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India to take up students’ fee refund with Britain

March 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on India to take up students’ fee refund with Britain

External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna on Thursday said India will take up with Britain cases of students not getting their fees refunded on courses they could not pursue due to Britain‘s decision to temporarily suspend student visas from three Indian cities. This was conveyed by Krishna during a reply to supplementaries during question hour in […]

Gujarat asked to compensate man disabled in police firing

March 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

An Ahmedabad court has ordered the Gujarat government to pay a compensation of Rs.625,000 to a man who lost both his legs after being fired upon by police in 1990 when he was 13 years old. Ahmedabad sessions judge D.T. Soni’s order came Wednesday on a civil suit filed by Mohammed Yusuf Mohammed Anwar against […]

Woman officer jailed for a year after court martial

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A woman military officer has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for one year after an army court held her guilty of corruption, indiscipline and professional impropriety. Major Dimple Singla, who faced General Court Martial (GCM) proceedings at K area, an army cantonment, in Zirakpur town of Punjab, was also ordered to be cashiered (degradation of […]

Gulbarg Society killings: High court urged to transfer case

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The Gujarat High Court here was petitioned Wednesday to transfer the 2002 Gulbarg Society massacre case, which left 69 people dead during the Gujarat riots, the affected families alleging a bias on the part of the special judge. The petition by witnesses and riot victims comes after their plea filed before the principal sessions judge […]

Police frame new guidelines to catch absconders

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Special teams have been constituted in each district of the capital to nab those on the run while on bail and a reward will be given to the police personnel who apprehend such absconders, Delhi Police told the Delhi High Court Wednesday. Submitting to the division bench of Justices A.K. Sikri and Ajit Bharihoke the […]

Man to die for minor’s rape, murder

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A Tamil Nadu resident, sentenced to life in jail for raping his brother’s wife and then burning her alive along with her 13-month-old child to screen his horrendous crime, Friday ended up inviting the Supreme Court’s wrath for challenging his conviction. Appalled by the barbarity of Salem resident Kumar’s crime, a bench of Justice Markandey […]

Lifer to five Kolkata cops upheld for murder

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The Calcutta High Court Wednesday upheld the life sentence to five police personnel convicted of killing a city police sergeant in 2003. A division bench of Justice Amit Talukdar and Justice Raghunath Ray upheld the sentence of five Kolkata Police Reserve Force constables for killing Bapi Sen, a traffic sergeant with Kolkata Police. Sen was […]

Court asks why phones not given to Tihar prisoners

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Tihar jail authorities Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that they plan to give inmates telephone facility. The proposal, which is pending with the Delhi home secretary, states: “First time offenders will be allowed telephone facilities in their ward itself where they can make one call in a week. Other prisoners can be allowed this […]

Court asks Delhi to shut polluting industries in villages

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the state government to shut polluting industries that are operating in some villages on the Delhi-Haryana border within four weeks. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta asked the ministry of industries of the Delhi government, the Delhi Jal Board, BSES (electricity […]

Reduce noise near Delhi airport, orders court

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to take steps to check noise pollution near the airport that is affecting people at a hospital and a residential area nearby. A division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: “Some immediate measures should be […]

Court asks civic agencies to free trees of concrete

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The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed civic agencies to speed up the process of removing concrete from around trees in the national capital to enable their better growth and granted them three months to complete the work. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta asked the Municipal Corporation […]

Adani case: Gujarat High Court judge pulls up registrar

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A Gujarat High Court judge has pulled up the court registrar for placing before him a petition by ‘rich and powerful’ businessman Rajesh Adani without completing the official procedure. Justice A.S. Dave in an order reprimanded Registrar (judicial) G.K. Upadhyay Tuesday for ‘unnecessary haste’ in moving the case before him. ‘The rich and the powerful […]