High Profile Cases CBI oppose bail plea of excise commissioner January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday opposed the anticipatory bail application of Central Excise Commissioner A.K. Srivastava for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs.60 lakh from mobile phone importers. Srivastava along with co-accused central excise superintendent Lallan Ojha and alleged middleman Hemant Gandhi was involved in the offence, the probe agency said. The CBI […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation Central Excise Commissioner A.K. Srivastava special CBI judge Talwant Singh special CBI judge Talwant Singh
High Profile Cases CWG scam: Argument on charge from Feb 1 January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A day before starting daily hearing, a special CBI court here Thursday said the argument on charge in a corruption case related to purchase of time-scoring-result (TSR) system for the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) will start Feb 1. “The argument on charge on the CWG TSR scam will be held from Feb 1,” said Central […] Read more » CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi CWG scam Special Judge Talwant Singh
Top Law News Three year jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict: Supreme Court January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over five years after Alistair Pereira, driving under the influence of alcohol, ran over 15 labourers sleeping on a Mumbai pavement killing seven of them, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Bombay High Court verdict awarding him a three-year jail sentence. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice J.S. Khehar cancelled […] Read more » jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict Justice J.S. Khehar Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
Top Law News Law panel to study need for more judges, court told January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would amend the terms of reference of the 19th Law Commission to include that it would conduct a scientific study and recommend if there was need to increase the number of lower courts in view of the huge backlog of cases. The court was also […] Read more » Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice T.S. Thakur Law panel to study need for more judges Supreme Court
Top Law News Filter content or face blackout, court warns Facebook, Google January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Like in China, Facebook and Google India’s websites can be blocked if they fail to come up with a mechanism to check and remove derogatory contents from their web pages, the Delhi High Court warned Thursday. “Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait said, after Facebook and Google India said that […] Read more » Delhi High Court Facebook and Google Justice Suresh Kait Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra
Top Law News Lawyers’ strike cripples Delhi district courts January 13, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Litigants suffered as district courts in the capital were paralysed Thursday by a day-long strike of lawyers who are demanding all property cases be transferred from the Delhi High Court to district courts. Judges held court as usual but in the absence of lawyers most cases were put off to other dates. The ongoing 2G […] Read more » Delhi High Court property cases Rajiv Khosla spokesperson of the district courts
Top Law News Facebook, Google move court; Delhi Police issued notice January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition filed against summons issued by a trial court to 21 websites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. Challenging a trial court order that issued summons to the websites, Facebook and Google had Wednesday approached the […] Read more » Delhi High Court facebook Google Justice Suresh Kait Yahoo YouTube
Criminal Law News J. Dey murder: Special public prosecutor appointed January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra government has appointed a special public prosecutor to fight its case against 11 accused in the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. Raja Thakare is the special public prosecutor in the case, sources said, adding the notification pertaining to his appointment was issued on Tuesday. Dey (56), editor of investigations with a tabloid […] Read more » gangster Chhota Rajan J. Dey murder Raja Thakare
High Profile Cases Order reserved on Swamy’s plea on voting machines January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on a plea filed by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy that the electronic voting machines (EVMs) were not tamper-free and needed rectification to ensure free and fair elections. In his petition, Swamy said that the EVMs should be of international standard and needed rectification. Swamy submitted that […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice R.S. Endlaw
High Profile Cases Supreme court notice on plea on Rajya Sabha polls in Delhi January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the central government and the Election Commission on a plea seeking direction that the biennial election for the three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi should be held in one go and not in three separate stages Jan 19. The apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice […] Read more » Justice Altamas Kabir Justice J. Chelameswar Rajya Sabha polls in Delhi Supreme Court
Criminal Law News AIIMS paper leak accused sent to police custody January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police have been given a week-long custody of five youngsters who were arrested for allegedly leaking the test papers of an all-India postgraduate medical exam conducted by AIIMS. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal granted the custody of the accused for a week after the police said they needed to interrogate the five […] Read more » AIIMS paper leak all-India postgraduate medical exam chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal
Top Law News Fresh Scheduled Tribes’ quota in Uttar Pradesh house suggested January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the Election Commission to consider a plea for reservation for the Scheduled Tribes in Uttar Pradesh assembly on the basis of the modified census data. The supreme court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar asked the commission to either take figures of the Scheduled Tribes’ (STs) population in […] Read more » Election Commission Justice Altamas Kabir Justice J. Chelameswar Supreme Court