Top Law News Judge’s complaint on Hepatitis-B to be heard as PIL April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judge’s complaint on Hepatitis-B to be heard as PIL A complaint made by an Allahabad High Court judge against non-availability of a life saving drug in Uttar Pradesh hospitals is to be taken up for hearing as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Chief Justice F.I. Rebello Friday. The complaint was made by Justice Sudhir Agarwal on account of the agony and disgust that […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Chief Justice F.I. Rebello complaint Hepatitis-B judge Justice Sudhir Agarwal PIL Public Interest Litigation (PIL) WHO (World Health Organisation)
Top Law News Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani Activist and physician Binayak Sen’s counsel Ram Jethmalani Friday said that while he is generally not much bothered with the victory or loss of a case, Sen’s bail has come as a ‘personal’ happy moment for him. ‘I must confess that this is one of those cases in which I am personally happy about what […] Read more » bail Binayak Sen Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.S. Bedi Ram Jethmalani
Media & Entertainment News Lokpal Bill: Civil society members to declare assets Friday April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days before deliberations on the anti-graft Lokpal Bill are set to begin, NGO India Against Corruption (IAC) Thursday said the civil society members in the joint drafting committee will declare their assets and liabilities Friday. The NGO also released revised details of donations and expenditure during activist Anna Hazare’s anti-graft campaign that culminated in […] Read more » Anna Hazare assets Civil society declare Friday Lokpal Bill members
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