Criminal Law News Hasan Ali associate arrested March 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Thursday arrested Kolkata-based businessman Kashinath Tapuriah here for his alleged association with Hasan Ali Khan, said to the India’s biggest tax evader, sources in the probe agency said. To be presented at a Mumbai court later in the day, Tapuriah (74) is alleged to have played a major role in the […] Read more » arrested associate Enforcement Directorate Hasan Ali Kashinath Tapuriah Kolkata-based businessman
Top Law News Parliament passes bill to change name of Orissa March 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Parliament passes bill to change name of Orissa Orissa will hereafter be called ‘Odisha’ and the Oriya language will be known as ‘Odia’ with Parliament giving approval to amendment of the Constitution and also passing the related bill. The Rajya Sabha passed the Orissa (the Alteration of Name) Bill and adopted the Constitution (113th) Amendment Bill after a brief debate with members from […] Read more » bill Home Minister P. Chidambaram Odisha Orissa Parliament passes Pyarimohan Mohapatra Rajya Sabha Rudra Narayan Pany
Top Law News Court questions government, school on girl’s eye injury March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a reply from the Delhi government and officials of a school as to why they were not able to provide immediate treatment to a girl whose eyes were injured in an incident in the institution. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court eye injury girl Government Justice Sanjiv Khanna Patrons for Poor People’s Foundation school Vishwamitra Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya
Top Law News All metro hospitals to get tips on emergency treatment March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on All metro hospitals to get tips on emergency treatment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the central government to circulate among all government hospitals in the metros its suggestions on the prompt treatment of patients in an emergency. The central government, in consultation with the director general of health services, has come up with the suggestions which were presented before a bench of Chief […] Read more »
Top Law News Make eighth chapter of Telangana report public: high court March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh High Court today directed the Centre to make public the eighth chapter of the Srikrishna Committee report on Telangana which deals with sensitive law and order issues. Justice L. Narasimha Reddy of the High Court gave the order on a petition requesting the court to direct the Centre to disclose the eighth […] Read more » eighth chapter High Court Justice L. Narasimha Reddy public Sri Krishna committee Telangana report
Top Law News Delhi government questioned on school kids using intoxicants March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday questioned the Delhi government on a petition seeking steps to prevent city school children from accessing intoxicants. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the education department and asked it to file a reply by May 18 on the issue raised by a […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi government Delhi High Court intoxicants Justice Sanjiv Khanna National Commission for Protection of Child Rights questioned school kids
Media & Entertainment News ‘Government ignoring Mizoram tribal refugees in Tripura’ March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mizoram’s Reang tribal refugees living in Tripura for the last 14 years have been neglected by both the central and state governments, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said here Wednesday. “The Reang tribal refugees are willing to return their homes in Mizoram. The future of the thousands of their children in refugee camps is being […] Read more » Government ignoring Mizoram Chief Secretary Mizoram tribal Pu Van Hela Pachuau refugees Sanjoy Kumar Panda Soumya Gupta Tripura Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar Tripura counterpart
Top Law News Insult of Sikhs is insult to nation: Krishna March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India on Wednesday said dishonour to the Sikhs is a national insult and the government takes serious note of the incident in which golfer Jeev Milkha Singh’s coach Amritinder Singh was forced to remove his turban at Milan airport last week. Assuring the Rajya Sabha that the issue would be taken up with Italy, External […] Read more » BJP leader S. S. Ahluwalia External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna golf India-Italy relationship Insult Krishna Milka Singh coach nation Sikhs Turban issue
High Profile Cases Court admits CBI plea to extradite Warren Anderson March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Wednesday allowed a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea seeking extradition of US-based former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav said everyone in India wants Anderson, 90, to be extradited for world’s biggest environmental disaster. “Why should (the) plea not be […] Read more » admits CBI plea Central Bureau of Investigation Chief Metropolitan Magistrate CMM Court Delhi court extradite UCC pesticide plant Vinod Yadav Warren Anderson
Top Law News IT department freezes accounts of Mahindra Satyam March 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Income Tax department Tuesday froze the bank accounts of Mahindra Satyam after the software firm failed to pay a tax demand of Rs.616 crore ($136 million). Mahindra Satyam, the new brand identity of the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited, has moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court challenging the demand notice and seeking a stay […] Read more » Central Board of Direct Taxes Central Bureau of Investigation Mahindra Satyam Chairman Ramalinga Raju Tech Mahindra Vineet Nayyar
Top Law News CBI can’t probe Goa drug nexus, high court told March 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The police-politician-drug mafia nexus case cannot be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as it ‘lacks manpower’ and has ‘constraints of local language’, its officials Tuesday told the Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court. The federal investigation agency said this in a letter issued to the union ministry of personnel which was […] Read more » CBI drug nexus Goa High Court National Students Union of India Sunil Kavthankar Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Jats threaten to halt trains, cut water to Delhi March 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Leaders of Haryana Jats Tuesday threatened to halt road and train traffic and disrupt water supply to Delhi if the authorities failed to promise them quotas in government jobs. “If they don’t accept our demands by March 25, we will block the Delhi-Ambala track. If nothing happens by the final deadline March 28, we will […] Read more » (CRPF) (RAF) Bhupinder Singh Hooda Central Reserve Police Force cut Delhi halt trains Haryana Chief Minister Hawa Singh Sangwan Jats the Rapid Action Force threaten water