Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Profile Cases CBI Director dragged into another controversy in SC on 2G scam September 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CBI Director Ranjit Sinha was today at the centre of a controversy with an NGO telling the Supreme Court that entry register of his residence portrays a “very disturbing” and “explosive material” coming in the way of administration of justice in 2G spectrum allocation scam.The issue was raised by the NGO, Centre for Public Interest […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation scam CBI Director dragged into another controversy in SC CBI director Ranjit Sinha Justice A M Sapre Justice H.L. Dattu Justice S.A. Bobde public interest litigation SC on 2G scam senior advocate K K Venugopal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Man disabled in road accident gets over Rs 23L compensation September 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 30-year-old man, who suffered permanent disability in a road accident involving a rashly driven scooter, has been awarded over Rs 23 lakh compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. The tribunal directed National Insurance Company Limited, insurer of the offending scooter, to pay Rs 23,66,864 as compensation to victim Dinesh Singh, a resident of Karol Bagh here, […] Read more » MACT Presiding Officer S C Malik Man disabled in road accident Motor Accident Claims Tribunal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Death row convicts can be heard in open courts: SC September 2, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the review plea of a death convict against his conviction and sentence be heard in an open court by at least a three-judge bench and allowed all condemned prisoners, whose review pleas have already been decided, to approach it within a month for re-opening of their cases. In […] Read more » 1993 Mumbai serial blast convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon Chief Justice R M Lodha favoured open court hearing death row convicts Justice J. Chelameswar Mohammed Arif
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Profile Cases Supreme Court refuses to entertain plea of Kingfisher Airlines September 2, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition filed by Kingfisher Airline against being declared as wilful defaulter, saying it has become infructuous as the Grievance Redressal Committee of Union Bank of India has already passed an order. “Your grievance has been, that Grievance Redressal Committee (GRC) should not decide the matter but they […] Read more » Justice U U Lalit justices A R Dave plea of Kingfisher Airlines Vijay Mallya
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News CBI files final status report on graft case against HP CM September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today filed its final status report in the Delhi High Court on its probe into allegations that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, during his earlier tenure as CM and Union Minister, was involved in graft, money laundering and forgery. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw also […] Read more » Chief Justice G Rohini ' Justice R S Endlaw Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh final status report on graft case against HP CM
Court, Judiciary & Legal System 25 percent vacant posts in high courts to be filled: Law minister September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government will soon fill 25 percent of vacant posts in high courts across India as it has started getting proposals to reduce pendency of cases, Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said Sunday. “We have, in principle, approved filling 25 percent of vacant posts in all high courts as proposals have started coming in from them for […] Read more » posts in high courts to be filled Supreme Court Chief Justice R.M. Lodha to reduce pendency of cases Union Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad vacant posts in HC to be filled soon
Court, Judiciary & Legal System K M Birla case: Were rules followed in coal block allocation, court asks CBI September 1, 2014 / September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court today asked the CBI to clarify whether ‘rule of law’ was followed in allocation of coal blocks to top industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla’s Hindalco.During the hearing on the closure report filed by the CBI in its FIR against Birla, former coal secretary P C Parakh and others, the court asked the agency whether there […] Read more » coal block allocation K M Birla case Kumar Mangalam Birla rules followed in coal block allocation Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Norms made for sensitisation on date rape drugs: DCW to court August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A set of guidelines has been prepared for sensitising people on ‘date rape drugs’, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has informed a court here. DCW has filed a report in the court following its last year’s judgement in a rape case in which it had expressed concern over the increase in number of cases […] Read more » Advocate Vandana Chauhan date rape drugs
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Criminal Law News Nine found guilty of assaulting lawyer and his family in Himachal August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Sessions Court here has sentenced nine persons, including two relatives of a Himchal Pradesh minister, to nine months imprisonment for assaulting a lawyer and his family members in 2005. Sessions Judge SC Kainthal upheld the conviction of nine persons who entered the house of advocate Bhupinder Sharma on the night of January 24, 2005 […] Read more » Nine found guilty of assaulting lawyer and his family in Himachal Sessions Judge SC Kainthal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Judge complaint: SC stays MP HC panel proceedings August 30, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed the proceedings of a judicial panel set up to probe sexual harassment allegations levelled by a former woman Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) against a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge after she raised apprehension over getting justice from it. Issuing notice to the High Court judge, a bench headed […] Read more » Judge complaint Justice JS Khehar news SC stays MP HC panel proceedings sexual harassment allegations todays news todays top news Top news
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News SC clears scope of revisional power of high courts August 28, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the scope of revisional power of high courts in rent laws by holding that they “cannot re-appreciate evidence” and perusal of evidence is confined “to find out legality, regularity and propriety” of the order impugned before it. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha said […] Read more » Chief Justice R M Lodha news revisional power of high courts in rent laws Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Woman judge moves SC against panel to look into her complaint August 27, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gwalior judge who resigned alleging sexual harassment by a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge today brought her case before the Supreme Court, raising questions over the judicial panel to look into her complaint. The former Additional District and Sessions judge sought setting up a committee comprising two Chief Justices and one judge of High […] Read more » Chief Justice R M Lodha Justice J.S. Khehar news todays news todays top news Top news Woman judge moves SC
