Top Law News Muslim panel to appeal against Ayodhya verdict October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The All India Muslim Personal Law Board Saturday said it had decided to appeal in the Supreme Court against the Ayodhya verdict given by a three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court last month. The decision was taken at a closed-door gathering of the 51-member executive held at the Darul-Uloom, Nawa-tul-Ulema, popularly known as Nadwa […] Read more » against appeal Ayodhya verdict Muslim panel
Top Law News Justice Bhandari for changes in copyright bill October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Emphasising the need for changes in the Indian copyright amendment bill 2010, Justice Dalveer Bhandari of the Supreme Court Saturday said it is necessary to stop unauthorised use of original work. “The copyright bill needs to be more balanced with equal or right share given to the authors as well as the stake-holders,” he said. […] Read more » changes copyright bill Justice Bhandari
Top Law News Contempt of court only arises on disobedience of order: Apex court October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that the proceedings against a person accused of contempt of court could not be initiated merely on speculation, assumptions and inference drawn from the fact and circumstances of the case, but only on ‘wilful disobedience’ of the court’s order. ‘In our considered opinion’, the apex court bench of Justice J.M. […] Read more » apex court arises contempt Court disobedience order
Top Law News Bar Council to hold mandatory test for budding lawyers October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) will hold, in December, its first-ever mandatory test for law graduates seeking to begin professional practice, the law ministry said Friday. ‘The BCI will conduct the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) in nine languages across 27 cities in India on December 5, 2010,’ said the ministry in a statement. […] Read more » Bar Council Budding hold lawyers mandatory test
Top Law News Vodafone files petition against tax authorities move October 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vodafone International Holdings BV filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court on Friday seeking to insulate itself from the income-tax department’s attempt to explore a second route to tax the company’s 2007 deal with Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd to buy the latter’s majority stake in Indian telecom company Hutchison Essar Ltd. At present, […] Read more » against files move petition tax authorities Vodafone
Top Law News Gulberg society massacre witnesses’ plea rejected October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Thursday rejected a petition by witnesses of Gulberg society massacre in Ahmedabad during the 2002 Gujarat riots, seeking to summon some government officials as witnesses and cross-examine them. Pleading that former MP Ehsan Jafri had talked with some top officials and highly-placed people to seek their help before he was killed […] Read more » Gulberg massacre plea rejected society witnesses
Top Law News No land deal final until registered, rules apex court October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that no land transaction would attain finality unless it was duly registered and no sale deed of land would get a back-dated finality by its registration subsequently. The court said that a transaction in land would only be complete on the date of the registration of the sale deed. In […] Read more » apex court deal final land No registered Rules until
Top Law News 11 high court judges transferred October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major judicial shake-up, 11 judges from six high courts of Allahabad, Punjab and Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Bombay and Orissa were transferred Wednesday. The transfers were approved by President Pratibha Patil. Justice R.S. Mohite who was transferred from Bombay High Court to Patna High Court has resigned. Three judges each have been transferred […] Read more » High Court judges transferred
Top Law News Long-pending changes to law on boilers notified October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Wednesday notified a legislation enhancing the safety norms for industrial boilers to avoid the danger of their explosion and guard life and property from destruction. The legislation, titled Indian Boilers (Amendment) Act, 2007, was notified nearly three years after it was passed by Parliament in December 2007, said a commerce and industry ministry […] Read more » boilers changes Law Long-pending notified
Top Law News Nirmohi Akhara wants Kalam, Deoband in Ayodhya mediation October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nirmohi Akhara, a main plaintiff in Ayodhya title suits, wants mediation of former President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband and Jamiat Ulema Hind along with Hindu religious leaders like Baba Ramdev and Shri Shri Ravi Shankar and Murari Bapu. Pujari Ram Das, special emissary of the ailing chief of Nirmohi […] Read more » Ayodhya Deoband Kalam mediation Nirmohi Akhara
Top Law News BKI terrorist Jagtar Hawara’s death sentence commuted to life October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Tuesday commuted to a life term the death sentence awarded to notorious Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara. Hawara was a mastermind of the assassination of then Punjab chief minister Beant Singh at the high-security state secretariat complex here Aug 31, 1995. The high court, however, upheld […] Read more » BKI commuted death Jagtar Hawara life sentence terrorist
Top Law News Many Muslims against taking Ayodhya row to apex court October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Many ordinary Muslims are against waging another prolonged legal battle in the Supreme Court over the Hindu-Muslim Ayodhya dispute although their religious leaders feel otherwise. Though initially most Muslims did not appear to be favourably disposed towards the Sep 30 verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the much-debated Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid issue, now many […] Read more » against apex court Ayodhya Many Muslims row taking