Top Law News Election panel to decide on complaint against BSP July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Election Commission to decide within three months a complaint seeking freezing of Bahujan Samaj Party’s election symbol ‘elephant’ for allegedly violating poll panel’s instructions on use of party symbols. A bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said that the Election Commission will first take its decision on […] Read more » BSP Election panel
Top Law News Court raps government for denying IAS job to blind candidate July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has pulled up the government for denying a visually handicapped man an appointment in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) despite there being vacancies and his fulfilling the eligibility conditions. Apparently unimpressed by the government’s contention that reservation for handicapped persons as provided under the Disabilities Act, 1995, could not be extended to […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court summons Shinde’s daughter, estranged husband July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday asked union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s daughter Smriti Shinde and her estranged husband to appear before it in person Aug 9 to explore the possibility of a reconciliation. New Delhi, July 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court Thursday asked union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde’s daughter Smriti Shinde and her estranged […] Read more » estranged husband Shinde's daughter
Top Law News Supreme Court orders protection for British rape victim July 8, 2010 / July 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a British rape victim’s plea for transferring the hearing on the convict’s appeal from Jodhpur to Delhi but asked the Rajasthan government to provide security to her during her visit. The apex court also ruled that the Rajasthan High Court bench, which granted bail to rape convict Parbat Singh alias […] Read more » British rape victim
Top Law News Lalit Modi moves high court against BCCI July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lalit Modi, the suspended Indian Premier League chief, Thursday moved the Bombay High Court against the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s decision to suspend him, his lawyer said. ‘We have moved a petition in the Bombay High Court against the suspension of Modi by the BCCI,’ Modi’s lawyer Mehmood Abdi told IANS. ‘We […] Read more » BCCI Lalit Modi
Top Law News Court orders de-sealing of mobile phone towers July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court orders de-sealing of mobile phone towers The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to de-seal the illegal mobile phone towers in the capital within five days if the telecom operators pay the licence fees fixed by the corporation. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan said that only those mobile towers would […] Read more » de-sealing mobile phone towers
Top Law News Domestic help sentenced to death for double murder July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Thursday awarded the death sentence to the domestic help of an elderly woman for murdering her and her 12-year-old grandson in 2007 in the Vasant Kunj neighbourhood of south Delhi. Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria awarded the death sentence to Mithilesh Kumar Singh after the prosecution argued that the murder was very […] Read more » double murder
Top Law News Woman lawyer stabbed to death at K’taka HC July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman lawyer was stabbed to death at the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore on Thursday. Her assailant, reportedly her colleague at the court, is being treated at a city hospital after attempting suicide. According to the eye witnesses, Rajappa attacked Naveena, 25, in court corridor, who bled to death. After the attack, Rajappa stabbed […] Read more » death lawyer stabbed Woman
Top Law News Government to form ministerial panel on honour killings July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After failing to build a consensus on a proposal to deal with honour killings under a stringent law, the government decided Thursday to form a group of ministers to make suggestions on the issue. The decision was taken in a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni […] Read more » honour killings ministerial panel
Top Law News Don’t reject poll pleas on technical grounds: Court July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that a petition challenging the election of a candidate on the grounds of corrupt practices cannot be dismissed on ‘technical grounds’ or because of being drafted ‘clumsily’. ‘If a pleading on a reasonable construction could sustain the action, the court should accept that construction and be slow in dismissing an […] Read more » technical grounds
Top Law News Court query on radiation checks in scrap markets July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday questioned the central government on the mechanism being followed to monitor the capital’s scrap markets for preventing people from being exposed to radioactive material. A division Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan also asked the government to make clear the mechanism adopted to regulate the radioactive material […] Read more » radiation scrap markets
Top Law News Court questions UPSC on shortage of prosecutors July 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) asking why it was not appointing public prosecutors in the capital. Of the 215 posts for public prosecutors in Delhi, 44 are lying vacant. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan asked the UPSC to file a […] Read more » prosecutors UPSC