Top Law News NRI’s lawsuit seeks contempt action against Kolkata hospital March 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A US-based Indian origin medical practitioner has moved the Supreme Court seeking contempt of court proceedings against a Kolkata hospital for ignoring the court’s order to pay a penalty of Rs.500,000 for causing his wife’s death due to medical negligence. Kunal Saha of HIV/AIDS Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, has moved the court, pointing out that […] Read more »
Top Law News Two lawyers under bar council’s scanner in Madhu Koda scam March 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two lawyers are under scanner of the Jharkhand Bar Council for allegedly giving and accepting bribes to hush up the Madhu Koda scam case. A sting operation CD, released last week, purportedly showed advocate Reetu Kumar and former standing counsel Rajendra Krishnan doing a deal to hush up the case. Reetu Kumar is the lawyer […] Read more »
Top Law News Beggars off Delhi roads before Games, court assured March 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Roads in the national capital will be free of beggars before the Commonwealth Games in October, the city government told the Delhi High Court. It added that letters have gone to different states to rehabilitate the beggars. In an affidavit filed earlier this week, the government informed a division bench of Justice Vikramjit Sen and […] Read more »
Top Law News Terrorists planning attack held in Mumbai March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Terrorists planning attack held in Mumbai The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) claimed to have foiled a major terror plot to blow up state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) terminals in south Mumbai and a mall by arresting two people here Sunday. They were sent to police custody till March 18 by a city court. ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshi told reporters that […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Tamils have not given up demand for separate homeland’ March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “The TNA has been misquoted. They are in constant touch with us and what the media has put out is absolutely wrong. The TNA has not abandoned its four co-principles which include a separate homeland for Tamils,” Canadian Tamil Congress leader David Poopalapillai told IANS here. Outlining the TNA’s “four co-principles”, the Tamil diaspora […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi judges seek action against striking lawyers March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) Association Saturday asked the Delhi High Court intervene and take action against lawyers who went on strike earlier this week. Lawyers of all the district courts had abstained from work March 11 protesting against corruption in the judiciary. The DJS Association, in its letter to acting Chief Justice of Delhi […] Read more »
Top Law News Women judges should increase: Balakrishnan March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “Women’s representation in the courts is minimum and their representation needs to be enhanced. Steps are being taken to appoint more and more women judges,” he said, addressing the inaugural session of year-long 40th anniversary celebrations of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. Balakrishnan asked the jurists to take a lead in inculcating social values in […] Read more »
Top Law News Notices to colleges for not adhering to disability quota March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday issued notices to eight colleges run by the central government for not implementing the disability quota for teachers despite directions. A division bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Ajit Bharihoke asked the colleges to file their reply by April 16 and state why their orders were not complied with. […] Read more »
Top Law News Need to improve infrastructure of courts: Balakrishnan March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday emphasised the need to improve the infrastructure of courts and welcomed the 13th Finance Commission’s recommendations to invest Rs.5,000 crore to upgrade the country’s justice delivery system. “One good thing is that the commission, in a recent proposal, earmarked a planning outlay of Rs.5,000 crore to improve the […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat legal eagles protest apex court decision on assets March 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of Gujarat legal luminaries has criticised the Supreme Court’s decision to appeal the Delhi High Court judgement on the disclosure of assets of judges and formed a panel to decide the future course of action and mobilise public opinion. At a meeting of former judges, lawyers and social activists in Ahmedabad late Friday, […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat gets two new RTI commissioners March 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Gujarat gets two new RTI commissioners The Gujarat State Information Commission (GSIC), which was functioning only with a chief information commissioner so far, has got two new information commissioners following the high court’s intervention. The new information commissioners are Netra Shenoy and Arvind Shukla. They have been appointed to help out Chief Information Commissioner R.N. Das. Shukla is an Indian Administrative […] Read more »
Top Law News Woman gets lifer for killing newborn daughter March 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Terming female infanticide as “a sin against god”, the Delhi High Court Friday upheld the life sentence handed down to a woman for killing her newborn daughter. “No reasonable and rational person would countenance female infanticide. It is not only a penal offence but is a sin against god. The greatest gift of god to […] Read more »