High Profile Cases Criminal breach of trust, conspiracy charge not valid: Kanimozhi October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jailed DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar Saturday argued in the special court that they cannot be said to have committed a criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy in the 2G scam as they were not related in any way to the alleged dishonest disposal of the spectrum. Responding to […] Read more » A. Raja CBI conspiracy charge criminal Breach of trust DMK MP Kanimozhi Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar Kanimozhi special Judge O.P. Saini
Top Law News Voter card no proof of tenancy, rules apex court October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Voter card no proof of tenancy, rules apex court The presence of a person’s name on the electoral roll would only prove that he/she was residing at the premises at a certain point of time but in no way would indicate his/her status as a tenant or a licensee, the Supreme Court has said. “The electoral roll will not show whether a person is […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice R.V. Raveendran no proof of tenancy Supreme Court Voter card
Top Law News Court rejects plea against tax on marriage marquees October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday dismissed a petition seeking direction to the city government that no service tax be levied on marquees put up for Hindu marriages as setting up such pandals amounted to providing service for a religious function. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: “We do […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Hindu marriages Justice Sanjiv Khanna marriage marquees plea against tax on marriage marquees
Criminal Law News Give Raj Bala’s autopsy report to her family: Supreme court October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday directed Delhi Police to give the post-mortem examination report of Raj Bala to her family. The Haryana resident was injured in the police crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s gathering at Ramlila ground in Delhi in June and died earlier this week after being hospitalised for 114 days. Raj Bala […] Read more » Baba Ramdev Delhi Police Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Raj Bala's autopsy report senior counsel Ram Jethmalani Supreme Court
Intellectual Property News Review law on property rights: Supreme Court October 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said that parliament may consider abolishing or amending a law that enables a trespasser take the title of a building or land from the true owner in certain conditions. An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma noted that people were often astonished to learn that […] Read more » Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma law on property rights Supreme Court
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