Top Law News Supreme Court quizzes government on taxation agreement May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday wondered how could the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) was applicable to the people who do not pay income tax either in their country or in the countries where they have businesses. The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar remarked: “DTAA is also applicable to […] Read more » Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement DTAA Gopal Subramanium Government Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar quizzes Solicitor General Supreme Court taxation agreement
Top Law News Activists demand higher allocation for education, health May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Civil society activists Tuesday urged the government to increase allocations for various social schemes, especially those related to health and education, as they directly impact the lives of the poor. “We have recommended that the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17) should provide more opportunities to the marginalized sections and increase investments in public service such […] Read more » Activists education Health higher allocation Montek Singh Ahluwalia Planning Commission Deputy Chairman
Top Law News Nine striking pilots served contempt of court notice May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday served notice to nine pilots of Air India for criminal contempt by not obeying an earlier restraining order which had asked them to immediately end their strike that has now entered the seventh day. A two-member bench of the court issued the notice to the nine pilots who are office […] Read more »
Consumer Law News High court relief for auto drivers May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday stayed the Delhi government’s notification demanding Rs.15,000 from auto drivers plying in the national capital for installing GPS systems. Justice Indermeet Kaur in an interim order stayed till May 27 the government’s decision to charge the money from each auto driver at the time of installing the system. Justice Kaur […] Read more » auto drivers High Court Relief
Media & Entertainment News Striking Air India pilots seek prime minister’s intervention May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With both the court and the management taking a stern view on their persistence with their stir despite contempt proceedings, 600-odd pilots of Air India on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to end the impasse. As the strike entered the seventh day, the state-run carrier has cancelled 165 flights in the domestic and […] Read more » Air India intervention Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Veena Birbal pilots prime minister seek striking
Top Law News Video conferencing systems launched in Guwahati High Court May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment For quick disposal of cases, the Guwahati High Court Monday began introducing video conferencing systems with its benches spread across six northeastern states. Among all high courts in India, the Guwahati High Court is the second high court after Delhi High Court that has introduced the new systems of court trial on a regular basis. […] Read more » Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur Guwahati High Court launched Supreme Court Video conferencing
Criminal Law News In virtual world, men support castration for rapists May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment ‘Chemical castration is the best way to stop rapes. The judge is absolutely right in supporting the punishment,’ posted Ishan Kathuria, 23, a member of the group. The group has over 300 members, of whom many supported the form of punishment. In an observation, a trial court Saturday advocated the use of ‘chemical castration’ as […] Read more » castration men rapists support
Top Law News RTI queries on Balakrishnan’s assets pile up May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s apex human rights body gets about 40 RTI queries a month. But of late, the number has shot up to almost 200. And a lot of them have to do with former chief justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan’s assets. Balakrishnan is chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). “The number of queries on […] Read more » assets Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan National Human Rights Commission RTI
Top Law News Police told to give probe details on cash-for-vote case May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked Delhi Police to explain what it had done thus far to probe bribery charges during a trust vote in parliament in 2008. Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta was asked by judges Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha to file a status report on the investigation into charges that MPs were bribed […] Read more » B.K. Gupta cash-for-vote case chief election commissioner Delhi Police Commissioner details J.M. Lyngdoh judge Aftab Alam police probe R.M. Lodha
Top Law News CP shootout case: apex court confirms cop’s life sentence May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed the appeal by former Delhi assistant commissioner of police (ACP) S.S. Rathi and others, undergoing life imprisonment for the killing of two people in a shootout in the capital’s Connaught Place area in 1997. Two people, Jagjit Singh and Pardeep Goel, were killed and another was injured in a shootout […] Read more » apex court confirms cops CP shootout case Delhi High Court Life sentence
Top Law News Cash-for-judge scam: Former high court judge summoned May 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Saturday summoned former Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Nirmal Yadav in the cash-for-judge scam that had rocked this union territory in August 2008. CBI Special Judge Ritu Tagore asked Yadav to appear before court May 18. Four other accused in the case have also been summoned […] Read more » Cash-for-judge scam CBI CBI Special Judge Central Bureau of Investigation Former high court judge judge Nirmal Yadav Ritu Tagore summoned
Intellectual Property News Need for effective enforcement of child rights: Experts May 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There are several laws to protect the rights of children in India but what is required is effective enforcement of these rights, prominent members of judiciary said here Saturday. “There are laws for children in India but the challenge is to enforce them. Child is the supreme asset of the nation,” Justice Rakesh Saxena of […] Read more » child rights effective enforcement Experts Justice S.K. Gangele Need