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
Top Law News Court rejects plea of former RAW director July 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today turned down the plea of a retired Director of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) seeking direction to the agency to disclose information under the RTI Act. Justice S Muralidhar dismissed the plea of Brig (Retd) Ujjal Dasgupta, a former official of the intelligence agency, who was arrested for allegedly leaking […] Read more » RAW director
Top Law News Court to decide on Ramalinga Raju’s trial Monday July 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court will decide on Monday whether B. Ramalinga Raju, the key accused in the Rs 14,000 crore Satyam scam, should be examined through video conference. The court on Friday directed Raju’s counsel to file a counter to CBI’s petition seeking a video linkage between the court and Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences Nims, […] Read more » Ramalinga Raju's Satyam scam
Top Law News Class 9 student moves court after denial of admission July 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought the response of the Delhi government, a state-run school and the Delhi University’s Central Institute of Education on a petition filed by a class 9 student denied admission to the school despite clearing the admission test. Fourteen-year-old Aditya Gaur moved the court after he was denied admission by […] Read more » denial of admission
Top Law News Gujarat High Court reserves verdict on civic poll July 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Thursday reserved its verdict till Monday on a petition challenging the election process of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). While hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging a provision for multiple elected representatives from a ward in the AMC, the court asked the state government under which provisions of the constitution […] Read more » civic poll verdict
Top Law News Review of plea against Nirma plant after apex court ruling July 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court on Thursday said it will take up a review petition by farmers opposing the upcoming Nirma cement plant at Mahuva in Bhavnagar district only after the appeal pending before the Supreme Court is exhausted. This was ruled by the division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhyaya and Justice Akil Kureshi. The […] Read more » Nirma plant
Top Law News Only tax payers can file public interest litigation: Court July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Only tax payers can file public interest litigation: Court The Jharkhand High Court Thursday barred non-tax payers from filing a public interest litigation (PIL). “A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sushil Harkauli and D.N. Patel set the parameters for filing a PIL. The parameters include a term that only tax payers having a PAN (permanent account number) can file PIL,” Rajiv Kumar, a […] Read more » public interest litigation
Top Law News Honour killing suspects sent to judicial custody July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Thursday sent three men, arrested on charges of the honour killing of a couple and another woman, to 14 days of judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar sent the three accused to judicial custody till July 14. Earlier, the accused were on a five-day police remand. The police told the court that […] Read more » honour killing