beneficiary in a fraudulent manner, the Supreme Court has ruled. It held as wrong the Andhra Pradesh Government order exercising its ‘revision power’ after nearly five decades to issue show cause […] Read more » alter fraudulent records in reasonable time Andhra Pradesh government Justice C Nagappan Justice Nagappan justice TS Thakur Supreme Court
