Corporate Law News Delhi HC mentions another case facts in Chidambaram bail order November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The facts of another case have found mention in the Delhi High Court order denying bail to former union finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media money-laundering case. In his 41-page verdict on November 15, Justice Suresh Kumar Kait of the high court reproduced some paragraphs from a 2017 Supreme Court order rejecting bail […] Read more » Chidambaram bail order Delhi High Court former union finance minister former union finance minister P Chidambaram INX Media corruption case INX Media money laundering case Justice Suresh Kumar Kait P Chidambaram
Corporate Law News Chronology of events in Rafale fighter jets deal case. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Following is the chronology of events in the Rafale fighter jets deal in which the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected review petitions against its verdict giving clean chit to the Narendra Modi government. -Dec 30, 2002: Defence Procurement Procedures (DPP) adopted to streamline process -Aug 28, 2007: Ministry of Defence issues Request for Proposal for […] Read more » Chronology of events in Rafale fighter Chronology of events in Rafale fighter jets deal case French firm Dassault Aviation
Corporate Law News Won’t issue direction to Parliament for drafting uniform civil code: Delhi High Court. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said it will not issue any direction to Parliament for drafting a uniform civil code as the matter falls under the domain of the legislature and it was not going to interfere into it. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar declined to […] Read more » AIMPLB All India Muslim Personal Law Board Chief Justice of India TS Thakur lawyer Abhinav Beri Lawyer Nighat Abbass Uniform civil code
Corporate Law News Lawyers in all the six district courts in Delhi called off their strike on Friday. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers in all the six district courts in Delhi called off their strike on Friday, which was underway since November 4 after a clash between advocates and police at the Tis Hazari court. The Coordination Committee of All District Courts Bar Associations took the decision in a meeting of the office bearers after the Delhi […] Read more » Lawyers in all the six district courts in Delhi called off their strike on Friday parking dispute at the Tis Hazari court Tis Hazari court
Corporate Law News Rafale deal: Supreme Court clean chit to Modi govt for second time November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday gave clean chit to the Modi government on the purchase of 36 fully loaded Rafale fighter jets from French company Dassault Aviation, rejecting the plea for registration of an FIR by the CBI for alleged commission of cognisable offence in the deal. The apex court in two separate but concurring verdicts […] Read more » Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Dassault Aviation Justice S K Kaul Rafale deal
High Profile Cases Outgoing CJI Gogoi declines requests for interviews and lauds media for maturity in trying times of Supreme Court. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Friday expressed his inability to have one-to-one interview with scribes and lauded the press for its “maturity” and “character” in preventing “canards and falsehood” in “trying times” of the judiciary. Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the […] Read more » CJI Dipak Misra Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph Madan B Lokur Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi Ranjan Gogoi
High Profile Cases Lawyer-police clash: HC grants interim protection from arrest to two cops November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court granted interim protection from arrest on Friday to two police officials who were booked in connection with the clash between lawyers and the police in Tis Hazari court earlier this month. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar sought responses of the Centre, the Delhi […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel clash between lawyers and the police in Tis Hazari court Delhi High Court Justice C Hari Shankar Lawyer-police clash
High Profile Cases Supreme Court on Ayodhya case: Temple at disputed site and to allot alternative land for mosque. November 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict on Saturday cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya, and directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque. In one of the most important and most anticipated judgements in India’s […] Read more » allot alternative land for mosque Justice Ashok Bhushan Justice D Y Chandrachud Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice S Abdul Nazeer Justice S.A. Bobde Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya Supreme Court on Ayodhya case Temple at disputed site
High Profile Cases Disqualified Karnataka MLAs move Supreme Court for postponement of Dec 5 bypolls November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The disqualified Karnataka MLAs moved the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking further postponement of the Assembly bypolls which are scheduled to take place on December 5. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana on October 25 had reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions filed by the 17 MLAs, challenging their disqualification as […] Read more » disqualified Karnataka MLA
High Profile Cases CJI Gogoi to meet UP chief secretary and DGP to review law and order situation in UP. November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is likely to have a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police on Friday to assess the law and order arrangement in the state ahead of the verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case to be pronounced next week, sources said. The CJI has called […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi DGP Om Prakash Singh Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute Ranjan Gogoi UP Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court to hear in Feb plea for action against police officials for protesting against clash with lawyers November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said it will hear in February a plea seeking action against police officials who were agitating in public and sitting on ‘dharna’ after their November 2 clash with lawyers at the Tis Hazari Courts Complex. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar refused […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel clash with lawyers Commissioner Amulya Patnaik Delhi High Court Deputy Inspector General of police of Arunachal Pradesh Madhur Verma former Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police Aslam Khan Justice C Hari Shankar Superintendent of Police of NIA Sanjukta Prashar and IPS officer Meghna Yadav Tis Hazari Courts Complex.
High Profile Cases Man gets life imprisonment for raping and killing teenaged girl November 7, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A farmer has been sentenced for life by a court in Maharashtra for raping and killing a 17-year-old girl in 2014. District Judge H M Patwardhan on Monday pronounced Shankar Bhogade guilty under Indian Penal Code Sections 376 (rape), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) and provisions of the Protection of Children […] Read more » District Judge H M Patwardhan life imprisonment life imprisonment for raping and killing teenaged girl Penal Code Sections 376 Shankar Bhogade Shankar Bhogade guilty under Indian Penal Code Sections 376
