Top Law News PMO sees 8,400 percent rise in RTI pleas May 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment People are seeking answers, even if it means asking the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) some tough questions. The number of Right to Information (RTI) applications filed with the office have increased a whopping 8,402 percent in five years, say officials. The number of RTI queries with the PMO rose from 48 in 2005 – […] Read more » 400 percent rise 8 department of personnel and training DoPT PMO RTI pleas
Top Law News Give five mn tonnes food grains in 150 poor districts: Court May 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains more for distribution among the vulnerable section of the population in 150 poorest districts of the country. In a special sitting, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said that additional food grains for below […] Read more » 150 poor districts Court five mn tonnes food grains
Media & Entertainment News Kanimozhi’s bail plea verdict on May 20 May 14, 2011 / May 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In temporary relief for the politically battered first family of Tamil Nadu, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Saturday deferred till May 20 its verdict on the bail plea of DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar in connection with their alleged involved in the spectrum case. CBI Special Judge O.P. […] Read more » Asif Balwa CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini Kanimozhi May 20 plea Rajiv B. Agarwal Sanjay Chandra Swan Telecom verdict Vinod Goenka
Consumer Law News Telecast Lokpal Bill panel proceedings: Agnivesh May 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Telecast Lokpal Bill panel proceedings: Agnivesh The proceedings of the Lokpal Bill draft committee should be telecast so that people could see the body language of union ministers Kapil Sibal and P. Chidambaram who are on the committee, social activist Swami Agnivesh said Friday. Speaking during the launch of the nationwide Jan Lokpal bill campaign here, Agnivesh, one of the convenors […] Read more » Agnivesh Home Minister P. Chidambaram kapil sibal Lokpal Bill panel proceedings telecast
Top Law News Award death penalty in staged shootout cases: Supreme Court May 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court said Friday that staged shootouts involving contract killings by policemen should be counted in the category of rarest of rare cases and those found guilty should be sentenced to death. “We are of the view that in cases where a fake encounter is proved against policemen in a trial, they must be […] Read more » Award death penalty Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju staged shootout cases Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court restores membership of 16 Karnataka legislators May 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday restored the membership of 16 disqualified Karnataka legislators, a development that could threaten continuation of B.S. Yeddyurappa as chief minister. The 16 lawmakers, 11 of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and five Independents, were disqualified Oct 11, hours before Yeddyurappa was to seek confidence vote in the assembly following their […] Read more » Anand Asnotikar apex court B.S. Yeddyurappa Balachandra Jarkiholi Belur Gopalakrishna D. Sudhakar Governor H.R. Bhardwaj Gulihatti Shekar H.S. Shankara Lingegowda Justice Altamas Kabir Justice Cyriac Joseph Karnataka legislators membership Nanjundaswamy P.M. Narendra Swamy Raje Kage restores S.K. Bellubbi Sarvabowma Bagali Shivanagouda Naik Shivaraj Tangadagi V. Nagaraju Venkataramanappa Y. Sampangi
Top Law News ‘Mamata, Jayalalithaa victories repose faith in women’ May 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the doughty Mamata Banerjee and J. Jayalalithaa set to take over the reins in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively, their victory Friday was seen by many as a reassertion of faith in the leadership of women. With them, India will have four women chief ministers ruling at the same time, the other two […] Read more » 'Mamata J. Jayalalithaa Jayalalithaa Mamata Banerjee Sheila Dikshit victories
Top Law News Court awards Rs.10 lakh compensation to tycoon’s widow May 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday awarded compensation of Rs.10 lakh to Nina Pillai, wife of ‘Biscuit King’ Rajan Pillai, on her petition seeking compensation from the central government for his custodial death in Tihar Jail in 1995. Delivering the judgment, Justice S. Muralidhar said: ‘In these circumstances, it is clear that the lack of medical […] Read more » ‘Biscuit King’ Compensation Delhi High Court Justice S. Muralidhar Nina Pillai Rajan Pillai Rs.10 lakh tycoon’s widow
Environment Law News Supreme Court bans endosulfan May 13, 2011 / May 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s Supreme Court has ordered a temporary ban on the production, sale and use of controversial pesticide Endosulfan. Admitting a petition filed by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), seeking country-wide ban on sale and production of Endosulfan in its present form or any other […] Read more » bans endosulfan Supreme Court
Top Law News Government to bring in new land acquisition law: Chidambaram May 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government was all set to bring in a new land acquisition law for better compensation and rehabilitation to farmers, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Thursday as unrest on the issue continued in parts of Uttar Pradesh. The new legislation, he said, would be introduced in parliament in t he next session likely in […] Read more » Ambika Soni Ghulam Nabi Azad Government kapil sibal new land acquisition law P. Chidambaram Pawan Bansal Salman Khursheed V. Narayanasamy
Top Law News Court reserves order against DU teachers May 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on charges by Delhi University (DU) that teachers of Dyal Singh College had flouted court orders by protesting against the implementation of the semester system. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: “The court will pronounce its final verdict on whether […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Delhi University Teachers Association DUTA Dyal Singh College Justice Sanjiv Khanna Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan UGC University Grants Commission
Top Law News Apex court orders CBI probe in job scheme implementation May 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into irregularities in the implementation of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme in six districts of Orissa. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar directed the CBI to file its […] Read more » apex court CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia job scheme implementation Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act MNREGA