Top Law News Plea to make officials’ appraisal reports public January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The performance appraisal reports of government staffers, officially known as the Annual Confidential Report (ACR), may not be confidential anymore, with a petition before the Delhi High Court seeking to make them available under the RTI Act in “public interest”. The petitioner — RTI activist R.K. Jain — has raised the question whether performance […] Read more » ACR Annual Confidential Report Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shah RTI RTI Act.
Top Law News Convict denied fund money for daughter’s marriage January 15, 2012 / January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man serving a life term in Tihar Jail for the murder of a 10-year-old boy approached a Delhi court seeking permission to use his contribution to a victim’s welfare fund for his daughter’s marriage. The court declined, observing that the man was a habitual offender and the money was meant only for families of […] Read more » Special Judge V.K. Maheshwari Tihar Jail Tihar Jail authorities Victim Welfare Fund
Top Law News Circumstantial evidence should be conclusive: Supreme Court January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman found murdered, her jewellery gone missing and her two neighbours arrested after their “confession” — what the Kerala Police built as an open-and-shut case was torn apart by the Supreme Court, which maintained that circumstantial evidence should leave absolutely no room for doubt. “In a case resting on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution […] Read more » Circumstantial evidence should be conclusive Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Aarushi murder: Rajesh Talwar to remain on bail January 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Giving Rajesh Talwar a breather, the Supreme Court on Monday directed that the dentist would continue to be on bail till Feb 4 when he will appear before a Ghaziabad court to face trial in the murder case of his teen daughter Aarushi. An apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Ganguly passed the directions […] Read more » Aarushi murder Justice A.K. Ganguly Rajesh Talwar
High Profile Cases Supreme Court grants bail to Sukh Ram, two others January 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday granted interim bail till Jan 16 to former telecom minister Sukh Ram, 84, who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in a 1993 telecom scam case. Besides Sukh Ram, the apex court bench headed by Justice P. Sathasivam granted interim bail to Runu Ghosh, former director in the department of telecom, […] Read more » 1993 telecom scam case former telecom minister Sukh Ram Justice P. Sathasivam Supreme Court
Top Law News Court fines Sheila Dikshit Rs.3,000 January 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday fined Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit Rs.3,000, for failing to file a reply in her defamation case against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijendra Gupta. Justice Kailash Gambhir imposed the fine even as Dikshit’s counsel sought adjournment of the case, saying he needed more time to file […] Read more » c.m of delhi slapped Rs. 3000 by delhi court Court fines Sheila Dikshit Rs.3 Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission DERC Justice Kailash Gambhir
Top Law News New year revellers, beware of infected alcometers December 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It will be a double whammy for drunken Delhiites taking to the wheel this New Years’ eve. Apart from stringent fines including imprisonment, one may contract diseases courtesy infected alcometers. According to doctors and health experts, the disposable straw on top of the devices could carry millions of germs and bacteria if re-used and when […] Read more » beware of infected alcometers new year celebration New year revellers
Top Law News Andhra high court cancels ex-official’s bail in mining case December 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Monday set aside the order of a special CBI court granting bail to former bureaucrat VD Rajagopal in the illegal mining case involving the Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC) of former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy. The high court, which had stayed the order of the lower court Dec 16, cancelled the bail on the […] Read more » Andhra High Court cancels ex-official's bail in mining case
Top Law News Kolkata rickshaw pullers may get photo IDs December 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Kolkata’s hand-pulled rickshaws, considered by many as colonial relics and banned by the previous Left Front government for being inhuman, might get a new lease of life with the civic body mulling the issue of photo identity cards to the 6,000-odd pullers. “We are planning to issue the cards. Probably by January we may […] Read more » Kolkata rickshaw pullers photo IDs
Top Law News Derogatory content to be removed from websites by February 6 December 26, 2011 / December 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Derogatory content to be removed from websites by February 6 In yet another blow to 21sites including Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Youtube, a Delhi court has issued summons to them for facing trial for allegedly webcasting objectionable content. Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Sudesh Kumar took cognizance on a private criminal complaint and has directed the Centre for taking “immediate appropriate steps” and also file […] Read more » civil judge Mukesh Kumar Delhi court Derogatory content to be removed from websites Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar websites like Facebook Google and Yahoo
High Profile Cases DOW Chemicals refuses to submit to Indian Supreme Court jurisdiction December 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a new development in Bhopal gas tragedy case, the American company DOW Chemicals has submitted before the Supreme Court that it has no liability towards the victims of 1984 gas leak tragedy which left over 15,000 people dead. The company, in its affidavit filed recently in the supreme court, has also contended that the Supreme […] Read more » Bhopal gas tragedy case Supreme Court
Top Law News Why not death, supreme court asks Hawara December 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Why not death, supreme court asks Hawara The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for his involvement in the assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, on a plea by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking enhancement of his life imprisonment term to death penalty. Hawara was convicted by the trial court and awarded death sentence […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation Justice B.S. Chauhan Supreme Court