Top Law News Supreme court pulls up three states on vehicle number plates August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday issued contempt notices to Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh for failing to take steps to introduce digital high-security number plates for vehicles. The court asked them why exemplary cost should not be slapped on them for their default in carrying out the court’s direction. The Supreme court bench of […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court vehicle number plates
Top Law News Comprehensive law needed for judges: Parliamentary panel August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A parliamentary panel on Tuesday stressed the need for a “comprehensive law on judges’ appointmenst”, noting the present draft of the bill only addresses the issue “partially”. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice and Personnel submitted its report on the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010 in both Houses of Parliament. The bill […] Read more » Comprehensive law needed for judges high court judge Parliamentary panel Supreme Court judge
Top Law News One day, my fight will also be recognised: Irom Sharmila August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Irom Sharmila, on a hunger strike for the past 11 years, on Tuesday said a day would come when her fight against rights violations by security forces would be acknowledged by New Delhi like the way parliament had recognised Anna Hazare’s campaign against corruption. “The central government recognised Anna Hazare as a true Indian citizen […] Read more » AFSPA Armed Forces Special Powers Act Irom Sharmila
Top Law News Law on ailing delinquents passed August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Parliament Monday passed Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2010, to prevent separation of children suffering from diseases like leprosy and TB from others in juvenile homes. The bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha earlier this month. Moving the bill for consideration, in the absence of Women and Child Development Minister […] Read more » Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill 2010 Law on ailing delinquents Law on ailing delinquents passed
Top Law News Supreme court to examine Kerala education quota for poor August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the validity of the Kerala government’s decision to extend 10% reservation for economically backward class students of the forward community. A bench of Justice DK Jain and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, while admitting the petition filed by three organisations, said “let the hearing be expedited.” The bench sought […] Read more » Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Justice DK Jain Kerala education quota for poor Supreme Court
Top Law News Government evasive on Ramdev eviction,Supreme court told August 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was told Monday that affidavits filed by the union home secretary and the Delhi Police chief on the June 4 eviction of yoga guru Baba Ramdev from the Ramlila ground here were evasive. Amicus curiae Rajiv Dhawan told an Supreme court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar that the affidavits […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Ramdev eviction Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Rajiv Gandhi killers move court for stay of hanging August 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The three convicts facing the gallows for their involvement in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi Monday moved the Madras High Court to stay their Sep 9 hanging. MDMK general secretary Vaiko and advocate N. Chandrasekaran filed the petition on behalf of the condemned prisoners – Murugan, Perarivalan and Santhan. “Vaiko has filed […] Read more » assassination of Rajiv Gandhi court for stay of hanging Madras High Court President Pratibha Patil Rajiv Gandhi killers Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Aamir supports Manipur rights activist August 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has supported Manipur’s human rights activist Irom Chanu Sharmila’s over a decade-long hunger strike against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act and violation of human rights by security forces in the northeast, a release said here Monday. “The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958, should be repealed,” the actor told […] Read more » AamirKhan AFSPA Irom Chanu Sharmila Manipur rights activist
Top Law News Supreme court cautions chief ministers on discretionary powers August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme court cautions chief ministers on discretionary powers The Supreme Court has held that a chief minister should eschew arbitrariness and discrimination while using discretionary powers in the disbursal of relief funds as these powers are not unfettered or unaccountable. “In a democracy governed by the rule of law, no government or authority has the right to do what it pleases. Where the […] Read more » chief ministers on discretionary powers Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice R.V. Raveendran Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News How Anna united people for a common cause August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is hardly any similarity between 50-year-old Raghubir Prasad, a rickshaw puller from Bihar, and 20-year-old Meneka Sharma, a student in Delhi. Yet they have been bound together by a common link called Anna Hazare. Prasad has been literally camping at the Ramlila Maidan here in central Delhi for the past 11 days – ever […] Read more » Anna Hazare Anna united people for a common cause Jan Lokpal bill Ramlila ground
Media & Entertainment News Anna’s blood pressure falls, health deteriorates August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Doctors attending on Anna Hazare Saturday expressed worry over the fasting social activist’s falling blood pressure and said he should end his fast, which entered day 12, as his health has begun to deteriorate. “Blood pressure that was earlier steady has come down and his heart rate has increased. The cause of worry is the […] Read more » Anna Hazare Anna's blood pressure falls Anna's health deteriorates
Media & Entertainment News Hazare wants three key issues resolved to end fast: Patkar August 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Anna Hazare will not break his fast unless the parliament moves a resolution on the three key issues, activist Medha Patkar said late Friday night after she and other civil society members met Law Minister Salman Khurshid here. ‘Anna Hazare is insistent he will not break the fast without the three key issues being resolved,’ […] Read more » activist Medha Patkar Anna Hazare Bhaiyyu Maharaj Law Minister Salman Khurshid Lokpal bills Prashant Bhushan