High Profile Cases Greater Noida land row: Land acquisition of 3 villages cancelled October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A full bench of the Allahabad High Court today ordered cancellation of land acquisition of three villages – Asadullapur, Shaberi and Devla village – in Noida extension while ordered hiked compensation in 64 villages besides raising the developed areas to be given to the farmers by the developers. The court also ordered a high-level probe […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Greater Noida land row Justice Ashok Bhushan Justice S U Khan Justice V K Shukla Land acquisition of 3 villages cancelled
Criminal Law News Shobhit murder: Victim’s father blames his lover’s kin October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The father of 20-year-old engineering student Shobhit Modi, stabbed to death on May 5 near his house in south Delhi, charged in the Delhi High Court on Thursday that the family of his son’s lover may be involved in the killing. “The girl’s parents were not happy with the love affair, so on many occasion […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Delhi High Court Shobhit murder Victim's father blames his lover's kin
High Profile Cases Pay part dues, Supreme court tells Delhi’s power firms October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday asked Delhi’s private power distribution companies BSES Rajdhani and BSES Yamuna to pay Rs.25 crore and Rs.20 crore to the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) by Nov 30 as an ad-hoc payment to partly clear their arrears for the electricity supplied to them. An apex court bench of Justice D.K. Jain, Justice […] Read more » BSES Rajdhani BSES Yamuna Justice Anil R. Dave Justice D.K. Jain Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Supreme court tells Delhi’s power firms
High Profile Cases Supreme Court notice on IAS officer’s bail plea October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday issued notice to the Gujarat government on a bail plea by a state cadre IAS officer jailed on allegations of giving land to private companies at a concessional rate in the wake of the 2001 earthquake. In his capacity as then district collector, Pradeep Sharma, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, […] Read more » district collector Pradeep Sharma Indian Administrative Service Justice Aftab Alam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Supreme Court notice on IAS officer's bail plea
High Profile Cases Karnataka home minister faces probe over land order October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bangalore court Thursday ordered a probe into charges that Karnataka Home Minister R. Ashoka had abused his office to get government land in north of the city illegally denotified. Former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, already in jail in two corruption cases, is also an accused in the denotification case filed against Ashoka by Jayakumar […] Read more » Judge N K Sudhindra Rao Karnataka home minister faces probe over land order Karnataka Home Minister R. Ashoka
Criminal Law News Supreme Court admits state plea against acqittal in 26/11 terror attack case October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has admitted the appeal of State of Maharashtra against the acquittal of two of the accused in the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attack case. A bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and C K Prasad while admitting the appeal also directed that it will be heard along with the appeal of the sole surviving […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice C.K. Prasad Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab state plea against acqittal in 26/11 terror attack case
Criminal Law News NIA seizes phones of Delhi blast suspect October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the Sep 7 Delhi High Court blast, has seized three mobile phones from the Kishtwar residence of a Kashmiri youth suspected to be the mastermind of the attack. The NIA investigators, who reached Jammu by a special aircraft Tuesday evening, recovered the phones from the house of Wasim Akram […] Read more » Delhi High Court Hizb-ul-Mujahideen Junaid Akram Malik National Investigation Agency NIA NIA seizes phones of Delhi blast suspect Wasim Akram Malik
Top Law News Probe assault on advocate in police station: Court October 20, 2011 / October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the police to register a case over the alleged beating of an advocate in a south Delhi police station when he went there Oct 16 to record a complaint. Advocate Shreeji Bhavsar was allegedly assaulted by sub-inspector O.P. Yadav of the Sarita Vihar police station when he went there, […] Read more » Advocate Shreeji Bhavsar Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Probe assault on advocate in police station sub-inspector O.P. Yadav
Criminal Law News Supreme court decision on Soni Sori’s medical check Thursday October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Thursday pass orders on an independent medical examination of suspected Maoist conduit Soni Sori for the injuries she allegedly suffered while she was in Chhattisgarh Police custody earlier this month. The tribal teacher, arrested in Delhi Oct 4 by Chhattisgarh Police, is accused of receiving “protection money” from the Essar group […] Read more » Justice Altamas Kabir Maoist conduit Soni Sori Supreme court decision on Soni Sori's medical check Thursday
Top Law News Court notice to Delhi over right to education October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Delhi government on an NGO’s plea seeking framing of rules to provide free and compulsory education to children in the capital under the right to education law. Directing Delhi government’s education secretary to appear before it, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Court notice to Delhi over right to education Delhi High Court Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009 Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Right to Education law
Criminal Law News Delay on Bhullar’s mercy plea no cruelty, Supreme court told October 20, 2011 / October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The long pendency of the mercy plea of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on death row over a 1993 car bomb blast at the Youth Congress office here, could not be described as an act of cruelty, the government has told the Supreme Court. “It is the pendency of the mercy petition […] Read more » Delay on Bhullar's mercy plea no cruelty Devender Pal Singh Bhullar Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Bhandarkar making false statement, claims Preeti Jain advocate October 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Advocate Sushan Kunjuraman, representing actor Preeti Jain, who had filed a case against noted film director Madhur Bhandarkar accusing him of raping her, today said that accused Bhandarkar is making false statements to the media that he is approaching the Bombay High Court with an appeal challenging the lower court order which had summon director […] Read more » actor Preeti Jain Bhandarkar making false statement Bombay High Court claims Preeti Jain advocate Sushan Kunjuraman director Madhur Bhandarkar