Corporate Law News HC expounds: MD and CEO of Company is Competent Authority for initiation of Disciplinary Action against any officer for ‘minor penalties’ (Read Judgement) August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Section 178 of the Companies Act, 2013 has no role to play with respect to the initiation of the disciplinary proceedings.” The Delhi High Court was dealing with a Writ Petition filed by a Senior employee of Public limited company, claiming to be victimized by higher officials for raising voice against corrupt practices. The […] Read more » Disciplinary action High Court
Environment Law News Man Moves HC, Wants no Plastic Veil on Ganesh Idols August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Stating that plastic ban is a misnomer, a public interest litigation (PIL) plea was filed in the Telangana HC on Wednesday urging it to ensure its effective implementation during Ganesh Chathurthi where a large number of plastic covers are used to cover the idols. Petitioner’s counsel Kowturu Pavan Kumar made a mention before a bench […] Read more » ganesha idols plastics
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Media Reports suggests: Supreme Court Collegium set to recommend four new Judges for Supreme Court August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Names of Krishna Murari, Chief Justice Punjab & Haryana High Court, Hrishikesh Roy, Chief Justice, Kerala High Court, Ravindra Bhat, Chief Justice, Rajasthan High Court & V Ramasubramanian, Chief Justice Himachal Pradesh High Court, had been recommended by the SC Collegium for appointment as Apex Court Judges. People familiar with the appointments process confirmed that on Wednesday, […] Read more » judges of Supreme court Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Prosecutor held for Rs 5 lakh bribe in cheating case August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In the 2nd arrest of a govt lawyer in 3 months, the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught Mangesh Arote, a public prosecutor in the Himalaya bridge Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) collapse case, red-handed taking bribe from an accused in a cheating case. Arote (39) was trapped in the empty courtroom No. 16 of the sessions court building, near […] Read more » prosecutor bribe
Family Law News Husband Arrested by Police for Defaming Ex Wife on Social Media August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment City police’s cybercrimecell on Thursday arrested one Mohammed Arif Ghadiali of Danilimda for defaming & harassing his former wife & her kin. The complainant in the case had approached the cyber crime cell also on behalf of her niece, who is Ghadiali’s ex-wife. According to the complaint, Ghadiali had married the complainant’s niece in 2012 & then separated […] Read more » defaming ex wife social media
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Human Rights under POCSO Act Two gets 20 years jail August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Haryana Police have secured the conviction of two persons, who were accused of kidnapping & raping a minor girl in Charkhi Dadri. After holding them guilty, 20 years imprisonment had been awarded to them by the Court of Additional District & Session Judge, Charki Dadri with a fine of Rs 17,000 each. According to a spokesman […] Read more » Haryana court Haryana Police POSCO Act
Public Utilities High Court asks Uttarakhand govt to take policy decision on liquor ban August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Uttarakhand High Court has given the state government six months to formulate a policy to implement provisions of the Excise Act which provide for prohibition of alcohol in the state. A division bench of the high court comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Alok Kumar Verma directed the state government on Thursday to […] Read more » liquor ban Uttrakhand High Court
Tax Law News High Court Notice to Central Bureau of Investigation on Plea Seeking Probe into Pension Scam August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab & Haryana HC on Thursday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an ongoing petition seeking investigation into alleged pension scam in which various social security pensions in Haryana were disbursed to the ghost & ineligible beneficiaries. The matter is pending before the HC in the wake of a petition filed by Rakesh […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation pension scam Punjab and Haryana High Court
Criminal Law News War and Peace: High court didn’t refer to Tolstoy’s book but that of Biswajit Roy August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Thursday, the Bombay High Court said that during the trial of Bhima Koregaon violence case accused Vernon Gonsalves on Wednesday, it did not refer to the literary classic ‘War & Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy but a book called ‘War & Peace in Junglemahal’ by Biswajit Roy, a Kolkata-based journalist. The Court said that it was […] Read more » biswajit roy Bombay High Court war and peace
Banking & Finance Law News High Court to Govt: Why did you transfer Accounts of Police Officials from State Bank of India to Pvt. Bank August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment State Bank of India On Thursday, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court asked the State Govt. to study the case papers in a petition challenging the alleged transfer of Police staff & beneficiaries accounts from nationalised banks to Axis Bank. A Division bench of Justices PN Deshmukh & Pushpa Ganediwala gave two weeks time to […] Read more » Bombay High Court pvt.banks SBI
Top Law News Acting C.Justice of the Jharkhand HC Justice Prashant Kumar passes away August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Acting Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court, Justice Prashant Kumar has passed away today at 5:15 am. He was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Jharkhand on June 7, 2019. He enrolled as an Advocate on October 1, 1980 with Bihar State Bar Council and practiced in the […] Read more » Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court Jharkhand rest in peace
Criminal Law News Coal scam: Special Central Bureau Investigation Court acquits former Coal Secretary Gupta August 30, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Thursday, a special CBI Court acquitted Ex-Coal Secretary HC Gupta & a Delhi-based firm Pushp Steel & Mining Pvt Ltd (PSMPL) in an alleged coal scam case pertaining to the allocation of ‘Brahmapuri coal block’ situated in Madhya Pradesh. Special CBI judge Bharat Parashar while passing Judgement clearly mentioned that prosecution has been miserably failed […] Read more » CBI coal scam
