Top Law News Gujarat panchayat workers to get same pay as government staff April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All village panchayats in Gujarat will now have to pay salaries and other allowances to their messengers on par with their counterparts in the state government, the Gujarat High Court has directed. A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala directed the state to ensure that the guidelines issued by the government […] Read more » Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya government staff Gujarat Justice J.B. Pardiwala panchayat workers same pay
Top Law News Court reserves order on plea of five former ad-hoc judges April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the petitions of five former ad-hoc fast track court judges whose services were terminated. The petitioners approached the high court seeking direction to the state government to retain them as ad-hoc additional district judges. A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala, after […] Read more » Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court former ad-hoc judges Justice J.B. Pardiwala order plea reserves
Top Law News Karnataka court to inform listing of cases through SMS April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Karnataka High Court will provide information on the listing of cases through SMS to litigants and lawyers, the court’s registrar said Wednesday. ‘Listing of cases in the cause-list filed in the high court and its circuit benches will be made available to the interested parties through SMS. Litigants, lawyers and others have to register […] Read more » cases Chief Justice J.S. Khehar inform Karnataka court listing SMS
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to lift ban on tobacco sachets April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to lift a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets and asked the central government to file its reply to petitions challenging the curbs. The petitions were filed by manufacturers of chewing tobacco challenging the rules banning the product’s sale in plastic sachets. The ban came into […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan Supreme Court tobacco sachets
Media & Entertainment News Bhopal tragedy: Supreme Court questions CBI for delay in plea April 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. A five-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia raised the question on delay and […] Read more » Attorney General GE Vahanvati Bhopal tragedy CBI Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Court directs Tihar officials to give proper food to Raja April 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Wednesday directed Tihar Jail authorities to give proper and timely food to former communications minister A Raja and former telecom secretary Siddhartha Behura sent to judicial custody in the 2G spectrum scam case. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge OP Saini was hearing applications filed by Raja and Behura. […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge OP Saini Tihar Jail
Media & Entertainment News Bhopal tragedy: Hearing on harsher charges begins Wednesday April 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Wednesday hear petitions of the CBI and the central government for restoration of stringent charges against the then head of Union Carbide India Keshub Mahindra and six others in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case and enhancemment of compensation for victims. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved the apex court […] Read more » Bhopal tragedy Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia J.N. Mukund Justice Aftab Alam Justice Altamas Kabir Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice R.V. Raveendran K.V. Shetty methyl isocyanate (MIC) S.I. Quereshi S.P. Chaudhary senior executives Kishore Kamdar
Top Law News Graft charges may spell trouble for Nitish Kumar April 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A petition filed in the Patna high court for re-hearing a public suit on alleged financial irregularities of Rs 11,412 crore, with fingers pointed at chief minister Nitish Kumar and 46 others, has got the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD(U)) worried. The petition was filed on Monday, nearly nine months after the state high court stayed […] Read more » CAG charges Comptroller and Auditor General graft Nitish Kumar Patna High Court Sushil Kumar Modi trouble
High Profile Cases NGO moves apex court over probe into cash-for-votes scam April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on NGO moves apex court over probe into cash-for-votes scam Referring to the US diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks on what has come to be known as the cash-for-votes scam, an NGO Monday approached the Supreme Court for a direction for constituting a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the case. The WikiLeaks expose hinted that the Congress allegedly bought MPs to win the 2008 […] Read more » apex court cash-for-votes scam Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha NGO probe SIT
Top Law News Court sets aside divorce granted to man April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside the divorce granted to a man on the ground that his wife filed a criminal case to harass him and his family members following a matrimonial dispute. Justice Kailash Gambhir was hearing an appeal filed by Ruchi (name changed) challenging the 2009 decision of a trial court to […] Read more » aside Court divorce
Top Law News SMS urges people to join ‘Anna’s Army’ April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No one knows who is behind it but an SMS doing the rounds is urging the people to join Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption. However, the organisers of the movement say they have nothing to do with it. “Dear Indian,” the SMS reads, “it is time to fight rampant corruption in India. Anna has taken […] Read more » 'Anna's Army' join people SMS urges
Top Law News Supreme Court names special public prosecutor in 2G case April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Overruling the central government’s objection, the Supreme Court Monday appointed senior counsel Uday Lalit as special public prosecutor for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the 2G scam case. Justice GS Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly said they were issuing direction in the interest of substantive justice. Article 142 of the constitution empowers […] Read more » 2G case Central Bureau of Investigation Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Justice GS Singhvi public prosecutor senior counsel Uday Lalit Supreme Court