Top Law News IPL spot-fixing: Sreesanth seeks copy of FIR May 18, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India fast bowler S Sreesanth, arrested and being quizzed for alleged spot fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Friday moved a Delhi court seeking a copy of the FIR registered against him. The application, filed before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Lokesh Kumar Sharma, asked for a copy of the FIR for preparing his defence. […] Read more » IPL Spot-fixing Sreesanth seeks copy of FIR
Top Law News Man gets eight years jail for repeatedly raping daughter May 18, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Friday sentenced a man to jail for eight years for repeatedly raping his 17-year-old daughter and threatening her not to disclose the incident to anyone. Pronouncing the sentence, Additional Sessions Judge TR Naval said the one who was supposed to protect his daughter, had repeatedly committed the crime when her mother, […] Read more » eight years jail for raping daughter eight years jail for repeatedly raping daughter jail for repeatedly raping daughter
Top Law News Resist political pressure or pay for it, SC tells co-op registrars May 18, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Resist political pressure or pay for it, SC tells co-op registrars The Supreme Court Thursday said that the registrar or the joint registrar of co-operative societies should resist political pressures and if they choose to succumb to it then they would be personally liable to bear the cost of litigation that would arise out of their decisions inspired by extraneous considerations. “Registrar/joint registrar shall not act […] Read more » Registrar/joint registrar shall not act under political pressure Resist political pressure
High Profile Cases Mumbai underworld involved in IPL spot-fixing: Police May 18, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistani links and the involvement of the Mumbai underworld have surfaced in the investigations into spot-fixing in Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in which Indian fast bowler S. Sreesanth and two of his Rajasthan Royals teammates have been arrested, police said Thursday, adding more arrests are expected. Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila and 11 […] Read more » Ajit Chandila Ankeet Chavan IPL Spot-fixing IPLmatch-fixing MCOCA Mumbai underworld involved in IPL spot-fixing Sreesanth
Top Law News Haryana to close 1,372 schools for RTE violations May 17, 2013 / May 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Haryana government is likely to order the closure of 1,372 schools in the state for violating the provisions the Right to Education (RTE) act, an official said Thursday. “The department of school education has a plan to close all the identified 1,372 schools that are being run contrary to the provisions of Section 18 […] Read more » 1372 schools cloed for RTE violation Right of children to Free and Compulsory Education Act RTE violations
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases IPL Spot-fixing: Sreesanth, others sent to 5 days police custody May 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Arrested Indian pacer S Sreesanth and 13 others, including two other cricketers of Rajasthan Royals franchise, were today sent to police custody for five days by a court here for being quizzed in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal case. Delhi police told the court that it seemed more persons are involved and fresh arrests […] Read more » Ajit Chandila Ankit Chavan IPL Spot-fixing Sreesanth
Consumer Law News Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Saradha scam: Court says time not yet for CBI probe May 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that “time has not come” for aCentral Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Saradha chit fund scam, the Calcutta High Court Thursday refused to accept a plea in this regard but said it will consider it after fully hearing the matter. A bench of Justices A.K. Banerjee and M.K. Chowdhury, which Thursday started hearing afresh a set of […] Read more » Saradha scam
Criminal Law News HC for setting up medical board to examine Chautala May 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Thursday ordered setting up of a medical board to examine the health condition of former Haryana minister Om Prakash Chautala, who along with 54 others is serving a jail term in the 2000 teachers’ recruitment scam. Justice Siddharth Mridul asked the Director of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) […] Read more » HC for setting up medical board to examine Chautala medical board to examine Chautala Om Prakash Chautala
Information Technology News Media & Entertainment News Top Law News Prior approval must to arrest under Section 66A: SC May 17, 2013 / May 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer not below the rank of inspector general of police. A vacation bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra passed the order after […] Read more » arrest under Section 66A posting objectionable comments on social networking Section 66A of the Information Technology Act
Top Law News SC to take up Kerala reference on information commissioner May 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan will watch closely proceedings in the Supreme Court, as it considers Monday a “special reference” from the Kerala governor on the dismissal of a top state official. Besides Achuthanandan, his wife Vasumathy figures prominently in the documents submitted to the apex court to substantiate the Kerala governor’s special […] Read more » Kerala reference on information commissioner V.S. Achuthanandan
High Profile Cases 2G case: Swamy moves court for Raja’s written statement May 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday posted for July 6 an application filed by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy seeking the written statement given by former telecom minister A. Raja to Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in the 2G spectrum allocation case. Approaching Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini, who is trying the 2G case, Swamy, in his application, […] Read more » 2G case Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Geetika suicide: Court fixes May 10 for order on framing charges May 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today reserved, for May 10, its order on framing of charges against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his employee Aruna Chaddha, accused of abetting the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma. District Judge and Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria reserved the order on framing of charges against Kanda and […] Read more » Geetika suicide