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Failure to check ragging is negligence: Court

April 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi High Court Monday said that an educational institution’s failure to check ragging amounts to negligence. While ordering maintenance of decorum in such institutions, Justice G.S. Sistani said: ‘It has been held that failure to prevent ragging is to be construed as an act of negligence in maintaining discipline in educational institutions on the […]

Man who sent sms threats to Tharoor jailed

April 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A city court Monday sent to judicial custody till April 30 a 27-year-old businessman arrested for sending threatening and lewd sms messages to several politicians, including former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Dig Vinay Singh said: “A judicial custody of 13 days is given for further investigations in […]

Gujarat land scam: Court orders fresh survey

April 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Gujarat High Court Monday sought a fresh survey report from the government over an alleged land scam involving Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers accused of building bungalows on government land. A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi slammed the government for not using traditional surveys for measuring encroachment and presenting a report based on satellite images. “Have you ever […]

Auditor involved in Satyam scam denied bail

April 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Auditor involved in Satyam scam denied bail

The Supreme Court Monday denied bail to Price Waterhouse auditor Subramani Gopalkrishnan allegedly involved in a Rs.7,136-crore financial fraud along with Satyam Computer’s founder chairman B. Ramalinga Raju. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and JusticeDeepak Verma, however, allowed Gopalkrishnan to move the court afresh for bail on the grounds of delay by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in completing its probe and filing a […]

Return Shoaib Malik’s passport: Court tells police

April 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Andhra Pradesh High Court Monday directed the police here to return Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik’s passport, which was seized earlier this month in connection with a cheating case filed by his first wife Ayesha Siddiqui. Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy, who had reserved his order Friday after hearing the arguments of Shoaib’s counsel, Monday pronounced his order directing the police to return his passport. Shoaib, who married […]

Tharoor’s case has likeness with Chidambaram’s 18 years ago

April 19, 2010 / April 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The resignation of Shashi Tharoor as minister of state for external affairs has striking similarity with another incident 18 years ago when Home Minister P Chidambaram had stepped down from the commerce ministry. The issue then involved alleged investments by Chidambaram’s wife Nalini in the scam-tainted Fairgrowth Financial Services that had been promoted by banker […]

Final door closed for Manu Sharma: Jessica’s sister

April 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Sabrina Lall, sister of Jessica Lall who was shot dead in April 1999, said she was happy that the “final door has been closed” for Manu Sharma as the Supreme Court Monday upheld his life sentence for the murder. “After 11 years…I am glad that the final door has been closed on this (case). It […]

Missing chargesheet with Sajjan Kumar’s name presented in court

April 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Missing chargesheet with Sajjan Kumar’s name presented in court

A city court Saturday found itself in a “peculiar situation” after a chargesheet naming Congress leader Sajjan Kumar as an accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots but lying in the police files for years, was presented in court. The chargesheet was signed on 8.4.92 and had Sajjan Kumar’s name on it. Additional Sessions Judge V.K. […]

File charges in 2008 blast case by May 15: Court to police

April 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A city court Saturday allowed Delhi Police 30 days’ time to finish their investigation and file a chargesheet against two suspected Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists for their alleged roles in serial blasts in 2008. Additional Sessions Judge Santosh Snehi Mann ordered the Special Cell of the police to file the chargesheets by May 15 against […]

Hearing deferred on CBI’s move to close Quattrochi case

April 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A city court on Saturday deferred till May 15 a decision on a plea to stop the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from closing the two-decade-old Bofors payoff case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi. Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg adjourned the case after Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra submitted that the original records related to […]

Verdict on Manu’s plea in Jessica murder likely Monday

April 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce Monday its verdict on the appeal of Manu Sharma, the son of former Congress parliamentarian Venod Sharma, against his conviction and life term for murdering ramp model Jessica Lall in 1999. A bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice Swantanter Kumar had reserved its verdict on Feb 18 […]

Seventeen acquitted in a Kandhamal riot case

April 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A fast track court in Orissa on Saturday acquitted 17 people in a case of rioting in Kandhamal in 2008. All the 17 were accused of torching houses in Shashipadar village Aug 26, 2008. “All the seventeen accused have been acquitted as the charges leveled against them could not be proved for want of evidence,” […]