Top Law News ‘Improve dialysis facilities for Delhi’s HIV-positive patients’ July 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High court has directed the central government to chalk out a plan with the Delhi government to increase the number of city hospitals offering dialysis to HIV-positive patients. “The number of hospitals which offer maintenance dialysis to HIV-positive patients are perhaps just three, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. This is […] Read more » HIV-positive patients'
Top Law News Court curbs on converting park into water tank July 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The judicial battle of the residents of the Rohini neighbourhood to save a park has started on a positive note with the Delhi High Court restraining, for now, the civic agencies from converting the green area into an underground water tank. “Till further orders, the respondents (civic agencies) are directed to maintain status quo in […] Read more » tank water
Top Law News Maharashtra to get six new CBI courts July 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six new special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) courts are likely to become functional in Maharashtra by the end of 2010, taking their total number in the state to 11, a top official said here Saturday. ‘The CBI had sent a proposal for creation of additional courts of special judges to the government of India. […] Read more » CBI courts Maharashtra
Top Law News 1,375 murders unsolved in Delhi July 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment At least 1,375 murder cases here are yet to be solved by Delhi Police, and almost half of them are over five years old, a right to information (RTI) activist has said. In their reply to RTI applicant Dev Ashish Bhattacharya, police said 644 of the 1,375 unsolved murder cases took place more than five […] Read more » murders unsolved
Top Law News ‘Case backlog due to lack of settlement culture’ July 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia Saturday said that the absence of a settlement culture among litigants was the single most important factor in the flooding of courts with cases. He said that in foreign countries, people prefer settlement over litigation and made a specific reference about the prevalence of this culture in Taiwan in […] Read more » Case backlog
Top Law News Fashion fraternity wakes up to population menace July 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With India’s at approximately 1.2 billion and climbing by the minute, on the eve of World Population Day July 11, a large section of the capital’s fashion fraternity and the page 3 party hoppers called for enacting a law to curb the population explosion. Most of them are even trying to address the issue of […] Read more » Fashion fraternity
Top Law News CBI given case of two minors’ rape in police station July 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court Friday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the alleged rape of two minors by four policemen inside a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district. The court has directed the CBI to complete its investigation within three months and submit its report to the court. According to officials, […] Read more » rape two minor
Top Law News Why five months for celebrating bull festival, court to Tamil Nadu July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the Tamil Nadu government why the time period for celebrating Jalli Kattu, or taming the bull festival usually celebrated during Pongal in January, had been increased to five months and who all stood to benefit from this. It asked the state government to consider reducing the time period for celebrating […] Read more » bull festival
Top Law News Photocopying a fake document also an offence: Court July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday held that photocopying a fake document is also an offence and can lead to prosecution on charges of forgery and cheating. ‘Photocopying a document, which is not genuine, and with the kind of technology that is available now wherein exactly similar copies of the original can be made, would fall […] Read more » document fake offence Photocopying
Top Law News Diplomat spy’s judicial custody extended July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today extended by 14 days the judicial custody of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of passing classified information to Pakistani intelligence agencies. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja extended her judicial custody till May 29 after the probe agency submitted during in-chamber proceedings that the sanction from government was awaited to initiate further action […] Read more » Diplomat Madhuri Gupta spy's
Top Law News Delhi High Court cautions magistrates against abusing powers July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday cautioned metropolitan magistrates in trial courts against abusing their powers, saying they should strictly abide by the guidelines. Justice M.C.Garg, giving a slew of directions to the magistrates, ruled that any order should be passed only after applying the judicial mind and this should reflect in their orders. ‘When a […] Read more » abusing magistrates powers
Top Law News ‘Acquittal on benefit of doubt not grounds for dismissal’ July 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday ruled that the acquittal of an individual on benefit of doubt cannot be the ground for his dismissal from government service. The ruling came from a division bench of Justice Bhagwati Prasad and Justice S.R. Brahmbhatt, hearing the petition of Himmatsinh Vankar, who contended that a case registered against an […] Read more » Acquittal dismissal'