High Profile Cases Court dismisses plea in Mulayam assets case March 4, 2012 / March 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday dismissed a plea seeking registration of a case against Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati, Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj and Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for “shielding” Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his family in a disproportionate assets case. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Talwant Singh dismissed the petition […] Read more » Delhi court Mulayam assets case Special Judge Talwant Singh
Criminal Law News Four to stand trial for funding Kashmir terror March 4, 2012 / March 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday framed charges against Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, suspected aide of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and three others for alleged involvement in money laundering to fund terror. Their trial would begin April 16. National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Judge H.S. Sharma framed charges against Bhat, Muhammad Sidiq Ganai, Ghulam Jeelani […] Read more » Delhi court Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani Special Judge H.S. Sharma Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
Top Law News Indian to head Asia-Pacific advocates’ body March 3, 2012 / March 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lalit Bhasin, a senior lawyer from India, will take over as the next president of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), a professional organisation of business lawyers from the Asia-Pacific region. The announcement will be made Saturday at the 22nd IPBA Annual Conference here, according to a release from IPBA. He will take over from Shiro […] Read more » Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) Lalit Bhasin a senior lawyer from India Society of Indian Law Firm (SILF) vice president of the Bar Association of India Bhasin
Criminal Law News Justice Bedi to monitor Gujarat ‘encounters’ probe March 3, 2012 / March 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday appointed Justice H.S. Bedi to head a monitoring committee to supervise investigations into 22 cases of alleged fake encounters in Gujarat between 2002 and 2006. Justice Bedi is a retired judge of the Supreme Court. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai appointed Justice Bedi […] Read more »
Top Law News Lawyers assault media persons, students in Bangalore March 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lawyers assault media persons, students in Bangalore A group of lawyers here Friday attacked media persons, stoned their vehicles, police and college students in an ugly display of anger over media coverage of their January protest that had gridlocked traffic for hours in the city’s central business district. The lawyers pounced on large number of reporters, including women, TV camera crew and […] Read more » Deputy Commissioner of Police G. Ramesh illegal mining case mining baron Gali Janardhana Reddy Supreme Court judge and former Lokayukta (ombudsman) N. Santosh Hegde
High Profile Cases SSTL files review petition in Supreme Court March 3, 2012 / March 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL), the joint venture between Russia’s Sistema and India-based Shyam Group, Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking a review of its order that quashed the firm’s 21 licences issued in 2008. “SSTL believes that the Supreme Court in its judgment has not considered several relevant submissions made by SSTL […] Read more » India-based Shyam Group Russia's Sistema Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) Supreme Court
Top Law News Validity of cheques to be reduced to 3 months March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government on Wednesday said the Reserve Bank has decided to reduce the validity of cheques and bank drafts from the present six months to three months beginning next fiscal. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has advised that with effect from April 1, 2012, banks should not make payments against cheques, drafts, pay orders […] Read more » bank drafts Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena Reserve Bank of India (RBI) validity period of cheque
High Profile Cases Supreme Court dismisses petition in Vodafone case March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by advocate M.L. Sharma as “irresponsible and scandalous” that alleged conflict of interest over the court’s verdict in the Rs.11,218 crore ($2.2 billion) tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone. Last month Sharma had alleged in a petition that Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia had not disclosed […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court tax dispute case of telecom firm Vodafone
Criminal Law News ‘Create a helpline for rape victims’ March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a significant development, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to create a helpline for rape victims. A bench comprising Justice Rituraj Awasthi and Justice Umanath Singh, while hearing a petition of an NGO ‘We the People’, Thursday directed the state government to immediately make a helpline number […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice Rituraj Awasthi Justice Umanath Singh National Crime Records Bureau rape victims
Criminal Law News Supreme Court rejects Talwars plea to move trial to Delhi March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed Rajesh and Nupur Talwar’s plea that the trial in their daughter Aarushi Talwar’s murder be transferred from the special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Ghaziabad to New Delhi. An apex bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and E.J.S. Khehar said the reason of inconvenience raised by the dentist couple […] Read more » Aarushi Talwar's murder E.J.S. Khehar Justices B.S. Chauhan Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Review sought of ruling on public servant’s prosecution March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking the review of its Jan 31 verdict, which held that the sanction for the prosecution of a public servant could be applied for even before a complaint is filed against him/her. A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A. K.Ganguly (since retired) had, on their […] Read more » Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court
Top Law News Court restrains NHAI on contract termination March 2, 2012 / March 2, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday extended the stay on the National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI) decision to terminate the Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd’s (DGSCL) contract to operate the expressway between the capital and the Haryana city. A bench of Justice S. Muralidhar said that the court’s earlier order, restraining the NHAI from taking further […] Read more » Delhi High Court Delhi-Gurgaon Super Connectivity Ltd's (DGSCL) Justice S. Muralidhar National Highways Authority of India's (NHAI)