Top Law News Supreme Court chief justice lists measures to improve judicial functioning July 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The long-awaited improvement in the infrastructure of the lower courts could soon become a reality with Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Monday telling the apex court that a bench would be constituted to hear the problems being faced by the subordinate judiciary every Monday. Similarly, matters to be heard by a constitution bench would not have […] Read more » functioning improve judicial
Top Law News No deputation without employee’s consent: Court July 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 6 Comments on No deputation without employee’s consent: Court A government employee cannot be sent on deputation without his consent, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. The ruling came on a petition filed by Baldev Chauhan, designated as overseer, who urged that his deputation order issued by the district development officer (DDO) be declared illegal and arbitrary.Justice K.S. Jhaveri ruled that the petitioner was […] Read more » consent deputation employees
Top Law News Panchayat threat to lovers in Greater Noida July 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Panchayat threat to lovers in Greater Noida Some rural areas of Uttar Pradesh’s Greater Noida township were tense on Monday after a village panchayat issued shoot-at-sight orders against two lovers belonging to different castes, police said, adding that security in the village had been beefed up. The panchayat of village Daula-Razpura has issued the orders against Sanjay and Preeti, both in their […] Read more » lovers Panchayat threat
Top Law News Bill against sexual harassment likely in parliament’s monsoon session July 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bill on preventing sexual harassment of women at the workplace is likely to be introduced in the monsoon session of parliament beginning later this month, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath said Monday. “We are expecting to table the bill in the coming monsoon session. The draft of the bill is ready and […] Read more » sexual harassment
Top Law News Supreme Court against CAG scrutiny of BCCI accounts (Lead) July 6, 2010 / July 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition seeking thorough scrutiny of the accounts of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the past 10 years by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). During the hearing, a bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar asked […] Read more » BCCI accounts CAG scrutiny
Top Law News Bharat bandh against price hike begins; Govt says unjustified July 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The ‘Bharat bandh’, called by all major non-UPA parties to protest against the ever-increasing prices of essential commodities and recent fuel price hike, started at 0600 hrs today. ”We are protesting against the UPA Government’s decision to deregularise fuel prices. The bandh has been called for the people, so that they can register their protest […] Read more » Bharat bandh price hike
Top Law News BJP threatens stir against 15 percent quota for Muslims July 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday threatened to launch a mass agitation if the central government implemented the Ranganath Mishra Commission report which recommended 15 percent reservation for Muslims in education and government employment. “We will launch a massive agitation if the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government implements the commission’s recommendations as it would […] Read more » BJP Muslims quota
Top Law News Gujarat judges favour time limit for disposing cases July 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Almost 90 percent of the judges in Gujarat’s subordinate judiciary support a fixed time limit for completion of each stage of a case, a survey by a law university says. The subordinate judiciary in the state has more than 23.5 lakh pending cases due to lack of specialized wings and lack of case management, said […] Read more » cases disposing Gujarat
Top Law News Scribe murder case: Accused alleges torture in jail July 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment One of the four accused in the murder of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan has alleged that he was beaten up inside the Rohini jail as he refused to bribe the prison authorities. Amit Shukla approached a court on June 25, alleging that he was beaten up for several days. “An application has been moved before additional […] Read more » murder case Scribe
Top Law News Court denies bail to accused in Dutch women’s rape July 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Saturday rejected the bail plea of a man arrested for allegedly raping two Dutch women in Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi. The accused posed as a tourist guide in the capital before taking them to that state. District Judge S.P. Garg said the plea of Yasir Altaf, who had claimed in his […] Read more » Dutch women's rape
Top Law News Pacheco sent to two days judicial custody July 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Goa tourism minister Mickky Pacheco was Saturday sent to two days judicial custody by a court in Margao after he surrendered in connection with the mysterious death of his alleged lover. Pacheco, who was charged with culpable homicide following the suspicious death in Chennai of 28-year-old Nadia Torrado, was underground for nearly a month. […] Read more »
Top Law News Audit panel to submit report of 25 private schools July 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday asked the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) to submit the report on the accounts of 25 private schools in the capital, including Modern School, Barakhamba Road, Amity International, Vasant Valley, DPS RK Puram and Sardar Patel. A division bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Siddharth Mridul directed the CAG […] Read more » Audit panel submit