High Profile Cases Punjab & Haryana HC : Working of Senior Judicial Officer comes under Lens March 4, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The functioning of senior Punjab superior judicial services officer Tejwinder Singh has come under the Punjab & Haryana HC scanner. It is believed that a preliminary inquiry has been ordered by the HC & proceedings in the matter are pending. Posted as District & Sessions Judge at Pathankot earlier, Tejwinder Singh had conducted trial in […] Read more » Working of Senior Judicial Officer comes under Lens
High Profile Cases Punjab & Haryana High Court gives Police two days to take Necessary Action Case of Assault on a Lawyer. March 4, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The District Bar Association (DBA) today continued its dharna on Ferozepur Road near the DC office to press for their demand for registration of an First Information Report (FIR) against STF in-charge Harbans Singh & his dismissal from the service on the accusations of beating a city-based lawyer, Varun Gupta. Meanwhile, Justice Lisa Gill of […] Read more » Necessary Action Case of Assault on a Lawyer. Punjab & Haryana High Court
High Profile Cases Top Law News Mercy petition of Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta rejected by President Ramnath Kovind. March 4, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Wednesday, President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the mercy plea of Pawan Gupta, 1 of the 4 death row convicts in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape & murder case. Pawan Gupta was the last convict to file a mercy plea. This comes after a Delhi Court, on Monday, stayed for the third time the death sentence of 4 convicts […] Read more » Mercy petition of Nirbhaya convict Pawan Gupta rejected
High Profile Cases Petitioners can directly move High Court for Anticipatory Bail : Allahabad High Court March 4, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A five-judge bench of Allahabad High Court on Monday ruled it’s not mandatory to approach the sessions court first, before moving the High Court for anticipatory bail. The bench comprising Chief Justice Govind Mathur, Justice Ramesh Sinha, Justice Sunita Agarwal, Justice Yashwant Verma & Justice Rahul Chaturvedi observed, “Section 438 of CrPC doesn’t mandate or require an individual to be relegated […] Read more » Allahabad High Court anticipatory bail Chief Justice Govind Mathur Justice Rahul Chaturvedi Justice Ramesh Sinha Justice Sunita Agarwal justice Yashwant Verma move High Court for Anticipatory Bail
High Profile Cases Supreme Court : Fake Social Media Accounts root cause of Riots. March 4, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Wednesday, a plea was filed in the Apex Court seeking directions to weed out fake social media accounts alleging that they promote communalism, radicalism, separatism, etc & is one of the root causes of riots & recent Delhi violence. The special leave petition (SPL), filed by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay, is challenging a Delhi HC order […] Read more » fake accounts Fake Social Media Accounts root cause of Riots root causes of riots & recent Delhi violence.
High Profile Cases SC trashes Petition seeking Organ Donation by Death row Convicts in Nirbhaya Case. March 3, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Monday, the Apex Court rejected a plea seeking donation of organs by 4 convicts in 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape & murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi dubbed “Nirbhaya” by the media, urging the petitioner to “have human approach”. The Supreme Court said that “To execute a person is the saddest part for the […] Read more » Organ Donation by Death row Convicts in Nirbhaya Case
High Profile Cases Supreme Court unmoved by belated Affidavit of Rape Victim that she made allegations under pressure March 3, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court in one its order has denied accepting the belated Affidavit filed by Rape Victim that she had lodged the case against the accused under pressure. The Court was hearing an appeal challenging the concurrent conviction in a rape case filed by the accused. The appellant was aggrieved by the Chhattisgarh High Court’s decision to affirmed his conviction […] Read more » Affidavit of Rape Victim Affidavit of Rape Victim that she made allegations under pressure
High Profile Cases Top Law News High Court of Madras : Women not entitled to 180 days Maternity Leave for Second Delivery, if she has Twins from her First. March 3, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking a view contrary to the one taken consistently by many single Judges of the High Court of Madras since 2010, the first Division Bench of the Court, led by its Chief Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, has now held that Women Govt Employees are not entitled to 180 days of paid maternity leave for their […] Read more » High Court of Madras Women not entitled to 180 days Maternity Leave for Second Delivery
High Profile Cases Top Law News Anti CAA protests: Wife lodges complaint after Husband forced her to join. March 3, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a shocking incident in Aligarh, a woman is being ‘forced’ by her husband to join the anti-CAA protest. She has lodged a complaint to the Police against her husband. Relevantly, protests have broken out across India, a few of them violent, against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019. The CAA seeks to amend the definition of […] Read more » anti-CAA protests
High Profile Cases No reasons to refer Article 370 matter to larger seven-judge bench: Supreme Court March 2, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday said there are no reasons to refer a batch of pleas, challenging the constitutional validity of the Centre’s decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 on August 5 last year, to a larger seven-judge bench. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice N V Ramana pronounced the order. The apex […] Read more » Article 370 matter to larger seven-judge bench decision to abrogate provisions of Article 370 Justice N.V. Ramana
High Profile Cases Delhi violence : SC to hear on Mar 4 plea for lodging FIRs over hate speeches. March 2, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court on Monday decided to hear on March 4 a plea seeking registration of FIRs against politicians for hate speeches which allegedly led to violence in the national capital. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde agreed to hear the plea filed by riots victims. The petition was mentioned for urgent […] Read more » Chief Justice S A Bobde Delhi violence
High Profile Cases Top Law News Nirbhaya case : SC dismisses curative plea of fourth death row convict Pawan Gupta. March 2, 2020 / March 2, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a curative petition filed by convict Pawan Kumar Gupta who was sentenced to death in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. A five-judge bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said that no case is made out for re-examining the conviction and the punishment of the convict. […] Read more » Arun Mishra Ashok Bhushan convict Pawan Kumar Gupta Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case R Banumathi R F Nariman
