Top Law News She battles for women’s property rights in tribal Kinnaur December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over a decade after she spearheaded a campaign on the issue, 57-year-old social activist Rattan Manjari is back to leading a movement in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district to secure the rights of tribal women – single or married – to inherit ancestral property. Manjari has taken on the patriarchal laws that bar tribal women from […] Read more »
Top Law News Farmers end Bhopal siege December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The farmers’ agitation in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal ended Tuesday evening after the government issued written orders accepting their demands.The agitation ended almost nine hours after farmer leaders announced that they would end the protest. Hours after the state government accepted 50 of their 183 demands, farmer leader Shiv Kumar announced they would withdraw the […] Read more » Bhopal siege
Top Law News Slain Mumbai cop’s wife to get transparency law award December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vinita Kamte, wife of slain Mumbai Police officer Ashok Kamte and who exposed the chaos in the police control room during the 2008 terror attack, has been selected for an award for using the transparency law to make an impact.Her husband, an Indian Police Service officer, fell to terrorists’ bullets. She is one of the […] Read more » Vinita Kamte
Top Law News Ruchika case: Witness accuses CBI of shielding cops December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A witness in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case on Tuesday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while filing a closure report in a court ignored his statement that the dead girl’s brother was tortured by police. Vijay Dheer told reporters in Panchkula that he told CBI officials that he had seen Ruchika’s brother Ashu […] Read more »
Top Law News Rajasthan High Court to take up Gujjar quota plea Wednesday December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The renewed agitation of the Gujjar community for job quota in Rajasthan entered its second day on Tuesday, a day before the Rajasthan high court is scheduled to hear a petition challenging a law that gives five percent reservation to the community. The high court on Wednesday will also hear a plea against 14% reservation […] Read more » Gujjar quota plea
Top Law News Adarsh scam: Court questions inaction against erring officers December 21, 2010 / December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Tuesday questioned the state government over inaction against erring officers involved in the Mumbai’s Adarsh cooperative housing society scam. ‘Why has the state government not filed an FIR (first information report) against the erring officers of Adarsh Society?’ asked the division bench of Justice B.H. Marlapalle and Justice U.D. Salvi. ‘You […] Read more » Adarsh scam
Top Law News Talks on how to enrol NRIs still on: Vayalar Ravi December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is having intensive discussions to find out the most “practical way to include nearly a million non-resident Indians in the electoral rolls, Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said here Tuesday. “Two rounds of discussions have been held with the election commission and external affairs ministry. Both agreed to enrol […] Read more » enrol NRIs Vayalar Ravi
Top Law News Forcible debt recovery from Vidarbha farmers irks high court December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upset with the harassment of a farmer who had paid double the loan amount as interest payment, the Nagpur division of the Bombay High Court issued notices to top officials of the Maharashtra cooperative society and land development bank against forcible debt recovery from Vidarbha farmers. The court converted the writ petition of a debt-stricken […] Read more » debt Forcible Vidarbha farmers
Top Law News Over 10,000 violations of Right to Education in Delhi December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Just nine months after the Right to Education (RTE) Act was implemented in India, promising free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 6-14, over 10,000 cases of violation have been registered by a child rights body in the capital. Some children were denied admission to school, some were subjected to […] Read more » Right to Education violations
Top Law News Supreme Court asserts its powers, overrules technicalities of law December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that it holds vast powers under the constitution and an aggrieved person could not be rendered remediless on mere technicalities of law. ‘A mere technicality cannot prevent the court from doing justice in exercise of its inherent power,’ said the apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. […] Read more » overrules technicalities
Top Law News Bail plea of Akshardham terror attack accused admitted December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court on Monday admitted a bail plea filed by an accused in the 2002 Akshardham Temple terror attack. The bench comprising Justices AM Kapadia and BN Mehta admitted the petition of Shaukatullah Ghori. The hearing on Ghori’s bail application is scheduled for Jan 12, 2011. Ghori was arrested in July 2009 from […] Read more »
Top Law News Haryana speaker asked to decide on defectors within 4 months December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday directed the Haryana assembly speaker to decide within four months on the disqualification of five legislators who defected. Justice Ajay Tiwari of the high court issued the directive to assembly Speaker Harmohinder Singh Chatha on the petition of the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), which sought disqualification of five […] Read more »