Consumer Law News Citibank scam: Puri’s father sent to police custody April 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Citibank scam: Puri’s father sent to police custody Raghuraj Puri, the father of Shivraj Puri who is the prime accused in the Rs.400-crore Citibank scam, was Tuesday sent to two days’ police custody by a local court, police said. He was arrested a day earlier. “He was absconding since the scam came to light. About a month back when his anticipatory bail got […] Read more » Citibank scam Norman Martin police custody Raghuraj Puri Shivraj Puri
Top Law News ‘Punish clients, not sex trafficking victims’ April 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fatima Nat Dhuniya was all of 9 years when she was “married off” and then landed in the world of sex trade. More than a decade later, she stands confident as a community mobiliser and said that the laws in the country should change so that the client is punished and not the victim. “As […] Read more » 'Punish Aurora J. De Dios clients sex trafficking victims
Top Law News 17 Chhattisgarh judges forced to retire April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on 17 Chhattisgarh judges forced to retire In a rare action, as many as 17 judges in Chhattisgarh were forced to accept compulsory retirement after an internal inquiry indicted them on charges of corruption, law department sources said Monday. The state government issued the order after the law department report said the judges were guilty of graft. The judges include the district […] Read more » 17 Chhattisgarh forced judges retire
Top Law News Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Anna Hazare plans fast unto death for strong Lokpal bil Veteran social activist Anna Hazare Monday said he is starting a “fast unto death” to press for the demand to involve civil society in formulation of the anti-graft Lokpal (ombudsman) Bill. “I will fast unto death, as announced earlier, as the prime minister has refused to form a joint committee with civil society members in […] Read more » activist Arvind Kejriwal Anna Hazare death fast kapil sibal Lokpal bil National Advisory Council plans Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News Government asked to notify CBI probe into Batcha’s death April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to issue within three days a notification for handing to the CBI the probe into the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom Minister A. Raja. “In the facts and circumstances of the case, we direct the government to issue notification within three […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising Batcha's death CBI Centre for Public Interest Litigation former Telecom Minister A. Raja Government Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi notify probe Sadiq Batcha Supreme Court
Top Law News Revisit system of judges appointment, apex court told April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Monday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the system of appointment of judges to higher judiciary as the existing collegium procedure has not delivered on expectations. The apex court bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan referred the matter to Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia to place the central government’s plea […] Read more » apex court Appointment Attorney General G. Vahanvati Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia judges Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Deepak Verma Revisit Supreme Court system
Top Law News Law and order different from public order: High court April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Law and order different from public order: High court A law and order issue does not necessarily attract the provisions of Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act (PASA) to book someone for disturbing public order, the Gujarat high court has ruled in an order made available Monday. Setting free a woman, who was under detention for alleged bootlegging, the court held that the issues of […] Read more » Ahmedabad Police Commissioner Bombay Prohibition Act Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya different Gujarat High Court High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala Law order PASA Prevention of Anti-Social Activities Act public order
Top Law News Exercise caution in reopening cases: Supreme Court April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that a frivolous application for reopening a case and recalling witnesses for adducing evidence should be rejected with exemplary costs on the petitioner. ‘If the application is found to be mischievous, or frivolous, or to cover up negligence or lacunae, it should be rejected with heavy costs,’ said an apex […] Read more » cases caution Exercise Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice R.V. Raveendran K.K. Velusamy reopening Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Raja, 11 others formally charged in 2G spectrum case April 2, 2011 / April 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Saturday filed its first chargesheet of 127 pages with 80,000-page annexure against nine people and three firms in the case involving the allocation of second generation (2G) telecom spectrum. The chargesheet, brought in seven steel boxes, was filed in the special court of CBI Judge O.P. Saini. Among those […] Read more » 2G spectrum case Asif Balwa CBI judge O.P. Saini Gautam Doshi Hari Nair Indian Penal Code (IPC) Kaliagnar TV R.K. Chandolia Raja Rajiv Aggarwal Sadiq Batcha Sanjay Chandra Shahid Balwa Siddhartha Behura Surendra Pipara Swan Telecom Unitech Wireless director Vinod Goenka
High Profile Cases CBI files chargesheet in 2G spectrum case April 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday filed its first chargesheet in the 2G spectrum scam . The chargesheet was filed in the special court of CBI judge O.P. Saini. Former Telecom minister A Raja has been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery, cheating and corruption. Raja’s private secretary R K Chandolia, former telecom secretary […] Read more » 2G spectrum case CBI CBI judge O.P. Saini chargesheet files R.K. Chandolia Shahid Balwa Siddharth Behura Swan Telecom Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Criminal Law News Jailed as juvenile, man awarded Rs.5 lakh compensation April 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday directed the Delhi government to pay a compensation of Rs.5 lakh to a man who was jailed for eight years despite being a juvenile when he committed a murder. According to law, juveniles cannot be punished for more than three years. Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice G.P Mittal said: […] Read more » awarded Compensation Delhi High Court jailed Justice G.P. Mittal Justice S. Ravindra Bhat juvenile man Rs.5 lakh
Top Law News Over a lakh children in Delhi still out of school April 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment More than one lakh children in the national capital are still out of school, a report by the human resource development ministry said as the Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act completed a year Friday since its implementation. The RTE report card which analysed the primary education scenario in the country was released […] Read more » children Delhi Human Resource Development Minister kapil sibal lakh out of school RTE