Top Law News Cabinet approves ILO guidelines for domestic workers October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Cabinet approves ILO guidelines for domestic workers The union cabinet Friday approved a proposal to place before parliament the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) guidelines for providing a better environment to domestic workers. The ILO’s ‘Domestic Workers Convention’ and ‘Domestic Workers Recommendation’ focus on giving more rights to domestic workforce. The move is likely to benefit 6.4 million domestic workers in India. A […] Read more » domestic workers ILO guidelines sexual exploitation trafficking
Media & Entertainment News Cash-for-votes: Police file supplementary chargesheet September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The city police on Friday submitted to a Delhi court a supplementary chargesheet in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam which deals with its efforts to trace the source of money allegedly paid to the three erstwhile BJP MPs to get their votes in favour of the Congress-led UPA-I government’s trust motion. Public prosecutor Rajiv Mohan submitted […] Read more » cash-for-votes police Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal supplementary chargesheet
Top Law News Court tells National Defence Academy to ease security norms September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Thursday directed Pune’s National Defence Academy (NDA) to ease security restrictions imposed on the road leading to the tri-services institution, a lawyer said. The directions, spelling a setback for the NDA, came on a bunch of public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the institution’s move to restrict movement of people and […] Read more » Bombay High Court Chief Justice Mohit Shah Justice Roshan Dalvi National Defence Academy NDA PMC Pune Municipal Corporation security norms
Top Law News Delhi High Court upholds poll panel’s order on Koda September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday upheld the Election Commission’s order that issued notice to former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda regarding his disqualification for producing fudged election expenses. “(The) Election Commission has correctly appreciated and understood the law laid down therein and therefore, we concur with what the Election Commission has expressed,” a […] Read more » Delhi High Court Madhu Koda
High Profile Cases Chidambaram favoured 2G auction, CBI tells Supreme court September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Chidambaram favoured 2G auction, CBI tells Supreme court The CBI on Thursday strongly defended home minister P Chidambaram, saying that the finance ministry under him had consistently favoured “auction and indexisation” of 2G spectrum price. An apex court bench of Justice GS Singhvi and Justice AK Ganguly was told that the “finance ministry took a consistent stand and never deviated from its position […] Read more » 2G auction A. Raja CBI CBI senior counsel KK Venugopal P. Chidambaram Supreme Court
High Profile Cases 2G case: Raja wants separate trial for breach of trust September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jailed former communications minister A. Raja, the prime accused in the 2G spectrum case, contended Thursday in a special court here that the CBI’s fresh plea to slap an additional charge of criminal breach of trust against him should be dealt with separately, to enable him to seek bail in the case. He made […] Read more » 2G case 2G spectrum case A. Raja CBI special Judge O.P. Saini trial for breach of trust
Top Law News Court allows three medical colleges to admit more students September 30, 2011 / September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Medical Council of India was Thursday directed by the Delhi High Court to grant an increase in the intake of students from 100 to 150 to three private medical colleges. The court justified its decision by saying that a developing country like India needed more doctors to improve the health facilities. Justice Kailash Gambhir […] Read more » admit more students Delhi High Court Justice Kailash Gambhir medical colleges Medical Council of India
Top Law News Court questions Kingfisher Airlines for sacking employee September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday sought a reply from Kingfisher Airlines for sacking an employee here on the basis of a police claim that he harboured his younger brother suspected to be involved in a murder in Uttar Pradesh. Read more » Kingfisher Airlines sacking employee
Criminal Law News Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar to be prosecuted September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar to be prosecuted A suspended Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, whose house was confiscated and turned into a primary school, will be prosecuted for having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income, an official said Thursday. An official in the Chief Minister’s Office here said the central government has cleared the proposal of the Bihar government […] Read more » Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Corrupt IAS officer in Bihar be prosecuted Patna High Court Shiv Shankar Verma
Top Law News Lawyers’ strike in Delhi district courts September 29, 2011 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A daylong lawyers’ strike to protest a complaint lodged by a policeman, allegedly assaulted by bar association members of Rohini, Thursday affected work in all the six district courts in the capital. “We are observing a strike against the false FIR (First Information Report) filed by Vijay Vats, Station House Officer (Keshav Puram Police station), […] Read more » Lawyers' strike in Delhi district courts
Top Law News High court rap for top paramilitary medical officer September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has pulled up a top medical officer of the paramilitary forces for “misleading bureaucrats” of the home ministry to stay put in his job despite retiring in 2009. The court passed the strictures against R.S. Rathore, the additional director general (ADG) (medical). Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Suresh Kait asked the […] Read more » High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog Justice Suresh Kait paramilitary medical officer
Top Law News CBI shielding Chidambaram, petitioner tells Supreme court September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was Wednesday told that the probe into the 2G scam by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was ‘less than honest’ as it failed to examine the role of the then finance minister and present Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the fixing of spectrum price. The Centre for Public Interest Litigation […] Read more » Attorney General G. Vahanvati CBI CBI shielding Chidambaram Chidambaram counsel Prashant Bhushan CPIL Deputy Director P.G.S. Rao Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court