Top Law News Delhi government proposes fast track courts for rape cases May 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government has written to the chief justice of the Delhi High Court urging him to set up fast track courts for ensuring speedy justice to rape victims, state Women and Child Development Minister Kiran Walia said Thursday. “I have already written a letter to the chief justice of Delhi High Court, urging him […] Read more » Delhi government Delhi High Court fast-track courts Kiran Walia rape cases
Top Law News Mercy plea of Khalistan terrorist on death row rejected May 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Mercy plea of Khalistan terrorist on death row rejected President Prathiba Patil on Thursday rejected the mercy petition of Devender Singh Bhullar, a Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist sentenced to death in 2001 for triggering a car bomb that killed 12 people and injured 29, including former Youth Congress leader MS Bitta. According to top government sources, the president rejected the death row prisoner’s […] Read more » death row Devender Singh Bhullar Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) Khalistan terrorist Mercy plea President Prathiba Patil rejected
Media & Entertainment News Adarsh land belonged to state, not meant for war heroes: Minister May 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A union minister Thursday said on oath that the land in prestigious south Mumbai where the controversial Adarsh Society’s 31-storey housing block stands belonged to the state and was never reserved for defence personnel or Kargil war heroes. While Union Energy Minister and former chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a sworn affidavit asserted that no […] Read more » Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam. Adarsh land BEST Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport MMRDA Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority Sunil Tatkare Sushilkumar Shinde war heroes
Media & Entertainment News Supreme Court quashes land allotment to Sourav Ganguly May 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the decision of the West Bengal government to allot land in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area to former cricket captain Sourav Ganguly. The apex court bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice AK Ganguly directed the state government to refund the Rs 20 lakh paid by the cricketer for […] Read more » justice AK Ganguly Justice GS Singhvi land allotment Sourav Ganguly Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Order on Teesta’s plea reserved till Friday May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday reserved its order till Friday on a petition filed by social activist Teesta Setalvad seeking to quash a criminal complaint against her. The complaint against her was made in the Panderwada case, in which bodies of victims of the 2002 communal riots were exhumed in 2006 – four years after […] Read more » .Justice G.B. Shah Gujarat High Court Teesta
Top Law News Dismantling of toxic ships in Gujarat worries apex court May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday expressed concern over the environmental impact of dismantling and recycling of foreign ships carrying radioactive material and other toxic wastes at Alang port in Gujarat. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad wondered why these ships were not dismantled or broken in the country of their […] Read more » apex court Dismantling GMB Gujarat Gujarat Maritime Board Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi toxic ships
Top Law News ‘Legally literate’ Chandigarh students to help needy May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thanks to a novel initiative, legal nitty-gritty will be taught to students in government schools and colleges in Chandigarh so that they can help the poor and the needy get better access to justice. Student Legal Literacy Clubs in these institutions will be a unique platform for spreading legal literacy among people who have no […] Read more » 'Legally literate' Chandigarh National Service Scheme (NSS)
Top Law News Tribals on rail and road blockade in Goa May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nearly 10,000 tribals from Goa’s southern regions Wednesday laid siege to the National Highway 17 for nearly three hours and blocked a New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express passenger train, demanding that the state government honour constitutional rights conferred on tribals. The road and rail blockade was carried out at three places in South Goa district […] Read more » blockade Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Goa Tribals United Tribal Associations Alliance UTAA
Top Law News Low-intensity explosion outside Delhi High Court May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A low-intensity bomb exploded on Wednesday outside the busy Delhi High Court triggering panic but no one was injured. The explosive, kept in a packet near a car belonging to a lawyer, went off at 1.15 p.m. causing panic, police said. The car caught fire after the explosion. Personnel of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, […] Read more » Delhi High Court Low-intensity explosion
Top Law News Cradle in every village – to save the girl child May 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to ‘drop’ a female infant if she is unwanted – instead out snuffing out her life. The infant would […] Read more » Cradle in every village save the girl child
Top Law News Fair land takeover package will cut litigation: Apex court May 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday said there would be far less litigation relating to land takeover if governments paid reasonable compensation to landowners. The court said that landowners whose land was acquired had a ‘legitimate grievance’ that the government took away their land for peanuts ‘in the name of development’. ‘If the state takes steps for […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P.P. Malhotra apex court Fair land takeover Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi litigation
Media & Entertainment News Did not attempt suicide in prison, says Punjab BJP leader May 24, 2011 / May 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With rumours afloat that he may have attempted suicide in prison where he is lodged in a Rs.1.5 crore bribery scam, former Punjab chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) Raj Khurana of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday showed media persons his wrists and said he had not cut them. Brought to the district court complex here […] Read more » attempt suicide CBI Raj Khurana