Top Law News Allahabad HC contempt notice to UP govt official April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court today issued contempt notice to the Principal Secretary (Home) of Uttar Pradesh, Debashish Panda, for allegedly not complying with the directions of the court to provide documents to suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur about departmental inquiry against the latter. Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya gave this order on a contempt petition filed […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Contempt notice Court featured Law Legal News UP
High Profile Cases 14 yrs on, 31 acquitted in 2 post-Godhra riots cases April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Thirty-one people accused of looting and arson at Thara village in North Gujarat in two cases related to the 2002 post-Godhra riots were today acquitted by a court at Deesa in the district. Sessions judge N M Parmar pronounced the verdict, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. On February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra […] Read more » 14 yrs on 31 acquitted in 2 post-Godhra riots cases Criminal news featured Godhra riots cases Gujarat Law Legal News
High Profile Cases Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Congress leaders today challenged in Delhi High Court the trial courts decision summoning the 2010-11 balance sheet of Indian National Congress (INC) in connection with the National Herald case, saying such an order was not “desirable” in the present matter. “Neither notice was issued to us, nor we were summoned to contest the present application […] Read more » Congress Court featured Herald case Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order Law Legal News
Top Law News Centre not to support AMU for its minority status April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA government challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the Aligarh Muslim University as non-minority institution. “I changed my mind two months ago,” Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a […] Read more » AMU Centre government Court featured Law Legal News minority status
Criminal Law News Pilibhit encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special CBI court today sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in a fake encounter in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago. Special judge Lallu Singh had on April 1 held the policemen guilty of a “fake encounter”. On July 12, 1991, the policemen stopped a luxury bus filled […] Read more » CBI Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Pilibhit encounter Pilibhit encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops
Top Law News Special CBI court allows Vanzara to return to Gujarat April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special CBI court today relaxed bail conditions of retired IPS officer D G Vanzara, a key accused in the alleged fake encounter case of Ishrat Jahan by allowing him to enter and stay in Gujarat. A court of special judge S J Raje today allowed his bail modification plea to enter and stay in […] Read more » CBI court Court encounter case of Ishrat Jahan featured Gujarat Law Legal News retired IPS officer D G Vanzara Special CBI court allows Vanzara to return to Gujarat
Top Law News Electoral reforms are long-awaited: SC April 1, 2016 / April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Electoral reforms are long-awaited: SC Supreme Court today accepted that electoral reforms are “long awaited” but refused to entertain a PIL of several eminent citizens, including former air chief S Krishnaswamy and top cop Julio F Ribeiro, seeking a direction to Election Commission to verify details of persons contesting polls. The apex court also said poll reforms have to be […] Read more » Court Electoral reforms Electoral reforms are long-awaited: SC featured Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Viral video: SC junks compensation plea of city cop April 1, 2016 / April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of a Delhi Police head constable seeking compensation for his “wrong” portrayal in a video that went viral on social media last year showing him swaying and collapsing in a metro coach in an alleged drunken state. A bench of Justices J S Khehar and C […] Read more » Criminal news Delhi Police featured Law Legal News Supreme Court viral video
Criminal Law News Man gets life term for raping deaf-mute woman April 1, 2016 / April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A 50-year-old man has been sentenced to life term by a court here for raping a hearing and speech impaired woman. According to the prosecution, Srirangan had taken land for lease in Chennampatty forest area in Bhavani taluk in Erode district and raped the 30-year-old woman who was working there on October 2, 2009. He […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News rape case
High Profile Cases U’khand HC seeks Centre’s response to petition challenging ordinance April 1, 2016 / April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Uttarakhand High Court today directed the Centre to respond to a writ petition filed by deposed chief minister Harish Rawat challenging promulgation of an ordinance by the Union government on the appropriation bill, a consolidated legislation on the state’s annual budget which was declared passed by the state assembly. A division bench comprising justices […] Read more » Congress Court featured Law Legal News petition challenging ordinance Uttarakhand Uttarakhand High Court
High Profile Cases Jat group files caveat in SC on quota issue April 1, 2016 / April 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Jat community representatives filed a caveat plea in the Supreme Court on Friday, saying they need to be heard first in case of a challenge to grant of reservation benefits to the community in Haryana. “In case of filing of petition for stay [of decision to grant reservation] on behalf of the respondent [Raj Kumar […] Read more » Court featured jat quota issue jat reservation Jat stir Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Madras HC gives clean chit to MIOT Hospital April 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Giving a clean chit to the private MIOT Hospital here, the Madras High Court today observed that it has taken all requisite permission for construction and the building is in conformity with regulations and there has been no violation. The first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice MM Sundresh, which disposed of […] Read more » Chennai Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court MIOT Hospital
