Author: Legal India Admin

Three men offer to hang Kasab (Lead)

May 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Three men have offered to do service as hangman to execute Pakistani jehadi Ajmal Kasab, sentenced to death by a special court in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case. Saroj Kumar and Arvind alias Doman, middle-aged men from Bihar’s Samastipur district, last week separately wrote letters to President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh […]

CBI to probe evidence tampering by Himachal cop (Lead)

May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Taking cognizance of allegations of evidence tampering by a police officer in a woman’s suicide case, the Himachal Pradesh High Court Saturday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct a “fair and impartial” probe. Pronouncing the order a division bench of Chief Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Deepak Gupta transferred the case to […]

Supreme Court: Examine US Vietnam war veteran’s asylum plea

May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court has asked Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati to examine a plea by US Vietnam war veteran Jeff Knaebel seeking political asylum in India. Knaebel describes himself as a practitioner of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence. A bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice H.L. Dattu told Vahanvati that the petitioner was seeking relief […]

Delhi serial blasts: Charges filed against two

May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi Police on Saturday filed a charge-sheet against two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists accused of involvement in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts The chargesheet against Salman Ahmad and Mohammed Shahzad was submitted in a sealed cover to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. The court will take it up May 20. Baweja May 5 allowed […]

Frame charges against Sajjan Kumar for 1984 riots: Court

May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A city court on Saturday ordered framing of charges against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and seven others for allegedly killing five people during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta passed the order. The court will now hear the matter May 18 when Kumar and others will present their defence. Sajjan Kumar, Khushal […]

Slain scribe’s mother denied bail

May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A court in Jharkhand’s Koderma district on Saturday rejected the bail petition of slain scribe Nirupama Pathak’s mother Sudha, arrested on charges of killing her daughter. Chief Judicial Magistrate NK Agrawal rejected the bail petition while police in Koderma continued to interrogate Sudha in jail in connection with her daughter’s death. Police had filed a […]

Supreme Court rejects plea on Prabhakaran’s mother (Lead)

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court Friday rejected a plea seeking direction to the central government to fly the ailing 86-year-old mother of the slain Tamil Tigers chief to Chennai for medical treatment. The mother of Velupillai Prabhakaran, Parvathi Ammal, 86, who is suffering from paralysis, is presently in Colombo. The apex court said that for coming to […]

Former MCI president’s judicial custody extended

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A city court Friday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of former Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai and three others arrested in a corruption case. Additional Sessions Judge O.P. Saini asked the jail authorities to present Desai, J.P. Singh, Kanwaljit Singh and Sukhwinder Singh before court May 28. Desai was arrested […]

Apex court denies bail to former MP jailed for murder

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the bail plea of criminal-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, a former Lok Sabha MP serving life sentence for the murder of a Bihar district magistrate in 1994. Mohan was sentenced to life term for killing Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah Dec 5, 1994.

Apex court lawyer gets five-year jail for graft

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Meghalaya Thursday sentenced a Supreme Court lawyer, Halida Khatoon, to five years in jail on charges of trying to tamper with evidence in a corruption case against her. Special Judge S.R. Sen also fined Khatoon Rs.5,000 for bribing a CBI constable Rs.1 lakh in exchange for […]

No bail to maid servant who defrauded employers

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi High Court Thursday rejected the bail application of a maid servant who allegedly transferred the property of her employers to her name as well as fraudulently withdrew money from their bank accounts. Denying the bail, Justice S.N.Aggarwal said: “Taking stock of all the facts and circumstances of the case, I do not find […]

Trial judge faces high court flak for poor knowledge

May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi High Court on Thursday slammed a trial court judge for lacking elementary knowledge of law and directed him to hear arguments afresh in a murder case. A division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait directed the trial court judge to hear arguments expeditiously and complete the hearing of the arguments by […]