Top Law News Supreme Court clears MCI’s common medical entrance test December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Medical Council of India ( MCI) to conduct a common test for undergraduate medical courses even as it decides on pending cases against the council. An apex court bench headed by Justice RV Ravindran said the central government did not need the court’s approval for framing the rules […] Read more » common medical entrance test MCI's
Top Law News Mayawati flays ‘anti-Dalit’ temple ritual in Karnataka December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has slammed an age-old temple ritual in Karnataka where people, the majority of them Dalits, roll over plantain leaves with leftovers of meals eaten by Brahmins, believing this will cure them of skin ailments. Called the ‘urulu seve’ (roll over ritual), the tradition at […] Read more » 'anti-Dalit ritual temple
Top Law News Ex-MCI chief’s election to Gujarat varsity senate challenged December 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of doctors Friday filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court, seeking to disqualify Medical Council of India’s tainted former chief Ketan Desai from the senate of the Gujarat University. Desai was recently elected unopposed to the senate on a seat meant for a registered medical practitioner. ‘Desai managed to get elected ‘unopposed’ […] Read more » Gujarat senate varsity
Top Law News Court rider on information on officials’ assets December 11, 2010 / December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday ordered public information officers (PIO) to issue notice and consider the objections of all concerned before passing an order on a Right To Information (RTI) disclosure of the annual property returns (APRs) of public servants. The court order came as it heard the petition of senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) […] Read more »
Top Law News Money stashed abroad not near $1.5 trillion, court told December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Friday gave the Supreme Court the status report on the action taken by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on money stashed away by Indian nationals in Swiss and German banks in Liechtenstein in Europe and said the amount is no way near the whopping sum of $1.5 trillion. There are twelve […] Read more »
Top Law News Need to look into Radia tapes leak: Government to apex court December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was taking every step to ensure that there was no leakage of the telephone tapes of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia in the 2G spectrum scam and that the leaks to the media needed to be looked into. The government said this in reply to […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court refuses to expunge ‘rotten’ remark December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday upheld its controversial remarks that something was “rotten” in the Allahabad High Court where the “uncle judges syndrome” was rampant and needed cleansing. A bench of justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, while dismissing the Allahabad High Court’s related stories application for expunging of the remarks, however, clarified that […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat tribunal ex-chief moves high court for salary dues December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A retired Gujarat High Court judge has approached the court claiming salary dues on the ground that he should have been paid a higher salary than what he got during his nearly 10-month tenure as a tribunal chairman in 2006. Former judge H.H. Mehta approached the high court after the state government rejected his claim […] Read more »
Top Law News Making voting compulsory unfeasible: Quraishi December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Making voting compulsory unfeasible: Quraishi Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Thursday opposed the idea of introducing compulsory voting, saying it was ‘neither desirable nor feasible’. ‘Democracy and compulsion don’t go together,’ Quraishi said at a press conference called to release consultation papers on electoral reforms. Quraishi said that educating people was a better option than making voting compulsory for bringing […] Read more » Quraishi
Top Law News Gadkari slaps defamation suit against Tewari December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hitting back at allegations that he owned a ‘benami’ (held by proxy) flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing Society here, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday filed a defamation suit against Congress spokesman Manish Tewari . Gadkari in his complaint lodged before the Esplanade Metropolitan Court charged Tewari with making “false, baseless, reckless […] Read more » Nitin Gadkari
Top Law News Court upholds Rs.79,000 fine for cutting 1,500 trees December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court has upheld a penalty of Rs.79,000 slapped by the state government on a village head for chopping down more than 1,500 trees without permission. The court ruled that the authorities could impose the maximum fine of Rs.1,000 for each tree cut illegally. The penalty has been prescribed by the Saurashtra Felling […] Read more »
Top Law News President clears court probe against Prasar Bharti chief December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment President Pratibha Patil has given her assent for a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of financial mismanagement against Prasar Bharti Chief Executive Officer (CEO) B.S. Lalli, official sources said Thursday. Sources said Patil’s assent came on a reference made by the government. It would set in motion the process for removal of Lalli, who can […] Read more » Pratibha patil