High Profile Cases Cash-for-votes scandal: Apex court rebukes Delhi Police August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday rebuked Delhi Police for its tardy investigations into the cash-for-votes scandal of 2008, when the Congress-led central government was accused of bribing MPs to win a trust vote in parliament. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha Friday took into consideration Delhi Police’s comprehensive status […] Read more » Cash-for-votes scandal Delhi Police Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
Top Law News Kalmadi’s plea to attend parliament rejected August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday rejected a petition of jailed Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, seeking permission to attend the ongoing session of parliament, and fined him Rs.1 lakh. Turning down the 67-year-old’s application, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw asked him to deposit the fine money in the prime minister’s relief fund. Upholding the government’s contention that […] Read more » Kalmadi's plea to attend parliament
Environment Law News Supreme Court panel to decide on endosulphan export August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked an expert panel appointed by it to explore the possibility of exporting the existing stock of banned pesticide Endosulfan here to other countries. The apex court, which sought answers on various questions related to Endosulfan, also wanted to know from the expert body, how the quantity of the pesticide after […] Read more » Chief Justice SH Kapadia endosulphan export ICMR Indian Council Medical Research justice KS Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News ’25 percent urban population of India is poor August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A quarter of India’s urban population lives below the poverty line and are poor, the Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Kumari Selja said Wednesday. Orissa has the highest percentage of urban poor in the country, she added.Quoting the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) for the year 2004-05, Selja informed the Rajya Sabha that […] Read more » '25 percent urban population of India is poor' (NSSO 25 percent urban population National Sample Survey Office urban population of India is poor'
High Profile Cases Swan Telecom questions CAG role August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Swan Telecom Thursday told a Delhi court that the CAG has “no authority to decide” the correct market value of radio frequency airwaves, a scarce national resource, to operate second generation (2G) mobile phone services. The company, listed as an accused in the 2G scam, also rubbished the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) […] Read more » allocation of airwaves CAG CAG role CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini Comptroller and Auditor General of India Swan Telecom Telecom Regulatory Authority of India TRAI
Media & Entertainment News Lokpal bill comes to parliament, BJP, Team Anna protest August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Thursday stuck to its promise by introducing the much-debated anti-graft Lokpal bill in the Lok Sabha, which predictably elicited protests from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and civil society activists led by Anna Hazare for excluding the prime minister from its ambit. The bill, which was approved by the union cabinet last month, […] Read more » anti-graft Lokpal bill in the Lok Sabha BJP and Team Anna protest Lokpal bill Home Minister P. Chidambaram Lokpal bill comes to parliament Narayanasamy Prevention of Corruption Act
Top Law News Supreme Court reserves verdict on right to education August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions by private schools challenging the right to education law that mandates them to earmark 25 percent seats for poor students. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar reserved the verdict after the conclusion […] Read more » 25 percent seats for poor students Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar PPP public-private partnership Right to Education Supreme Court
Top Law News Can’t touch seats reserved for OBC students: Supreme court August 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday said conversion of seats reserved for students belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) to general category seats in central educational institutions was not permissible. The apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik said this while reserving its verdict on a petition by P.V. Indiresan, former director […] Read more » Can't touch seats reserved for OBC students Delhi High Court Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice R.V. Raveendran Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal
High Profile Cases Videocon got 2G licence through forgery: Balwa August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot got the licence and start-up spectrum for second generation (2G) telecom services through forgery, Swan Telecom promoter Shahid Usman Balwa alleged in a special court here Tuesday. “Dhoot flashed the ID card of Rajkumar Dhoot who is his brother and member of parliament and also member of some telecom committee in […] Read more » 2G telecom services CBI court Cineyug's Karim Morani Communications Minister Kapil Sibal Department of Telecom DMK MP Kanimozhi DoT Judge O.P. Saini Kalaignar TV's chief Sharad Kumar Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Swan Telecom promoter hahid Usman Balwa Unitech Wireless's Sanjay Chandra Videocon chairman Venugopal Dhoot
Top Law News Marriage registration to be made mandatory August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government has drafted a bill making it mandatory to register marriages. The Delhi cabinet Monday approved the Delhi Marriage Registration Bill in a meeting presided by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.According to a minister in the government, the decision has been taken in the wake of the Supreme Court direction to state governments to […] Read more » Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Delhi Marriage Registration Bill made mandatory Marriage registration registration of marriages compulsory
Top Law News Plea in Supreme Court to restrain Hazare from fasting August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was moved Monday by an activist from Maharashtra seeking direction to anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare not to launch an indefinite fast from Aug 16 to press his demands on the Lokpal bill. Hazare’s demands were unconstitutional and amounted to intrusion in the legislative domain of parliament, said petitioner Hemant Patil, a businessman-cum-social […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare bringing the prime minister under the purview of the lokpal. Lokpal Bill Supreme Court
Top Law News Package for canal-hit and dam displaced not same, rules Supreme Court August 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday said that people affected by the canal network of the Narmada were not entitled to the same relief and rehabilitation (R&R) package as given to those displaced by the submerges caused by the dam constructed on the river. The people whose lands had been acquired for the canal network may, however, […] Read more » dam displaced Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Deepak Verma Justice J.M. Panchal Madhya Pradesh High Court Package for canal-hit Package for canal-hit and dam displaced not same Supreme Court