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
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