Top Law News Lawyer fighting case against Koda seeks security April 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A lawyer fighting corruption cases against former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and some bureaucrats has sought security from the state government as a precautionary measure. The request has been made by Rajiv Kumar, the lawyer of Durga Oraon who filed a public suit in the Jharkhand High Court in 2008 seeking a Central Bureau […] Read more »
Top Law News Give me justice, says retired judge April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A retired senior judge of Gujarat is battling for justice after being charged with corruption and denied retirement benefits. Vijay Shinde has challenged the administration of the Gujarat high court which stopped the benefits including pension after a departmental inquiry charged him with corrupt practices and for gross misconduct. According to court records, the inquiry […] Read more »
Top Law News And now, a Mayawati temple April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If all goes well, Uttar Pradesh will soon get a temple dedicated to Chief Minister and Dalit icon Mayawati, whose statues already dot the sprawlind state.The temple is proposed to be erected in the poverty-stricken Mahoba district in Bundelkhand, economically the most backward region in Uttar Pradesh. It will come up in Natpura village, about […] Read more »
Top Law News Court stays suspension of gay AMU teacher April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court Thursday stayed the Aligarh Muslim University’s suspension of teacher S.R. Siras for ‘gross professional misconduct’. Hearing the teacher’s plea, a division bench of Justice Sunil Ambwani and Justice K.N. Pandey also stayed the order of the varsity administration directing Siras, a teacher in the Modern Indian Languages department, to vacate his […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court slams government for mistreating army officer April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has lashed at the Union government for mistreating an Indian Army officer and denying him his due wages despite the officer suffering crippling injuries in an accident that he met while on duty. ‘We regret to say that the army officers and the army men in our country are being treated in […] Read more »
Top Law News Bihar cannot challenge Lalu’s acquittal, rules apex court April 2, 2010 / April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bihar cannot challenge Lalu’s acquittal, rules apex court The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the Bihar government was not entitled to challenge the acquittal of former railway minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, a former Bihar chief minister, in a corruption case probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The significant verdict, imparting a momentous legal relief to the Rashtriya […] Read more »
Top Law News Private schools to face penalty for violating RTE: Sibal April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All private and minority schools have to reserve 25 percent seats in elementary education for underprivileged children, and any breach of the Right to Education act will fetch punishment, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday. Sibal told Times Now television that it was obligatory to set aside a quarter of all […] Read more »
Top Law News Two convicted, 10 acquitted in Kandhamal riots cases April 2, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A fast track court in Orissa sentenced two people to two years’ imprisonment and acquitted 10 people in two Kandhamal riots cases, an official said on Thursday. Ratnakar Pradhan and Parsuram Pradhan of Ketemaha village under Raikia police station area were accused of torching Sanu Naik’s house Aug 26, 2008. They were booked under several […] Read more »
Top Law News Court nails police lie on ‘surrendered Maoists’ March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa High Court Tuesday nailed a lie of the state police who had held two tribal youth of the state’s Kandhamal district as “surrendered Maoists”, and ordered the duo’s release. According to police, Bishnu Parida and Binayak Parida surrendered to police in Raikia police station area of the district Feb 28. After the “surrender”, […] Read more »
Top Law News Doctor’s testimony challenged in Naroda-Patiya carnage case March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A witness of the Naroda-Patiya carnage of 2002 has challenged the testimony of the doctor who had said that reports of the womb of one of the victims, Kauser Bano, being slit open by the rioters was not true. The doctor who conducted the post mortem on the bodies of the victims had said the […] Read more »
Top Law News No relief to Paramount Airways from apex court March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No relief to Paramount Airways from apex court The Supreme Court Tuesday sought responses from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and two British firms to a Paramount Airways suit, opposing the DGCA de-registering and grounding its fleet for non-payment of dues to the British firms from which it had leased three planes. While issuing notices to the DGCA and British firms […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court dismisees 2006 Quattrochi case, allows new one March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a 2006 lawsuit against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrochi, an alleged recipient of Rs.7 billion kickbacks in the Bofors gun purchase scandal. However, the court has paved the way for filing of a fresh lawsuit against him. Dismissing the 2006 lawsuit, a bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan gave liberty to […] Read more »