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
Top Law News CBI challenges Shah remand rejection in high court August 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday challenged in the Gujarat High Court the denial of remand of former minister of state for home Amit Shah, arrested in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake shootout case. The matter will come up before Justice Akil Qureshi later in the day. Veteran lawyer K T S Tulsi will represent […] Read more » rejection remand Shah
Top Law News CBI probe ordered against Koda in assets case August 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jharkhand high court on Wednesday ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against former chief minister Madhu Koda and six ex-ministers for amassing assets more than their known sources of income. “A division bench, comprising acting Chief Justice Sushil Harkoli and Justice D N Patel, ordered a CBI probe against Madhu Koda and […] Read more » assets case CBI Koda
Top Law News Children’s basic rights violated at CWG sites August 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Yet another black mark against the Commonwealth Games organisers. Children of over 400,000 construction workers at the Games sites are deprived of basic rights like sanitation, schooling and healthcare, said a report released here Wednesday. The report from NGO Child Relief and You (CRY) is based on observations from some Games sites — Major Dhyan […] Read more » CWG sites violated
Top Law News CBI demand for Shah remand rejected August 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI court Wednesday rejected the agency’s demand for a seven-day custody of former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, arrested for the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge A.I. Raval’s ruling stunned the agency. “The CBI may challenge the decision. The CBI may go to the high court,” a source […] Read more » CBI rejected remand Shah