Top Law News 11 New CBI Courts will be set up October 11, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CBI Director Ashwani Kumar told that Eleven new Central Bureau of Investigation courts will come up across the country and the 60 existing ones will be upgraded soon. There are 9,345 cases pending in various CBI courts across India and the 60 existing CBI courts have poor infrastructure and hence there has been a delay […] Read more »
Top Law News Allahabad High Court gives go-ahead to Yamuna Expressway October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court Friday upheld the validity of land acquisition notification for setting up the Yamuna Expressway, allowing the state government to go ahead with the ambitious project. The court observed that the land acquisition proceedings adopted for the project cannot be termed as illegal or unlawful, officials said. A division bench comprising Justices […] Read more »
Top Law News Brazilian Court orders Google to pay woman over comments on Orkut October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Brazilian judge has ordered Google to pay 5,000 reais ($2,847) to a woman for not removing offensive comments about her posted on the Orkut website. Judge Marco Aurelio Froes ruled in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday that the US-based company was liable because it did not remove the postings on the social networking site. Froes […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court stops high court from interfering in Maharashtra polls October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has junked a Bombay High Court ruling related to the Maharashtra assembly polls, saying the constitutional bar on ‘interfering’ in the election process was like the Great Wall of China. Justice B.N. Agrawal and Justice Aftab Alam, constituting a bench, Tuesday scrapped the high court order that had asked the Election Commission […] Read more »
Top Law News High court takes up Sukhram appeal, asks registry for evidence October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the registry to file all records and evidences against former telecom minister Sukhram, who was convicted by a lower court and sentenced to three years in jail in a corruption case. A division bench comprising Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Suresh Kait asked the registry to furnish all […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex Court orders to Stop construction work at Noida park October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex Court orders to Stop construction work at Noida park In yet another setback to the Mayawati government, the Supreme Court Friday stopped all building and construction activities in the upcoming Noida park, which is also being developed as a memorial for Dalit leader Kanshi Ram and the present Uttar Pradesh chief minister. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court moved to stop idol immersion in rivers October 9, 2009 / October 10, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court moved to stop idol immersion in rivers The Supreme Court Friday refused to accord an urgent hearing to a plea for stopping the environment-harming immersion of idols of various deities in rivers and water bodies across India after Hindu festivals. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.N. Agrawal said it would hear the plea in due course. The lawsuit […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court contends with lawsuit on Tirupati laddoo October 9, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Kerala scientist has moved the Supreme Court challenging the grant of ‘geographical indication (GI) status’ under the Intellectual Property Rights laws to Tirupati Laddoo – the famous offering devotees get as ‘prasadam’ at the Lord Venkateswara temple in Andhra Pradesh. In his public interest lawsuit, scientist R.S. Praveen of the National Institute for Interdisciplinary […] Read more »
Top Law News Four law schools of excellence to be Openned : Moily October 8, 2009 / October 9, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Thursday said that government will open four new schools for law which will be centres of excellence with all international standards. Mr Moily said that the project is in its planning stage. The government would also introduce the Judges (Inquiry) Bill, 2009, in the winter session of parliament. Moily […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear plea seeking CBI inquiry in Mayawati statue case October 4, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a petition seeking CBI inquiry into the alleged misuse of Youth Public Fund by the Mayawati government in the construction of memorials and statues of Dalit leaders across the state. A bench, comprising Justices B N Agrawal and Aftab Alam, would also hear the contempt of court […] Read more »
Top Law News Judges Assets: Apex court to move Delhi High Court again October 4, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has finally decided to move the Delhi High court yet again to challenge its single-judge ruling declaring the office of the chief justice of India within the ambit of the transparency law and making it mandatory for apex court judges to disclose their assets. Wary of being seen as sitting in judgment […] Read more »
Top Law News Court asks Government on status of People awaiting Deportation October 4, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court, Expressing concern over the status and living conditions of foreigners, many of them are Bangla Desi, Pakistanis, detained in Govt. Camps for years, asked the Central Government to explain why these people have not been sent to their own countries. This Expression was given in a PIL. This PIL was started after […] Read more » Court Court asks Deportation Government People awaiting Deportation