Criminal Law News Man gets 10 yrs jail for raping minor girl April 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 28-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years by a fast track court for raping the minor daughter of his friend after entering his house. Additional sessions judge M C Gupta sentenced Krishna, a resident of Daulat Pur in northwest Delhi, for raping the 13- year-old girl two years ago when her parents were […] Read more » 10 yrs jail for raping minor girl
Criminal Law News Court issues fresh production warrant in child rape case April 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Wednesday issued a fresh production warrant against Manoj Sah, the prime accused in a five-year-old Delhi girl’s rape and torture case, to present him in court the day after. Duty Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Kumar asked the Tihar Jail authorities to present Sah Thursday before the court concerned, after police said the production […] Read more » warrant in child rape case
Top Law News Bijan Das new Tripura advocate general April 25, 2013 / April 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gauhati High Court’s senior lawyer Bijan Das has been appointed the advocate general of Tripura, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday. Das, a resident of Assam, replaced Dipak Prakash Kundu, who resigned on health grounds. “Bijan Das has been practising law at the Gauhati High Court for the past 40 years,” Sarkar told […] Read more » Bijan Das Bijan Das -Tripura advocate general Tripura advocate general
Criminal Law News Kashmir court allows taking chit fund accused to Bengal April 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Jammu and Kashmir court Wednesday gave the West Bengal police a four-day transit remand of Saradha Group chairman and managing director Sudipta Sen and two other accused in the multi-crore-rupee chit fund scam. Ganderbal district Chief Judicial Magistrate Parvez Ahmed allowed Bengal investigators to take away Sen, Group director Debjani Mukherjee and Arvind Singh […] Read more »
Criminal Law News Agra student’s murder: accused sent to judicial custody April 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two people have been sent to judicial custody in the rape and murder case of a 25-year-old research student at the Dayalbagh Educational Institute, a deemed university here, police said Wednesday. Amongst the accused is Udai Swaroop, grandson of the institute’s chairperson Prem Kumar. Udai and Yashvir, who worked in the same lab where the […] Read more » Agra student's murder
Top Law News SC moved to seek halt to Kudankulam plant’s commissioning April 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was moved Tuesday, seeking a direction to the government not to take steps for commissioning the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu till allegations of use of sub-standard equipment and the impact on the reactor and the public safety were probed. The application by G. Sundarrajan has sought directions to the government […] Read more » halt to Kudankulam plant's commissioning
Top Law News SC disallows discrimination on subsidised foodgrain April 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday said the government could not differentiate between “one poor man and another poor man” while offering subsidised foodgrain under the targeted public distribution system. The court said the central government could not deny ration card to an eligible person merely on the grounds that the allocation of quota of foodgrain for […] Read more » discrimination on subsidised foodgrain
Top Law News NHRC issues notice to UP Police over rapes April 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The NHRC said Tuesday that it has sought reports from the Uttar Pradesh government over its role in the alleged beating and detention of two rape victims in the state. “Notices have been issued to the state chief secretary and DGP (director general of police) calling for reports in both the incidents,” an official of […] Read more » NHRC issues notice to UP Police over rapes
Top Law News Poorest unable to exercise rights under NREGA, says CAG April 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report said that widespread instances of non-payment and delayed payment of wages have been noticed in 23 states under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). It said that “the per rural household employment declined from 54 days in 2009-10 to 43 days in 2011-12. There was […] Read more » Poorest unable to exercise rights under NREGA
Top Law News Former CJI J.S.Verma dead April 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Former CJI J.S.Verma dead Justice J.S. Verma, who headed the panel which suggested changes to the anti-rape laws in the aftermath of the Dec 16 gang-rape, died due to liver failure and bleeding in the stomach here Monday. He was 80. The former Chief Justice of India died at Gurgaon’s Medanta Hospital. “Justice Verma was admitted to the hospital […] Read more » J.S.Verma dead
Top Law News Five-year-old girl’s rapist in judicial custody till May 4 April 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Sunday sent the accused in a five-year-old girl’s brutal torture and rape here to 14 days’ judicial custody. Manoj, who was arrested from his village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, was presented before a magistrate who sent him to judicial custody till May 4. The girl was abducted April 15 and kept hostage […] Read more »
Top Law News Police must be held accountable: Amnesty April 21, 2013 / April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amnesty International India Sunday called for an impartial probe into the alleged misconduct of police officials in the case of abduction and rape of a five-year-old girl in the national capital. “This case shows the appalling extent of indifference in the police to violence against women and girls, and the inadequacy of internal processes to […] Read more » Police must be held accountable