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
Top Law News Apex court declines plea against Delhi varsity semester system May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a petition seeking a stay on a Delhi University notification introducing the semester system for under-graduate courses in various disciplines from the coming academic year. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad said: “We are not inclined to stay the notification.” Justice Singhvi […] Read more » apex court declines Delhi varsity semester system Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi
Media & Entertainment News Kanimozhi, Sharad Kumar’s bail order reserved May 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday reserved its order on the bail plea by DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar in the 2G spectrum case. Justice Ajit Bharihoke reserved the order. Both Kanimozhi and Sharad Kumar are in jail for their alleged role in the 2G spectrum scam. Read more » Justice Ajit Bharihoke Kanimozhi Sharad Kumar's bail order reserved
Media & Entertainment News Lokpal Bill panel to consult states, parties on ‘divergent views’ May 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lokpal Bill panel to consult states, parties on ‘divergent views’ The joint Lokpal Bill drafting committee Monday decided to seek the views of states and political parties on “issues of divergence” on the proposed legislation as the government and civil society representatives had differing views on key issues, including bringing the prime minister and the higher judiciary under the ambit of the new authority. After […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal divergent views Human Resource Development kapil sibal Lokpal Bill Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News Selection doesn’t mean appointment, rules court May 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Selection for a job does not automatically mean appointment, the Delhi High Court has told a man who sought its direction that he be given the job he was selected for 17 years ago, and added he had anyway come to the court too late. Lal Babu, 45, in his petition told the court he […] Read more » Appointment Delhi Electricity Supply Undertaking DESU Justice Rajiv Sahai Selection
Top Law News India may implead in US court to establish ISI’s terror link May 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India is considering impleading in a lawsuit filed by Mumbai terror victims in a New York court to get Pakistan’s spy agency declared a terror outfit, a government official said Sunday. It is likely to submit several documents in the New York court to help prove the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had links with terror organisations […] Read more » implead India ISI's terror link US court
Top Law News Rs.1,500 for three kids? Court hikes maintenance May 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Is Rs.1,500 per month enough as maintenance for three children? No, said the Delhi High Court, which has pulled up a man for giving this paltry amount to his divorced wife for bringing up their three children. He has now been ordered to cough up a monthly maintenance of Rs.7,500 – or Rs.2,500 for each […] Read more » Court hikes Justice A.K. Pathak maintenance'
Criminal Law News Woman gets life term for killing husband May 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for battering her husband to death and cutting off his genitals in an act that it described as “having been committed in utter frustration.” Additional sessions judge N K Kaushik convicted Guddi alias Lakshmi alias Manku on murder charges on circumstantial evidence and […] Read more » husband killing life term Woman
Top Law News Punjab law on Panchayati Raj is perverse:Supreme Court May 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said the Punjab law doing away with the provision of no-confidence motion against the sarpanch by others in a panchayat was ‘perverse’. Calling it a violation of the basic structure of the constitution, the court said that it was dangerous as well as dictatorial.Coming down heavily on the amendment deleting the […] Read more » judge Chandramauli Kumar Prasad judge G.S. Singhvi Panchayati Raj perverse Punjab law R.S. Khosla Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Sequence being followed on mercy pleas, says Congress May 28, 2011 / May 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Congress Friday admitted that time was being taken to decide on mercy petitions of death row prisoners, but said it was a constitutional process which cannot be “leapfrogged”. Responding to queries about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) demand for the rejection of the mercy petition of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, Congress spokesman Abhishek […] Read more » Abhishek Manu Singhvi Afzal Guru Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar Mahendra Nath Das mercy pleas National Democratic Alliance President Pratibha Patil