Top Law News Don’t remove night shelters, apex court tells states December 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked state governments not to remove any night shelters for the homeless till the biting cold abates. The court said that the night shelters should be retained till the end of February. The apex court bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma said the state governments could shift the night […] Read more » night remove shelters
Top Law News Aligarh to impose ‘steep’ fine on rickshaw users December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district who remain seated on a cycle-rickshaw while going up a steep incline will now be fined Rs.500, an official said Tuesday. ‘I have issued the circular on humanitarian grounds. I think it’s inhumane to force the rickshaw-puller to cycle up an ascent with commuters sitting in it,’ District Magistrate […] Read more » fine rickshaw users
Top Law News Deshmukh invites Supreme Court censure December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Deshmukh invites Supreme Court censure The Supreme Court Tuesday pulled up former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for interfering in the enforcement of a law to regulate private money lending in the state.Deshmukh is currently union minister for heavy industries. “The chief minister has no business to interfere in the functioning of the 1946 Act to regulate money lending in […] Read more » censure Deshmukh Supreme Court
Top Law News Sunni Waqf board files appeal on Ayodhya in Supreme Court December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Sunni Central Waqf Board Tuesday filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court for setting aside the Allahabad High Court judgment on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit. ‘Our appeal on behalf of Sunni Waqf Board was filed today,’ Zafaryab Jilani, the board’s lawyer, told reporters here. A three-judge special bench of the […] Read more » Sunni Waqf board
Top Law News Apex court questions states over students’ fate December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to all the states asking them how they would accommodate students of 44 private deemed universities if they were to be derecognised. The apex court bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari said this while hearing a public interest litigation by Viplab Sharma seeking derecognition of all private institutions granted […] Read more »
Top Law News Tata’s privacy plea to be heard in February, claims rebutted December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Slating for early February 2011 the hearing on Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata’s plea for a ban on publication of the Radia tapes’ transcripts, the Supreme Court Monday asked the central government to submit to it the complaints against corporate lobbyist Nira Radia. The apex court bench of Justice G.S.Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly […] Read more » plea privacy Tata's
Top Law News Two convicted for murdering judo coach December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A fast track court in this Orissa capital held two people guilty Monday in the sensational murder of judo coach Biranchi Das, who mentored child prodigy marathoner Budhia, a government lawyer said.Judge Vivekananda Das of the first track court III held prime accused Raja Acharya and his associate Akhya Behera guilty of committing the murder […] Read more » coach judo murdering
Top Law News Court questions plea against Ketan Desai December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Monday questioned the “public interest” involved in a suit challenging former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai’s election to the Gujarat University senate. Desai was arrested in April this year for allegedly taking Rs.2 crore bribe from a Punjab-based medical college. The MCI suspended his medical licence in October. […] Read more » Ketan Desai
Top Law News Neera Yadav granted bail December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Neera Yadav, sentenced to a four-year jail term for wrongful allotment of a plot during her tenure as Noida Authority chief, was Monday granted bail by the Allahabad High Court. Flex Industries chairman Ashok Chaturvedi, who had also been sentenced to four years imprisonment, was also granted bail. Special Central […] Read more » bail granted Neera Yadav
Top Law News Gujarat government pulled up for delay in food adulteration cases December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gujarat High Court has come down heavily on the state government for being slow in allowing tests and subsequent prosecution in food adulteration cases, which results in a case being quashed or the accused being acquitted. Though a hearing in the case of Pepsico India Holdings Ltd vs the state of Gujarat is still going […] Read more » food adulteration cases
Top Law News Women’s commission demands strict punishment for rapists December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Stringent punishment for rapists is essential to discourage such crimes, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Girija Vyas said Monday. ‘It (rape cases) is a serious issue… and it is repeating again and again. I think that unless the culprits get severe punishment, the cases will occur again and again,’ Vyas said. She […] Read more » commission Women's
Top Law News Centre didn’t prevent NREGA fund diversion: Apex court December 13, 2010 / December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the central government for doing nothing to prevent the diversion by the states of funds allocated under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). ‘This is a very serious issue,’ said an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia while hearing a public suit by the Centre for […] Read more » NREGA