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High court issues notice to Bar Council of India

April 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Gujarat High Court Tuesday issued notices to the Bar Council of India (BCI), the state bar council and the state government for not allowing a law student to complete the third year of his degree course in law.A division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi issued notices to the respondents […]

PM promises all possible help to disabled (Lead)

April 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on PM promises all possible help to disabled (Lead)

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday assured a delegation of representatives of the disabled, which raised several demands including a separate ministry for disability affairs, of all \”possible steps\” to help them.A 10-member delegation of the National Platform for the Rights of the Disabled, led by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member and Rajya Sabha […]

Gujarat civic poll process challenged

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

The Gujarat High Court has questioned the state government and six municipal corporations over a petition challenging the process followed in civic election. Acting on a petition by Pankajsinh Waghela, a division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi issued notices Monday and sought replies from the state and the corporations about […]

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 […]