High Profile Cases Government not debarred from reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees: Supreme Court June 6, 2018 / June 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major relief to the Centre, the Supreme Court today allowed it to go ahead with reservation in promotion for employees belonging to the SC and ST category in “accordance with law”. The top court took into account the Centre’s submissions that entire process of promotion has come to a “standstill” due to the […] Read more » featured justice Adarsh Kumar Goel Justice Ashok Bhushan reservation in promotion reservation in promotion to SC/ST employees: SC/ST employees
High Profile Cases Top Law News TATA group withdraws plea from SC on auctioning of Taj Mahal hotel June 2, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi:Tata Group-owned Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) today withdrew from the Apex Court the plea challenging the Delhi High Court order which had upheld the tender procedure for the proposed e-auctioning of Delhi’s iconic Taj Mahal Hotel by civic body NDMC. IHCL took back its plea after a vacation bench comprising justices L Nageswara […] Read more » Justice M M Shantanagoudar Justices L Nageswara Rao NDMC Taj Mahal hotel Tata
High Profile Cases Top Law News Supreme Court refuses interim bail to principal of BRD Medical College Gorakhpur May 31, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to grant interim bail to a former principal of a medical college and hospital in Uttar Pradesh where scores of children had died last year allegedly due to shortage of oxygen supply. Dr Rajeev Kumar Mishra of Gorakhpur’s BRD medical college and hospital told the top court that he has […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Baba Raghav Das Dr Rajeev Kumar Mishra featured interim bail L Nageswara Rao M M Shantanagouda
High Profile Cases P Chidambaram gets protection from arrest in Aircel-Maxis case May 30, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: Delivering a big relief to Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram, a Delhi court has allowed him protection from arrest in connection with Aircel-Maxis money laundering case till June 5. This came after Chidambaram filed an anticipatory bail plea in Delhi’s Patiala House Court earlier in the day in connection with […] Read more »
High Profile Cases Top Law News Police to court: Sunanda’s mail, messages taken as a “dying declaration” May 29, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “I have no desire to live…all I pray for is death,” Sunanda Pushkar wrote in an e-mail to her husband Shashi Tharoor nine days before she was found dead in a luxury hotel room here, police has told a city court. The police also told the court that Sunanda’s death was due to poisoning and […] Read more » Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal death dying declaration featured Sunanda Pushkar
High Profile Cases Top Law News Centre in High Court against CIC order on Khemka’s deputation May 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre has moved the Delhi High Court against a CIC order asking it to inform whether IAS officer Ashok Khemka, known for cancelling Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra’s alleged illegal land deal in Gurgaon, was considered for the post of joint secretary in the Centre. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in its […] Read more » Ashok Khemka C K Bhatt CIC Delhi High Court DoPT's featured IAS Rahul Sharma Robert Vadra RTI Act. Vibhu Bakhru
High Profile Cases Top Law News Mumbai municipal commissioner appears before high court May 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mumbai municipal commissioner Ajoy Mehta today appeared before the Bombay High Court and assured that the court’s directions on a plea by some tenants of a building in south Mumbai would be complied with. Vacation judge Justice S J Kathawala had summoned Mehta after the civic body failed to comply with directions passed by the […] Read more » Ajoy Mehta featured High Court S J Kathawala
High Profile Cases Top Law News Sunanda Pushkar death case transferred to designated court May 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today transferred the Sunanda Pushkar death case, in which her husband and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has been chargesheeted for abetting her suicide, to a special court designated to try lawmakers. Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh transferred the case to Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal, who will take up the matter on […] Read more » ACMM Samar Vishal Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal featured Lok Sabha Metropolitan Magistrate Dharmendra Singh Shashi Tharoor Sunanda Pushkar death case
High Profile Cases Top Law News Construction scam: No anticipatory bail to 4 PWD engineers May 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has denied anticipatory bail to four PWD officials, accused of conspiring with a contractor in an alleged construction scam involving over Rs 3 crore, saying the allegations against them are serious. Special Judge Sanjay Khanagwal, who last week rejected the bail of contractor Vinay Bansal in the matter and sent him to […] Read more » Anti-Corruption Branch featured FIR PWD RACO Sanjay Khanagwal Vinay Bansal
High Profile Cases Top Law News Two get life sentence in Bollywood starlet’s murder in 2012 May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A sessions court here awarded life imprisonment to two persons today in the 2012 murder case of budding actor Meenakshi Thapa. Additional Sessions Judge S G Shette awarded the sentence to Amit Jaiswal (36) and his girlfriend Preeti Surin (26). The court had convicted them on Wednesday under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 364-A (kidnapping […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge S G Shette featured Madhur Bhandarkar Meenakshi Thapa Preeti Surin S G Shette Ujjwal Nikam
High Profile Cases Top Law News Court issues production warrant for Kejriwal’s arrested kin May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today issued production warrant for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s relative Vinay Bansal, arrested in connection with an alleged scam in the Public Works Department (PWD), after the Tihar jail authorities failed to produce him. The court took a stern view and directed the jail authorities to explain the absence of Bansal, a […] Read more » Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal featured Public Works Department PWD scam Supreme Court Vinay Bansal
High Profile Cases Top Law News PWD Scam: Kejriwal’s kin Vinay Bansal sent to one-day judicial custody May 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s relative Vinay Bansal, arrested by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) in connection with the PWD scam, was today sent to one-day judicial custody by a Delhi court. Duty Metropolitian Magistrate Suri Mishra denied the ACB’s application for three-day police remand saying Bansal is not medically fit. The order came after Bansal, who was […] Read more » Aruna Asaf Ali Arvind Kejriwal cm Delhi court Duty Metropolitian Magistrate Suri Mishra featured PWD scam Surender Bansal Vinay Bansal
