Family Law News What should be citizenship of child born out of surrogacy: SC asks Centre September 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the Centre on the issue of citizenship of child born in the country out of surrogacy in which biological parents are foreign nationals but the woman who gives birth is Indian. A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi also raised question whether such child can be granted […] Read more » ASG Tushar Mehta child born out of surrogacy Justice Ranjan Gogoi
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Family Law News PIL in Gujarat High Court seeks fast-track courts to try rape cases September 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government in response to a public interest litigation seeking fast-track courts for rape cases. The division bench of Justices Akil Kureshi and JB Pardiwala asked the government to file its reply by September 30. Petitioner Jignesh Goswami says, quoting a media report, that Gujarat government […] Read more » fast-track courts to try rape cases Justice Akil Kureshi Justice JB Pardiwala
Family Law News Court grants man divorce over wife’s demand for excessive sex August 31, 2014 / September 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man, who sought separation from his wife alleging that she was aggressive and autocratic with an insatiable appetite for sex, was granted divorce by a family court here. “Due to respondent’s (wife’s) non-appearance before the court, the petitioner’s (husband’s) evidence remains unchallenged on record. Hence this court has no option but to accept his […] Read more » wife’s demand for excessive sex
Family Law News Top Law News Madras HC orders police protection to Rajasthan girl who fears honour killing August 24, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras high court on Friday ordered police protection, if necessary, to a Rajasthan girl who apprehended honour killing at the hands of her own family members. Manju, 19, married a Tamil youth from Coimbatore in April this year and she was taken to Rajasthan by her parents by force later. A division bench of […] Read more » honour killing inter-caste marriage Justice P N Prakash Justice S Rajeswaran police protection to Rajasthan girl who fears honour killing
Family Law News Top Law News Government planning changes in juvenile justice act: Maneka Gandhi August 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is planning special provisions in the current Juvenile Justice Act to address heinous offences committed by children above the age of 16 years, Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi told parliament Friday.The move was aimed to act as a deterrent for child offenders committing such crimes and will also protect the […] Read more » Government planning changes in juvenile justice act Juvenile Justice Act Maneka Gandhi
Consumer Law News Family Law News Top Law News Family members of Army man get Rs 55 lakh compensation July 27, 2014 / July 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Family members of an Army man, who died in a road accident involving a rashly driven car, have been awarded a compensation of over Rs 55 lakh by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. MACT Presiding Officer Deepak Jagotra directed , with which the car was insured, to pay Rs 55,19,926 to the wife, minor […] Read more » Family members of Army man get Rs 55 lakh compensation Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) Tata AIG General Insurance Company Ltd
Family Law News Top Law News Government revising guidelines for adoption of children July 23, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Government is revising the existing guidelines for adoption to simplify the procedure and minimise the delay in the process of adoption of Indian children. Some of the changes contemplated in the existing guidelines include provisions for linking the orphan, abandoned or surrendered children of all child care institutions (CCIs) to the adoption system in the […] Read more » guidelines for adoption of children
Family Law News Top Law News Marriage in upper caste can’t deny quota benefits: court June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If a person is born in a reserved category family and later marries into an upper caste, it does not deprive her of benefits of the reservation, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled. Imposing a fine of Rs.200,000 on the state for not issuing a certificate of other backward class (OBC) to the petitioner, […] Read more » can't deny quota benefits if married to upper caste Himachal Pradesh High Court Marriage in upper caste
Criminal Law News Family Law News Top Law News Delhi High Court overturns man’s conviction for raping daughter October 30, 2013 / October 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday acquitted a man, sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court for allegedly raping his 11-year-old daughter, observing that his first wife used the daughter “as a tool” to seek revenge. Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Indermeet Kaur said: “The evidence produced by the prosecution and even the medical evidence […] Read more » Justice Indermeet Kaur Justice Kailash Gambhir man's conviction for raping daughter
Family Law News Top Law News SC awards Rs.5.96 crore medical negligence compensation October 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday awarded Rs.5.96 crore compensation to Kunal Saha, a doctor, which it ordered the Kolkata based AMRI Hospital to pay for medical negligence resulting in the death of his wife Anuradha Saha in 1988. The apex court judge Justice V. Gopala Gowda passed the order on an appeal by Saha, who had […] Read more » Justice V. Gopala Gowda medical negligence compensation
Family Law News High Profile Cases Top Law News You cannot create separate island for bureaucrats’ kids: HC October 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the city’s Sanskriti School, run by spouses of top bureaucrats, the reason for a separate school for their children and expressed its displeasure over it receiving government funds. A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Manmohan, expressing unhappiness over the separate school and funding received by […] Read more » Chief Justice N.V. Ramana create separate island for bureaucrats' kids island for bureaucrats' kids Justice Manmohan
Family Law News Top Law News Regulating placement agencies can prevent child trafficking October 16, 2013 / October 16, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The recent rescue of a teenaged domestic help in south Delh’s Vasant Kunj area after she was treated brutally by her employer is yet another addition to the growing list of shocking cases of ill-treatment meted out to domestics. Most of these helps are from the rural hinterland of the country and, as it turns […] Read more » Bachpan Bachao Andolan BBA Non-regulation of placement agencies prevent child trafficking by regulating placement agencies Regulating placement agencies can prevent child trafficking regulation of placement agencies
