Top Law News Apex court bans unauthorised religious places on public land September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Mukundkam Sharma also asked various governments to decide the fate of millions of existing unauthorised places of worship on public land “on case to case basis”. The Supreme Court banned all unauthorised new and future construction of places of worship on public land and sought strict compliance of […] Read more »
Top Law News Right to Information in problems in Jammu & Kashmir September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Right to Information in problems in Jammu & Kashmir Some activists claims that after six months of the Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir brought out the J&K Right to Information (JKRTI) Act 2009, but till now it remains a non-starter. The state government has not set up an information commission as yet and several government departments have not appointed Public Information Officers. […] Read more »
Top Law News India, Holland to sign social security pact in October September 28, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Dutch Minister of Social Welfare and Employment Jan Piet Hein Donner had announced the pact during the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Europe (Indian Diaspora meeting) Sep 19 at The Hague, EuAsiaNews reported, citing Dutch website www.Indiawijzer.nl. Wahid Saleh, a prominent Indian social worker in the Netherlands who runs the […] Read more »
Top Law News No outstation cheque bounce cases to be heard in Delhi: High Court September 28, 2009 / September 28, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on No outstation cheque bounce cases to be heard in Delhi: High Court A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan, while hearing a public interest petition earlier this week, said: “We direct return of complaints of cheque bounce cases without jurisdiction.” “Courts are flooded with complaints that cannot be entertained and thus unnecessarily clogging the dockets of the subordinate courts. In fact, judges […] Read more »
Top Law News Sikh Students can carry Kirpan in US schools September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Now Sikh students studing in the schools run by the National Heritage Academies in US can carry a ‘Kirpan’, on school time. United Sikhs, a Sikh Organisation Group has advocated to NHA, the National Heritage Academies (NHA), which runs nearly 61 schools in the states of Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Ohio, […] Read more »
Top Law News Sukhram’s Telecom Scam Case referred to a larger high court bench September 25, 2009 / September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court a single-judge bench referred a corruption case against former telecom minister Sukhram to a larger bench, citing several legal issues. Justice S. Murlidhar remarked. “There are certain legal issues which I have framed in this case and it should be decided by a division bench,” “When can a decision be taken whether […] Read more »
Top Law News LAW-KERALA-LAVALIN CASE TWO LAST KOCHI September 24, 2009 / September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vijayan’s counsel Mr Damodaran filed a criminal miscellaneous petition for a direction to the central investigating agency. When the court asked for four months time to complete the investigation in the case, the court rejected the request and posted the case for further hearing on December 30. The case relates to the alleged irregularities involving […] Read more »
Top Law News Advocates started signature compaign for allow Hindi in courts September 7, 2009 / September 7, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of lawyers have started a signature campaign in the Delhi High Court of Delhi and the five district courts of the Capital, requesting that they be allowed to argue their cases in Hindi also apart from the English. “We have received a huge response from the lawyers and collected over 3,000 signatures so […] Read more » Hindi in Courts
Top Law News NSUI’s Petition against DUSU Election Nomination rejection was dismissed September 5, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court a bench of comprising Justices B N Aggarwal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, upheld the Delhi High Court order dismissing the petition filed by two NSUI candidates for the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections against cancellation of their nominations. The Returning Officer had cancelled the nomination papers of the two petitioners, […] Read more » DUSU Election
Top Law News Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage, only SC can grant divorce September 3, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage, only SC can grant divorce No courts in the country except the Supreme Court can grant divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of matrimonial relationship. ‘This doctrine of irretrievable breakdown of marriage is not available even to the High Courts which do not have powers similar to those exercised by the Supreme Court under Art 142 of the Constitution’ […] Read more »
Top Law News Madras HC Judges also going to declare assets September 3, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today in the evening in a full court meeting Chaired by Chief Justice H. L. Gokhale announced that its judges would declare their assets before 31 October 2009. The meeting decided that the details of the assets would be soon submitted to the Chief Justice. The details would be also avilable on the official website of […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi HC dismisses petition for disqualification of Nomination for DUSU elections September 1, 2009 / September 5, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today dismissed the petition filed by three ABVP students of Delhi University who challenged the University’s decision to disqualify them from the students election scheduled for September 4. The petition of three ABVP and two NSUI candidates was dismissed earlier on Tuesday but the ABVP candidates choose to appeal the HC again. Refusing to […] Read more »