Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi Govt Said : Police Verification must for Foreign Volunteers with NGOs July 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All foreign volunteers coming to the national capital to work with NGOs working for people with disabilities will have to get a mandatory police verification certificate from the police of the country of their origins, the Delhi government has said. On Friday, the Delhi High Court disposed off a plea, which had sought the formation […] Read more » Delhi Govt Said Foreign Volunteers NGOs Police Verification
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court clean chit to trio sentenced to life by lower court July 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bench of justices B P Dharmadhikari & S K Shinde set free Irappa Dhangar, Irfan Shaikh & Balu Chavan. The lower court had sentenced them to life in prison in 2014 for causing the death of one person & injuring another following a dispute. The high court, however, set aside their conviction holding that […] Read more » High Court clean chit Irfan Shaikh & Balu Chavan justices B P Dharmadhikari sentenced to life by lower court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Aviation scam: Supreme Court issues notice to Aditya Talwar, stays proceedings in High Court July 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Aditya Talwar, son of Deepak Talwar, who is named in the multi-crore civil aviation scam in which Air India allegedly suffered huge losses, & stayed proceedings in the Delhi High Court, which allowed him to be represented through a lawyer. A Bench led by Chief Justice of […] Read more » Aviation Scam in High Court notice to Aditya Talwar stays proceedings Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Madras High Court asks Doctor Husband to pay Rs.40000 pm Maintenance to Hearing impaired Wife July 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upholding an order by a family court, the Madras high court directed a dentist from Chennai currently working at a software company in Bengaluru to pay Rs.40,000 maintenance to his estranged wife, a hearing-impaired woman, & their teenage daughter. The man’s appeal against the family court’s order was dismissed by the high court which held […] Read more » doctor husband Madras High Court to hearing impaired wife to pay 40000 pm maintenance
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Supreme Court refuses to give more time to ‘Saravana Bhavan’ owner to surrender for serving life term July 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday declined to entertain a plea of P Rajagopal, the founder of South Indian food chain ‘Saravana Bhavan’, seeking more time on medical grounds to surrender for serving life imprisonment in a murder case. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana dismissed the plea of Rajagopal, saying his illness was not […] Read more » 'Saravana Bhavan' Court refuses to give more time owner to surrender for serving life term Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Supreme Court refuses to interfere with Madras High Court order quashing Jayalalithaa gift case July 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to interfere with the 2011 order of the Madras High Court quashing a case against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and two others for receiving unaccounted gift of over Rs 2 crore. Jayalalithaa and former minister Azhagu Thirunavukkarasu arrayed as accused by the CBI in the case have […] Read more » Court refuses to interfere Jayalalithaa gift case Supreme Court with Madras High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Ayodhya land dispute: A litigant moves Supreme Court for early hearing July 9, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment One of the original litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking early hearing of the matter. The litigant said that nothing much has been happening in the case which was referred to a three-member panel of mediators, headed by former apex court judge Justice F M […] Read more » Ayodhya land dispute early hearing Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Court judge recuses from hearing Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal’s plea against LOC July 6, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi High Court judge recused himself on Friday from hearing Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal’s plea challenging a look out circular (LOC) issued against him barring him from travelling outside the country. When the matter came up for hearing before Justice Vibhu Bakhru, he said that “this matter will have to go before another […] Read more » High Court Jet Airways naresh goyal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Lok Sabha passes Aadhaar Bill, Govt says it is completely voluntary July 6, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bill seeks to amend Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act 2016 and to further amend the Indian Telegraph Act 1885 and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002. The Bill, which proposes giving a child an option to exit from the biometric ID program on attaining 18 years […] Read more » Aadhaar bill completely voluntary Lok Sabha passes
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Centre : UP’s Move on OBCs Unconstitutional July 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a rare pronouncement, the government on Tuesday termed “unconstitutional” & “inappropriate” the BJP-led Uttar Pradesh government’s recent move to include 17 other backward class (OBC) communities in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list, stressing that only Parliament had the right to make such changes in caste lists as per the Constitution. “The order that the […] Read more » Caste OBCs Unconstitutional UP
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Uttar Pradesh Legislator Mukhtar Ansari Acquitted In BJP Leader’s Murder Case July 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Wednesday acquitted legislator & gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari & six others accused in the 2005 murder case of BJP leader Krishnanand Rai as all the eyewitnesses & material witnesses turned hostile. The court said had the prosecution witnesses not turned hostile, the outcome of the trial would have been different & highlighted […] Read more » Acquitted In BJP Leader’s Murder Case Mukhtar Ansari politics Uttar Pradesh Legislator
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Supreme Court Threatens to Jail Top Officials over Church Case July 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday blasted the Kerala government & threatened to send its officials, including the chief secretary, to jail for contempt for not implementing its verdict on centuryold dispute between Orthodox & Patriarchal factions of the state’s Malankara Church. A bench of Arun Mishra & M R Shah expressed anguish over state government […] Read more » Church Case jail top officials Supreme Court
