Criminal Law News Mid-sea collision: Ship captain sent to judicial custody March 15, 2012 / March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Kerala court Wednesday sent to 14 days’s judicial custody the captain of a vessel suspected to be involved in a mid-sea collision with a fishing boat off the coast here March 1 that killed five fishermen. Gordon Charles Pereira, the captain of ship Prabhu Daya owned by a Singapore firm, was brought from Chennai […] Read more » Gordon Charles Pereira captain of ship Prabhu Daya Kerala court Mid-sea collision
Top Law News Court tells DDA to allot house plots in Rohini March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to start allotting residential plots in north Delhi’s Rohini area from March 19 to 21,000 applicants under a 1981 scheme. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw asked the DDA to completed the process for allotment under north […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi Development Authority Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw
High Profile Cases Court seeks report on Islamic scholar’s Mumbai visit March 15, 2012 / March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the Mumbai police if the latter is equipped to deal with a potential law-and-order situation when Pakistan-born Canadian Tahirul Qadri, part of Pakistan based organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran, delivers his speeches in the city. A socio-religious forum, Raza Academy, has moved the court seeking to restrain Qadri from delivering his […] Read more » Bombay High Court Islamic scholar's Mumbai visit Pakistan based organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran Senior counsel V Tulpule
High Profile Cases 2G: Raja examines ex-telecom regulator March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jailed former communications minister A. Raja, an accused in the 2G case, Wednesday cross-examined prosecution witness and former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Nripendra Mishra in a special court here. Mishra told Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge O.P. Saini that there were differences of understanding between the regulator and the Department of […] Read more » 2G scam former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman Nripendra Mishra Raja's counsel Sushil Kumar special Judge O.P. Saini
High Profile Cases UP foodgrain scam: Supreme Court seeks CBI’s response March 15, 2012 / March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Uttar Pradesh government and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to respond to a plea seeking lifting of curbs on a corruption case related to alleged diversion of foodgrain. The petition sought a vacation of partial stay imposed by the court in 2011 on an order by the Allahabad […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court UP foodgrain scam
Top Law News Maid case: Court reserves order on government plea March 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the government’s plea seeking directions to restrain an Indian domestic help, awarded nearly $1.5 million relief for alleged ill-treatment by an Indian consulate employee in the US, from pursuing her case in a New York court. Justice Kailash Gambhir asked the government why it had made […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General A.S. Chandiok Delhi High Court Justice Kailash Gambhir Maid case
Criminal Law News Rajesh Talwar to continue on bail March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hearing the Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj murder case, a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Wednesday allowed Rajesh Talwar to remain on bail. Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar had moved the Supreme Court seeking the transfer of trial on the grounds of their personal security, and that a large number of witnesses in the […] Read more » Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj murder case Rajesh Talwar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Bhanwari killing: Accused husband retracts statement March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bhanwari Devi’s husband Amarchand, one of the accused in her abduction and murder case, on Tuesday sought to retract his statement to magistrate, saying it was made under the compulsion of the CBI. Amarchand, who is named in the charge-sheet filed by the CBI last month, in his application before the CBI court in Jodhpur, […] Read more » Bhanwari Devi's husband Amarchand Bhanwari killing Congress MLA Malkhan Singh counsel Muktesh Maheshwari
High Profile Cases Objectionable content case: Hearing put off till May 23 March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Tuesday put off till May 23 the hearing on a complaint against social networking sites, including Facebook India, for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Metropolitan Magistrate Surabhi Sharma Vats deferred the hearing after complainant Vinay Rai’s counsel S.P.M. Tripathi said that summons were not served on the accused foreign-based companies. The court allowed […] Read more » Delhi court Metropolitan Magistrate Surabhi Sharma Vats Objectionable content case social networking sites
Top Law News India has four lakh men who have sex with men March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that there were four lakh men who have sex with men (MSM) in India and face a high risk of AIDS. A rough estimate of high-risk MSM who could be infected with HIV was between 28,000-31,000, the health and family welfare ministry told the court. In an affidavit […] Read more » AIDS Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya men sex with men Supreme Court
High Profile Cases 2G case: Notice to CBI on Reliance officials’ plea March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the pleas of three officials of the Reliance Group for quashing charges framed against them in the 2G case. Justice M.L. Mehta sought the response of investigative agency by March 22. Reliance Group managing director Gautam Doshi, group president Surendra […] Read more » 2G case Delhi High Court Justice M.L. Mehta Reliance officials' plea
High Profile Cases NRHM scam: Kushwaha sent to judicial custody March 14, 2012 / March 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad on Tuesday remanded former Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and former BSP MLA Ram Prakash Jaiswal in judicial custody for 14 days in the multi-crore rupee NRHM scam in the state. The two politicians, arrested on March 3, were produced in the court after […] Read more » Dasna district jail Superintendent Viresh Raj Sharma former BSP MLA Ram Prakash Jaiswal NRHM scam Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha