High Profile Cases 2G: Supreme Court issues notice on review petition April 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday issued notice on the government’s plea seeking a review of its verdict cancelling 122 2G licenses and holding that an auction was the only route for disposing of natural resources. The Supreme Court, by its Feb 2 verdict, had also held that the policy of allocating 2G licenses on a first-come-first-served […] Read more » 2G case Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Court issues notice on suit challenging Jaitapur n-plant April 13, 2012 / April 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Thursday issued notice to the government, Nuclear Power Corporation of India and others in a public suit challenging the proposed 9,900-MW Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project coming up in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. Justice D. D. Sinha and Justice V. K. Tahilramani issued the notice returnable next week, lawyer R.N. Kachwe for the […] Read more » Bombay High Court Jaitapur n-plant Justice D. D. Sinha Justice V. K. Tahilramani lawyer R.N. Kachwe
High Profile Cases High Court refuses relief to Uttar Pradesh NRHM scam accused April 13, 2012 / April 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has refused anticipatory bail to the owner of a firm who feared his arrest for alleged involvement in the multi-crore-rupee National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam in Uttar Pradesh. Justice Mukta Gupta rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Delhi-based firm Surya Tej Earth Movers’ director Sumit Tandon on the ground of […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta NRHM scam accused
High Profile Cases Supreme Court receives presidential reference on 2G April 13, 2012 / April 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A presidential reference on whether the Supreme Court could interfere with a policy decision of the government and insist on auction as the only route for the allocation of natural resources was received by the apex court Thursday. Among the questions raised in the reference is whether the court can set aside a policy decision […] Read more » 2G verdict Supreme Court telecom minister A. Raja
High Profile Cases Setback to Achuthanandan in land grab case April 13, 2012 / April 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Kerala chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan, a prime accused in a land grab case, suffered a setback on Thursday when the Kerala High Court refused to quash the First Information Report (FIR) filed in the case. A single-judge bench of Justice N.K. Balakrishnan said the investigation had just begun and the court was in no […] Read more » Justice N.K. Balakrishnan Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan land grab case
High Profile Cases Objectionable content: Court reprieve for Google, YouTube April 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court Thursday permitted the deletion of Google and YouTube from a list of websites sought to be prosecuted for allegedly posting objectionable content on their sites. Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh passed the order after petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi’s counsel Santosh Pandey said he had no objection to the plea of the two […] Read more » Administrative Civil Judge Parveen Singh Google Objectionable content websites YouTube
High Profile Cases No relief for ex-railway minister in graft case April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No relief for ex-railway minister in graft case The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to grant a breather to former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief in a corruption case and allowed the prosecution against him in a trial court. Sharief, facing a case for misusing his office when he was railways minister, moved the high court after special judge took cognizance of the […] Read more » Delhi High Court former railways minister C.K. Jaffer Sharief graft case Justice M.L. Mehta
High Profile Cases Court clears way for athletics body elections April 12, 2012 / April 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to go ahead with electing its office bearers for the 2012-16 term. Refusing to stay the election process, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw gave a green signal to the AFI to conduct the elections […] Read more » Athletics Federation of India Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw
High Profile Cases Court orders provisional use of Kotla for IPL matches April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi to issue a provisional occupancy certificate to enable the staging of Indian Premier League-5 matches at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Veena Birbal’s gave the direction on the plea of the Delhi and District […] Read more » Delhi High Court IPL matches Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Veena Birbal
High Profile Cases Officials told Raja to auction 2G airwaves, court told April 11, 2012 / April 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former telecom secretary D.S. Mathur Tuesday told a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court here that telecom commission members had suggested auctioning the 2G mobile airwaves and operating licences in 2007. “The alternatives suggested included…auctioning the spectrum or bidding for the new licences,” Mathur deposed. Testifying as a CBI witness, Mathur told Special Judge […] Read more » 2G mobile airwaves communications minister A. Raja Former telecom secretary D.S. Mathur special Judge O.P. Saini
High Profile Cases ‘Raja was told to reconsider cut-off date for 2G licences’ April 10, 2012 / April 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former telecom secretary D.S. Mathur Monday told a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court that he had asked then telecom minister A. Raja to reconsider the cut-off date for receiving applications for 2G spectrum licences. “I recorded this note after seeing the order of the then minister, dated Nov 2, 2007, as fixing the date […] Read more » 2G spectrum licences Central Bureau of Investigation Former telecom secretary D.S. Mathur Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini telecom minister A. Raja
High Profile Cases Delhi Court Reserves Order on Poll Code Breach Case April 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today reserved its order for April 19 on whether the city police’s plea for withdrawal of a poll code violation case of 2008 against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit could be heard at all. Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh reserved the order saying he was “prima facie” satisfied that the plea for withdrawal […] Read more » Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh Poll Code Breach Case Poll Code Breach Case section 321 (withdrawal from prosecution)