High Profile Cases Spying case: Ex-diplomat Madhuri Gupta granted bail January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Madhuri Gupta, a former Indian diplomat and alleged agent of Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), was granted bail by a Delhi court Tuesday in a conspiracy and spying case. Gupta, 53, a second secretary at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was arrested April 27, 2010, on charges of passing on information to the Pakistani […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain Delhi court Indian Penal Code for criminal conspiracy Spying case
High Profile Cases CWG graft: Order reserved on Kalmadi’s bail plea January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on the bail pleas of Suresh Kalmadi, jailed MP and former chief of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, and his aide V.K. Verma accused in a corruption case related to the 2010 sporting event. Kalmadi was arrested April 26 last year for his alleged role in awarding […] Read more » CWG graft Delhi High Court Order reserved on Kalmadi's bail plea
Top Law News John Abraham hails ban on bull sport January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bollywood actor John Abraham, on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, Monday wrote to the Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, thanking her for the ministry`s decision to ban the use of bulls as performing animals. “I was very happy to learn from my friends in PETA that Jallikattu (a bull taming […] Read more » Bollywood actor John Abraham Madras High Court People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Top Law News No need to reveal design of Metro pillar: Supreme court January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order directing the Delhi Metro to disclose the design of an elevated corridor’s pillar that collapsed in south Delhi in July 2009, killing six labourers. The apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice J. Chelameswar stayed the high court order after Attorney General G.E. […] Read more » Delhi Metro plea Justice J. Chelameswar Justice P. Sathasivam Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Nurse case: Accused sent to CBI custody till Jan 12 January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Rajasthan court here extended till Jan 12 the CBI custody of Omprakash Bishnoi arrested for allegedly disposing of nurse Bhanwari Devi’s body after burning her to death last year, officials said. Omprakash is the brother of Bishnaram Bishnoi who was held near Pune by Maharashtra police Jan 4. The CBI announced a cash reward […] Read more » Bhanwari Devi CBI custody of Omprakash Bishnoi Rajasthan court
Corporate Law News Supreme court extends interim relief for Sahara group firms January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday admitted a plea by two Sahara group companies challenging the Securities Appellate Tribunal’s order directing them to refund Rs.17,400 crore mopped up from 2.3 crore investors and ordered the continuation of its interim stay on the tribunal’s direction. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice A.K. Patnaik and […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Sahara group companies Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Kalmadi may threaten witnesses, CBI tells court January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi may intimidate prosecution witnesses if granted bail in a corruption case linked to the 2010 sporting event, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the Delhi High Court Monday. The probe agency also opposed the bail plea of V.K. Verma, an aide of jailed MP Kalmadi, before […] Read more » Delhi High Court Former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi Justice Mukta Gupta Prevention of Corruption Act
Top Law News Plea on Jamia Milia students union poll withdrawn January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former student of Jamia Milia Islamia Monday withdrew from the Delhi High Court a petition seeking quashing of a 2006 decision of the central university to ban elections to the students union. Ikrar Khan withdrew the petition as the court declined to hear it. He was one of the petitioners who had moved court […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jamia Milia Islamia Justice Rajeev Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
High Profile Cases 2G: Delhi High Court notice to CBI on Chandra’s plea January 9, 2012 / January 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday issued a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a plea of Unitech managing director Sanjay Chandra for quashing charges framed against him by the federal investigative agency in the 2G spectrum case. Justice M.L. Mehta asked the CBI to file its response by March 13. Chandra approached […] Read more » 2G spectrum case Delhi High Court Justice M.L. Mehta Unitech managing director Sanjay Chandra
Top Law News Supreme court upholds needy landlord’s right to evict tenant January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Supreme court upholds needy landlord’s right to evict tenant Upholding a needy landlord’s right to evict a tenant, the Supreme Court has set aside an Uttarakhand High Court order which said that “greater comparative hardship” would be caused to a tenant, as compared to his landlord, if a decree of eviction was passed against him. The apex bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Supreme Court Uttarakhand High Court
High Profile Cases Sukh Ram surrenders, sent to Tihar January 8, 2012 / January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ailing former telecom minister Sukh Ram Saturday surrendered in a court here in a graft case and was sent to Tihar Jail. The 84-year-old appeared in the court premises in an ambulance. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge Sanjeev Jain sent Sukh Ram to jail to serve a three-year term in a 1993 telecom […] Read more » Ailing former telecom minister Sukh Ram CBI Special Judge Sanjeev Jain Prevention of Corruption Act Tihar Jail
Top Law News Bribe case: CBI custody of excise official extended till Jan 10 January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of a central excise official and an alleged middleman were Saturday extended till Jan 10 by a special court here for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs.60 lakh from mobile phone importers. The CBI Special Judge Talwant Singh extended the custody of central excise superintendent Lallan Ojha and […] Read more » Bribe case CBI special judge Talwant Singh Central Excise Commissioner A.K. Srivastava