High Profile Cases Top Law News Thieves have Modi surname” remarks : Rahul pleads not guilty October 11, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday appeared before a magisterial court and pleaded not guilty in a criminal defamation case filed against him for his “why do all thieves share the Modi surname” remarks. Gandhi appeared before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B H Kapadia here and pleaded not guilty when asked by the […] Read more » Thieves have Modi surname
High Profile Cases Top Law News Delhi Police Official Given 3-Year Jail Term for Taking Bribe by Threatening Implication in False Case October 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Special Judge Kiran Bansal also imposed a fine of Rs 1.20 lakh on the Assistant Sub Inspector, saying that suitable punishment was required to create some deterrent effect. A court here has awarded 3-year jail term to a Delhi Police official for taking bribe from a family by threatening to implicate it in a false […] Read more » Delhi Police Official Given 3-Year Jail Term Jail Term for Taking Bribe
High Profile Cases Delhi Court Grants Rs 35 Lakh to Doctor Who Suffered Disability of Legs in Road Accident October 10, 2019 / October 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A doctor who suffered permanent disability of legs after being hit by a car has been awarded over Rs 35 lakh by Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT). Manish Singh, a Malka Ganj resident, was walking towards Mukherjee Nagar here when he was hit by a rashly driven car, leaving him severely injured. The 30-year old […] Read more »
High Profile Cases Top Law News NGT slaps Rs 9.16 cr fine over illegal sand mining in Rampur October 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A leaseholder for sand mining has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to pay Rs 9.16 crore as environmental compensation charges for damaging ecology by excavating sand beyond permissible limit from the Kosi river in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. An NGT bench headed by Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore imposed the penalty saying the […] Read more » Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore Kosi river in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh
High Profile Cases Platform Screen Doors not possible at all stations: Delhi Metro to HC October 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Platform Screen Doors (PSDs) have been put on the Pink and Magenta lines of Delhi Metro due to technical requirement and their installation at all the stations would increase the cost of operation, the DMRC has told the Delhi High Court. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) told a bench comprising Chief Justice D N […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel Justice C Hari Shankar Platform Screen Doors
High Profile Cases Modi has become one of the powerful leaders of the world : Nadda October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment BJP working president J P Nadda Friday said that U S President Donald Trump joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a programme in Houston recently signalled to the world that Modi has become one of the powerful leaders in the world. Nadda said that Modis dynamic leadership during the past over five years has also […] Read more » Modi
High Profile Cases Top Law News Koregaon Bhima case: SC extends protection from arrest to Gautam Navlakha till Oct 15 October 4, 2019 / October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday extended till October 15 the interim protection from arrest granted by the Bombay High Court to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the Koregaon Bhima violence case. The apex court directed the Maharashtra government to place before it the material collected during the ongoing investigation against Navlakha in connection with the […] Read more » Koregaon-Bhima case
High Profile Cases Top Law News Bombay High Court junks pleas seeking forest tag for Aarey colony. October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a setback to environmental activists, the Bombay High Court on Friday refused to declare Aarey colony a forest and also declined to quash the BMC tree authority’s decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the suburban green zone to pave way for a metro carshed. A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog […] Read more » Bombay High Court
High Profile Cases Guru Ravidas temple: SC asks parties to come back to it with amicable solution for alternate site October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the parties involved in a plea seeking permission to rebuild the Guru Ravidas temple in Delhi’s Tughlaqabad forest area to come back to it with an amicable solution on a better location for the temple. It posted the matter for further hearing on October 18. The temple was demolished […] Read more » Guru Ravidas temple Guru Ravidas temple in Delhi's Tughlaqabad forest area
High Profile Cases Top Law News Woman gets 7 years in jail for abusing 5-year-old October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Thane court has sentenced a woman to seven years rigourous imprisonment for sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter of her live-in partner. District Judge D G Murumkar also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the 33-year-old woman, a resident of Mumbra town in Thane district. In the order on October 1, the judge observed […] Read more » District Judge D G Murumkar jail for abusing 5-year-old sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter
High Profile Cases 144 juveniles were detained in J-K after Article 370 abrogation: Report October 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Juvenile Justice Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court has told the Supreme Court that 144 juveniles were detained in the state after the Centre abrogated provisions of Article 370, but 142 minors were later released. The committee, in its report filed in the apex court, said the remaining two were sent to […] Read more » 144 juveniles were detained in Jand K
High Profile Cases Appointments, transfers pivotal to justice system; interference doesn’t augur well: Supreme Court September 23, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Appointment and transfer of judges form “the root of the administration of justice” and interference in that “does not augur well” for the institution, the Supreme Court said on Monday. It made the observation while deciding to keep the Gujarat High Court Advocate Association’s plea pending which has sought a direction to the Centre to […] Read more » Collegium's recommendations Justice S A Nazeer Justices S A Bobde Tripura High court
