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Two suspended, 200 more CCTV cameras in Tihar after custody death

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

Two Tihar Jail wardens have been suspended and 200 additional CCTV cameras installed in prisons after a suspected custody death in February, the Delhi High Court was informed Monday. Submitting a status report before a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta, jail authorities said: ‘The objective (behind installing […]

Ban khap panchayats, says petition to president

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

Parallel justice systems like the khap panchayats that promote killings in the name of honour should be banned, says an online petition doing the rounds lately. The petition, which has gathered signatures of scores of people from all walks of life, will be submitted to President Pratibha Patil. Led by the Centre for Social Research, […]

Three convicted in gang rape of Japanese woman

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

A Bihar court on Monday, May 17, convicted three persons in connection with the gang rape of 25-year-old Japanese tourist on Apr 16. Buzz up!Chief judicial magistrate of Gaya, Rajesh Narain Sevak Pandey pronounced Pappu Kumar, Uday Kumar and Anuj Kumar guilty of raping the Japanese woman. The quantam of sentencing will be announced later […]

Supreme Court to go on 49-day recess

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

The Supreme Court will go on a 49-day summer recess starting Monday. The court re-opens July 5. During the vacation, two benches will function to hear urgent and regular matters. The bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad would hear urgent matters, while the bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar […]

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 […]