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
Top Law News Asiad Tower restaurant to remain sealed June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Asiad Tower restaurant and its peripheral area in the Asiad Village complex in the capital’s Siri Fort area will continue to remained sealed as the vacation bench of the Supreme Court Friday declined to hear the matter, saying it could only be placed before the three-judge forest bench. The vacation bench of Justice R.M. […] Read more » Asiad Tower restaurant
Top Law News Emergency a sad period in Indian history: Kuldip Nayar June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Calling the Emergency a ‘sad period in India’s history when we nearly lost independence’, noted journalist and civil rights activist Kuldip Nayar says ‘the Emergency still exists informally in the country in different forms as the rulers, with the full support of the bureaucracy, police and other sections, indulge in authoritarian and anti-democratic acts’. ‘The […] Read more » Emergency Kuldip Nayar
Top Law News Reply to plea on contempt proceedings, Andhra told June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked Andhra Pradesh to file a reply on a petition seeking to initiate contempt proceedings against the state government for breaching the court’s interim order in the appointment of secondary grade teachers. The vacation bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice A.K. Patnaik gave the state […] Read more » contempt proceedings
Top Law News Court orders arrest of accused in 1999 rape case June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa High Court Thursday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest, within three months, the absconding accused in a more than 11-year-old rape case, a lawyer said. A division bench of Justice A.S.Naidu and Justice S.C Parija sought the arrest of Biban Biswal, while dismissing the appeal filed by two other convicts […] Read more » rape cases