Top Law News Voices of dictatorship in Mamata regime: Rights group November 24, 2011 / November 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Civil rights group Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) Wednesday launched a stinging attack on West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government alleging that democracy was in peril while the voices of “dictatorship” were becoming audible. Recalling that Banerjee had been speaking the “language of democracy” and showing a humane face ahead of the April-May assembly […] Read more » Association for Protection of Democratic Rights Civil rights group Voices of dictatorship in Mamata regime West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee
Criminal Law News Court upholds life term for nurse’s rapist November 24, 2011 / November 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday upheld the life sentence awarded to a man who gouged out an eye of a nurse working with him at the Shanti Mukund Hospital in east Delhi before raping her in 2003. Upholding the life term awarded to Bhura Singh for raping the nurse, a bench of Justice Anil Kumar […] Read more » Court upholds life term for nurse's rapist Delhi High Court Justice Anil Kumar Justice V.K. Shali
Top Law News HIV positive demand passage of AIDS bill November 24, 2011 / November 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment People living with HIV/AIDS Wednesday appealed to the government to pass a long pending draft legislation which seeks to bring relief to over 2.5 million people affected by the condition in India. The HIV/AIDS bill has been pending with the government for the last five years. Pradeep Datta from NGO Nayi Umang said: “The bill […] Read more » HIV positive demand passage of AIDS bill NGO Lawyer Anand Grover
Top Law News Supreme Court declines to interfere in order against Naidu November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to interfere in an Andhra Pradesh high court order directing the CBI and ED to probe allegations of financial irregularities against former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and three others. An apex court bench headed by justice Dalveer Bhandari asked the three petitioners — Rithwick Projects Ltd chairman cum managing director […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh high court order former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu Justice Dalveer Bhandari Supreme Court
High Profile Cases 2G trial not to be shifted to Tihar for now November 23, 2011 / November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday stayed the notification shifting the trial of the 2G spectrum allocation case from the Patiala House complex to the Tihar Jail. A five-judge bench headed by Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri passed the order after the defence counsel for the 14 individual accused approached the court seeking a stay of […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Judge O.P. Saini Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice S.K. Kaul
High Profile Cases Five executives get bail in 2G spectrum case November 23, 2011 / November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Seven months after they were taken into custody as co-accused in the second generation (2G) spectrum allocation case, the Supreme Court Wednesday granted bail to five corporate executives on a surety of Rs.5 lakh each. The five are Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless, Vinod Goenka of Swan Telecom as well as Reliance Group’s Gautam Doshi, […] Read more » Judge O.P. Saini Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice H.L. Dattu second generation (2G) spectrum allocation case special CBI court
Top Law News Kashmir Pandit Group Files PIL Against Arundhati Roy November 23, 2011 / November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Activists of a Kashmiri Pandit organisation filed a public interest litigation (PIL) case, seeking action against writer-cum-activist Arundhati Roy over her reported remarks in New York on self-determination for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. The PIL, filed in the Jammu and Kashmir High Court here, said that the remarks were “untenable” because they were […] Read more » Jammu and Kashmir High Court Kashmir Pandit Group Files PIL Against Arundhati Roy RIGHT TO SELF DETERMINATION
High Profile Cases Jayalalitha again deposes in illegal assets case November 23, 2011 / November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Jayalalitha again deposes in illegal assets case Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha on Tuesday appeared in the special court on the city’s outskirts amid tight security and deposed for the third time in the Rs.66 crore disproportionate assets case against her. As the deposition was inconclusive, special judge BM Mallikarjunaiah directed Jayalalitha to appear in the court again on Wednesday to answer […] Read more » special judge BM Mallikarjunaiah Supreme Court Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha
Top Law News Court refuses to stay probe against chess federation November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused to impose a stay on its earlier order asking the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to probe allegations that the All India Chess Federation (AICF) was abusing its dominant position by banning players who took part in tournaments organised by other sports associations. Disposing off the plea of AICF […] Read more » All India Chess Federation Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw refuses to stay probe against chess federation
High Profile Cases 2G trial shifted to Tihar Jail November 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on 2G trial shifted to Tihar Jail A special CBI court hearing the 2G case Tuesday shifted the trial to the Tihar Jail complex following a Delhi High Court order. The court shifted the hearing due to security reasons, a lawyer said. The 14 accused in the case include former telecom ministser A. Raja and Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi of the DMK. […] Read more » 2G trial shifted to Tihar Jail CBI judge O.P. Saini Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court
Criminal Law News Vikas Yadav gets one day’s leave from jail November 22, 2011 / November 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rejecting a four-day leave plea by Vikas Yadav, undergoing life imprisonment in the Nitish Katara murder case of 2002, the Delhi High Court Tuesday granted him one day’s custodial parole for signing some legal papers. The court has asked him to fix a date for the parole. “Yadav’s lawyer needs to inform the jail authorities […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Pratibha Rani said Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Nitish Katara murder case
Top Law News High Court rejects demand for CBI probe into pending ”DC Bills Case” November 22, 2011 / November 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Patna High Court rejected the Public Interest Litigation Petition (PIL) seeking CBI probe into the alleged misappropriation of Rs 11,854 crore withdrawn under various development schemes for which the government has not submitted the Detailed Contingent (DC) bills. Hearing the petition, a division bench, comprising justices P C Verma and A K Trivedi, turned down […] Read more » DC Bills Case justice A K Trivedi justice P C Verma Patna High Court