Top Law News Government toed Union Carbide’s line on compensation: RTI October 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Government toed Union Carbide’s line on compensation: RTI Just months after the 1984 gas leak at Union Carbide’s plant here, the Indian government agreed to the “terms” set by the company on compensation to be paid to victims, a Right to Information (RTI) activist has claimed. Not only that, the government treated the world’s worst industrial disaster as a “railway accident”. “We have […] Read more » Bhopal victims Union Carbide
Top Law News Special law to adopt transgenders on the anvil October 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Legal Services Authority is working on a special law to safeguard the interests and welfare of transgenders on the lines of Special Marriage Act, Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir said Sunday. “Transgenders are in a most disadvantageous position, not of their own making. Some of them are rejected not just by society, but […] Read more » Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen Special law Special Marriage Act Supreme Court Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir welfare of transgenders
Consumer Law News Misleading ads: Agency might monitor and act October 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Flooded with growing consumer complaints over misleading advertisements, especially relating to health and nutritional benefits and the get-rich schemes, the government is planning an investigating agency to curb the practice. The proposed agency will supplement consumer courts, which cannot collect evidence themselves, while other measures planned include sharpening of the Consumer Protection Act. “An investigating […] Read more » agency Consumer Protection Act Misleading ads monitor and act
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects Manohar Joshi’s erase strictures plea October 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has slammed former Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi while rejecting his plea to erase the strictures passed against him and the then minister of state Ravindra Mane in a land use change case. The two changed the land use rules for a plot meant for a primary school in Pune to benefit […] Read more » Maharashtra chief minister Manohar Joshi Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Death sentence is judicial murder, says judge in Rajiv killing October 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Death sentence is judicial murder, says former Supreme Court judge K.T. Thomas, who headed the bench that pronounced death punishment to three conspirators in Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination. “Death sentence is no punishment,” Thomas, 74, told in an interview over the phone from Kottayam in Kerala. “It is a judicial murder committed with the protection of […] Read more » judicial murder Rajiv killing Supreme Court judge K.T. Thomas
Top Law News Bangalore: Lawyer Behind Yeddyurappa Arrest Faces Contempt Case October 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bangalore advocate Sirajin Basha, whose complaint against B.S. Yeddyurappa resulted in the former Karnataka chief minister being jailed Saturday, now faces a case of contempt of court. Justice B.S. Patil of the Karnataka High Court Saturday directed the court registrar to initiate contempt proceedings against Basha, who along another advocate, N.K. Balaraj, has filed five […] Read more » Arrest Faces Contempt Case Karnataka chief minister Lawyer Behind Yeddyurappa
Banking & Finance Law News Supreme Court suggests fine in cheque bounce cases October 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has suggested that the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, could be amended so that a convict in a cheque bounce case is made to pay a fine from which the complainant can be paid a compensation. “One other solution is a further amendment to the act so that in all cases where there […] Read more » cheque bounce cases Negotiable Instruments Act Supreme Court
Top Law News Court curbs on Delhi University law course admission October 15, 2011 / October 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has restrained the Delhi University from filling one law course seat for the academic year 2011-12. The seat is among the 50 vacant Other Backward Classes (OBC) category seats allowed by court to be offered to general category students. The court direction came on a petition by L.L.B. course aspirant Salma […] Read more » Backward Classes Delhi University law course admission
Top Law News Justice Ajit Bharihoke Retires October 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday bade farewell to Justice Ajit Bharihoke who rejected the bail application to all the accused except former communications minister A. Raja in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri said on the occasion: “In less than one month it is the third time that we have assembled […] Read more » 2G spectrum Delhi High Court farewell Justice Ajit Bharihoke
Top Law News Ten years later, man jailed for trying to bribe cop October 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An industrialist in Jaipur was Friday sentenced to one year in prison for offering to bribe a local police inspector ten years ago, police said. A special court for anti-corruption cases in Jaipur handed out the sentence to Om Prakash Mundara, owner of Mundara Enterprises. “He had offered money to a circle officer (CO), Jhotwara, […] Read more » anti-corruption industrialist in Jaipur Ten years later
Top Law News 8 High Court Appointments – Hundreds Of Vacancies ! October 15, 2011 / October 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As many as eight High Court appointments by President Pratibha Patil were announced while nearly 300 judgeships have been vacant and 32 million cases pending nationwide. The appointments included seven Additional Judges named to the High Courts of Delhi and Gauhati and a Delhi High Court Additional Judge made permanent. Additional Judges named to the […] Read more » 8 High Court Appointments Hundreds Of Vacancies President Pratibha Patil
Top Law News Coast Guard, navy should protect fishermen, says court October 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court’s Madurai bench Friday directed the central government to provide two-tier security for Indian fishermen by the Indian Coast Guard and navy. In an interim order made while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer B.Stalin, the court directed deployment of sufficient numbers of Coast Guard vessels to see that […] Read more » Coast Guard Madras High Court public interest litigation