Top Law News Court questions government on Dalit Muslims’ plea July 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court questions government on Dalit Muslims’ plea The Supreme Court Monday gave six weeks’ time to the central government to file its reply on a suit filed by the Akhil Maharashtra Muslim Khatik Samaj seeking inclusion in the list of other scheduled castes. The petition said that socially Muslim Dalits like khatiks, mehtars, bhangi, lal-begi, halakkhor, mochi, mukri and garudi were similarly […] Read more » Dalit Muslims' plea
Top Law News Trial court told to decide rape case afresh July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High court Monday set aside a 10-year jail term awarded to a man for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl and directed the trial court to decide the case afresh. The high court slammed the trial court and told it to record the accused’s statement while deciding the matter again. While setting aside the […] Read more » afresh case decide rape
Top Law News Regulate visas issued to terminally ill patients: Court July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday directed the central government to regulate the procedure for issuing visas to terminally ill foreign nationals, some of whom are suspected of serving as carriers for drug traffickers. The court issued notices to the union home and external affairs ministries on issuing visas to foreign nationals who are terminally ill […] Read more » ill patients issued terminally visas
Top Law News Don’t doubt cops who appear as witnesses, courts told July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday said that courts should not doubt the evidence given by police officers as witnesses in a case. The court’s observation was made while upholding life imprisonment awarded to a man, for killing his wife two years back, on the basis of statements of police personnel. A division bench of Justice […] Read more » cops doubt witnesses
Top Law News Show rule that makes women ineligible for army: apex court July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the defence ministry to produce the Army Act notification that makes women ineligible for permanent commission in the regular army. When the apex court bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra said that Section 12 of the Army Act, 1950 was in breach of Article 14 of […] Read more » army ineligible women
Top Law News Apex court notice on 1993 bombing convicts July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice on appeals by the Maharashtra government seeking enhanced punishment for those convicted for their involvement in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. The court declined to entertain any plea for interim relief by the accused who are serving jail term. The final hearing will be held from Jan 11, 2011 […] Read more » 1993 bombing convicts
Top Law News Pacheco granted bail in culpable homicide case July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Goa tourism minister Francisco alias Mickky Pacheco was Monday granted conditional bail by a trial court in a culpable homicide case related to the mysterious death of his alleged lover Nadia Torrado. After evading arrest for nearly a month, Pacheco was arrested July 5 in connection with the mysterious death of 28-year-old Torrado. Torrado […] Read more » homicide case Pacheco
Top Law News 30 percent of pending cases are government’s: Moily July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government litigation accounts for nearly 30 percent of the cases pending in courts across the country, Union Minister for Law and Justice Veerappa Moily said on Sunday. “More than 30 per cent of the litigation space is covered by government litigations. This space should be reduced and the space should be given to the ‘aam […] Read more » cases pending
Top Law News No consensus on creating all-India judicial service: Moily July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is no consensus yet on creating an all-India judicial service, union Law and Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Sunday. ‘The attempt is to attract the best talent to the judicial service. But there is no unanimity on the subject yet,’ Moily said. He said that a paper on the issue will be prepared […] Read more » consensus judicial service
Top Law News Aberrations in judiciary reflection of society: Moily July 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The few aberrations in an otherwise highly efficient judiciary are only a reflection of society and these have to be removed, Union Minister of Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily said on Sunday. Speaking at a regional review meeting of the implementation of the 13th finance commission recommendations on improving justice delivery and other matters […] Read more » Aberrations judiciary Moily reflection society
Top Law News Trial court barred from deciding Kachru case accused’s bail July 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court Saturday restrained the trial court from passing any order related to bail given to four students of a medical college who ragged their junior Aman Kachru to death last year. The court adjourned the proceedings till Monday after hearing the government and the four accused students on a matter related […] Read more » accused's bail Kachru case
Top Law News Government school told to admit Class 9 student July 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi high court has directed the government to admit in its school a Class IX student whose application was rejected on the ground that the last school attended by him was neither a state-run nor a state-aided institution. The court said the plea taken by Delhi government-run Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya in north Delhi’s Civil […] Read more » admit Government school