Top Law News UN campaign to protect Delhi women from violence November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) Monday launched a programme here with the aim of checking violence against women and adolescent girls in public space. Delhi is one of the five cities across the world selected for the ‘Safe Cities’ programme. The other four cities where the programme, ‘Global Safe Cities Free of […] Read more » campaign Delhi UN violence women
Top Law News Can Thomas be an effective CVC, asks Supreme Court November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the central government if Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas could function effectively in view of various charges hurled against him. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia wondered if a person who is an accused and facing a chargesheet could head a watchdog body. The court asked […] Read more » Central Vigilance Commissioner CVC P.J. Thomas Supreme Court
Top Law News Protestors try to stop Arundhati at meet November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Eleven activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were arrested Sunday for trying to prevent writer-activist Arundhati Roy from attending a meeting here, police said. Roy was invited to the event organised by human rights groups and tribal organisations. ‘We arrested 11 ABVP protestors,’ Deputy Commissioner of Police H.K. Lal told IANS. He said […] Read more » Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Arundhati Roy Protestors
Top Law News Remove India, Pakistan border restrictions: Sikh pilgrims November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The border restrictions between Pakistan and India should be abolished for peace and prosperity in the region, said a group of Sikh pilgrims from India. Over 4,000 Sikh pilgrims reached Pakistan by special trains through the Wagah border Friday to attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. Sikh pilgrims […] Read more » border India Pakistan restrictions Sikh pilgrims
Top Law News Mecca blast accused sent to judicial custody November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Hyderabad court Saturday sent a key accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast to judicial custody till Nov 30. The Central Bureau of Investigation, which arrested Jatin Chatterjee, also known as Swami Asimanand at Haridwar Friday and brought him here early Saturday, produced him before additional metropolitan magistrate at Nampally Court. The court sent […] Read more » accused blast custody judicial Mecca
Top Law News Mizoram tribal refugees resist repatriation from Tripura November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Mizoram government is going ahead with its programme to relocate Reang tribals, who fled to neighbouring Tripura after ethnic clashes 13 years ago, an official said Saturday, but the tribals continued to resist the move. Over 41,600 Reang tribals, locally called Bru, have been living in six camps in north Tripura’s Kanchanpur sub-division since […] Read more » Mizoram refugees repatriation tribal Tripura
Top Law News PM seeks to clear airwaves on 2G spectrum scam November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh dealt suitably with every letter to him for sanction to prosecute then communications minister A. Raja on the alleged second generation (2G) spectrum scam, the Supreme Court was informed Saturday in an affidavit, and sought to set the record straight on a political storm that threatened to envelop his office. It […] Read more » 2G spectrum scam A. Raja airwaves CBI
Top Law News PMO files affidavit in apex court November 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday warned that no one found guilty of wrongdoing will be spared, but refrained from making any direct personal remark on the alleged scam over the allocation of second-generation (2G) telecom spectrum.Also Saturday the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) filed an affidavit in Supreme Court giving details of the letters it received […] Read more » affidavit apex court files PMO
Top Law News Supreme Court proved courts’ power to fight corruption: Krishna Iyer (Interview) November 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court proved courts’ power to fight corruption: Krishna Iyer (Interview) Corruption in India is above even god and the Supreme Court has proved that courts continue to support people’s fight against it, former Supreme Court judge and rights activist V.R. Krishna Iyer has said. The recent remarks by the apex court about Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ‘inaction and silence’ over the spectrum scandal proved that […] Read more » corruption Krishna Iyer
Top Law News Abu Salem gets four years jail in fake passport case November 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in the Madhya Pradesh capital Friday sentenced underworld don Abu Salem to four years jail in a 2001 fake passport case.Chief Judicial Magistrate Ram Gopal Singh also slapped a fine of Rs.10,000 on Salem. The court Tuesday convicted Salem under section 471 of the Indian Penal Code and 12A of Passport Act for […] Read more » Abu Salem fake passport case
Top Law News ‘More people interested in adopting girl child’ November 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is a steady flow of enquiries for adopting a girl child now than compared to earlier times, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) Amod Kanth said at a workshop here Friday. He, however, added that complicated adoption rules were proving to be a ‘road block’ for those interested in […] Read more » adopting girl child' Amod Kanth
Top Law News Child rights commission takes up rehabilitation of orphans November 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six children, including a brother-sister duo, left orphaned in the east Delhi building collapse should be provided the services of a counsellor to help them cope with the trauma, the Delhi Commission of Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has said. The child rights organisation has issued notice to the Delhi chief secretary on the rehabilitation […] Read more » Child rights commission orphans rehabilitation