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
Top Law News Lawyer’s panel to check facilities for Games workers July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set up a three-member committee of Delhi Legal Services Authority lawyers to inspect the facilities provided by the Delhi government to workers employed at the Commonwealth Games village. The direction came after the court was informed by a petitioner that the government was not doing enough for the workers, who […] Read more » facilities Games workers
Top Law News PETA objects to bullfight scene in upcoming movie July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written to the makers of upcoming Bollywood film “Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara” objecting to a bull fight scene which is to be shot in Spain. “We have sent an urgent email to Mumbai-based film studio Excel Entertainment urging the producers of the film not to include […] Read more » bullfight scene
Top Law News Maharashtra parties fume over boundary row July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Political parties in Maharashtra Wednesday slammed a central government affidavit in the Supreme Court Tuesday that said the Marathi-speaking areas bordering Maharashtra and Karnataka belonged to the latter. In a sharp reaction, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said the decision was ‘unfair’ to the people of Maharashtra. ‘If this is the case, then why not […] Read more » boundary row
Top Law News Sentencing in Delhi double murder case deferred July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court on Wednesday deferred till Thursday the hearing on the quantum of sentence in the 2007 murders of an elderly woman and her grandson by their domestic help in Vasant Kunj in south Delhi. Additional Sessions Judge SK Sarvaria deferred the matter. On July 1, the court convicted accused Mithilesh Kumar Singh for murder, […] Read more » double murder case
Top Law News Rights panel orders compensation for delayed pension July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Rights panel orders compensation for delayed pension The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to pay Rs.50,000 as compensation to the kin of a government employee who died after waiting more than 10 years for her pension, a statement said Tuesday. Champa Devi, who retired as a health inspector from a primary health centre in Uttar Pradesh […] Read more » Compensation delayed pension
Top Law News Court okays curbs on buses in Kolkata July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has upheld the West Bengal government’s power to prevent stage carriage buses entering Kolkata in order to decongest roads and curb pollution. The apex court verdict was delivered by a bench of Justices R.V. Raveendran and P. Sathasivam Monday, upholding the West Bengal State Transport Authority’s power to deny permits or curtail […] Read more » buses curbs Kolkata
Top Law News Apex court for higher penalty for false civil claims July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has favoured increasing the costs that are imposed on litigants to deter false or vexatious civil claims aimed at delaying cases. The maximum cost that can be imposed under the existing provisions is Rs.3,000. The court has suggested to the central government to revisit the provisions of the Civil Procedure Code (CPC) […] Read more » false civil claims
Top Law News Check misuse of sex determination law: court July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday suggested the central government amend the law against sex determination tests for curbing its misuse. Justice S.Muralidhar asked the central government to conduct a comprehensive survey and take appropriate measures to amend the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act to curb the misuse of the law. […] Read more » sex determination law
Top Law News ‘Nadia was styling herself as Pacheco’s wife’ July 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After calling 28-year-old Nadia Torrado former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco’s ‘family friend’ ever since she killed herself by consuming rat poison, his counsel on Monday said that she had been ‘advertising herself as Pachecho’s wife’. Advocate Surendra Desai, arguing on behalf of Pacheco before the additional district and sessions judge in Margao, also said […] Read more » Pacheco's wife'