Top Law News Weak law, tracking system hampers missing kids’ recovery July 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is a huge discrepancy in the number of missing children in the country as sourced from police records and that obtained through RTI applications, an NGO said Friday, adding that it was among the many challenges in their recovery. “According to the Zonal Integrated Police Network, the number of missing children from 10 districts […] Read more » Amod Kanth DCPCR Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act tracking system hampers missing kids' recovery Weak law
Criminal Law News Ajmal Amir Kasab challenges death penalty in Supreme Court July 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai 2008 terror attack, Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the death penalty awarded to him by a trial court and upheld by the Bombay High Court. Kasab’s appeal was filed by the authorities at the Arthur road jail in Mumbai where he has been lodged […] Read more » Ajmal Amir Kasab Arthur road jail Bombay High Court Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Court rebukes Kalmadi; Asks why he wants to attend parliament July 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday snubbed Congress MP and sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who asked for permission to attend parliament, and said the government would not fall if he didn’t attend the session. “There is no such important issue going to take place in parliament that if you (Kalmadi) do not […] Read more » (ASG) A.S. Chandhiok CBI Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Kalmadi for permission to attend parliament Suresh Kalmadi
High Profile Cases If I committed crime, so did Tatas: Chandolia July 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Targeting the Tatas and lobbyist Niira Radia, former communications minister A. Raja’s ex-personal secretary R.K. Chandolia Friday said if he could be accused in the 2G spectrum scam, then so should they. Chandolia began his arguments in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court by opposing the charges against him and saying he was […] Read more » 2G spectrum scam CBI CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini counsel Vijay Aggarwal lobbyist Niira Radia R.K. Chandolia Tihar Jail
High Profile Cases Defiant Yeddyurappa told to quit; successor on Friday July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday asked its first chief minister in south India, Karnataka’s B.S. Yeddyurappa, to step down after the state’s ombudsman indicted him in a large-scale mining scam, but till late evening a defiant Yeddyurappa had not complied. The BJP leadership announced that it will Friday select a successor to Yeddyurappa.The 68-year-old […] Read more » B.S. Yeddyurappa large-scale mining scam resignation as C.M
Top Law News RTI complaint hearings through video conferencing July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on RTI complaint hearings through video conferencing The Bihar State Information Commission (SIC) Thursday launched a video conferencing system for quicker hearing and disposal of complaints related to the Right To Information (RTI) Act, officials said. State Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) A.K. Choudhary said the SIC will help dispose complaints against principal information officers for denying information under the RTI Act to […] Read more » Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hearings through video conferencing RIGHT TO INFORMATION RTI complaint State Information Commission
High Profile Cases CBI raising unnecessary hue and cry over Tata: Behura July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura, in jail for his alleged connection to the 2G spectrum scam, Thursday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of raising an unnecessary ‘hue and cry’ over the Tata group being refused a 2G licence initially. The CBI had alleged that Tata, which applied for the licence March 4, 2008, […] Read more » 2G spectrum scam A. Raja CBI deputy director general of telecom A.K. Srivastava Home Minister P. Chidambaram Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tata group Wireless Planning and Coordination WPC
Top Law News Bring PM under Lokpal, says BJP July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday supported bringing the prime minister under the purview of Lokpal, expressing dissatisfaction on the draft anti-corruption bill not mentioning the issue. ‘The BJP does not appreciate the complete omission of prime minister from the draft Lokpal bill, the prime minister should come under Lokpal,’ party general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad […] Read more » anti-corruption bill Bring PM under Lokpal Lokpal party general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad
Top Law News Make Right to water, sanitation a law: UN chief July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all member states to integrate the right to water and sanitation into their body of laws, on Thursday. Ban’s statement came as he addressed the UN General Assembly during a plenary meeting on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. ‘Many of your governments have already included the […] Read more » right to water and sanitation UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Media & Entertainment News Nileema Mishra to donate Magsaysay prize money July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nileema Mishra, one of the Magsaysay Award winners this year, has decided to donate the entire prize money to her rural microcredit project, her family member said. “In the past, she has got around half a dozen small awards, and every paisa she donated to her cause. Even the prize money from Magsaysay Award will […] Read more » donate Magsaysay prize money Magsaysay Award winner Nileema Mishra Magsaysay Award winner Nileema Mishra to donate prize money Nileema Mishra
Top Law News Court directs railways to rehabilitate scavengers July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today directed the Indian Railways to introduce bio-toilets in the trains and rehabilitate thousands of scavengers engaged for doing the menial job. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjive Khanna, who were hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Safai Karamchari Andolan, a federation of state-level organisations […] Read more » Bio-Toilets Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Indian Railways Justice Sanjive Khanna
Top Law News Income-Tax officials quiz Raja in court custody July 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Income-Tax (I-T) department Wednesday interrogated former communications minister Andimuthu Raja, who is currently in judicial custody for alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum allocation case, an official said. The I-T team reached the Patiala House Court premises here around 2 p.m. and questioned the DMK leader. “We are quizzing him regarding his family income,” […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation case court custody Income-Tax (I-T) department Income-Tax officials quiz Raja Shahid Usman Balwa Vinod Goenka