Media & Entertainment News CBI files fourth FIR, no mention of Kalmadi January 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI Thursday filed a fourth police complaint over corruption related to the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and raided at least 10 premises of four companies in the national capital region. Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi does not figure in the probe agency’s fresh complaint. ‘The CBI has registered a case against director general and […] Read more » CBI Commonwealth Games First Information Report Kalmadi
Media & Entertainment News Aarushi’s friends, family stage march, demand justice January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Braving the winter chill and holding placards with slogans like ‘We want justice for our friend’, friends and family of slain teenager Aarushi Talwar Thursday staged a protest at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi and asked for the case to be re-investigated. Aarushi’s classmate Fiza, 16, said: “We want justice. The CBI (Central Bureau of […] Read more » Aarushi justice
Banking & Finance Law News Citi banker accused of Rs.300 crore fraud gets six-day police remand January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Citibank manager Shivraj Puri, accused of masterminding a Rs.300 crore fraud, was handed a six-day police remand Thursday. ‘Puri was produced in court and he has been remanded to six-day police custody,’ Puri’s lawyer Sartaj Baswana said. An official said police took Puri’s custody to trace an iPad that contains important information. Also, experts with […] Read more » Citibank manager Shivraj Puri
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