Top Law News Fairness is backbone of show cause notice, stresses Apex court November 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that a quasi-judicial authority acting in exercise of its statutory powers ‘must act fairly and must act with an open mind’ while initiating a show cause proceeding. ‘Justice is rooted in confidence and justice is the goal of a quasi-judicial proceeding also,’ said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. […] Read more » backbone Fairness notice show cause
Top Law News Apex court issues notice to Amit Shah on bail November 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Saturday issued notice to former Gujarat minister Amit Shah on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking stay of the Gujarat High Court order granting him bail in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case. Shah, former minister of state for home, was arrested by the CBI July 25 for […] Read more » Amit Shah apex court bail notice
Top Law News Karnataka High Court upholds disqualification of 11 BJP legislators October 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Karnataka High Court Friday upheld the disqualification of the 11 rebel legislators of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state assembly by Speaker K.G. Bopaiah. Delivering the judgment in a packed courtroom, Justice V.G. Sabhahit said the rebel legislators stood disqualified under the 10(a) schedule of the anti-defection law. The BJP government […] Read more » BJP disqualification High Court Karnataka legislators
Top Law News Ministry view sought on common medical-engineering tests October 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday sought the response of the union health ministry on the Central Board of Secondary Education proposal to hold a combined entrance test for admissions to engineering and medical institutions in the country. Read more » common medical-engineering Ministry tests
Top Law News Orissa moves Supreme Court over POSCO mining October 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Orissa Friday moved the Supreme Court against an Orissa High Court order that disapproved its grant of permission to South Korean steel major POSCO to mine iron ore in Sundergarh district, a state minister said. ‘The state government has filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court today (Friday) against the high court order,’ […] Read more » mining Orissa POSCO Supreme Court
Top Law News How long will 2G spectrum probe take, asks Supreme Court October 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central government how long it would take to complete investigations into the 2G spectrum scam. The court also sought the central government’s response to a Comptroller and Auditor General’s ( CAG) report pointing out irregularities in allocation of spectrum 2G licences to telecom operators. The apex court bench […] Read more » probe spectrum Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court reserves verdict in Ghaziabad courts’ scam October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for transfer of the trial in the Ghaziabad district courts provident fund scam from Ghaziabad to Delhi. The apex court’s special bench headed by Justice D.K. Jain discharged District Judge V.C. Gupta from the charge that he was […] Read more » apex court Court Ghaziabad reserves scam verdict
Top Law News Former Kerala cop gets life term for Maoist’s murder October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 40-year-old case came back to haunt a retired Kerala police officer Thursday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Special Court for killing a Maoist leader in cold blood and passing it off as a shootout. Retired Inspector General of Police K. Lakshmana, now 74, was found guilty of murdering the […] Read more » cop Former Kerala life Maoist murder term
Top Law News India, US can learn from constitutional experience: Moily October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian constitution is flexible and vulnerable to Supreme Court action, union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said, adding that India and the US can learn from each other’s experiences. He was speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Indian Constitution and the United States Bill of Rights’ here Wednesday. ‘This vulnerability of the (Indian) constitution […] Read more » constitutional experience India Moily US
Top Law News Two cases filed over MCD’s ghost staff, court told October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Police Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that two criminal cases had been registered on the issue of ghost employees in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The two first information reports (FIRs) were registered under penal provisions related to cheating, forgery and harbouring offenders. Police counsel Najmi Waziri informed the division bench of […] Read more » cases filed MCD staff two
Top Law News Man gets death sentence for raping, killing child October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said. Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Singh handed down the death sentence to Guddu alias Jitendra Kumar, a native of Gajnera village in Bareilly, some 250 km from here. Kumar had raped the […] Read more » child death killing raping sentence
Top Law News Apex court may take up Rathore’s bail plea October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday indicated that it might take up the bail application of former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, who is undergoing sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The apex court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to indicate the conditionalities it would like to impose on the disgraced Indian Police Service officer […] Read more » apex court bail plea Rathore