High Profile Cases Ishrat Jahan case: Illustrative evidence of staged shootout, court told January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There was illustrative evidence to ‘suspect beyond reasonable doubt’ that the killing of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three of her companions in 2004 was done in a staged shootout, a member of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT member told the court Friday. ‘There are scientific and circumstantial evidence against the version provided in […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
Top Law News Supreme Court dismisses plea to stop Haj subsidy January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition by former Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Hindu ideologue Praful Goradia seeking the abolition of the subsidy given to Haj pilgrims. “There is no force in this petition and it is dismissed,” the court said. The court also said that a “very small expenditure in proportion to the […] Read more » Haj subsidy
Top Law News ‘This is not America’, court tells married man in live-in relationship January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “This is not America”, is what the Delhi High Court Friday told a 22-year-old woman in a live-in relationship with her brother-in-law, who had deserted her sister and two children and sought the court protection on the ground that they faced a threat to their lives from her family members. Justice Hema Kohli pulled up […] Read more » live-in relationship
Top Law News 62 convicted in fodder scam, 23 jailed January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court here Friday convicted 62 people, including 27 government officials, in the 1996 multi-million fodder scam and 23 of them were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ranging from three to five years. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge R.R. Tripathy pronounced the judgment in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs.8.37 […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation fodder scam
Top Law News Vedanta University: Apex court orders status quo January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Orissa Government to maintain status quo on acquisition of 6,000 hectares of land for setting up an international university by U.K.-based Vedanta group in the holy city of Puri. Admitting a bunch of cross-appeals, a bench of justices D.K. Jain and H.L. Dattu asked the State Government to […] Read more » Vedanta University
Top Law News Apex court, BJP question CVC’s appointment, Moily meets PM January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The BJP Thursday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the appointment of P.J. Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner, saying the ‘trail’ in the selection leads to his door even as the apex court wanted to know if the correct procedure was followed in selecting the corruption watchdog whose name figures […] Read more » CVC
Top Law News G.R.Sofi to head Kashmir Information Commission January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment G.R.Sofi, a serving income tax officer, was Thursday appointed the Chief Information Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir. He will head the first information commission in the state. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti met in the afternoon and selected Sofi to head the […] Read more » G.R.Sofi Kashmir Information Commission
Top Law News Apex court questions Thomas’ appointment procedure January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it wanted to know if correct procedure was followed in the selection of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) P.J. Thomas. The court asked if withholding information from a high-powered committee for the CVC’s selection about a pending charge sheet against Thomas and the sanction granted by the Kerala government to prosecute […] Read more » apex court Appointment Thomas
Top Law News Black money: Apex court seeks details on government steps January 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After being criticized by the Supreme Court and the Opposition for its handling of black money deposited by industrialists and others in foreign bank accounts, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government has nothing to hide, and added that India cannot violate secrecy laws to reveal names in the Swiss trail. “No information […] Read more » apex court black money Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
Top Law News CVC committee not told of pending chargesheet against Thomas January 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was told Thursday that the high-powered committee for the selection of central vigilance commissioner (CVC) was not informed about a pending chargesheet against P.J. Thomas and the sanction granted by the Kerala government to prosecute him in the palm oil import case. The high-powered selection committee comprises Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home […] Read more » Central Vigilance Commissioner CVC
Top Law News Finally, Kashmir to get information commission January 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After much delay, Jammu and Kashmir is set to constitute its first state information commission . Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti are scheduled to meet Thursday afternoon to decide on the names of the chief information commissioner and two information commissioners. Officials […] Read more » information commission Kashmir
Top Law News Controversial cop named for medal, locals protest January 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Locals and activists took to the streets here to protest the award of the President’s Police Medal to the city’s former Deputy Inspector General of Police Prem Prakash, accused of shielding the rapist of an 11-year-old girl last year. ‘DIG Prem Prakash was squarely responsible for shielding the owners of Gyansthali School, where Divya was […] Read more »