Criminal Law News Rajesh Talwar ‘suspected accused’: CBI January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday told a court here that it was against handing over documents of teenager Aarushi Talwar’s murder case to her father Rajesh Talwar as he was a “suspected accused” in the case. In its arguments before a special CBI court here, the investigation agency submitted that Talwar was not […] Read more » CBI Rajesh Talwar
Top Law News Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark The Supreme Court Friday slammed Communications Minister Kapil Sibal for his remark that the official auditor’s report was “utterly erroneous” in assessing the loss on award of telecom spectrum at Rs.1.76 lakh crore ($40 billion).”It is unfortunate,” said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly. The court said the minister […] Read more » kapil sibal Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Apex court upholds life for Graham Staines’ killers January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Exactly 12 years after Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons were burnt to death by a mob of Hindu fanatics in Orissa, the Supreme Court Friday upheld life terms for Dara Singh, alias Ravinder Kumar Pal, who was leading the crowd and his accomplice Mahender Hambram.While confirming the life sentences, the apex court […] Read more » Dara Singh Graham Staines' killers
Top Law News Court stops work on Tata housing project in Punjab January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court here Thursday stopped the construction of a controversial multi-storey housing project being executed by Tata Housing Development Company (THDC) in an ecologically fragile zone in Punjab, north of Chandigarh. The court ruling is likely to come as a blow to THDC and a number of politicians and other influential […] Read more » Tata housing project
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Teesta Setalvad January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, is investigating the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riots. The […] Read more » Supreme Court Teesta Setalvad
Top Law News Former RAW official tries to undress in court January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official, to be frustrated at the frequent adjournments in a human trafficking case against her in the Delhi High Court, tried to undress before a judge Thursday but was stopped by police officials. Nisha Bhatia, in her late thirties, started to undress in a courtroom before Justice Ajit […] Read more » (RAW) Research and Analysis Wing
Banking & Finance Law News Cabinet discusses black money issue after apex court rap January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of black money during a cabinet meeting here Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court queried why the government cannot name those involved in this $1.5-trillion “national plunder”. The discussion came against the backdrop of the apex court coming down heavily on the government’s reluctance to provide full […] Read more » apex court black money Manmohan Singh Nitin Gadkari
Top Law News Is Makara Jyothi light man-made or not: Court to Kerala government January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Kerala High Court Thursday came down heavily on the state government and the Devaswom Board on the Sabarimala stampede tragedy, and directed that the ‘truth’ should come out on the Makara Jyothi that is believed to be a celestial light. The bench of Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice P. […] Read more » Jyothi Kerala government Makara
Top Law News 168 ‘ghost’ MCD workers detected, police tell court January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police told the Delhi High Court Wednesday that 168 employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have failed to turn up for physical verification camps held to weed out “ghost” employee. The division bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the additional commissioner of police, crime branch (economic offence […] Read more » MCD workers Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Top Law News Rights panel concerned over farmers’ suicides in Orissa January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday expressed concern over the increasing cases of starvation deaths and farmers’ suicides in Orissa and gave a list of recommendations to the state government for the overall improvement in the human rights situation.”The commission has received complaints of starvation deaths and farmers’ suicides in the backward KBK (Kalahandi, […] Read more » National Human Rights Commission NHRC
Top Law News Indian money stashed abroad a national plunder: Apex court January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court Wednesday said the stashing away of ill-gotten money outside the country in foreign banks was a “national plunder” and asked the government to give it all the information it had on Indians who had siphoned off their illicit money to tax havens. Describing as “mind boggling” the amount of money that […] Read more » apex court Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) national plunder Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Price rise: Court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi was on Wednesday issued notice by a local court on a petition filed by a city-based NGO over the issue of price rise. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry issued a notice and fixed April 7 as the next date of hearing in the case. […] Read more » Price rise Sonia Gandhi