High Profile Cases Plea moved in HC for recovery of damages for property destroyed in anti-CAA protests December 24, 2019 / December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea was moved in Delhi High Court on Tuesday seeking directions to the authorities to recover damages for destruction of public and private property during anti-CAA protests from those responsible. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar by BJP leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay […] Read more » anti-CAA protests CAA CAB Chief Justice D.N. Patel Delhi High Court Justice C Hari Shankar property destroyed in anti-CAA protests recovery of damages recovery of damages for property destroyed in anti-CAA protests
High Profile Cases Top Law News HC declines to entertain plea claiming telecom services illegally stopped during protests in Delhi December 24, 2019 / December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea which alleged that telecom services were disrupted in various parts of the national capital during the anti-citizenship law protests in violation of rules. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar refused to entertain the PIL after Additional Solicitor […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel Citizenship Amendment Act Justice C Hari Shankar MHA Ministry of Home Affairs telecom services illegally stopped
High Profile Cases Top Law News Daryaganj violence: Delhi court dismisses bail pleas of 15 people, sends them to judicial custody December 24, 2019 / December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Monday dismissed bail pleas of 15 people arrested in connection with the violence in Delhi’s Daryaganj area and extended their judicial custody by two weeks. Metropolitan Magistrate Kapil Kumar dismissed the bail applications, saying there was no sufficient ground to grant them the relief. The court passed the order after they […] Read more » Daryaganj violence Metropolitan Magistrate Kapil Kumar
High Profile Cases Maharashtra : Man gets 5-year sentence for robbery December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here in Maharashtra has sentenced a 35-year-old man to five years’ rigorous imprisonment for committing robbery at a wine shop in 2016. District Judge A S Pandharikar, in his order on Saturday, pronounced the accused, Salim alias Altaf Sayyed, guilty under Indian Penal Code Sections 392 and 397 (robbery), and provisions of the […] Read more » 5-year sentence for robbery District Judge A S Pandharikar
High Profile Cases Rape of minors : Convict should be mercilessly punished December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Persons accused of sexual offences against minor victims should be “mercilessly and inexorably punished”, the Bombay High Court said while upholding the conviction of a 29-year-old man for raping a five-year-old girl. A single bench of Justice Prithviraj Chavan on Friday dismissed an appeal filed by Sagar Dhuri, challenging a special court order of June […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Prithviraj Chavan mercilessly and inexorably punished rape of minors
Corporate Law News Alliance will form govt in Jharkhand, Hemant Soren will be CM: Congress December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As the JMM-led alliance appeared set to cross the majority mark in the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday, the Congress exuded confidence that the alliance will form the government with Hemant Soren as chief minister. All India Congress Committee in-charge for Jharkhand, RPN Singh said, “We will form the government as we fought the elections […] Read more » Chief Minister Hemant Soren Hemant Soren JMM-led alliance a
Corporate Law News CAA: Around 100 lawyers protest outside Jamia varsity December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over 100 lawyers gathered outside the Jamia Milia Islamia on Saturday to lodge their protest against the amended citizenship act and the National Register of Citizens for India (NRC). The lawyers gathered outside the varsity with posters that said ‘We advocates condemn brutal attack on students’, ‘Stop dividing India, boycott CAA & NRC’, ‘NRC narak […] Read more » Around 100 lawyers protest outside Jamia varsity lawyers protest CAA outside Jamia varsity
High Profile Cases Unnao rape case: Kuldeep Sengar to remain in jail for life and to pay Rs 25L exemplary fine December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar will remain in jail for entire life for raping a woman in Unnao in 2017, a Delhi court said on Friday while sentencing him for life. District Judge Dharmesh Sharma also imposed an exemplary fine of Rs 25 lakh in the case and it has to be paid within […] Read more » Kuldeep Sengar Unnao rape case
High Profile Cases Citizenship law: Students and opposition leaders step up protests; SC rejects inquiry panel plea December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Students, opposition leaders and activists across regions stepped up their protests against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act on Tuesday even as at least 29 persons were arrested for violent clashes over the last couple of days in Jamia Millia Islamia and parts of UP, while the Supreme Court rejected plea for setting up an inquiry […] Read more » Citizenship law Citizenship law protest in Jamia islamia
High Profile Cases Nirbhaya case: CJI Bobde recuses from hearing convict’s plea seeking review of death penalty December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice S A Bobde recused himself on Tuesday from hearing the plea of convict Akshay Kumar Singh seeking review of the 2017 apex court judgment upholding his death penalty in the Nirbhaya gang rape-and-murder case. At the outset, a special bench comprising CJI and Justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan made it clear that […] Read more » CJI Bobde Nirbhaya case review of death penalty
High Profile Cases 15 held in connection with Daryaganj violence sent to 2-day judicial custody December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fifteen people arrested in connection with the violence in Old Delhi’s Daryaganj area were sent to two days’ judicial custody by a city court on Saturday. The police had sought 14 days’ judicial custody of the arrested people. One of those arrested claimed he was a juvenile. However, the police said he told them he […] Read more » Daryaganj violence
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Vet rape & murder: Telangana High Court orders second autopsy of four. December 22, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Telangana High Court on Saturday directed re-postmortem of the bodies of four accused in the gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian near here last month, who were killed in an alleged encounter on December 6. The bodies of the four accused are currently preserved in the state-run Gandhi Hospital here as per earlier […] Read more » gang-rape and murder of a woman veterinarian Telangana High Court Vetenary doctor rape and murder
