Top Law News Soren cleared in third murder case, is a relieved man June 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Jharkhand chief minister Shibu Soren was Tuesday a much relieved man after his acquittal in a 1974 double murder case — the last of the three murder cases against the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) chief. Tuesday’s acquittal has brought great relief to the JMM chief, who has been fighting legal battles for the last […] Read more » relieved man Soren
Top Law News Apex court pulls up Karnataka judge for indiscipline June 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up Justice D.V. Shylendra Kumar, judge of the Karnataka High Court, for breaching judicial discipline by using intemperate language and encroaching on the administrative authority of Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran. The court made it clear that Justice Dinakaran, being the chief justice, enjoyed absolute authority in the administrative matters […] Read more » indiscipline Karnataka judge
Top Law News Government going soft on penalties for erring officials? June 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If the central government has its way, it will not deduct the salaries of proven erring and corrupt officials and will not object to them being re-employed in the government either. In its efforts to streamline the carrot and stick policy for officials, the union ministry for personnel, training and public grievances has proposed a […] Read more » erring officials
Top Law News Gujarat law graduates challenge bar council decision June 15, 2010 / June 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six law graduates Tuesday knocked the doors of the Gujarat High Court challenging the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) resolution that requires students like them to clear a test for getting a licence for legal practice. The division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi has posted the matter for hearing Wednesday. […] Read more » bar council decision law graduates
Top Law News Arjun Singh faces court complaint June 15, 2010 / June 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A complaint has been filed against veteran Congress leader Arjun Singh in a local court here for allegedly letting off Bhopal gas tragedy’s main accused and former Union Carbide Corp (UCC) CEO Warren Anderson. A lawyer, Farkhan Khan, filed the complaint here in Chief Judicial Magistrate R.G. Singh’s court Monday seeking registration of a criminal […] Read more » Arjun Singh complaint
Top Law News Court tells firm to reinstate sacked worker June 15, 2010 / June 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed a firm to reinstate an employee terminated illegally. Justice Kailash Gambhir directed the firm, Hansita, to reinstate Shiv Kumar on the post of machineman and also asked the company to pay him 50 percent of the wages due to him since his termination in 1992. In 1976, Kumar was […] Read more » reinstate sacked worker
Top Law News No HRA if employee is illegal occupant: Court June 15, 2010 / June 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has held that an employee in unauthorized occupation of the premises of the employer is not entitled to house rent allowance(HRA). “If the employees inspite of unauthorisedly occupying the accommodation of the employer are also held entitled to HRA, it would tantamount to allowing them to profiteer from the same which […] Read more » illegal occupant
Top Law News Implement Kerala high court’s anti-encrochment order: apex court June 14, 2010 / June 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday declined to interfere with a Kerala High Court order asking the state police to clear the encroachment of government land by tribals within four weeks. The vacation bench of judges Deepak Verma and K.S. Radhakrishnan did not entertain the state government’s plea that the high court order infringed upon police’s operational […] Read more » anti-encrochment order
Top Law News Sagotra marriages petitioner asked to move high court June 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked a petitioner, seeking direction to the central government that marriages within ‘sagotra (same clan)’ be deemed prohibited relationship under the Hindu Marriage Act, to move the Punjab and Haryana High Court. A vacation bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Deepak Verma and comprising Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan told senior […] Read more » Sagotra marriages
Top Law News Supreme court refuses to hear Haldiram’s owner’s plea (Lead) June 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme court refuses to hear Haldiram’s owner’s plea (Lead) The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a petition by Haldiram’s Group owner Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, seeking bail after being convicted for conspiring to kill a tea stall owner in Kolkata. The vacation bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Deepak Verma and comprising Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan instead asked the petitioner to move Calcutta […] Read more » Haldiram's owner's plea
Top Law News Woman wins 22-year property battle, but gets no land June 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It took 22 long years for a court to direct the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to return a plot to coal depot owner Darshna Rani. But six months after the verdict, the 75-year-old is still to get her due. “It’s been almost six months since this judgment came in our favour, but getting the […] Read more » no land
Top Law News Need to strengthen prosecution in cases like Bhopal: CBI chief June 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ashwini Kumar Sunday said the agency needs to strengthen its prosecution to match the legal resources employed by the accused in cases like the Bhopal gas disaster. ‘Our investigations are good but there is weakness in prosecution and trial. We will pay more attention to it,’ Kumar told reporters […] Read more » CBI chief prosecution strengthen