Criminal Law News Nupur Talwar moves Supreme Court against warrant April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Nupur Talwar moves Supreme Court against warrant A day after she was reported missing, dentist Nupur Talwar, an accused in the 2008 murder of her teenaged daughter Aarushi, Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay of the non-bailable warrant issued against her by a special CBI court. The apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik said since the matter was […] Read more » Aarushi murder Justice A.K. Patnaik Nupur Talwar Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court upholds seats for poor under Right to Education April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the constitutional validity of the right to education (RTE) act that mandates unaided private schools to keep 25 percent seats for students from economically and socially weaker sections of society. However, the court made it clear that this quota would not be applicable to unaided minority institutions. The apex court […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Right to Education Supreme Court
High Profile Cases No relief for ex-railway minister in graft case April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No relief for ex-railway minister in graft case The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to grant a breather to former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief in a corruption case and allowed the prosecution against him in a trial court. Sharief, facing a case for misusing his office when he was railways minister, moved the high court after special judge took cognizance of the […] Read more » Delhi High Court former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief graft case Justice M.L. Mehta
High Profile Cases Court clears way for athletics body elections April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to go ahead with electing its office bearers for the 2012-16 term. Refusing to stay the election process, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw gave a green signal to the AFI to conduct the elections […] Read more » Athletics Federation of India Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Poor school students’ quota: Supreme Court to deliver verdict on Thursday April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Thursday pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the right to education law that requires private schools to earmark 25 percent seats for poor students. The judgment, reserved Aug 3, 2011 after a prolonged hearing, would be pronounced by a bench of Chief Justice S.H. […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Right to Education law Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Shehla murder: Accused says BJP legislator guilty April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Zahida Parvez, prime accused in activist Shehla Masood’s murder, Wednesday alleged outside a CBI court in Indore that BJP legislator Dhruv Narayan Singh had “a major role” in the crime. The legislator has been questioned by CBI officials about his relations with Masood and Parvez. He refused to comment on Parvez’s charge. Parvez, an interior […] Read more » BJP legislator Dhruv Narayan Singh CBI Shehla Masood's murder Special Judge Shubra Singh
Top Law News Don’t cross ‘Lakshman Rekha’ on media curbs, Supreme Court urged April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment While protecting the rights of an accused to a free and fair trial not prejudiced by media reporting, the Supreme Court should not cross the ‘Lakshman Rekha’ of reasonable restrictions provided in the constitution, a senior counsel contended Wednesday. An apex court constitution bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice D.K. Jain, Justice S.S. Nijjar, […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice D.K. Jain Justice J.S. Khehar Justice R.P. Desai Justice S.S.Nijjar Lakshman Rekha' on media curbs Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Maid torture: Doctor’s wife gets bail April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to a woman, arrested along with her doctor husband April 4 for allegedly locking up their 13-year-old maid in their house with very little food before leaving for a vacation in Thailand last month. The couple had locked up the 13-year-old girl in their flat at Dwarka in […] Read more » Delhi court Maid torture
Criminal Law News Pakistani prisoner Khalil Chisti steps out of jail April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khalil Chisti, serving a life sentence for murder, stepped out of the Ajmer Central Jail in Rajasthan Wednesday on conditional bail, his family members said. “I am very happy and grateful to those who made efforts for my release. I would like to go to my home in Pakistan as soon […] Read more » Judge Kamal Prakash Saxena Octogenarian Pakistani prisoner Mohammad Khalil Chisti Rajasthan High Court Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Explain turnaround on Dayanidhi Maran’ April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday directed NGO Telecom Watchdog to explain its turnaround in stating that Dayanidhi Maran, when he was the communications minister, had not compelled Chennai-based businessman C. Sivasankaran to sell his stake in mobile telephony provider Aircel to Singapore-based Maxis. An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan passed […] Read more » Dayanidhi Maran Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S.P. Radhakrishnan Supreme Court
Top Law News High Court orders CBI probe in PF scam in Ramabail Nagar district April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Allahabad High Court today ordered a CBI probe into the Provident Fund (PF) scam in the funds of group-3 employees of state education department in Ramabai Nagar district today. The court ordered that the CBI should also probe into the involvement of policemen involved in the scam and submit its probe report by May 22 […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice Sudhir Agarwal provident fund (PF) scam Ramabail Nagar district
High Profile Cases Court orders provisional use of Kotla for IPL matches April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to issue a provisional occupancy certificate to enable the staging of Indian Premier League-5 matches at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Veena Birbal’s gave the direction on the plea of the Delhi and District […] Read more » Delhi High Court IPL matches Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Veena Birbal