High Profile Cases Mullaperiyar panel gets two-month extension February 27, 2012 / February 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday gave two more months to an expert commitee headed by former chief justice of India A.S. Anand to submit its report on the safety of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala. A five-judge bench headed by Justice G.K. Jain accepted the request by the committee for two more months time to submit […] Read more » former chief justice of India A.S. Anand Justice G.K. Jain Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court nod on river interlinking February 27, 2012 / February 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today gave the green signal for implementing the ambitious project to interlink India’s rivers, saying it was in national interest. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia also constituted a high-powered committee headed by the water resources minister to work out the roadmap for the project. The court said that […] Read more » Chief Justice SH Kapadia interlink India's rivers Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Separated wife entitled to maintenance as per husband’s financial status’ February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on ‘Separated wife entitled to maintenance as per husband’s financial status’ The Delhi High Court has ruled that a wife, though separated, is entitled to maintenance depending on her husband’s financial position. “A life on alimony is not to be a life different from what the wife would have led if the relationship had not gone sour. The quantum of maintenance inter alia depends upon the […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court husband's financial position Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
High Profile Cases Court to hear Swamy’s plea on dues from IIT-Delhi February 26, 2012 / February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dismissing a plea of the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, a court has accepted a plea of Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy seeking recovery of his dues earned while serving there as an assistant professor 1972-1991. Additional District Judge Neelam Singh dismissed the plea of IIT-D seeking dismissal of Swamy’s civil suit on the ground that […] Read more » Additional District Judge Neelam Singh Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy RIGHT TO INFORMATION
Criminal Law News Delhi court lets off bicycle thief on probation February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday let off a man accused of bicycle theft on probation, considering his socio-economic condition after the accused pleaded guilty and promised not to repeat the crime. Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg let off the accused, Ravi Kumar, and gave him a chance to reform himself. The court asked the accused to pay […] Read more » bicycle thief on probation Delhi court Metropolitan Magistrate Ashu Garg
Top Law News Final day of the 2nd International Conference on Human Rights Concerns held in Hindi Bhawan February 26, 2012 / February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The second and final day of the 2nd International Conference on Human Rights Concerns of Indian Diaspora saw some brainstorming sessions on the issues of human rights violations of Indians in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh among others. In a session on Sri Lanka, speakers which included Karim Assaad, M N Krisknamani, President, HRDI, […] Read more » 2nd International Conference on Human Rights Concerns Chairman of the organising committee Gopal Agarwal Indian Diaspora
Criminal Law News Post-mortem on bank robbers bodies performed February 26, 2012 / February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after the bloody encounter in which five suspected bank robbers were killed, a team of forensic experts today performed the post-mortem on the bodies of the deceased. In a pre-dawn encounter on February 23, five people — four from Bihar and one from West Bengal — were shot dead by police in ‘self […] Read more » bank robbers bloody encounter Metropolitan Magistrate Geeta Rani
Top Law News Another NGO accuses Assam government of ‘negligence’ February 26, 2012 / February 26, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Another non-governmental organisation (NGO) Saturday alleged that starvation had led to the deaths of 12 persons in the Bhuban Valley tea estate in Assam’s Barak Valley region, and that the state government had turned a blind eye to the whole matter. The Peoples’ Rights Forum (PRF) presented to the media their survey report on the […] Read more » Bhuban Valley tea estate in Assam's Barak Valley region non-governmental organisation (NGO) Peoples' Rights Forum Supreme Court
Top Law News Second international conference on human rights concerns held in Hindi Bhawan February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The second international conference on human rights concerns of Indian Diaspora was inaugurated by founder of Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Hindi Bhawan here. Speaking on the occasion, Ravi Shankar said that there have been many instances of violations of human rights of Indian Diasporic community members in different parts of the […] Read more » Dr. Benkin Human Rights Defense (India) second international conference on human rights concerns Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Top Law News Woman double-crosses court for son’s custody, gets rap February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court issued a contempt of court notice to a woman for foxing a magistrate into awarding her son’s custody to her, hiding the fact that another court had given his custody to her husband. A bench headed by Justice Vipin Sanghi said: “She is guilty of contempt of court as she has […] Read more » Delhi High Court Domestic Violence Act' Justice Vipin Sanghi
High Profile Cases Supreme Court pulls up government for bureaucratic delays February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday censured the government for procedural delays and red tape even for challenging an adverse verdict against it by a lower court. The apex court said the government cannot cite administrative inertia as a reason for any delay and dismissed an appeal by the department of posts, challenging a 2009 judgement of […] Read more » Justice J. Chelameswar Justice P.Sathasivan procedural delays Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Court notice to 82 acquitted in Mirchpur Dalit killing February 25, 2012 / February 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court on Friday issued notice to all 82 acquitted in the 2010 Mirchpur killings on a plea challenging their acquittal in the arson attack on a Dalit settlement in the village in Haryana’s Hisar district. A division bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice SP Garg also issued notice to Delhi […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Justice SP Garg Mirchpur Dalit killing