Top Law News India urged to repeal sedition law January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian parliament should repeal the colonial-era sedition law which it said was employed to silence peaceful political dissent, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. And the Indian government should drop sedition cases against prominent activists such as Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy and others, the US-based body said. In two recent cases, in New Delhi and […] Read more » Arundhati Roy Binayak Sen sedition law
Top Law News No change in CBI plan to withdraw Bofors case, court told January 6, 2011 / January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday told a court that despite the income tax tribunal ruling that kickbacks had indeed been paid in the Bofors deal, there was no change in its stand to close cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, one of the alleged recipients of the bribe. CBI’s lawyer, Additional Solicitor General […] Read more » Bofors case CBI
Media & Entertainment News Gujjars end agitation, assured job quota January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujjar community in Rajasthan late Wednesday called off their 17-day-old agitation for reservation in government jobs and said they had been assured five percent quota in government posts following several round of talks.”We have called off the agitation. We have reached an agreement with the state government,” said Roop Singh, spokesperson of the Gujjar […] Read more » agitation Gujjars
Media & Entertainment News Gujjars again talk to Rajasthan government January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 36-member Gujjar team began another round of talks Wednesday with the Rajasthan government even as the community continued to block rail tracks for the 17th day demanding job quotas. The delegation, led by retired army colonel K.S. Bainsla, opened negotiations with a three-member ministerial committee in a bid to end a dragging row over […] Read more » Gujjars K.S. Bainsla Rajasthan
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Kolkata doctors protest for Binayak Sen’s release January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish and dissent over the life imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen, city-based medical practitioners, professors and students Tuesday held a protest here and started a signature campaign demanding his release. Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner ‘Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign’ joined the protest. ‘Binayak Sen was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Top Law News Settle corruption cases speedily, Himachal courts told January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Himachal Pradesh High Court’s Chief Justice Kurian Joseph has directed all the session judges in the state to dispose of corruption cases on a priority basis, an official statement said Tuesday. In a missive to the session judges, Justice Joseph has directed them to dispose of corruption cases prior to 2008 by June 30, 2011. […] Read more » corruption Himachal courts
Top Law News Parents refuse to take back child, child panel to take action January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As parents of abandoned Chiku refused to accept him, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) Tuesday said they will take action against the parents if they don’t take the child back. Chiku, now six months old, was abandoned by his parents, Rajiv Kumar and Sunita in June last year soon after he […] Read more » Amod Kanth Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Media & Entertainment News If Binayak convicted wrongly, it’ll be corrected legally: Chidambaram January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said if rights activist Binayak Sen had been convicted wrongly for his Maoists links then it would be corrected through legal ways. ‘If he is wrongly convicted, it will be corrected in lawful ways,’ Chidambaram said, adding that the doctor-activist has been convicted by a court of law and ‘those […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram rights activist Binayak Sen
Media & Entertainment News Kalmadi ducks CBI, aides Bhanot and Bhore questioned January 4, 2011 / January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who was supposed to appear before the CBI for questioning about financial irregularities in the conduct of the October Games, evaded the investigative agency Tuesday, an official said.”We have no idea when he (Kalmadi) will appear for qestioning,” a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official told. However, Commonwealth […] Read more » Bhanot Bhore CBI Kalmadi
Intellectual Property News Delhi’s slum dwellers to get 15,000 low-cost flats January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Delhi’s slum dwellers to get 15,000 low-cost flats Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday initiated the process of allotting around 15,000 low-cost flats to make the city slum-free, an official said. The allotment of flats, constructed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission project, commenced after Dikshit chaired a meeting of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB). ‘In order to […] Read more » dwellers slum
Media & Entertainment News Gujjar leader Bainsla to meet Ashok Gehlot January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Colonel (retd) K.S. Bainsla, leader of Rajasthan’s agitating Gujjar community, will Tuesday hold talks with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, even as the community’s stir for five percent reservation in government jobs entered its 16th day, disrupting some train services. Bainsla left Piloo Ka Pura near Bayana in Bharatpur district and is expected in Jaipur by […] Read more » Ashok Gehlot Bainsla
Top Law News Chhattisgarh High Court gets new building January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh High Court has got a new sprawling building spread over 44,500 sq metres of land, an official said Tuesday. The new building has come up at Bodri locality on the outskirts of Bilaspur town, some 100 km from state capital Raipur. It became operational Monday. A staggering Rs.108 crore has already been spent […] Read more » Chhattisgarh High Court Public Works Department