Top Law News CIC order for disclosing Sharm-e-Sheikh files stayed March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday stayed the order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) to disclose the file notings related to the India-Pakistan joint statement at Sharm-el-Sheikh. Following two Right to Information (RTI) petitions, Information Commissioner Annapurna Dixit, in a Jan 4 order, had asked the external affairs ministry to disclose the files related to […] Read more »
Top Law News Court orders CRPF to reinstate sacked trooper March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday told the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to reinstate a trooper, sacked for not revealing his involvement in a case when he was eight years old. “The action of the CRPF for terminating the services of the petitioner without assigning any reason but apparently on the ground that he was […] Read more »
Top Law News Babbar Khalsa terrorist gets 10 years’ jail March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court Tuesday sentenced Babbar Khalsa terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a nearly 15 years old case. Additional district and sessions judge Ravi Kumar Sondhi also slapped a fine of Rs.4,000 on Hawara in the trial held in the model jail here. According to the police, Hawara was booked […] Read more »
Top Law News Court issues warrants against Delhi cops in gang rape March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Court issues warrants against Delhi cops in gang rape Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Kumar Pandey issued the warrant of Rs.5,000 for April 14. The court expressed unhappiness over the fact that Delhi Police had not filed the charge sheet in the case. “The IO as well as the supervising officer always appear late in the case, on many occasions they have not even […] Read more »
Top Law News Domestic violence case can be filed any time, rules court March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Domestic violence case can be filed any time, rules court In a significant ruling that will help many women who are victims of domestic violence, the Delhi High Court Monday said the case can be filed any time if the action has happened. Justice V.K. Jain, setting aside the order of the trial court on the basis that the legislation came in 2006 and the […] Read more »
Top Law News Only banks should finance autorickshaws, suggests government March 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Court that checks on illegal permits can be done when only banks are allowed to finance the three-wheelers operating in the capital Appearing before the division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta, Transport Commissioner R.K. Verma said that because a number of private financers were operating in the city, […] Read more »
Top Law News Jail inmates to be brought before courts – virtually March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Jail inmates to be brought before courts – virtually Now jail inmates in Uttar Pradesh need not be taken physically to the courts, they will be presented virtually – through video conferencing. The state government has planned to introduce video conferencing system in seven prisons in June. “The new technology is being introduced in jails taking into account the heavy rush of inmates, especially […] Read more »
Top Law News Court sends Kobad Ghandy aide to police custody March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy’s suspected associate Arvind Joshi, arrested from Kanpur by the Uttar Pradesh Police, was sent to police custody for 10 days by a city court Friday. The court also extended the judicial custody of Ghandy till April 3. Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg sent Joshi to police custody after a production warrant was […] Read more »
Top Law News High court pulls up judge for repeating mistake March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up a trial court judge, the Delhi High Court Friday said he had not followed the due process of law before awarding life imprisonment to a convict and that he had repeated the mistake for the 11th time. A division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait, while setting aside the life imprisonment […] Read more »
Top Law News Honour killing: Court pulls up Sahibabad police March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for not submitting the report of a lie-detector test conducted on family members of Sahibabad girl Monika Dagar, who was allegedly killed for marrying against the wishes of her family. A bench headed by Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ajit Bharihoke asked police to […] Read more »
Top Law News Court summons Delhi’s transport commissioner March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday summoned the city’s transport commissioner for failing to check illegal permits of autorickshaws. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B.Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta directed the commissioner to appear personally on Monday. The court’s direction came in connection with a petition filed by NGO Nyaya Bhoomi alleging that […] Read more »
Top Law News Women village leaders want quota within quota March 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 60 women village leaders Friday hailed the passing of the women’s reservation bill in the Rajya Sabha but demanded a quota for Dalits and other backward classes (OBCs) for their proper representation. At a conclave organised here by international NGO ActionAid, the women, representing village councils in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Andhra […] Read more »