Top Law News Contempt proceedings ordered against Kerala CPI-M leader October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court Tuesday ordered contempt proceedings against senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader M.V. Jayarajan for his outburst against judges in July. A three-member full bench comprising Chief Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice A.K. Basheer and Justice K.M. Joseph ordered this while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL). Jayarajan, 50, while speaking at […] Read more » against contempt CPI-M leader Kerala ordered proceedings
Top Law News Ban bullock carts transporting kerosene: PETA October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Animal welfare NGO PETA has demanded a ban on the use of bullock carts to transport kerosene in the city, but the government says it needs an alternative arrangement in placey. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) made the demand at a meeting with Maharashtra’s food and civil supplies ministry. The officials […] Read more » ban bullock carts kerosene PETA transporting
Top Law News State government has to suffer for its inaction: Supreme Court October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that a state government will have to account for its inactions and cannot make people suffer for it, ruling in a Bihar land owner’s case that was re-opened in Patna High Court simply because an earlier verdict had not been published in government records. ‘If the state government did not […] Read more » Government inaction State suffer Supreme Court
Top Law News Ayodhya case: Hindu Mahasabha files caveat in Supreme Court October 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Akhil Bharatiya India Hindu Mahasabha has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court to prevent opponents in the Babri Masjid dispute from obtaining exparte relief without its knowledge. he caveat will ensure that no interim order is passed by the court without hearing the Mahasabha, which was a party to the case before the […] Read more » Ayodhya case caveat files Hindu Mahasabha Supreme Court
Top Law News RTI, the common man’s tool to get things done October 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ram Vilas, 32, a small-time shopkeeper in a village in Bihar, now knows the power of the Right To Information (RTI) Act after he used it successfully to get the provident fund money of his ailing retired father, an ex-civic employee. A school drop out, Ram Vilas sought help from one of his former classmates, […] Read more » common done get man RTI things tool
Top Law News Will strive to make RTI more effective, accessible: New CIC October 11, 2010 / October 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The empowering Right To Information Act (RTI) completes five eventful years Oct 12 (Tuesday). Newly-appointed Chief Information Commissioner Anugraha Narayan Tiwari, who has a very short tenure to work in, is keen to make the act more powerful and more accessible. Tiwari, a 1969 batch IAS officer and former secretary, Department of Personnel and Training, […] Read more » accessible CIC effective RTI strive
Top Law News Computer knowledge must for budding judges: Apex court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that the new judges being appointed in lower courts must have the basic knowledge of computer operations. ‘It will be unfair to overlook basic knowledge of computer operation for being a judge’ when the steps were being taken for the computerization of the courts for their efficient management, said a […] Read more » apex court Budding Computer judges knowledge must
Top Law News Hang bride burners: Supreme Court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Unless all those who burn their wives are hanged, the barbaric crime would not stop, the Supreme Court has said. “This (bride burning) is barbaric and wild animal like behaviour and only when the perpetrators of such a crime are sent to the gallows the people will realise that bride burning is a crime,” said […] Read more » bride burners Hang Supreme Court
Top Law News Few isolated incidents in marriage not cruelty: Apex court October 10, 2010 / October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said married life should be assessed as a whole and few isolated incidents over a period of time would not amount to cruelty. “Sustained unjustifiable and reprehensible conduct affecting physical and mental health of the other spouse may lead to mental cruelty,” said a bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice […] Read more » apex court cruelty Few incidents isolated marriage not
Top Law News Second appeal under Hindu Marriage Act allowed, rules court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A second appeal under the Hindu Marriage Act is maintainable, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. Deciding the case of Varshaben Suthar vs Jayshankar Mistri, Justice K.A. Puj ruled, in a judgment made available Friday, that the second appeal against the judgment and decree of the first appellate court under the 1955 act would be […] Read more » allowed appeal Hindu Marriage Act rules court Second
Top Law News CBI seeks more time for 2G scam probe October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation Friday told the Supreme Court that it would require six more months to complete the probe in the 2G spectrum scam. It said it needed more time as a lot of investigation has to be done within the country and possibly outside also. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told the court […] Read more » CBI probe scam
Top Law News Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder Bangalore taxi driver Shiva Kumar was Friday sentenced to “life imprisonment till death” for the 2005 rape and murder of Hewlett Packard (HP) India employee Pratibha Murthy, prompting her mother to say tearfully that her daughter’s soul would now rest in peace. Judge B.V Guddali of the 11th fast track court pronounced the judgment in […] Read more » Bangalore cabbie life murder Pratibha term