Corporate Law News Metro project: Calcutta High Court gives permission to move tunnel-boring machine up to 5 metres November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court allowed the Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation (KMRC) on Monday to move a tunnel-boring machine up to five metres in the city’s Bowbazar area, where an aquifer burst in August during drilling operations, leading to several houses collapsing. The KMRC had moved the high court seeking its permission to move the machine […] Read more » Calcutta High Court KMRC Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation tunnel-boring machine
High Profile Cases Woman moves Bombay High Court for ban on TikTok. November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking a ban on video app TikTok for being a medium of “unfiltered sexual content, and harming youths of the country”. The petition was filed on November 11 by Mumbai-resident Heena Darvesh, a mother of three children. Copies of the PIL were […] Read more » ban on TikTok
High Profile Cases Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala opens for 2-month long pilgrimage season. November 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid tight security, the gates of the Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala were thrown open for the two-month long Mandala-Makaravilakku pilgrimage season Kandararu Mahesh Mohanararu opened the sanctum sanctorum of the temple at 5 pm, and performed the poojas, as hundreds of devotees from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and other neighbouring states thronged the shrine located […] Read more » Lord Ayyappa temple Lord Ayyappa temple at Sabarimala Sabarimala temple
High Profile Cases Next CJI Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde part of historic verdicts like Ayodhya and Right to Privacy. November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde, who would take oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India on Monday, has decided several key cases and was part of the recent historic verdict that cleared the way for the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. Justice Bobde, 63, who would succeed CJI Ranjan […] Read more » CJI Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde
High Profile Cases Justice Ranjan Gogoi retires as CJI November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the first person from northeast to reach the top of judiciary and credited for bringing the curtains down on the decades old politically and religiously sensitive Ayodhya land dispute, retired as the chief justice of India on Sunday. Justice Gogoi’s tenure as judge and as CJI was marked by some controversies and […] Read more » Justice Ranjan Gogoi
High Profile Cases Nirbhaya gangrape: Delhi court admits parents’ plea seeking transfer of case to another judge November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi Court has admitted a plea filed by the parents of 2012-gangrape victim, seeking transfer of the case to another judge. The victim’s parents have sought court’s direction to Tihar Jail authorities to expedite the execution of the rape convicts. The court will hear the matter on November 25. They moved the application since […] Read more » 2012-gangrape victim Nirbhaya gangrape Nirbhaya gangrape and murder case sexual harassment case
Corporate Law News Court issues notice to ED on Ratul Puri’s bail plea. November 18, 2019 / November 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has sought response from the Enforcement Directorate on the bail plea of Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in a money laundering case related to the VVIP chopper scam. Special Judge Arvind Kumar issued notice to the ED and directed it to file a reply by November 22, […] Read more » advocate Vijay Agarwal AgustaWestland Enforcement Directorate Enforcement Directorate on the bail plea of Ratul Puri Finmeccanica's British subsidiary Jaspreet Ahuja] notice to ED on Ratul Puri's bail plea Prosecution Complaint against Ratul Puri ratul puri Special Judge Arvind Kumar
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
