Top Law News Probe wing of police not answerable to political bosses: Court told January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The investigative wing of the police force is a part of the criminal justice delivery system and it was not answerable to a minister or the political bosses, the Supreme Court was told Monday. The apex court was hearing submissions on the report of the monitoring committee headed by Justice (Retd.) T.K. Thomas on the […] Read more » Supreme Court
Consumer Law News Gujarat ITI staff entitled to bonus, rules high court January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Employees of Gujarat’s industrial training institutes (ITIs) are entitled to be treated at par with state government employees for the purpose of salary and other monetary benefits like bonus, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. The court, while dismissing the state government’s appeal, ruled that teaching and non-teaching staff working in grants-in-aid institutions were entitled […] Read more » Gujarat Gujarat High Court ITI
Top Law News Court allows prayers at demolished mosque site January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to allow 10 devotees to offer prayers for the next two months at the site of a mosque that was demolished in south Delhi last week. The court gave the devotees two months’ time to work out a solution for amicably settling the […] Read more » demolished mosque The Delhi High Court
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases CWG scam: Hearing on Jayachandran’s bail plea Wednesday January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday adjourned till Jan 19 the hearing on the bail plea of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) official M. Jayachandran in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Justice Hima Kohli adjourned the matter after the argument was concluded by defence counsel R.K. Handoo. Jayachandran, joint director (finance) in the OC, was arrested […] Read more » bail CWG scam M. Jayachandran plea
Criminal Law News Court defers framing of charges in 2008 Delhi blasts January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday deferred till Jan 31 the framing of charges against 14 suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists for their alleged involvement in carrying out serial blasts here in 2008, in which 26 people were killed. Additional Sessions Judge Santosh Snehi Mann deferred the case and asked defence counsel to be prepared with arguments on […] Read more » 2008 blasts Delhi
Criminal Law News Goa ‘custody’ death: Victim’s kin refuse to claim body January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The kin of a non-resident Indian chef, who died allegedly after being beaten up in police custody earlier this month, have refused to claim his body from a government morgue until the policemen responsible for his killing are punished. Police have denied the charge of custodial death. Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Cosme Fernandes, a […] Read more » 'custody' death Goa
Criminal Law News Court accepts plea by Sadhvi Pragya’s aide January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Accepting a plea of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh’s associate Ananth Brahmachari about being ‘harassed’ by investigators, the Delhi High Court Monday issued a notice to the centre, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta. The court has asked the three parties to appear before it April 6 with their […] Read more » Anti-Terrorist Squad Sadhvi Pragya
High Profile Cases Spectrum scam tapes: PAC to examine journalists January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Murli Manohar Joshi, who heads parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said Sunday that the journalists whose names have surfaced in the 2G spectrum scam will have to appear before the panel. Joshi said that all those whose names were revealed in corporate lobbyist Nira Radia’s taped conversations cannot escape from appearing before the PAC. The […] Read more » Murli Manohar Joshi Spectrum scam tapes
Criminal Law News Mirchpur violence: Jats continue to block rail tracks January 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tension prevailed in Jind district Sunday as hundreds of Jat community members continued to block the railway tracks near here for the second day, disrupting trains over their demand for a fresh CBI probe into last year’s Mirchpur caste violence in which two Dalits were killed. Members of the Jat Mahapanchayat, including many women, have […] Read more » Mirchpur violence
Intellectual Property News Using RTI difficult for us, say Indians abroad January 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Using RTI difficult for us, say Indians abroad Living overseas for education, employment or other reasons, Indians abroad find it difficult to use the Right to Information (RTI) Act due to the cumbersome fee-payment process. ‘Even after five years of the RTI Act, Indian citizens living abroad are unable to use it effectively because of a cumbersome fee payment system. The Indian government […] Read more » abroad Indians RTI
Top Law News Samjhauta train bombing: Aseemanand’s statement recorded January 15, 2011 / January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Swami Asseemanand, radical Hindu activist, was on Saturday presented before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) in Panchkula to record his statement in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blasts case. Aseemanand, who was sent to judicial custody Thursday and lodged in Ambala jail, was taken to the court of CJM Rakesh Singh around 12.15pm. The […] Read more » Aseemanand Samjhauta train bombing
High Profile Cases Another Kalmadi aide granted bail January 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) official Sanjay Mahendroo, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam in London in 2009. A Patiala House court granted bail to Mahendroo, who was the deputy director general (marketing), as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) […] Read more » Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) Kalmadi