Top Law News Court grills AIIMS on post-graduation seats June 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday questioned the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on allocation of seats to students in post-graduation courses. The vacation bench of Justice M.C. Garg directed the AIIMS to explain by June 30 as to how the all-India level seats were allocated. The court was hearing a petition filed by […] Read more » AIIMS post-graduation
Top Law News Court asks Air India to de-seal staff union offices June 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday directed Air India’s holding company, National Aviation Company of India Ltd (NACIL), to de-seal the employees’ union offices that were sealed during a strike last month. The vacation bench of Justice M.C. Garg directed NACIL to de-seal all the union offices across the country and posted the matter for further […] Read more » Air India de-seal staff
Top Law News Delhi plans anti-touting law June 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Delhi plans anti-touting law The Delhi government Monday said it was planning to bring in an anti-touting law to take stringent action against touts in view of the recent rape of two Dutch women by men posing as tourist guides in the capital. ‘In the wake of this incident (rape of two Dutch women), the government is discussing a […] Read more » anti-touting Law
Top Law News Under trial prisoners’ justice scheme a silent revolution in judiciary: Law Minister June 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Terming the scheme of providing justice to Undertrial Prisoners (UTPs) a ‘silent revolution in the judiciary’, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily today said the scheme had been successful due to the coordinated approach between the judiciary and executive. Altogether 1,30,651 UTPs have been released since January this year, when the national mission for delivery of […] Read more » Under trial prisoners’ justice scheme
Top Law News Notice issued to Karnataka on proposed military memorial June 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Karnataka government on a petition challenging the proposed setting up of the National Military Memorial at the Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain Park in Bangalore. The vacation bench headed by justice R.M. Lodha and comprising Justice A.K. Patnaik, however, declined to order status quo. The notice is returnable […] Read more » Karnataka military proposed
Top Law News Four Uttar Pradesh ministers to move high court in blasphemy case June 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four ministers in the Mayawati government will move the Allahabad High Court against a lower court order on registration of a criminal case against them for publication of an allegedly blasphemous article in a journal. The order against Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Babu Singh Kushwaha, Swami Prasad Maurya and Daddu Prasad was issued by Chief Judicial Magistrate […] Read more » blasphemy case
Top Law News Honour killing suspects in police custody (Lead) June 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Saturday sent three men arrested on charges of killing a couple and another woman in a case of suspected honour killing to five days police custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar gave the ruling after the three – Mandeep Nagar, 23, Ankit Chaudhury, 22, and Nakul Khari, 21 – were presented in court. […] Read more » honour killing
Top Law News Mohit Shah is new Bombay High Court chief justice June 26, 2010 / June 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Mohit Shah was sworn in as the new chief justice of the Bombay High Court here Saturday. Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan administered the oath of office to the new chief justice at a function in Raj Bhavan. The ceremony was attended by Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Chairman of Maharashtra Legislative Council Shivajirao Deshmukh, ministers […] Read more » Bombay High Court chief justice Mohit Shah
Top Law News Court appoints observer for IMA elections June 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday appointed an observer to conduct the Indian Medical Association (IMA) elections. The court also asked the IMA to restore the name of its former president K.K. Agarwal, which was removed from the list of central council members making him ineligible from contesting this year’s elections. Hearing Agarwal’s petition against deletion […] Read more » elections IMA
Top Law News Nanavati panel’s stand June 30 on summoning Modi June 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The suspense on the stand of the Nanavati-Mehta judicial inquiry commission, probing the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat, on summoning Chief Minister Narendra Modi for questioning will continue till June 30. The state government pleader Friday submitted a sealed cover to Gujarat High Court’s special bench of Chief Justice S.J.Mukhopadhyaya and Justice Akil Kureshi containing […] Read more » Nanavati panel's
Top Law News Bhopal gas affected protest new compensation package June 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Organisations championing the cause of the Bhopal gas victims Friday protested the new compensation package announced by the government and demanded proper categorisation of the victims. Protesting the government’s new package announced Thursday, seven organisations contested the government’s figures of the victims, claiming that the actual number stands in lakhs. “The government says that only […] Read more » Bhopal gas
Top Law News Buy wife separate house or go to jail: Court June 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Buy wife separate house or go to jail: Court The Delhi High Court Friday asked a man to purchase a house for his wife to live in separately from her in-laws or be ready to go to jail for not fulfilling a condition arrived during mediation in the trial court. Justice S.N. Dhingra asked the woman, who had filed a criminal complaint for dowry […] Read more » house separate wife