Top Law News Alaknanda residents allege police inaction on mosque construction April 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Residents in south Delhi’s Alaknanda area Sunday complained of police inaction over alleged illegal construction in a local mosque. Some 10-15 residents protested Sunday morning near Madni Mosque located in the Aravali Apartments complex alleging that the room the construction of which was begun by the mosque authorities Saturday night to expand its premises into […] Read more »
Top Law News Win sons’ trust, restore mother’s position, court tells woman April 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman who stood trial on charges of killing her stepson but was acquitted has been told by the Supreme Court to win the trust of her own sons before seeking their custody from her divorced husband. Both the boys had deposed against her. ‘The better course would be that the mother should first be […] Read more »
Top Law News Poor facilities in lower courts slammed April 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court judge S.H. Kapadia, tipped to be the Chief Justice of India in May, Saturday lamented the pathetic infrastructure in the lower courts in various states. Justice Kapadia made the remarks at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of a 12-acre Supreme Court annexe complex at the Pragati Maidan. The complex will include lawyers chambers, litigants’ […] Read more »
Top Law News Court dismisses public interest lawsuit as ‘personal’ April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday dismissed as ‘personal’ a public interest lawsuit (PIL) which claimed that the officer bearers of Surendranagar Peoples Cooperative Bank Ltd were responsible for irregularities and had duped the bank of Rs.85 crore of the depositors’ money. The bank is under process of liquidation. The PIL filed by Gunvant Naraniya sought […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat dismisses claims of ‘duress’ by terror law convicts April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat government Friday dismissed as ‘allegations’ the claims of two men convicted under the Prevention Of Terrorism Act (POTA) for attacking a prominent lawyer in Surat city in May 2002, that their confessional statements had been made under duress and police had made them sign blank papers. Mohammed Ashraf Ismail Nagori and Mohammed Tahir […] Read more »
Top Law News Sender of threatening SMSes granted bail April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Friday granted bail to Narender Khosla, the businessman accused for sending threatening and sleazy text messages to politicians, including former minister of state for external affairs Shahshi Tharoor. Granting the bail, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja said: ‘After taking into account the fact that the accused was in custody since April 16, […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat ordered to compensate riot victims made homeless April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday ordered the state government to compensate and rehabilitate the victims of the 2002 riots as well as other families whose houses were demolished by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation in 2009. A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi ordered the state government to pay Rs.5,000 to […] Read more »
Top Law News D.P.Yadav gets warrant in Katara case witness murder bid April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Ghaziabad court Friday issued a bailable warrant against influential Uttar Pradesh politician D.P. Yadav in the case of attempted killing of the main witness in the Nitish Katara murder case. His son Vikas Yadav has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the Katara murder. The warrant, issued by the chief judicial magistrate’s […] Read more »
Top Law News CBI to examine Mayawati’s plea to close graft case April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday told the Supreme Court that it will examine Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati’s plea to close the corruption case against her for having wealth exceeding her legal income, after factoring in tax authorities’ clean chit. ‘CBI will need time to re-look into the whole case in view of […] Read more »
Top Law News Governments views sought on easing curbs at Rama temple April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday sought the responses of the central and the Uttar Pradesh governments on a plea for easing restrictions on worship at Lord Rama’s makeshift temple at Ayodhya, built on the disputed site after the Babri mosque was demolished in 1992. Hearing a lawsuit by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy, a bench of […] Read more »
Top Law News CBI seeks to examine Satyam chief by video-conferencing April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday sought permission from the special court trying Satyam Computers’ former chairman B. Ramalinga Raju in the Rs.78 billion scam to examine him through video-conferencing. In its petition, the agency said it wanted to examine Raju through video-conferencing as he was not able to depose before the court due […] Read more »
Top Law News Uttar Pradesh bargains with Delhi on land April 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Uttar Pradesh has staked claim to over 285 acres of land virtually in the heart of the national capital in lieu of 21 acres of its land that the Delhi government acquired to widen the Uttar Pradesh link road connecting the Commonwealth Games Village to the satellite town of Noida. The Uttar Pradesh government made […] Read more »