Top Law News Coal Block case: Court postpones hearing against Birla October 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here Monday postponed hearing on a closure report filed before it by the CBI in a coal block allocation case against industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others. Special Judge Bharat Parashar posted the hearing for Oct 21 after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought time for advancing further arguments on the […] Read more » Coal Block case Court postpones hearing against Birla former Coal secretary P C Parakh Hindalco industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla Special Judge Bharat Parashar
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC gives precedence to sugarcane farmers over banks October 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said that the sugarcane farmers will have precedence over banks for the recovery of their dues from mills as they are in the state of financial distress and are prone to commit suicide. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, while dismissing appeals by the State Bank of […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu SC gives precedence to sugarcane farmers over banks sugarcane farmers
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi HC rejects plea of ex-LS official to take back consent for VRS October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has thwarted an attempt of a retired official of Lok Sabha Secretariat to get back his job after seeking voluntary retirement and asked him to pay Rs 50,000 as cost to his employer for concealing facts. A bench of justices Gita Mittal and Deepa Sharma upheld the decision of a single […] Read more » Justice Deepa Sharma justices Gita Mittal plea of ex-LS official
Criminal Law News Court convicts jilted lover for harassing and threatening girl October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has convicted a boy for harassing a schoolgirl by making indecent gestures and threatening her to marry him, saying a girl cannot be compelled for marriage against her wishes. Convicting Karol Bagh resident Ashish alias Aashu, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pooran Chand said, “Having friendship with a girl does not give any right […] Read more » Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pooran Chand Court convicts jilted lover
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC raps government over state of affairs in Air India October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With Air India grappling with financial crisis, the Supreme Court has rapped the government for giving “profitable routes” to private carriers and asked it to plan a turnaround in the national carrier saying it “faces extinction” if things continued like this. “Why many lucrative routes have been given to private carriers,” a bench comprising justices […] Read more » Air India Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi Civil Aviation Ministry Dharmadhikari report on the merger of the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India Justice Kurian Joseph justices Vikramjit Sen merger of the Indian Airlines and Air India
Criminal Law News Burdwan blast: NIA moves court for custody of accused October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The NIA, which is probing the Oct 2 explosion in Burdwan, Saturday approached a West Bengal court seeking the custody of the accused arrested in the case as well as transfer of the case to a Kolkata court, an official said. Earlier, the West Bengal CID had been probing the blast that occurred in a […] Read more » Burdwan blast Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen NIA UAPA Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
Bar, Bench & Firm News Gallows only for meticulously executed diabolic murders: SC October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that when an accused executes a meticulously planned diabolic murder, without provocation or acting on the spur of the moment, and becomes a menace to society, then the crime falls in the category of rarest of rare cases warranting the death sentence. “In our considered view, the “rarest of the […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu diabolic murders Jharkhand High Court Justice Arun Mishra Justice R.K. Agrawal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Jayalalithaa’s bail plea to come up on Monday in Supreme Court October 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jailed former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s plea for bail is likely to come up for hearing on Monday in the Supreme Court. Lawyers associated with her matter said some procedural aspect for mentioning it for urgent hearing was yet to be completed and the apex court registry is likely to put it in […] Read more » Jayalalithaa's bail plea
Criminal Law News Dhaula Kuan gang-rape: verdict deferred again October 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Friday deferred till October 14 its verdict in the 2010 Dhaula Kuan gang-rape case wherein a 30-year-old BPO employee was assaulted by five men. The verdict was deferred as the judgment could not be completed because of vacation. “Because of a long vacation, I could not spare time; so the judgement […] Read more » Dhaula Kuan gang-rape
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Supreme Court asks CBI if it intends to examine Chidambaram October 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) if it proposed to examine former finance minister P. Chidambaram on the clearance given to the Aircel-Maxis deal over which a charge sheet had been filed in August. A bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice S.A. Bobde asked senior counsel K.K. Venugopal, […] Read more » Aircel-Maxis deal Chidambaram FIPB Foreign Investment Promotion Board Special Public Prosecutor Anand Grover U U Lalit
Bar, Bench & Firm News Court, Judiciary & Legal System Uttar Pradesh to appoint more judges in family courts October 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to appoint principal judges in 23 family courts across the state, an official said here Saturday. Principal Secretary (law) SK Pandey has issued an order in this regard, the official said, adding that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has given his consent to the proposal after the Allahabad High Court […] Read more » judges in family courts Uttar Pradesh to appoint more judges in family courts
Criminal Law News Female foeticide a deep shame: Modi October 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment is a matter of “deep shame” and a “cause of great concern”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, the International Day of the Girl Child. “On International Day of the Girl Child we celebrate the achievements of our daughters. From the classroom to sports, they shine everywhere,” he said in a tweet. The prime minister […] Read more » female foeticide
