Top Law News Plea for CBI probe into Goa’s cops-politician-drug nexus January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court bench in Goa will next week hear a public interest litigation (PIL) that has sought the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the police-politician-drug nexus case. Hours after the petition was filed, Goa Police Friday appointed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe links of an anti-narcotics officer to the drug […] Read more » cops-politician-drug nexus
Top Law News India to ease travel permits for Pakistani Kashmiris January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government will “unilaterally” ease travel restrictions and give multiple-entry permits valid for six months to Pakistani Kashmiris who want to visit their families in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said Friday. Pillai said Pakistan did not agree to the Indian government’s idea to ease travel curbs on families divided across the Line […] Read more » Kashmiris Pakistani permits travel
High Profile Cases Kalmadi aide Darbari gets bail in Baton Relay scam January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday granted bail to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee official T.S. Darbari, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Justice Hima Kohli granted Darbari bail as the CBI was unable to file a charge sheet against him within the stipulated 60 days of his arrest. […] Read more » Baton Relay scam Suresh Kalmadi T.S. Darbari
Top Law News ‘Information commissioners cause loss of Rs. 86 crores’ January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Information Commissioners across the country caused a loss of Rs. 86 crores to the exchequer during the last fiscal by not imposing penalties in cases where they should have under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a study released here Thursday said. Public Cause Research Foundation studied 76,813 orders passed by 87 information commissioners and […] Read more » commissioners Information
High Profile Cases PF scam: Judges plead illness against appearing in court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court Thursday rejected the applications and medical certificates submitted by the six retired judges chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Rs.6.58 crore provident fund scam. The CBI special court had summoned 20 accused in the provident fund scam case Thursday. The CBI counsel demanded non-bailable warrant against the absent judges. The […] Read more » PF scam
High Profile Cases Ishrat Jahan case: Differences crop up in SIT January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday said it would have to work out a model for the special investigation team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan killing to see that the ‘sanctity and spirit of its order is not paralysed due to differences of opinion amongst its members’. The court’s order came after the members of court-appointed […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
High Profile Cases Delhi mosque demolition: DDA to file report in court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will Friday submit its report to the Delhi High Court on the mosque built illegally on its land in the Jangpura area in 2005 and which was demolished Wednesday. Facing a contempt threat from the high court, the DDA – after several failed attempts – succeeded in razing the mosque. […] Read more » Delhi Development Authority (DDA) demolition mosque
Top Law News Home ministry to answer in CP shootout: Court January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing surprise that suspended police official S.S. Rathi, one of the convicted policemen in the 1997 Connaught Place shootout case, is still on the rolls, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the union home ministry to verify his employment status and whether the service rules on dismissal pending appeal need to be reviewed. Justice […] Read more »
High Profile Cases No apology for remark on chief justice: Prashant Bhushan January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan said Thursday there “is no occasion or cause” for him to accept the Supreme Court’s suggestion that he apologise for calling Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia corrupt, a reference to the time when the judge was part of the forest bench deciding on a case of mining major Vedanta. He turned down […] Read more » Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan senior counsel Ram Jethmalani
Criminal Law News BSP legislator accused of raping minor surrenders January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi, accused of being involved in the gang-rape and illegal confinement of a minor girl in Banda last month, surrendered before a court Thursday, top officials said. Dwivedi, who represents the ruling party from Banda, 180 km from here, surrendered before the court of the […] Read more » Brinda Karat BSP legislator minor Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi raping
Media & Entertainment News Chouhan blames Nehru for whole of Kashmir not being part of India January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Shivraj Singh Chouhan Addressing a gathering in Chhattarpur district, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister said: ‘It is the mistake, historic mistake, of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru as because of him, the whole of Kashmir could not be part of India.’ BJP’s wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has announced it will hoist the […] Read more » Jawaharlal Nehru Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Intellectual Property News Seven years on, Kashmir still waits for information commission January 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jammu and Kashmir was the first to enact the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2004. But seven years down the line and despite Rs 8.3 million being spent on the required infrastructure in the past year, the State Information Commission is yet to be set up. RTI activists in the state are wondering why […] Read more » RIGHT TO INFORMATION State Information Commission