High Profile Cases Ishrat Jahan case: Illustrative evidence of staged shootout, court told January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There was illustrative evidence to ‘suspect beyond reasonable doubt’ that the killing of Mumbai college girl Ishrat Jahan and three of her companions in 2004 was done in a staged shootout, a member of the Gujarat High Court-appointed SIT member told the court Friday. ‘There are scientific and circumstantial evidence against the version provided in […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
High Profile Cases Make all Radia tapes public, apex court urged January 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government on a petition seeking the disclosure of all telephonic conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia recorded by the Income Tax department. The department taped her conversations while intercepting her telephone calls in the wake of a complaint that she had amassed huge wealth in a […] Read more » Niira Radia
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases CWG scam: Hearing on Jayachandran’s bail plea Wednesday January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday adjourned till Jan 19 the hearing on the bail plea of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) official M. Jayachandran in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Justice Hima Kohli adjourned the matter after the argument was concluded by defence counsel R.K. Handoo. Jayachandran, joint director (finance) in the OC, was arrested […] Read more » bail CWG scam M. Jayachandran plea
High Profile Cases Spectrum scam tapes: PAC to examine journalists January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Murli Manohar Joshi, who heads parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), said Sunday that the journalists whose names have surfaced in the 2G spectrum scam will have to appear before the panel. Joshi said that all those whose names were revealed in corporate lobbyist Nira Radia’s taped conversations cannot escape from appearing before the PAC. The […] Read more » Murli Manohar Joshi Spectrum scam tapes
High Profile Cases Another Kalmadi aide granted bail January 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) official Sanjay Mahendroo, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam in London in 2009. A Patiala House court granted bail to Mahendroo, who was the deputy director general (marketing), as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) […] Read more » Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) Kalmadi
High Profile Cases Kalmadi aide Darbari gets bail in Baton Relay scam January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday granted bail to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee official T.S. Darbari, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Justice Hima Kohli granted Darbari bail as the CBI was unable to file a charge sheet against him within the stipulated 60 days of his arrest. […] Read more » Baton Relay scam Suresh Kalmadi T.S. Darbari
High Profile Cases PF scam: Judges plead illness against appearing in court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court Thursday rejected the applications and medical certificates submitted by the six retired judges chargesheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Rs.6.58 crore provident fund scam. The CBI special court had summoned 20 accused in the provident fund scam case Thursday. The CBI counsel demanded non-bailable warrant against the absent judges. The […] Read more » PF scam
High Profile Cases Ishrat Jahan case: Differences crop up in SIT January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday said it would have to work out a model for the special investigation team (SIT) probing the Ishrat Jahan killing to see that the ‘sanctity and spirit of its order is not paralysed due to differences of opinion amongst its members’. The court’s order came after the members of court-appointed […] Read more » Ishrat Jahan case
High Profile Cases Delhi mosque demolition: DDA to file report in court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will Friday submit its report to the Delhi High Court on the mosque built illegally on its land in the Jangpura area in 2005 and which was demolished Wednesday. Facing a contempt threat from the high court, the DDA – after several failed attempts – succeeded in razing the mosque. […] Read more » Delhi Development Authority (DDA) demolition mosque
High Profile Cases No apology for remark on chief justice: Prashant Bhushan January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan said Thursday there “is no occasion or cause” for him to accept the Supreme Court’s suggestion that he apologise for calling Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia corrupt, a reference to the time when the judge was part of the forest bench deciding on a case of mining major Vedanta. He turned down […] Read more » Senior counsel Prashant Bhushan senior counsel Ram Jethmalani
High Profile Cases Adarsh scam: Maharashtra wants information commissioner to go January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra cabinet Tuesday decided to recommend the removal of State Information Commissioner (SIC) Ramanand Tiwari for his alleged involvement in the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society scam in Mumbai. A proposal to initiate suitable action under Section 17 of the Right To Information (RTI) Act, 2005 has been sent to Governor K. Sankaranarayanan. The RTI […] Read more » Adarsh scam Ramanand Tiwari State Information Commissioner
High Profile Cases Darbari, Jayachandran’s bail application hearing adjourned January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday adjourned the bail application of T.S. Darbari and M. Jayachandran, former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials, till Jan 14. They were arrested for alleged involvement in the Queen’s Baton Relay scam. Darbari, a former aide of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) chief Suresh Kalmadi, was arrested Nov 15 by the […] Read more » M. Jayachandran T.S. Darbari