Top Law News Apex court upholds death for man in family’s murder August 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday confirmed the death sentence awarded to a man for killing his step mother, step brother and sister in 1996 in Mukherjee Nagar area of the national capital, saying the murder was carried out in an ‘extremely brutal, gruesome, diabolical’ manner. The court also confirmed the life sentence awarded to the co-accused […] Read more » death sentence family's murder
Top Law News Labour court not authorised to direct regularisation August 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High court has ruled that a labour court or industrial tribunal has no jurisdiction to direct regularization of a person’s service if that person is recruited without a selection process in a local authority or public body. Hearing a case of Mahuva Nagarpalika vs Jivrajbhai Sankaliya, a single judge bench of Justice K.S. […] Read more » Labour court not authorised regularisation to direct
Top Law News Doctors not hospitals guilty in negligence deaths: Court August 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment However, the court held that the management of the hospital would be liable in case of administrative negligence and failure to provide basic infrastructure to patients. Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra passed the order on a petition filed by Indraprastha Medical Corporation Limited challenging a metropolitan magistrate’s order for registration of a first information report against […] Read more » deaths Doctors guilty hospitals negligence
Top Law News Seven held guilty for lynching five Dalits in Haryana August 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A district court here on Saturday held seven people guilty and acquitted 19 others in a case relating to the 2002 lynching of five Dalits in this Haryana district. The punishment for the convicts will be announced on Monday. All the seven people held guilty were sent to judicial custody by Additional District and Sessions […] Read more » five Dalits lynching
Top Law News Court frames gangrape charges against senior IAS officer August 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court here Saturday framed gangrape charges against Haryana’s commissioner and secretary in fisheries department N.K. Jain in an eight-year-old rape case. Jain, a 1978 batch Haryana-cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was Chandigarh home secretary at the time of the incident. Charges of criminal conspiracy and putting a person in fear of accusation […] Read more » gangrape charges IAS officer
Top Law News No overtime under industrial disputes act: Court August 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A state government employee is not entitled to claim overtime or other benefits under the Industrial Disputes Act, the Gujarat High court has ruled. A single judge bench of the high court opined that a state government employee is governed by the rules of Bombay Civil Services Rules (BCSR) and not by the ID Act, […] Read more » industrial disputes act No overtime
Top Law News Delhi Police rapped for filing dowry cases without proper probe August 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Delhi Police rapped for filing dowry cases without proper probe A day after the Supreme Court held that a person cannot be convicted for merely demanding dowry, the Delhi High Court Friday pulled up the Delhi Police for registering a case of dowry against a person without carrying out a proper probe. While granting bail to a person arrested under the dowry act, Justice S.N. […] Read more » Delhi Police dowry cases rapped
Top Law News CBI to get two-day custody of Amit Shah August 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) two days’ custody of former minister of state for home and law Amit Shah for further investigation in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing in a staged shootout. While quashing a designated judge’s order that denied the remand, Justice Akil Kureshi upheld the arguments […] Read more » Amit Shah CBI custody two-day
Top Law News Family has to decide whether to report rape: Court August 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that while there should be prompt lodging of a First Information Report (FIR) in criminal cases, there could be no straight-jacketed formula in registration of rape cases. Normally, a delay in lodging an FIR not only introduces exaggeration and concoction that colours the facts of the incident but it also […] Read more » decide Family report rape
Top Law News Lower courts cannot prosecute for contempt of court August 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lower courts cannot prosecute for contempt of court The Delhi High Court Thursday held that the lower courts have no power to prosecute a person for contempt of court. Setting aside a lower court order, Justice S.N. Dhingra ruled that only higher courts can take cognisance of contempt committed by a person against lower judiciary. The court’s direction came on a case where […] Read more » contempt Court prosecute
Top Law News A rustic witness can get confused, says apex court August 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that a rustic witness was ‘bound to get confused and make some inconsistent statements’ if he is subjected to ‘fatiguing, taxing and tiring cross-examination’ for days. As compared to an educated witness, such a witness with rural background cannot be expected to remember every small detail of an incident and […] Read more » confused rustic witness
Top Law News Andhra High Court adjourns hearing on Raju’s bail plea August 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the bail petition of B. Ramalinga Raju, the prime accused in the multi-crore Satyam fraud case. Justice Raja Elango adjourned the hearing to August 12 as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sought time to file counter-reply to the bail plea of the former […] Read more » bail plea Ramalinga Raju Satyam fraud case