Top Law News Why no night shelters for street kids, NHRC asks Delhi December 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has sought an explanation from the Delhi government over the plight of homeless children in the capital and the lack of dedicated night shelters for them, the commission said. An NHRC official aid Friday that the commission took suo motu cognisance of media reports that a survey by an […] Read more » NHRC
Top Law News Binayak Sen, two others get life term; family, activists furious December 24, 2010 / December 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rights activist Binayak Sen was Friday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Chhattisgarh court for alleged links with Maoists. His shaken family called it a sad day for Indian democracy while fellow activists reacted with disbelief and vowed to appeal. As Sen, 59, clad in a kurta-pyjama and looking his frail self, watched on, district […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Top Law News ‘Tees Maar Khan’, ‘Dabangg’ dragged to court December 23, 2010 / December 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court Thursday alleging obscenity in Bollywood films ‘Dabangg’ and ‘Tees Maar Khan’. The petition sought the deletion of popular songs ‘Munni Badnaam Hui’ from ‘Dabangg’ and ‘Shiela ki Jawani’ from ‘Tees Maar Khan’. Filed by Nutan Thakur, wife of an Indian […] Read more » 'Dabangg' Tees Maar Khan'
Top Law News Magistrate sacked for demanding dowry December 23, 2010 / December 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madhya Pradesh High Court Thursday sacked a judicial magistrate in the state for demanding dowry. Inder Singh Malaviya, a first class magistrate in Shahdol district, sought dowry on the day of his wedding with Monica Solanki at Dewas Dec 1. The magistrate reportedly came in a drunken condition to the wedding venue and refused […] Read more » magistrate sacked
Top Law News Court orders Tiwari to undergo paternity test December 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court orders Tiwari to undergo paternity test Veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari was Thursday ordered by the Delhi High Court to undergo a DNA test to ascertain a young man’s claim that Tiwari is his biological father. Rohit Shekhar, 31, who claims to be Tiwari’s son, was jubilant after the court’s decision. Tiwari has resisted the DNA test to determine the paternity […] Read more » N.D. Tiwari paternity
Top Law News Rights activists await ruling on Binayak Sen December 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rights activists from across India are gathering here as a court is set to rule Friday in the case involving Binayak Sen, who spent two years in jail for alleged links with Maoists. Security has been stepped up in and around the district and sessions court where judge B.P. Varma will give his verdict on […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Top Law News We are starving, say ex-staff of Union Carbide December 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment They are neither victims nor accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and yet 632 former permanent employees of the now defunct Union Carbide plant find themselves at the receiving end. They were employees at the plant, which saw the world’s worst industrial disaster break out on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, killing thousands […] Read more » Union Carbide
Top Law News Gujarat court rejects plea against Ketan Desai December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) against the election of tainted former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai to the Gujarat University senate.The court also imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner. “I am deeply shocked that the court dismissed our PIL that challenged the election of […] Read more » Ketan Desai
Top Law News Don’t evict ‘unauthorized occupant’ without permission December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that even an unauthorized occupant of a house in a slum is treated as a tenant and permission of competent authorities is needed to initiate eviction proceedings against him. By no stretch of imagination can a trespasser (unauthorised occupant) be taken out of the definition of occupier (tenant) under the […] Read more » 'unauthorized evict
Top Law News Child rights panel comes to rescue of jailed Jharkhand girls December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked a Jharkhand official to take action in a case in which three arrested school girls were treated as adults and sent to jail, a statement said Wednesday. According to the commission, the girls should have been tried under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection […] Read more » jailed Jharkhand girls
Top Law News Court rejects 5 percent job quota for Gujjars in Rajasthan December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major jolt for agitating Gujjars, the Rajasthan High Court Wednesday rejected a petition seeking five percent reservation in government jobs for the community. The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mahesh Bhagwati held that Gujjars could not be given special reservation. The court said that the government failed to justify […] Read more » Gujjars Rajasthan
Top Law News Death sentence for Surinder Koli in Nithari case December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to Surinder Koli in the Deepali rape and murder case. Earlier, special CBI Judge AK Singh pronounced the verdict and held Koli guilty in the case of rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl Deepali.Koli, the domestic help of Moninder Singh Pandher, was the prime accused […] Read more » death sentence Nithari case Surinder Koli