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Will not use the Mahatma’s picture commercially: Montblanc

May 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court disposed of a petition against international luxury giant Montblanc Monday after the firm assured that it would not use the picture and name of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi for commercial purposes. Montblanc had come under fire for marketing its luxury brand of pens titled “Mahatma Gandhi Limited Edition” containing an […]

Sarosh Homi Kapadia to be Chief Justice of India

May 3, 2010 / May 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Supreme Court Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia has been appointed the new Chief Justice of India. Kapadia will assume charge May 12. Kapadia takes over from Justice K G Balakrishnan, India’s first Dalit chief justice. A press release from the Ministry of Law and Justice stated: “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (2) of […]

Two extra shifts can cut court backlog, says judge

May 3, 2010 / May 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Supreme Court’s Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan has stressed the need for running courts in two extra shifts in addition to the normal court hours to reduce backlog of cases. ‘The judiciary in Gujarat runs evening courts in various districts of the state for just this purpose,’ he said on Saturday night at a function here to […]

Justice Kapadia urges legal professionals to hone skills

May 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Chief Justice of India-designate Justice S.H. Kapadia Sunday said that it was incumbent upon judges and lawyers to learn commercial laws to survive and compete in the existing global environment. Delivering the valedictory address on the conclusion of a two-day national consultation for second generation reforms in legal education here, Justice Kapadia said: ‘I am […]

Judgement Day for 26/11 terrorist (Lead)

May 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judgement Day for 26/11 terrorist (Lead)

Almost one-and-a-half years after 10 Pakistani terrorists struck in the heart of India’s financial and entertainment capital, the country is waiting anxiously for the verdict Monday on Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone gunman captured alive in the bloody 60-hour siege whose live TV coverage had much of the world in thrall. Mumbai Special Judge […]

92-year-old widow fights son’s killer

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

When a teary-eyed 92-year-old widow in a wheelchair deposed in a city court, she took a small but crucial step forward in her 16-year-long battle against a senior Punjab cop who allegedly killed her financier son and a relative in 1994. Amar Kaur, dressed in a peach coloured suit, appeared before Additional Sessions Judge Poonam […]

Court jails former Punjab official for graft

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A court here Saturday sentenced former Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Bikramjit Singh to rigorous imprisonment of two-and-a-half years for possessing assets in excess of his known sources of income. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge Darshan Singh also slapped a fine of Rs.30,000 on Bikramjit Singh. However, he was immediately granted bail after […]

Aspire for world class legal education system: PM (Second Lead)

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

India must aspire to provide world class legal education through a “dramatic reform” of the present system to improve the economic environment and ensure citizens get speedy and affordable access to justice, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. “We must dream if we want to make progress of having a world class educational system. Law […]

Madhuri Gupta says she is being framed

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Madhuri Gupta, a junior Indian diplomat arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), told a court here Saturday that she was being framed, police sources said. Gupta was sent to 14 days judicial custody by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. The police were told to present Gupta before the court on […]

India gets new chief justice, Supreme Court a woman judge

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia was Friday named the next chief justice of India, while Chief Justice Gayan Sudha Mishra of the Jharkhand High Court was sworn in as a Supreme Court judge, ending a four year wait for a woman in the apex court. Kapadia, who will assume charge May 12, will take over from […]

Teacher gets 30 years jail for sexually abusing girls

May 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A court here has sentenced a 39-year-old government primary teacher to imprisonment for 30 years for sexually abusing girl students at a school in Pulliavu. Despite being sentenced to a total of 30 years in jail under various cases, A.K. Haridasan, now under suspension, will spend 16 years behind bars as the punishment for his […]

Apex court to have a woman judge after four years

April 30, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Former Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice, Gyan Sudha Mishra, will take oath as a Supreme Court Justice on FridayShe will be the fourth woman judge in the apex court. Mishra (61) was initially appointed as judge of the Patna High Court in March 1994, but was transferred to the Rajasthan High Court. After 14 years […]