Top Law News SC seeks states’ response on trials of influential people November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the states to respond to a plea seeking fast track investigation and trial in cases involving influential people, including politicians, which otherwise keep on dragging for decades. The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice V. Gopala Gowda issued notice on the plea by Virendra Kumar Ohri, who […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice V. Gopala Gowda Lalu Yadav Shibu Soren speedy investigation and trial in cases involving influential people states' response on trials of influential people trials of influential people
Top Law News SC panel to probe sexual harassment November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday set up a committee of judges to go into a newspaper report in which a law graduate from Kolkata has alleged sexual harassment by a now retired Supreme court judge while she interned with him in December last year. Soon after lunch break, Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, heading the three-member bench, […] Read more » Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati Chief Justice P Sathasivam judges R.M. Lodha Justice H.L. Dattu Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai SC panel to probe sexual harassment sexual harassment
Consumer Law News Human Rights Top Law News Party promising to work for children will get votes: Badhte Kadam NGO November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 2,000 youngsters, associated with an NGO working for child rights, on Tuesday vowed to vote for a political party which promises to work for the welfare of homeless children. The first-time voters, all former street children, have written an open letter to all the political parties in Delhi ahead of the December 4 assembly […] Read more » Badhte Kadam NGO Party promising to work for children will get votes Party who work for children will get votes work for the welfare of homeless children
Top Law News Provide Hindi version of court proceedings to accused: SC November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking note of the pace with which Delhi High Court was “rushing through” with the hearing of death reference and appeals in the Delhi gang rape case, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked it not to proceed with the hearing of the appeal of two convicts till they are supplied with the Hindi translation of the […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra Chief Justice Sathasivam Hindi version of court proceedings Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Shiva Kirti Singh Provide Hindi version of court proceedings
Top Law News Police must register FIR: SC November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it is mandatory for the police to register FIR if a complainant approaches it for the registration of a cognizable offence. The apex court constitution bench headed by chief justice P Sathasivam said that action will be taken against the police officer for his failure to register a […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam FIR in case of cognizable offence Police must register FIR register FIR if a complainant approaches
Criminal Law News Top Law News Delhi gangrape: Convicts invoke Mahatma to oppose death penalty November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, two of the convicts on death row for the brutal torture and gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on December 16 contested the trial court’s sentence today, telling the Delhi High Court even the father of the nation was against capital punishment. Commencing the arguments for convicts Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna Advocate A P Singh delhi gangrape Justice Pratibha Rani justices Reva Khetrapal
High Profile Cases Top Law News Produce material pertaining to Radia tapes probe’ November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government and its agencies, including Serious Fraud Investigation Office, to produce all material and reports pertaining to their investigations into the intercepted conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia or those emerging from it. The application moved by the […] Read more » material pertaining to Radia tapes probe' Produce material pertaining to Radia tapes probe' Radia tapes
Top Law News Plea on addressing ‘Your Lordship’ as ‘Sir’ November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked whether any direction was required for enforcing the Bar Council of India’s rule that judges should be addressed as “Sir” instead of the existing practice of addressing the apex court and high court judges as “My Lord” or “Your Lordship”. The apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and […] Read more » addressing 'Your Lordship' as 'Sir Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjan Gogoi Plea on addressing 'Your Lordship' as 'Sir
Criminal Law News Top Law News Maid’s death: BSP leader, wife sent to four days’ judicial custody November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday sent Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh and his wife, arrested for allegedly torturing their maid to death, to four days’ judicial custody. Dhananjay Singh, who represents Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested and booked for destruction of evidence and violating the provisions of the Juvenile Justice […] Read more » BSP parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh four days' judicial custody Jagriti maid death case Maid's death Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha
Top Law News Government will look into CBI’s legality: PM November 11, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment manPrime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said government will look “promptly” in the legality issue of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) raised by the Gauhati High Court. “Some questions have come up recently about the legality of the CBI. Our government will look into this matter seriously and promptly,” the prime minister said here at […] Read more » CBI's legality
Criminal Law News Top Law News NHRC seeks reports on Odisha girl’s death November 10, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission has asked Odisha and Puducherry authorities to submit reports within four weeks on the death in Puducherry of a teenaged girl labourer from Odisha, a petitioner said Sunday. The commission directed the chief secretary of Odisha and director general of police of Puducherry to submit their action-taken reports on the […] Read more » Odisha girl's death
Human Rights Top Law News Battered housemaids: Growing trend, violated rights November 10, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Barkha (name changed) was just 12 when she came to Delhi from West Bengal to work as a domestic help, her only option to escape the life of grinding poverty back home. She started working as a maid at the home of a doctor in West Delhi, and hoped her life would change for the […] Read more » Battered housemaids Deputy Commissioner of Police S.B.S. Tyagi
