Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC praises DoE for online facilities in schools for disabled January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today closed the contempt proceedings against the Directorate of Education (DoE) while lauding its efforts for providing on its website all data pertaining to facilities for disabled kids in private unaided schools. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and R K Gauba while appreciating the efforts of the DoE also […] Read more » HC praises DoE Justice R K Gauba Justice S. Ravindra Bhat online facilities in schools for disabled
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Court decision or arbitration can resolve Assam-Nagaland border row: SC January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Wednesday said the half century old border dispute between Assam and Nagaland could be resolved either by deciding the 1988 law suit filed by Assam or by referring the matter for arbitration. “There are only two legal ways of dealing it. One is that we should decide the suit or the other […] Read more » Assam-Nagaland border
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Which law mandates LS Speaker to appoint LoP : Delhi HC January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought to know about the legal provision which makes it mandatory for the Speaker to appoint Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha. “You have to draw your right from the Constitution and not from the laws made under the Constitution. You are arguing (that) LoP (Leader of Opposition) […] Read more » Delhi HC LS Speaker to appoint LoP
Court, Judiciary & Legal System PIL seeks mandatory sealing of cosmetic and hygiene products January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the Centre to file a reply, within four weeks, to a public interest litigation demanding that cosmetic goods, personal hygiene products, skin and hair care creams and lotions should be sold only in sealed packets or containers. Advocate Gitanjali Dutta, the petitioner, contends that currently such products are often […] Read more » Advocate Gitanjali Dutta Bombay High Court Justice Ajay Gadkari Justice Naresh Patil mandatory sealing of cosmetic mandatory sealing of hygiene products
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Government must alter fraudulent records in reasonable time : Supreme Court January 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government has to exercise its powers to take corrective course within a reasonable period to change an order that has been secured by a beneficiary in a fraudulent manner, the Supreme Court has ruled. It held as wrong the Andhra Pradesh Government order exercising its ‘revision power’ after nearly five decades to issue show cause […] Read more » alter fraudulent records in reasonable time Andhra Pradesh government Justice C Nagappan Justice Nagappan justice TS Thakur Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Coal scam: SC to examine allegation of interference by Ranjit Sinha January 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the allegations of interference and scuttling of investigation into the coal block allocation scam by former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, who refuted the charges. “We have to take a call. Either, we have to agree with you (CBI) or with him (NGO’s counsel making allegations),” a bench […] Read more » ACB Anti-Corruption Bureau coal scam former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay Ranjit Sinha
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC quashes cancellation of selection of 31 IMU professors January 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court on Monday quashed a central government order cancelling the selection of 31 professors for the city-based Indian Maritime University (IMU) following allegations of irregularities in the process. Holding that the cancellation of the selection was bad in law, Justice M M Sundresh said all the candidates were duly qualified and were […] Read more » cancellation of selection of 31 IMU professors IMU Indian Maritime University Justice M.M.Sundresh Madras High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Family Law News Wife’s Pub Visits No Ground For Seeking Divorce: Bombay High Court January 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has refused to grant divorce on the ground of cruelty to a man who alleged his wife often went to pubs leaving their child in the care of domestic help and also often insulted him and his parents. A Division Bench of Justices Vijaya Tahilramani and Anil Menon recently upheld an […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Vijaya Tahilramani Justice Anil Menon Wife's Pub Visits No Ground For Seeking Divorce
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC nod to Sahara to proceed with foreign loan transactions January 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Sahara Group to go ahead with its proposed transactions for a loan of around US dollar 1,050 million from abroad for raising Rs 10,000 crores to ensure release of Subrata Roy from jail. However, the apex court put conditions including the approval of RBI for the transfer to India […] Read more » FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act foreign loan transactions Justice T.S. Thakur Sahara Sahara India's Aamby Valley Ltd Sahara to proceed with foreign loan transactions
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC refuses to stop govt ads January 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court today refused to direct stopping the publication of government advertisements carrying photos of political figures and sought replies from the Centre and others on a court-appointed panel’s recommendations to regulate such publicity materials. “Before we pass such an order, we should be giving an opportunity to other side,” a bench comprising justices Ranjan […] Read more » Advocate Prashant Bhushan government advertisements Justice Arun Mishra Justice Ranjan Gogoi SC refuses to stop govt ads
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Court breather for 4 disqualified JD(U) MLAs January 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court on Tuesday reinstated membership of four rebel Janata Dal-United MLAs, who were earlier disqualified by the Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhury for their alleged “anti-party activities”.“The activities of the disqualified MLAs were not an act of defection but dissension,” the court in the judgment said. In November 2014, the Speaker […] Read more » Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhury JD(U) MLA Gyanendra Singh Gyanu JD(U) MLA Neeraj Kumar Babloo JD(U) MLA Rahul Sharma JD(U) MLA Ravindra Rai Patna High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Kerala HC enhances compensation to woman who underwent botched sterilisation January 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court has held that a woman, who underwent aprocedure in 1985 after which she conceived, was liable for a compensation of Rs 1.23 lakh from the state government. Dismissing a state appeal yesterday, a Division Bench, comprising Thothathil B Radhakrishnan and Justice Babu Mathew P Joseph, observed that when societal interest got […] Read more » botched sterilisation botched sterilisation to control child birth enhances compensation to woman Justice Babu Mathew P Joseph Kerala HC Thothathil B Radhakrishnan
