Top Law News Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies February 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies The Gujarat High Court is set to hear the state government’s appeal against its earlier order prohibiting the state from collecting stamp duty from companies on imported goods, a government lawyer said Saturday. A division bench headed by Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya is likely to hear the matter March 10. Government counsel in the case […] Read more » Gujarat High Court
High Profile Cases Swamy names Karunanidhi as co-accused in 2G case February 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Swamy names Karunanidhi as co-accused in 2G case Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Saturday named Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK chief M. Karunanidhi as a co-accused along with former communications minister A. Raja in the 2G spectrum scam in his complaint to a CBI court here. “I have named DMK chief Karunanidhi as a co-accused along with Raja in the matter and […] Read more » 2G case DMK chief Karunanidhi Subramanian Swamy
Top Law News Confession statement to police is weak evidence: Supreme court February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that the ‘rampant’ practice among the police to use third degree methods to extract confessions was well known, the Supreme court has said that courts should be cautious in accepting the confession made by an accused to the police when it is the sole ground for prosecution. The prosecution case resting merely on confessional statement […] Read more » Confession statement
Top Law News Court recalls order of costs for frivolous lawsuit February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday recalled its order of imposing Rs.20,000 costs on a petitioner for filing a frivolous public interest litigation after his lawyer said costs should be recovered from him instead. The bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice K.M. gave the order after advocate Girish Das submitted his client was not […] Read more » frivolous lawsuit
Top Law News Lowering age of sex to decriminalise innocent behaviour February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s apex child rights body Friday said that its suggestion to bring down the age of a consensual, non-penetrative sexual act between two children to 12 years was meant to decriminalise ‘normal’ and ‘innocent’ behaviour by kids. ‘The reason for this formulation is not to promote child sexual promiscuity or sexual aggression among children but […] Read more » consensual sex National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Top Law News RJD legislator surrenders in Bihar court February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Surendra Prasad Yadav surrendered in a Gaya court Friday, the fifth day of the junior doctors strike in the state after his security guards allegedly fired at interns of a medical college. The government was under pressure to nab Yadav, who surrendered before a chief judicial magistrate’s court, as hundreds […] Read more » ANMCH Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital Bihar court Surendra Prasad Yadav
Top Law News Supreme court issues notice in 2004 Tamil Nadu school fire case February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central and Tamil Nadu governments on a petition seeking compensation for the 94 students who died in a fire in a primary school in Tamil Nadu’s Kumbakonam town in July 2004. An apex court bench of justice Dalveer Bhandari and justice Deepak Verma issued notice on […] Read more » Tamil Nadu school fire case
Top Law News Court moved over CBI probe into Orissa pulses scam February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa High Court was Thursday moved by a petitioner seeking a CBI probe into an alleged multi-crore rupee scam involving supply of poor quality pulses under government welfare schemes. A team of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also plans to inquire into the allegations. Petitioner Dilip Mohapatra said he filed the petition because […] Read more » Orissa pulses scam
Criminal Law News Sohrabuddin killing: CBI moves high court for cops’ voice sample February 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI on Thursday appealed to the Gujarat High Court against a lower court’s refusal to allow a voice sample test of two accused policemen in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout case. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court Judge G.K. Upadhayay on Jan 5 had set aside a magistrate’s order earlier that allowed […] Read more » Sohrabuddin killing
High Profile Cases Raja, aides sent to five day police remand February 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Raja, aides sent to five day police remand Former communications minister A. Raja and two of his aides were sent to five-day custody by a CBI special court Thursday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. DMK leader Raja, former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura and personal secretary R.K. Chandolia were handed down the sentence by Special Central […] Read more » police remand
High Profile Cases Court adjourns hearing on black money case February 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday did not hear the petition seeking a direction to the government to take steps for the recovery of black money stashed away in foreign banks in tax havens. The case was listed for hearing by theSupreme court bench of Justices B. Sudarshan Reddy and S.S. Mijjar. It was adjourned as Justice […] Read more » black money case
Top Law News Supreme Court slaps Rs.10 lakh fine on frivolous litigant February 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court slaps Rs.10 lakh fine on frivolous litigant The Supreme Court Wednesday slapped an exemplary cost of Rs.10 lakh on an appellant for filing a frivolous litigation aimed at frustrating attempts to acquire his land for the Bangalore-Mysore road project. The litigant was penalised for embarking upon a second round of litigation on an issue identical to the earlier phase of court hearing. […] Read more » frivolous litigant Supreme Court