Environment Law News Pay compound interest for 14 years:Supreme Court to polluting firm July 23, 2011 / July 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up a chemical company for trying to wriggle out of paying up for the pollution caused by it, the Supreme Court directed the firm, M/s Hindustan Agro Chemical Ltd, to pay Rs.37.38 crore along with compound interest at 12 percent for the last 14 years during which it resorted to every legal avenue to […] Read more » compound interest to pay for polluting firm Enviro-Legal Action Hindustan Agro Chemical Ltd Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice H.L. Dattu NEERI pollution caused by chemical industry Rajasthan Pollution Control Board
Top Law News Deemed universities: Supreme court denies government more time July 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday declined the central government’s plea for more time to complete the scrutiny of responses from 44 deemed universities threatened with the prospect of de-recognition. However, the court allowed the plea by the human resource development ministry to continue with the services of the Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (since superannuated) S.K. […] Read more » Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (since superannuated) S.K. Ray deemed universities deemed universities threatened of de-recognition. Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma
Top Law News Can Rs.10 or Rs.20 buy enough food, asks Supreme court July 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the Planning Commission if Rs.10 in rural areas and Rs.20 in urban areas was enough to buy eatables to get 2,400 calories per head per day. The poser came from judges Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma when it was told that the Planning Commission considered that people getting Rs.10 […] Read more » Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma Justice Wadhwa committee on revamping the PDS Planning Commission Rs.10 or Rs.20 is enough to buy food Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court rejects Jagan’s petition against CBI inquiry July 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court rejects Jagan’s petition against CBI inquiry The Supreme Court Friday rejected a petition by YSR Congress Chief Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy seeking a stay on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into alleged amassing of huge wealth by him. An apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said that it will not interfere with the Andhra Pradesh […] Read more » apex court CBI CBI inquiry Central Bureau of Investigation Jagan's petition Jagan's petition against CBI inquiry Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma Senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi Supreme Court Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Top Law News Congress not involved in cash-for-votes: Police July 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Giving a clean chit to the Congress and the Samajwadi Party in the 2008 cash-for-votes controversy in parliament, the Delhi Police Thursday told a court here that arrested middleman Sohail Hindustani, a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker, was the “mastermind” of the scandal. “During investigation it has come on record that neither any leader […] Read more » Aman Arora Arvinder Singh cash-for-votes cash-for-votes controversy Congress Congress in cash-for-votes scam Delhi Police India latest news Legal News Lovely Singh news Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh S.P. Gupta Samajwadi Party Sanjeev Saxena Sohail Hindustani Special Judge Sangeeta Dhingra Sehgal trust vote
Top Law News Campaign on anti-graft bill in Sibal’s constituency July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Campaign on anti-graft bill in Sibal’s constituency A voluntary group Thursday started a campaign to popularise the anti-corruption Jan Lokpal bill in central Delhi’s Chandini Chowk, the parliamentary constituency of union minister Kapil Sibal who was part of a team that drafted a separate official Lokpal bill along with civil society members. In order to take Jan Lokpal bill, drafted by members […] Read more » anti-graft bill India Against Corruption (IAC) kapil sibal Sibal's constituency
Top Law News Only bureaucrats, politicians gain from quotas: Apex court July 21, 2011 / July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said that the benefits of quotas are being grabbed by bureaucrats and politicians and don’t reach the people they are intended for. An apex court bench of Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik said that people who should get the benefits of quotas were not even aware of them.”It is […] Read more » Delhi University Jawaharlal Nehru University other backward classes (OBC)
High Profile Cases Yeddyurappa can be questioned in corruption cases: Court July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major setback to Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, the Karnataka High Court Thursday allowed police to question him and his kin on corruption charges and illegal land deal cases. Justice K.N. Keshavanarayana cancelled the stay he had ordered on the trial court proceedings in the five cases filed against Yeddyurappa, his two sons, son-in-law […] Read more » B.Y. Raghavendra B.Y. Vijayendra corruption cases Governor H.R. Bhardwaj Justice K.N. Keshavanarayana Karnataka High Court Yeddyurappa
Media & Entertainment News Apex court names panel to evaluate Kerala temple treasure July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s Supreme Court Thursday set up a panel of experts to make an inventory of the valuable treasure found in an ancient Hindu temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala. A the bench of two judges ruled that a five-member panel should film and photograph the objects found in vault A of the Sri […] Read more » Kerala temple treasure royal family of Travancore TP Sundar Rajan
Top Law News ‘Food security bill before cabinet soon’ July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The food security bill will go to the cabinet very soon for approval, the food ministry said Wednesday, calling upon the states to prepare for its implementation. Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister K.V. Thomas Wednesday chaired a meeting with state ministers to discuss preparedness for enactment of the bill, which is a flagship […] Read more » above poverty line (APL) below poverty line (BPL) Food and Public Distribution Minister K.V. Thomas Food Corporation of India (FCI). PDS (public distribution system) Private Entrepreneurs Guarantee Scheme (PEG) Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Top Law News Charity can’t fund education-for-all: Apex court July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Charity can’t fund education-for-all: Apex court The Supreme Court Wednesday said that public-private partnership for achieving the goal of universalisation of education up to Class 8 has to be based on a viable formula and can not be accomplished on the basis of charity. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Panikar Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia public-private partnership Right to Education law universalisation of education
Top Law News Apex court cautions on fee waiver for poor litigants July 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that before an individual was declared indigent and exempted from paying court fee, subordinate courts must ascertain his true financial status. The courts should not merely base their judgment on his own income but also the financial support received by him from other sources, the apex court said. An apex […] Read more » fee waiver Kerala High Court poor litigants