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 »
Top Law News Retired employees to get medical reimbursement: Court March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Retired employees to get medical reimbursement: Court Ruling that all government employees, even those retired, are entitled for medical reimbursement, the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked the Delhi government to pay the medical bills of a man who retired from a government enterprise in 2002. Justice Kailash Gambhir asked the government to pay the medical expenses of Suraj Bhan and said: The […] Read more »
Top Law News Court stays transfer of official probing Koda scam March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jharkhand High Court Tuesday stayed the transfer of Income Tax (IT) official Ujjwal Chaudhary, the main investigator of the Madhu Koda scam, till the probe in the case is completely “A division bench of Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra and Justice R.R. Prasad stayed the transfer of IT director (Investigation) Ujjwal Chaudhary till investigation of […] Read more »
Top Law News Poor denied treatment at private hospital despite court order March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bhram Pal Singh, a horse-cart puller in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur town, was in for a shock when a private hospital here denied him treatment for lack of money, despite the Delhi High Court’s direction to give free treatment to the economically weaker sections of the society. ‘The doctors at Venu Eye Institute and Research Centre […] Read more »
Top Law News Death sentence to five in Haryana honour killing March 31, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a landmark judgement in a Haryana honour killing case, a court here on Tuesday awarded capital punishment to five persons and life sentence to one for murdering a couple on the diktats of a self-styled community panchayat for marrying against societal norms. Additional District and Sessions Judge Vani Gopal Sharma pronounced the sentence after […] Read more »
Top Law News Amitabh critics are Taliban: Modi March 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lashing out at those objecting to Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s presence at a government function in Mumbai, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has dubbed them as “Talibans of untouchability”. Writing on his blog, Modi described 67-year-old Bachchan as a great artist with legendary humility and even taller achievements who has chosen to celebrate the glorious […] Read more »
Top Law News Larsen & Toubro gets court backing in highway project March 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has restrained the road transport ministry from interfering in one of the first highway projects awarded on a build-operate-transfer basis to Larsen and Toubro (L&T) at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. “I am satisfied that in the absence of grant of interim relief, the prayer made by the petitioner would become infructuous,” […] Read more »
Top Law News 1984 riots case: Judge to decide jurisdiction March 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Saturday sent the plea of a co-accused of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case to the district and sessions judge to decide its jurisdiction. Challenging the jurisdiction of the Karkardooma court, Kushal Singh, through his counsel, pleaded that all the cases should be transferred […] Read more »
Top Law News Modi appears before SIT March 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is unlikely to appear on Sunday before the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a 2002 Gujarat riots case, official sources said. SIT had summoned Modi in connection with a complaint of Zakia Jaffery, widow of former MP Eshan Jaffery who was killed by a mob along […] Read more »
Top Law News Dial four wrong entries to talk to railway enquiry executive! March 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tired of trying to reach a call centre executive in Indian Railways’ passenger information system 139? Just dial the number and then make four wrong entries and your call will be directly transferred to an executive. It is weird but that’s how it works. The revelation was made by an official of the Indian Railway […] Read more »