Criminal Law News Gujarat should distance itself from law abusers: Supreme Court December 1, 2011 / December 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat government should distance itself from those accused of committing abuse of law in the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, the Supreme Court was told Wednesday. Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, appointed by the court for its assistance, said this during the hearing on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking the […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Dam 999’ director moves Supreme Court against ban December 1, 2011 / December 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The director of the film ‘Dam 999’, which has been banned in Tamil Nadu for supposedly taking a pro-Kerala stand in the Mullaperiyar dam row, Wednesday said he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the move. The film has been made with a `global view` as dams have collapsed in Brazil, China […] Read more » ‘Dam 999’ director Sohan Roy Mullaperiyar dam row pro-Kerala stand Supreme Court
Top Law News Court questions government on hockey coach’s plea December 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central government and Hockey India (HI) after taking note of a hockey coach’s plea alleging that the latter was threatening players to prevent them from taking part in the World Series Hockey (WSH) tournament starting next month. The tournament, a joint initiative of the Indian Hockey […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court International Hockey Federation Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
High Profile Cases 2G case: Decision on Chandolia’s bail plea Thursday November 30, 2011 / November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI special court has reserved till Thursday its order on the bail plea of ex-telecom minister A. Raja’s former private secretary R.K. Chandolia, an accused in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge O.P. Saini reserved the order Wednesday. Chandolia moved the bail application on the ground that […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation scam case CBI Special court Decision on Chandolia’s bail plea Thursday special Judge O.P. Saini
High Profile Cases Judgment reserved on Air India’s aircraft purchase order November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on an NGO’s plea for a direction to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to probe a Rs.67,000 crore purchase order by Air India for 111 aircraft. After hearing long arguments from both the petitioner and the respondent, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikhri […] Read more » Air India for 111 aircraft Chief Justice A.K. Sikhri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Criminal Law News Seven ex-students get three-year jail for junior’s death November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Seven former students of the B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT) here were Tuesday awarded three years’ imprisonment by a Punjab court for driving a first year student to death due to merciless ragging in 2005. Additional District and session Judge S.K. Singla also slapped a fine on the convicts and acquitted four others, […] Read more » B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Judge S.K. Singla Punjab court
Top Law News Kashmir rights panel defunct for over a month now November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The functioning of Jammu and Kashmir’s State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) remained suspended for more than a month Tuesday as the government is yet to nominate its new chief after its previous chairperson’s term expired last month, panel sources said Tuesday. ‘Both the judicial and the administrative functioning of the commission have remained suspended for […] Read more » Gulzar Singh Slathia Jammu and Kashmir's State Human Rights Commission Justice (retd) Syed Bashir-ud-Din
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court issues notice to CBI on Kalmadi bail plea November 30, 2011 / November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the bail plea of jailed MP Suresh Kalmadi, accused of corruption in the organisation of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG). Justice Mukta Gupta issued the notice to the CBI seeking its reply by Jan 6, 2012. Kalmadi, who headed the […] Read more » 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta Suresh Kalmadi
High Profile Cases Rajiv`s case: Reconsider mercy plea, Govt tells High Court November 29, 2011 / November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Tamil Nadu Government today filed a petition before Madras High Court seeking to commute the death sentence of three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, even as the Court adjourned further hearing in the case to January 31, 2012. When the review petitions, filed by the Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan, challenging the rejection […] Read more » Justice C Nagappan Justice P Sathyanarayana Madras High Court Rajiv Gandhi assassination case
Criminal Law News Rs.5 lakh solatium for Tamil Nadu women raped by cops November 29, 2011 / November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday announced a solatium of Rs.5 lakh for each of the four tribal women, who were allegedly raped by policemen in Villupuram district, and suspended five uniformed men. In a statement issued here, Jayalalithaa said she had ordered payment of Rs.500,000 each to the four tribal Irula women who […] Read more » Rs.5 lakh solatium Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tamil Nadu women raped by cops
Top Law News Woman IAS officer sent to judicial custody November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court Tuesday remanded Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi to judicial custody till Dec 12 in an illegal mining case involving former Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy’s Obulapuram Mining Co (OMC). The court sent her to CBI custody for three days. The judge directed the CBI to produce her again before the […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi special CBI court Woman IAS officer sent to judicial custody
High Profile Cases 2G case: Shahid Balwa gets bail November 29, 2011 / November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Shahid Balwa, the promoter of Swan Telecom, has been granted bail in Delhi today. Of the 14 people arrested for the telecom scam, 11 have now been permitted to go home. Those still in prison include former telecom minister A Raja, and two former bureaucrats who worked closely with him. Mr Balwa is accused of […] Read more » 2G scam Delhi High Court Shahid Balwa gets bail