Media & Entertainment News A long way to go, cheer Delhi’s gays July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulsating drum beats, rainbow hues adorning the crowd, and faces beaming with pride and joy — the capital’s alternate sexuality community got together Saturday to celebrate the second anniversary of the Delhi High Court’s landmark ruling decriminalising homosexuality. The over 200 people who gathered at Jantar Mantar were throbbing with excitement, though the evening’s message […] Read more » Delhi's gays Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender LGBT
Top Law News Delhi to have human rights courts soon July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After a petition was filed in the Delhi High Court questioning the absence of human rights courts in the national capital, Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna has issued a notification that each Delhi court will have a specific human rights court. The notification, a copy of which is with IANS, said under section 30 of the […] Read more » Asian Centre for Human Rights Delhi Delhi High Court human rights courts National Human Rights Commission
Media & Entertainment News ‘Delhi Police can’t be blamed for action on Baba Ramdev’ July 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Reiterating his stand on the forcible eviction of yoga guru Baba Ramdev from the Ramlila Ground here last month, Delhi Police chief BK Gupta on Saturday said his team was not at fault. “The police actions have been recorded by the cameras of many news channels and they prove that the police cannot be blamed,” […] Read more » Baba Ramdev blamed Delhi Police
Top Law News Mamata for modernising court infrastructure July 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday emphasised on the need to revamp the infrastructure in the courts for fast disposal of pending cases. Speaking at the launch of ‘Mission Mode Programme for Reduction of Pendency of Arrears in Cases’, Banerjee said: ‘We need to introduce modern facilities in courts. The infrastructure needs immediate revamp.’ […] Read more » 'Mamata court infrastructure modernising
Criminal Law News Bengal government issued notice on children’s deaths July 2, 2011 / July 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The West Bengal government was Friday issued notice by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over the reported deaths of 17 infants in a state-run hospital in Kolkata in a span of two days. According to a statement by the commission Friday, 17 infants died within a span of two days at the B.C. Roy, […] Read more » Bengal government children's deaths National Human Rights Commission NHRC
Top Law News Court absolves leading news dailies of defamation charges July 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three leading news dailies of the national capital have been absolved of defamation charges by a Delhi court for reporting an incident about a dowry demand in 1996. The defamation case was filed against Hindustan Times, Delhi Mid Day and Sandhya Times which had earlier published a news article that blamed a groom for walking […] Read more » absolves Court defamation charges Metropolitan Magistrate Prashant Sharma news dailies
Top Law News Final draft of new disability law submitted July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The final draft of a new disability law has been submitted to Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Mukul Wasnik, a statement said Friday. According to the statement, the committee appointed by the ministry to draft the new legislation presented the final draft of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill, 2011 to the minister. “The […] Read more » disability law Minister Mukul Wasnik
Criminal Law News Ex-navy man, starlet sentenced for TV executive’s murder July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ex-naval officer Jerome Mathew was sentenced to 10 years in jail for the 2008 murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover for allegedly having an affair with his girlfriend Maria Monica Susairaj. The actress got a three-year term for destroying evidence, but would walk free for time done as an undertrial. Mathew and Susairaj were sentenced […] Read more » Ex-navy man murder sentenced starlet TV executive
Top Law News Himachal to have ‘holiday courts’ for employees July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday announced setting up of ‘holiday courts’ by this year-end to help litigants employed either in government or semi-government offices to attend to their legal matters on their off days.”To facilitate litigants who are in government or semi-government service and are unable to pursue their cases during working days, special […] Read more » 'holiday courts' Chief Justice Kurian Joseph employees Himachal Pradesh High Court
Media & Entertainment News From closet to freedom for India’s gays, two years on July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment What would you make of 377, 2/7, 730? Could be a code or a logical reasoning question. But, for queers, 377 is the Indian Penal Code section that denied them the right to love for over a century, 2/7 is when the Delhi High Court famously read down the section and 730 the number of […] Read more » India's gays
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Girl killed in police station was gangraped: Women’s panel July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Contradicting two autopsy reports, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said here Thursday that the minor girl found dead in a police station complex in this Uttar Pradesh district had indeed been gangraped. Not only one, several people raped the girl and brutally killed her. Thereafter, the girls body was hanged from a tree to […] Read more » gangraped girl killed police station
Top Law News Apex court warns private medical colleges against lapses July 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday slammed private medical and dental colleges for lapses in admissions and said it will have to step in if things do not improve. The apex court vacation bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice A.K. Patnaik said: “Private medical colleges are doing wrong admissions. The court has to stop it.” Taking […] Read more » apex court Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice P. Sathasivam lapses private medical colleges warns