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
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