Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC says Courts must pass reasoned orders to enable parties understand why they lost or won cases July 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that courts need to pass a reasoned order in every case which would enable the parties involved in the litigation to understand as to “why one party has won and other has lost”. The top court remanded back to the Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore, a matter related […] Read more » featured Justice A M Sapre Justice Navin Sinha legal principles litigation
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC seeks Centre’s response on plea to use Aadhaar details of missing persons July 27, 2018 / July 27, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today sought the Centre’s response on a PIL seeking direction to utilise biometric and Aadhaar details of missing persons, including children, aged and mentally challenged, so that they can be re-united with their families. Notice issued to the Ministry of Home Affairs by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita […] Read more » Aadhaar Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal C Hari Shankar Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra Unique Identification Authority of India
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News HC: Prescribing medicines without diagnosis amounts to culpable negligence July 27, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has turned down the anticipatory bail pleas of a doctor couple booked for the death of a woman patient,observing that prescribing medicines to patients without diagnosis amounted to culpable negligence. Justice Sadhana Jadhav made the observations yesterday while hearing the anticipatory bail pleas filed by a gynaecologist couple – Deepa and […] Read more » Deepa Pawaskar featured Indian Penal Code Justice Sadhana Jadhav Ratnagiri Police section 304
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Telephone exchange case: HC sets aside order discharging Maran brothers July 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chennai: The Madras High Court today set aside a lower court order discharging all the accused, including the Maran brothers, in the alleged illegal telephone exchange case. Allowing the appeal filed by the CBI, Justice G Jaichandran directed a special CBI court to frame charges and conclude the trial within 12 months from the date of […] Read more » Dayanidhi Maran Dayanidhi Maran's private secretary Gauthaman former BSNL general manager K Brahmanathan former deputy general manager M P Velusamy Justice G Jaichandran
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC shows dissatisfaction over Centre’s response on Lokpal matter July 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court today expressed dissatisfaction over the Centre’s response on appointment of search committee members for a Lokpal. A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and Navin Sinha asked the Centre to file a fresh affidavit giving relevant details of the search committee. During the hearing, Attorney General K K Venugopal submitted […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal featured Justice Navin Sinha Justice R. Banumathi Justice Ranjan Gogoi Lokpal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News SC lifts ban on rallies, dharnas at Jantar Mantar, Boat Club July 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court today lifted a blanket ban on rallies, dharnas or sit-ins at the Jantar Mantar and Boat Club areas, saying there could not be an “absolute” ban on protests in such localities. The top court also asked the Centre to frame guidelines within two months for according sanctions to such events. A […] Read more » Boat Club Jantar Mantar Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Ashok Bhushan Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan National Green Tribunal (NGT)
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News SC allows transgender, to amend plea, denied job as cabin crew in Air India July 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court today allowed a transgender, who had undergone sex change in 2014, to amend her plea challenging Air India’s decision to deny her a job as a cabin crew to assail the grounds of conducting personality test for third gender candidates by the national carrier. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Civil Aviation Ministry featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud senior advocate Anand Grover transgender
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Public Utilities Delhi govt informs about timeline in SC for removing traffic bottlenecks July 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi government today informed the Supreme Court about the timeline for removal of traffic bottlenecks at 77 “congested corridors” and said short term measures, like minor improvements in road geometrics to deal with the issue would take six to eight months. Elaborating the measures for removing these bottlenecks, the AAP government said these […] Read more » AAP government Advocate Wasim A Qadri bottlenecks featured Justice Deepak Gupta Justice Madan B. Lokur
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Profile Cases Top Law News HC directs JNU not to take any coercive step against Kanhaiya till July 20 July 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today directed Jawaharlal Nehru University not to take any coercive step on a fine imposed against its former students union president Kanhaiya Kumar till July 20. A Rs 10,000 fine was imposed on Kumar by an appellate authority of the university in connection with a 2016 incident in which anti-India […] Read more » advocate Tarannum Cheema featured JNU JNU Students Union Kanhaiya Kumar Senior advocate Rebecca John
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News HC: Cops fail to inform rape victims about option of abortion July 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today once again said that police must inform the victims in such cases that they have the option of undergoing abortion, allowing a 16-year-old rape survivor to terminate her pregnancy. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni granted permission to the girl to undergo an abortion, after […] Read more » abortion featured justice G S Kulkarni Justice Naresh Patil Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act rape
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Delhi HC directs CS Anshu Prakash, 2 bureaucrats to appear before Assembly Panel July 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today directed Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash and two other bureaucrats to appear before the committees of Delhi Legislative Assembly which had issued notices to them, warning them of contempt if they did not do so. Justice Vibhu Bakhru warned the Chief Secretary and two other IAS officers that the court […] Read more » Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash Delhi Nagrik Sahkari Bank Ltd. Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board J B Singh Justice Vibhu Bakhru Shurbir Singh
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC seeks response on Ahmed Patel’s plea to stay proceedings in Guj High Court July 10, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court today sought the response of a BJP leader on a plea by Ahmed Patel seeking a stay of proceedings in the Gujarat High Court which is hearing a petition challenging the senior Congress leader’s election to the Rajya Sabha. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, however, allowed the Gujarat […] Read more » BJP leader Balwantsinh Rajput Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud
