Top Law News Year after historic verdict gays optimistic about future July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An year after the Delhi High Court passed a landmark verdict decriminalising homosexuality, gays in India can certainly breathe freer. But it’s not all sunshine and roses with social prejudices still well entrenched, especially outside the big cities. On July 2, 2009, the Delhi High Court overturned the 150-year-old section 377 of the Indian Penal […] Read more » gays optimistic
Top Law News Tribunal to recover damages from Coke in Kerala July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A tribunal will be set up to recover Rs.216.26 crore from Coca-Cola for the socio-economic damage caused by its bottling plant in Palakkad that has now been shut down, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan said Wednesday. The soft drink giant, however, maintained that it had done no wrong. The cabinet came to this decision after the […] Read more » Coke damages Kerala
Top Law News Student visa policy not being changed: Australia July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Australia Wednesday said it is not changing its student visa policy and there are no plans to cap the number of foreign students studying in the country. The Australian High Commission issued a statement after media reports stated that around 15,000 Indian students could be forced to return after the new visa policy comes into […] Read more » Student visa policy
Top Law News Rules for postings under transparency law sought July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of right to information (RTI) activists here Wednesday demanded a set of rules and procedures for appointment of information commissioners under the transparency law. RTI activists Arvind Kejriwal, Subash Chandra Agrawal and Raaj Mangal Prasad showed to reporters documents obtained under the RTI Act which revealed intense lobbying and complete arbitrariness in appointment […] Read more » transparency law
Top Law News Gujarat High Court questions judge’s powers July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday questioned a single judge’s order passed during the vacation without the “delegated powers”. A division bench of the court stated that the learned judge did not have the powers to pass an order wherein the interim relief granted was final in nature. The bench comprising of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya […] Read more » judge powers
Top Law News Court frowns at plea to sell garages in residential buildings July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It would set a “dangerous trend” if real estate promoters were allowed to sell the garages located in the stilted area of residential buildings for commercial purposes, including servicing of vehicles, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. “It will set a dangerous trend. Some will have flats. Some will have offices and there will be a […] Read more » garages residential buildings
Top Law News Rathore’s pension stopped, Ruchika’s family hails move July 1, 2010 / July 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, in jail for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, will get no pension from the government, the home ministry said Wednesday. “Pension of S.P.S. Rathore, a retired IPS officer of the 1965 batch, has been withheld in full on permanent basis,” a home ministry statement said. The action […] Read more » pension stopped
Top Law News Delhi HC questions AIIMS on medicos admission criteria June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought an explanation from the premier hospital AIIMS as to how the seats for MS (Surgery) have been filled up by General category as against the qualified candidates this year. Justice M C Garg directed the AIIMS authorities to furnish an affidavit by June 30 explaining how the institute filled […] Read more » AIIMS medicos admission
Top Law News Kalam’s exhortation to legal community for speedy justice June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former President A P J Abdul Kalam exhorted the legal community to come up with practical solutions to ensure speedy justice to all. Interacting with members of Mysore Bar Association and the citizens, he said even though the judiciary was trying its best to clear the backlog, large number of court cases were still pending […] Read more » exhortation speedy justice
Top Law News Court to frame charges in Babri Mosque demolition case June 29, 2010 / June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court hearing the Babri Mosque demolition case Tuesday ordered the then Faizabad district magistrate and some leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to appear before it for framing of charges. The VHP and the BJP leaders are facing charges of criminal conspiracy behind the Dec 6, […] Read more » Babri Mosque demolition case
Top Law News No action against MPs for not disclosing assets: Activist June 29, 2010 / June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four months after a right to information (RTI) plea revealed that 70 Lok Sabha members had not declared their assets to the speaker, the authorities have yet to take any action, a transparency law activist said Tuesday. The information was disclosed Feb 24 in a reply to the RTI application filed by Subhash Chandra Agrawal, […] Read more » assets disclosing
Top Law News Honour killing: Court upholds life term to father June 29, 2010 / June 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upholding the life imprisonment handed down to a man for killing his daughter in 2006 over an an extra-marital affair with a relative, the Delhi High Court rejected his plea that the crime was committed at the spur of the moment. A division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait upheld Bhagwan Dass’ conviction […] Read more » honour killing