High Profile Cases Pakistanis urge India to free aged prisoner Chishti April 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistani officials Sunday urged India to set free an 80-year-old virologist, Khalil Chishty, who is serving life imprisonment in an Ajmer jail with his appeal pending in the Supreme Court. Sources said the issue of the ailing Pakistani prisoner figured at the luncheon meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Asif Ali Zardari. The […] Read more » Ajmer jail Indian counterpart P. Chidambaram Supreme Court virologist Khalil Chishty
Top Law News Be sensitive to women’s requirements: Jairam Ramesh April 9, 2012 / April 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh Sunday called upon the bureaucracy to be more gender sensitive while constructing low cost toilet blocks in villages as it is linked to the empowerment of women. The minister pulled up the administrative machinery across the country for half-heartedly implementing the scheme. He said that as per Census 2011, 60 […] Read more » empowerment of women Kalina Campus Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh
Top Law News Only parliament can modify reserved communities list: Court April 8, 2012 / April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has ruled that only parliament can modify the list of reserved communities, while upholding a magisterial court’s order that awarded punishment to a man who misrepresented himself as a Scheduled Caste for getting a government job. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge P.S. Teji, while setting aside a revision petition filed […] Read more » Delhi court reserved communities Scheduled Caste Special Judge P.S. Teji
Top Law News BBMP Asst EE house raided, Rs 2.35 cr property seized April 8, 2012 / April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Karnataka Lokayukta in a raid seized property worth about Rs 2,35,72,307 disproportionate to known source of income from BBMP, Bangalore Uttarahalli Sub-Division Assistant Executive Engineer S Venkatesh. The raids were conducted on the premises belonging to Venkatesh at Koramangala and the residence of Ms Jayamma, his mother-in-law at yanagunte village in Hoskote Taluk and at […] Read more » Bangalore Uttarahalli Sub-Division Assistant Executive Engineer S Venkatesh BBMP Lokayukta ADGP H N Satyanaraya Rao
High Profile Cases Judicial custody of Janardhana Reddy extended April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judicial custody of Mining baron G Janardhana Reddy and his personal assistant Mehfuz Ali Khan, arrested on charges of indulging in illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, has been extended till April 17 by the CBI Special Court here today. Additional Civil and Sessions Court and CBI Special Court Judge B M Angadi passed […] Read more » CBI Special court CBI Special Court Judge B M Angadi illegal mining in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Judicial custody of Mining baron G Janardhana Reddy
Top Law News Sheila Dikshit worried for women’s safety in Delhi April 8, 2012 / April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Saturday expressed concern about the safety of women in the national capital after being told about tapes made by a news channel containing remarks by Delhi police officials blaming women for provoking rape. “I have not seen those tapes myself, but I will watch them and talk to the […] Read more » Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit safety of women women's safety in Delhi
Top Law News Use land reforms not gun to check Maoism: Experts April 8, 2012 / April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Distribution of surplus land to landless tribals would be more effective than using the paramilitary forces to check Maoism, experts suggested to Saturday. Speaking here at a round table discussion on ‘Naxalite Maoist Insurgency: A Solution’, former bureaucrats and security experts said the Maoists had come to occupy the vacant space that the government had […] Read more » Central Reserve Police Force Former additional chief Secretary of West Bengal S.C. Agarwal Maoism National Security Council member E.N. Rammohan Naxalite Maoist Insurgency paramilitary forces
Criminal Law News Paralysed man seeks Rs.20 lakh for police lapse April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A paralysed man facing domestic violence charges has moved the Delhi High Court for a compensation of Rs.20 lakh and sought action against two police investigators who allegedly arrested him without giving any notice despite a lower court direction. Amit Bhandari, who came to court in a wheelchair, was arrested June 4, 2011 by two […] Read more » Delhi High Court domestic violence case domestic violence case Justice Mukta Gupta
Criminal Law News Israeli embassy car blast: Kazmi’s custody extended April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Saturday extended till April 21 the judicial custody of journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi, arrested for his alleged involvement in the Feb 13 blast in an Israeli embassy car. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Smita Garg extended the judicial custody of accused Kazmi in proceedings held through video conference. On Feb 13, […] Read more » Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Smita Garg Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Smita Garg Delhi court Israeli embassy car blast Journalist Syed Mohammed Ahmad Kazmi
Top Law News Lawyers’ protest paralyses Delhi courts April 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Work in six district courts here was paralysed Saturday following a day-long strike by lawyers protesting against an attack on two advocates earlier in the week. “Lawyers abstained from work against the attack on two advocates Thursday night in east Delhi by some petrol pump employees,” said Rajiv Khosla, former president of the Delhi Bar […] Read more » Advocate Neeraj Sharma Advocate Rajeev Sharma Delhi court former president of the Delhi Bar Association Rajiv Khosla Lawyers' protest
High Profile Cases Economist Vijay Kelkar visits crisis-ridden Vidarbha April 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Well-known economist Dr. Vijay Kelkar Friday visited Yavatmal in the crisis-ridden Vidarbha region of Maharashtra to review the imbalance of progress in the region, an activist said. “Vidarbha has seen a long list of complex issues including agrarian crisis, tribal malnutrition, poor infrastructure, lack of employment-generating industries and cotton processing textile hub,” Kishor Tiwari, president […] Read more » economist Dr. Vijay Kelkar Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS)
Criminal Law News Maid torture: Doctor couple’s police custody extended April 7, 2012 / April 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday extended for the next three days the police custody of a doctor and his wife who flew to Thailand for a vacation last month after allegedly locking up a 13-year-old maid in their house with very little food. Duty Magistrate Arul Verma extended the police custody of doctor couple, Sanjay Verma […] Read more » Delhi court Duty Magistrate Arul Verma Maid torture Metropolitan Magistrate Ruchika Singla