High Profile Cases Supreme Court To Hear Plea For Implementation Of Guidelines On Police Reforms After Sabarimala Reference February 28, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Advocate Prashant Bhushan today sought urgent listing of a fresh plea seeking implementation of guidelines laid down in the Prakash Singh Judgment on police reforms. Bhushan referred to the riots which broke out in North East Delhi to highlight the pressing need for the court to issue directions for the implementation of the 2006 judgment. […] Read more » police reforms Police Reforms After Sabarimala Reference Sabarimala Reference
High Profile Cases Bombay High Court seeks to know junkyard expansion impact on flamingo haven. February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed two expert bodies to assess any adverse effect of expansion of a dumping ground in suburban Kanjurmarg on a flamingo sanctuary located in the vicinity. A division bench asked the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) to carry out an evaluation whether […] Read more » Bombay High Court expansion of a dumping ground in suburban Kanjurmarg expansion of a dumping ground in suburban Kanjurmarg on a flamingo sanctuary flamingo sanctuary junkyard expansion impact on flamingo
High Profile Cases SC asks estranged wife of industrialist Jaidev Shroff to look for house of her choice on rent in Mumbai. February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked Poonam Jaidev Shroff, socialite estranged wife of industrialist Jaidev Shroff, to search for a house of her “choice” in Mumbai in a week’s time or it will direct the Bombay High Court registry to do the needful which will be binding on her. The top court, which had earlier asked […] Read more » Chief Justice S A Bobde Poonam Jaidev Shroff socialite Poonm Shroff
High Profile Cases Top Law News A Simdega court sentences man to 20-years in jail for raping maid. February 27, 2020 / February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Simdega court has sentenced a man to 20-years in jail for raping a 17-year-old girl in Simdega district in 2018. Additional District Judge Madhuresh Kumar Verma on Wednesday sentenced 42-year-old Vinod Gupta after finding him guilty of raping the girl under Pocso Act and various IPC sections. The judge also imposed a fine of Rs […] Read more » 20-years in jail for raping a 17-year-old Additional District Judge Madhuresh Kumar Verma guilty of raping the girl under Pocso Act Simdega court
High Profile Cases Ranchi court convicts 11 in law student rape case. February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Ranchi court has convicted 11 persons for raping a 25-year-old law student in November last year. The court of the Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi, Navneet Kumar, on Wednesday found all the 11 accused guilty and fixed March 2 as the date to pronounce the quantum of the sentence. The 11 convicted persons are Kuldeep Oraon, Sunil […] Read more » e Juvenile Justice Board Judicial Commissione Navneet Kumar Judicial Commissioner Ranchi Navneet Kumar law student rape case. law student rape case. in Ranchi Navneet Kumar Ranchi court
Corporate Law News Top Law News Transfer of Justice Muralidhar done on recommendation of SC collegium: Ravi Shankar Prasad. February 27, 2020 / February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said Delhi High Court judge S Muralidhar was transferred following the recommendation of the Supreme Court collegium, asserting that a “well-settled process” was followed. The minister’s reaction came after the Congress alleged that Justice Muralidhar was transferred by the government to save BJP leaders in the Delhi […] Read more » President Ram Nath Kovind Transfer of Justice Muralidhar
Corporate Law News President Ram Nath Kovind hails judiciary for pursuing cherished goal of gender justice. February 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday hailed the efforts of the Indian judiciary in pursuing the “cherished goal of gender justice” and said that the Supreme Court has always been “pro-active and progressive”. Speaking at the International Judicial Conference 2020 – ‘Judiciary and the Changing World’, the president said the Supreme court has led “progressive […] Read more » goal of gender justice. judiciary for pursuing cherished goal of gender justice. President Ram Nath Kovind
High Profile Cases Shaheen Bagh protests : Court-appointed interlocutors file report in sealed cover in SC February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Court-appointed interlocutors on Monday filed their report in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court on the ongoing protests at Shaheen Bagh here against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Advocate Sadhna Ramachandran, who was appointed an interlocutor along with senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, placed the report before a bench of justices S K Kaul and K […] Read more » CAA Court-appointed interlocutors Court-appointed interlocutors in Shaheen bagh case Kalindi Kunj-Shaheen Bagh stretch National Population Register National Register of Citizens NPR NRC Okhla underpass Shaheen Bagh protests
High Profile Cases UP man sentenced to 10 years in jail for raping minor daughter. February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here on Monday sentenced a man to 10-year imprisonment for raping his 14-year-old daughter. The Judge, Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari, also imposed a fine of Rs 32,000 on the accused after finding him guilty under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences […] Read more » 10 years in jail for raping minor POSCO
High Profile Cases businessman Vikas Sachdev moves HC against 3-yr sentence for molesting ex-actor February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 41-year-old businessman, convicted for molesting a former actor on board a domestic flight in December 2017, has approached the Bombay High Court against his conviction and three-year sentence. A sessions court on January 15, 2020 convicted Vikas Sachdev under IPC Section 354 (assault or criminal force on woman with an intent to outrage her modesty) […] Read more » POCSO POCSO Act Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act
High Profile Cases Head constable Ratan Lal killed and DCP injured in fresh clashes over CAA in northeast Delhi February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi Police head constable was killed and a deputy commissioner of police injured as clashes over the amended citizenship law broke out again in northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad and Maujpur on Monday, with protesters torching houses, shops and vehicles, and hurling stones at each other. Violence between groups supporting and opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act […] Read more » Arun Mishra CJI Bobde fresh clashes over CAA in northeast Delhi Head constable Ratan Lal killed Justices N V Ramana R F Nariman and R Banumathi US President Donald Trump Violence between groups supporting and opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)
High Profile Cases SC collegium recommends appointment of 3 judicial officers as Judges of Jammu & Kashmir HC February 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Collegium has approved the proposal for appointment of three judicial officers as Judges of Jammu and Kashmir High Court. The officers are — Vinod Chatterji Koul, Sanjay Dhar and Puneet Gupta. The collegium, headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, in a meeting on February 19, also recommended the proposal […] Read more » Arun Mishra Chief Justice of India S A Bobde CJI Bobde Justices N V Ramana R Banumathi R F Nariman SC Collegium
