Top Law News Three granted bail in ashram stampede March 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An Uttar Pradesh court Thursday granted bail to the secretary of spiritual guru Kripaluji Maharaj, the manager of his ashram in Pratapgarh and a food contractor in connection with last week’s stampede in which 63 people were killed. Hiranyamay Chatterji, manager of the Bhakti Dham Ashram, Amit Kumar, secretary of the guru, and Shiv Kumar, […] Read more »
Top Law News Adani bail: Petition seeks action against judge March 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A public suit filed in the Gujarat High Court has sought action against a judge and enquiry against the registrar for giving interim bail to businessman Rajesh Adani, charged with customs duty evasion, on the ground they had exceeded their brief. Arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Feb 27 in Goa, Rajesh Adani, […] Read more »
Top Law News Six special courts to try corruption cases in Bihar March 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six special courts will be constituted in Bihar to try corruption cases against public servants, an official said Thursday. “The state government has decided to constitute six special courts for hearing corruption cases against public servants,” official sources said. “Two courts will come up each in Patna, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur districts,” the source said. The […] Read more »
Top Law News Iron Lady of Manipur re-arrested for refusing to eat March 11, 2010 / March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Iron Lady of Manipur re-arrested for refusing to eat Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the security forces in Manipur, was once again arrested by police on charges of attempted suicide. The activist continued her refusal to eat a single morsel of food. Sharmila, who earned the sobriquet Iron Lady of […] Read more »
Top Law News Apology for women raped by father for over 25 years March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apology came on Wednesday after the publication of an executive summary of a serious case review, which acknowledged that the women were repeatedly raped, physically and sexually abused by their 57-year-old father in their home in Sheffield. The review said that the father moved his family 67 times to keep his crime secret. The […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi lawyers to strike work Thursday March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers of Delhi’s four district courts struck work Friday, protesting the Delhi High Court’s decision to debar top advocates R.K. Anand and I.U. Khan for four months after they were found guilty of attempting to bribe a key witness in the high-profile BMW hit-and-run case. “The strike was successful in all the four courts. The […] Read more »
Top Law News Court seeks response on three-year medical course (Lead) March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The health ministry’s plan to start a Rural MBBS course of three-and-a-half years to provide treatment in far-flung areas will create half baked professionals and will be discriminatory in nature, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Friday. “This step would be discriminatory to both the people who get treatment from such half baked professionals […] Read more »
Top Law News Lawsuit seeks derecognition of political parties March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to accord urgent hearing to a plea to derecognize major political parties for launching welfare schemes in the name of their leaders and issuing advertisements enhancing their poll prospects at the cost of the public exchequer. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice B.S. Chauhan […] Read more »
Top Law News Why no control over IOA, court asks government March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government how it was funding the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and why it had no control over it and other sports federations that had neither accountability nor transparency. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta questioned the government on a public […] Read more »
Top Law News Protests against proposed Green Hunt operation March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of people protested here Wednesday against the proposed Green Hunt anti-Maoist operation, alleging it would lead to human rights violations. The group, called the ‘Anti Operation Green Hunt Citizens Forum’, protested at the gate of the assembly here, raising slogans like ‘Stop Green Hunt. Stop using army against citizens of the country’. ‘The […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Women village heads still struggle for acceptance’ March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Even as all eyes are riveted on parliament over the Women’s Reservation Bill, female panchayat (village council) members gathered in the capital Wednesday said they still have to struggle for acceptance among their peers. Roshani Devi, who is a sarpanch (village head) in Haryana, said: ‘When I decided to take regular rounds of my village […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court reserves ruling on Lalu’s graft case March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on appeals filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and the CBI, challenging a Patna High Court order that permitted the Bihar government to prefer an appeal against a trial court’s verdict acquitting them in the disproportionate assets case, fallout of the […] Read more »