Media & Entertainment News Ramdev on ‘fast’ track, says corrupt should hang June 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Friday vowed to press ahead with his hunger strike against corruption Saturday even as the government made last ditch efforts to stop him. He said corrupt ministers and officials must be tried in fast track courts and given the death sentence. “My fast will start from tomorrow (Saturday). I will […] Read more » Ramdev
High Profile Cases MCD deflects blame on ghost employees fiasco June 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government and the media were responsible for the controversy over the issue of salaries being paid to non-existent employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the civic agency told the Delhi High Court Thursday. The MCD’s affidavit was filed after the court took note of a public suit filed by the Jagrook […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court ghost employees MCD MCD Commissioner K.S. Mehra
High Profile Cases Court rejects pleas to make Anil Ambani, Ratan Tata 2G co-accused June 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special trial court Thursday rejected a petition to include industrialists Anil Ambani and Ratan Tata as co-accused in the second generation (2G) spectrum case and also imposed a fine of Rs.10,000 each on the petitioners. Similarly, the special court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), presided over by Judge O.P. Saini, also rejected pleas […] Read more » 2G co-accused Anil Ambani Court Ratan Tata
Criminal Law News Hasan Ali’s custody extended till June 7 June 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Thursday extended till June 7 the judicial custody of Hasan Ali, allgedly the country’s top tax evader and money launderer. “Principal Sessions Judge Sapna Joshi extended his custody till June 7 and will hear his bail plea also on the same day,” Khan’s lawyer I.P. Bagaria told . Khan was taken into […] Read more » custody extended Hasan Ali Judge Sapna Joshi
Criminal Law News Man gets death for killing daughter June 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court here Wednesday awarded death penalty to a man for killing his teenaged daughter in 2009 over her love affair, police said. “Additional District Judge Kamini Pathak gave the death sentence to Shaukat Saifi, who beheaded his 15-year-old daughter in June 2009 over her love affair with a youth in Kirmicha village,” police […] Read more » death penalty
Media & Entertainment News I will certainly begin fast against corruption: Baba Ramdev June 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Despite a round of talks with senior United Progressive Alliance ministers, yoga guru Baba Ramdev rejected pleas to call off his planned hunger strike, asserting that he will begin his agitation against corruption and black money from Saturday. ‘The agitation from June 4 will spread from Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to 624 districts in the country […] Read more » Baba Ramdev corruption fast
Media & Entertainment News can’t be forced to give DNA test sample: N.D. Tiwari June 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari Wednesday refused to appear before the Delhi High Court and moved an application stating that he cannot be forced to give a blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit filed by a 31-year-old man who says Tiwari is his biological father. Tiwari, 85, moved an application before […] Read more » DNA test N.D. Tiwari
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Media & Entertainment News Headley told wife he ‘made a fool’ of Rana June 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley has admitted he told one of his wives that he “made a fool” of his childhood friend Pakistani Canadian Tahawwur Rana, his co-accused in the Mumbai terror attack trial. “I acknowledge that I made a fool of him. He should be released. Poor fellow is stuck for no reason. It […] Read more » David Coleman Headley Pakistani Canadian Pakistani-American terrorist Tahawwur Rana
Media & Entertainment News No ‘fish medicine’ for kids, says Andhra rights panel June 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No ‘fish medicine’ for kids, says Andhra rights panel A fresh controversy hit the famous ‘fish medicine’ therapy for asthma patients as Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission Tuesday ordered that children below the age of 14 should not be administered it. Acting on a petition by Balula Hakkula Sangham, an NGO working for children’s rights, the commission asked the Hyderabad district administration to ensure […] Read more » 'fish medicine Andhra Pradesh Human Rights Commission
Media & Entertainment News Rs.9 lakh relief for kin of woman killed in accident May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has awarded over Rs.9 lakh as compensation and interest to the family of a woman who was killed in a road accident in 2006. Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Judge Ashwani Sarpal awarded Rs.703,022, along with around Rs.2.5 lakh interest, to the family members of 26-year-old victim Neeru Bhatnagar. The motorcycle on which […] Read more » Judge Ashwani Sarpal
Media & Entertainment News Lokpal should not probe PM: Baba Ramdev May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The prime minister should be excluded from the purview of the proposed Lokpal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said on Tuesday. “It is a very complicated question whether the prime minister and the chief justice of India should be brought under Lokpal bill or not. The person who decides the fate of 121 crore people in […] Read more » Baba Ramdev Lokpal PM
Media & Entertainment News Binayak Sen slams sedition laws May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rights and public health activist Binayak Sen Monday termed sedition laws in the country as ‘draconian’ and said these are often misused to ‘suppress the voice of the people’. ‘The UK does not have a sedition law, but we have it. It was brought to India by the British and we are still continuing it,’ […] Read more » Binayak Sen sedition laws