Top Law News Petition inquiring Sonia Gandhi’s religion dismissed November 29, 2010 / November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday dismissed a petition which sought details on the religion of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from the Registrar General of Census Operations. A division bench of the high court dismissed the petition of former Haryana police chief P.C. Wadhwa, on whether the registrar general is bound to provide details […] Read more » religion Sonia Gandhi
Top Law News Court moved over ‘anti-India’ speech by Kashmiri separatist November 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A human rights activist Saturday filed a petition in a local court demanding registration of a case against Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for his alleged anti-India speech at a seminar here earlier this week. Judicial Magistrate Paramjeet Kaur fixed Dec 1 for the hearing. ‘Separatist leaders like Mirwaiz should not be allowed to […] Read more »
Top Law News Demand for details on judges goes to constitutional bench November 27, 2010 / November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday referred to the constitution bench whether details including file notings and correspondence in pursuance to the appointment of judges to higher judiciary could be accessed under the Right to Information Act.’We are of the considered opinion that a substantial question of law as to the interpretation of the constitution is involved […] Read more »
Top Law News Don’t interfere in governance, CJI tells courts November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court Chief Justice SH Kapadia on Friday urged the courts to refrain from interfering in the governance of the country as otherwise they would become like a bull in a china shop. Chief Justice Kapadia, who touched on several issues in the course of his address on the National Law Day, told the courts […] Read more » CJI
Top Law News Police to patrol ‘unsafe’ areas after BPO staffer’s gangrape November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after a northeastern woman working in a BPO was abducted and gangraped in the capital, Delhi Police on Friday agreed to the demand of a northeast delegation that special patrolling will be done in ‘unsafe’ areas of the city. Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of the Northeast Support Centre and Helpline, who led a delegation […] Read more » 'unsafe Gangrape patrol police
Top Law News Plea on appointment of judges referred to larger bench November 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday referred to the larger bench a petition seeking details of the apex court collegium on the appointment of judges in higher judiciary. Using the Right To Information (RTI) Act, the petitioner Subhash Agarwal had also sought information on the correspondence between the chief justice of India and the government on such […] Read more »
Top Law News Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court November 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court This scam puts all other scams put together to shame, remarked the Supreme Court on Wednesday during the hearing of the case, filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation on the 2G spectrum allocation. A Bench, comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, made its displeasure known at so many things […] Read more » apex court mother scams spectrum case
Top Law News Letter casts aspersions on judges hearing spectrum case November 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday revealed that it had received a letter alleging that the bench hearing the case related to allocation of spectrum to mobile companies had been ‘managed’. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly’s revelation shocked the people present in the court including Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and […] Read more » aspersions letter spectrum case
Top Law News Mirchpur caste violence: Apex court makes strong observations November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment ‘What is happening in the country’, an upset Supreme Court remarked Tuesday when told of how people belonging to the Valmiki community of Mirchpur village in Haryana’s Hissar district were deserting their village due to threats from those accused in an arson attack on the community in April. Witness after witness in the case of […] Read more » Mirchpur caste violence
Top Law News PM not to blame for delay in reply, Swamy tells apex court November 24, 2010 / November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former MP Subramanian Swamy Tuesday told the Supreme Court that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had no malafide intention in blocking his letter seeking sanction to prosecute then telecom minister Andimuthu Raja in the scandal involving spectrum allocation to mobile companies. “The prime minister had no evil or bad intention to delay decision on my letter,” […] Read more »
Top Law News Haryana bureaucrat gets five years’ jail for fraud November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Haryana bureaucrat has been sentenced by a court in Karnal to five years’ imprisonment in a case of fraud, an official of the state vigilance bureau said Tuesday. Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar sentenced Haryana Civil Services officer Deveshwar Dayal to five years’ imprisonment and imposed a penalty of Rs.45,000 on him. […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court wants better work conditions in national tribunals November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the central government why one standard notification providing for uniform working conditions of all national tribunals was not being issued. The national tribunals are headed by former apex court judges. The court made this observation in the course of a hearing on a petition which said that the National Green […] Read more » apex court better conditions national tribunals work