Top Law News Moily to Pranab: Need funds to dispose of cheque-bouncing cases May 27, 2010 / May 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union law ministry has approached the finance ministry for funds to set up special courts to dispose of over 38 lakh cheque-bouncing cases that constitute a major portion of the litigation backlog clogging the judiciary. Union Law and Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily has written to his colleague, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, to consider […] Read more » cases cheque-bouncing dispose of funds Need
Top Law News Over 92,000 undertrial prisoners released across India May 27, 2010 / May 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over 92,000 prisoners undergoing trial have been released till April and another 110,000 are expected to be freed by end of July under a programme to decongest jails across the country, the law ministry said. There were an estimated 300,000 people, facing trial for various offences, languishing in various jails at the beginning of this […] Read more » across India prisoners released undertrial
Top Law News Speed up registration of CWG site workers: High court May 27, 2010 / May 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the state agencies to speed up the registration of workers at the Commonwealth Games construction sites. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur expressed concern when they came to know that only 400 workers of the 40,000 workers were registered till date. […] Read more »
Top Law News No petition from Afzal Guru in apex court May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No petition from Afzal Guru in apex court The Supreme court has not received any petition from Afzal Guru, who has been sentenced to death over the terrorist attack on the Indian parliament, court sources said today. The sources said the Supreme court registry had only got a letter from him in February 2010 pleading for an expeditious execution of his death sentence. […] Read more » Afzal Guru apex court No petition
Top Law News Court directs police to probe MCD’s ‘ghost’ employees scam May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the city Commissioner of Police Y.S. Dadwal to conduct an independent probe into the scam of ‘ghost’ employees in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur directed the police commissioner to hold a detailed inquiry into allegations […] Read more » Court directs employees MCD's police probe scam
Top Law News Rathore seeks bail from high court May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Disgraced ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court here in the Ruchika molestation case, today filed a review petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and sought bail. 68-year-old Rathore’s lawyer-wife Abha Rathore filed the review petition on his behalf in the court of Justice S S Saron. She […] Read more »
Top Law News Rathore to share cell with seven, examined by doctor (Lead) May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tainted former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, would share a cell with at least seven other prisoners, most of whom are convicted cops. Rathore was Tuesday examined by a government doctor in the Burail Jail here before being formally placed […] Read more »
Top Law News Angry protests greet Gurung, Tamang’s brother quits GJM (Lead) May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Days after Gorkha League chief Madan Tamang’s murder, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) chief Bimal Gurung Tuesday had a tough time entering Darjeeling as his convoy faced angry demonstrations following allegations that his party was responsible for the killing. Tamang’s brother, meanwhile, resigned from the GJM as a central committee member. Gurung’s convoy, entering Darjeeling from […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court notice to Uttar Pradesh over shootout victim May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government and asked it to explain why the body of a man allegedly killed in a shootout with police was not being handed over to his parents. The court also directed that the notice should be served Dasti (by hand) on the additional advocate […] Read more »
Top Law News 12 get jail for trading in tiger parts May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court here Tuesday sentenced 10 women and two men to three years in jail and fine of Rs. 10,000 each for their involvement in the illegally trading tiger parts. The special court held them guilty for their role as carriers of tiger body parts, the NGO Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), which has […] Read more »
Top Law News Court pulls up Tihar Jail for letting in mobile phones May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking serious view of the fact that mobile phones are being used by inmates in the high security Tihar Jail, the Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the authorities to seize all the instruments within three days. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Madan B. Lokur directed Director General of Tihar Prison […] Read more »
Top Law News American Centre attack: Supreme Court stays Ansari death sentence (Second Lead) May 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed the death sentence awarded to Aftab Ahmed Ansari alias Aftab Ansari, a co-accused in the January 22, 2002 attack on Kolkata’s American Centre that killed six policemen. The other accused, Jamiluddin Nasir, who too was awarded death sentence, got a stay from the court on May 10. The vacation bench […] Read more »