Top Law News Court denies relief against arrest to ex-India cricketer March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused interim protection against arrest to cricketer Jacob Joseph Martin, who represented India in ODIs in 1999, in a case of forging documents to facilitate illegal immigration. Justice Hima Kohli directed Martin, and the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) and assistant commissioner of police (ACP) of Indira Gandhi International (IGI) […] Read more » against arrest Court Delhi High Court denies ex-India cricketer Justice Hima Kohli Relief
High Profile Cases CWG scam: Court grants bail to a firm’s official March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted bail to Binu Nanu, an official of a private firm who was held in judicial custody for his involvement in the Rs.600-crore overlays contract for the Commonwealth Games last year. Justice Ajit Bharihoke allowed the bail application of Nanu on a personal bond of Rs.50,000 along with two sureties […] Read more » bail Commonwealth Games Court CWG scam firm grants Official
Top Law News Not just poverty, corporate callousness drives children to labour March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment His hair neatly combed, T-shirt tucked into his trousers, Sunil, all of 12, sits on a bench outside a children’s home here and recounts the horror tales of scores of boys like him employed to stitch bags for a company with a ‘no child labour’ policy. Sunil is one of the 25 child labourers who […] Read more » callousness children corporate drives labour poverty
Top Law News Six ex-judges get interim bail in PF scam March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI special court in Ghaziabad Monday granted interim bail to six accused former judges in a scam involving misappropriation of funds in the provident fund (PF) accounts of class III and IV employees of the Ghaziabad district courts. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Judge A.K. Singh granted interim bail to the accused on Rs.one […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation ex-judges interim bail Judge A.K. Singh PF scam six
Top Law News Right to education law, spectrum scam top apex court’s agenda March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A suit challenging the right to education law, the investigations into the 2G spectrum scam and the black money stashed away by Indians abroad will figure prominently in the Supreme Court this week. A request to transfer the investigation into Gujarat’s Tulsiram Prajapati shootout killing case from the police to the Central Bureau of Investigation […] Read more » agenda apex court Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Foreign Exchange Management Act Hasan Ali Khan Income Tax Act Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice K.S. Panickar Radhakrishnan Justice P. Sathasivam Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Law Right to Education Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium spectrum scam
Top Law News Bar council to upload budding lawyers’ exam results March 14, 2011 / March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday told the Delhi High Court that it will place on its website the statement of marks for candidates who appeared in the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) held on March 6. The examination tests the skills and basic knowledge of those aspiring to practice law. Justice S. […] Read more » AIBE All India Bar Examination Bar Council budding lawyers Delhi High Court exam Justice S. Muralidhar results upload
Top Law News Apex court to hear Tiwari’s plea against DNA test Monday March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Monday hear veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari’s plea challenging a Delhi High Court order directing him to undergo a DNA test on a suit filed by a man claiming to be his biological son. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha will hear the 85-year-old leader’s […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi Lok Adalat disposes 7,900 pending cases March 13, 2011 / March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Lok Adalat (people’s court) organised by the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) here Saturday disposed more than 7,900 pending cases, including 6,700 related to dishonoured cheques. Asha Menon, DLSA member secretary, said: ‘In this Lok Adalat, all kinds of matters were taken up pending in various district courts of Delhi.’ About 90 percent of […] Read more » Delhi Legal Services Authority DLSA Executive Chairman Justice Vikramajit Sen Justice Dipak Misra
Top Law News Using cuss words no crime, rules high court March 13, 2011 / March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Using expletives and abuses while talking to a colleague is common among jawans and is, therefore, not a valid ground for dismissal from service, the Delhi High Court has ruled and ordered reinstatement of a CISF trooper who was dismissed for using cuss words with a senior. The ruling was given by a division bench […] Read more » Central Industrial Security Force CISF cuss words Delhi High Court High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog Justice Suresh Kait no crime Sub Inspector R.L. Pandit
Top Law News Death sentences in ‘honour killing’ case commuted to 20 years March 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday commuted the death sentence awarded to five people in an honour killing case in Haryana to 20 years imprisonment, while acquitting two men for want of evidence. A division bench of Justices S.K. Mittal and M. Jeyapaul converted the death sentence, ordered by a sessions court in Haryana’s […] Read more »
Top Law News Hockey India to send team for Azlan Shah cup: Apex court March 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday cleared the decks for Hockey India to send the Indian hockey team for the Sultan Azlan Shah cup tournament in Malaysia, starting May 5. The apex court bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice H.L. Gokhale cleared Hockey India to send its team to Malaysia after being told that the International […] Read more » apex court Azlan Shah cup Hockey India Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice J.M. Panchal Supreme Court team
High Profile Cases CWG scam: Businessman sent to Tihar Jail till March 25 March 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday sent director of the India operations of a Swiss company Sandeep Wadhwa, arrested in the Commonwealth Games overlays scam, to Tihar Jail till March 25. ‘The accused is remanded to 14 days of judicial custody till March 25,’ special judge O.P. Saini said, as the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) remand […] Read more »