High Profile Cases Finance Minister Arun Jaitley slams regulators’ failure to detect PNB fraud February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today slammed regulators for failing to detect the Rs 11,400-crore fraud at Punjab National Bank for seven long years, saying unlike politicians, regulators in the Indian system are unaccountable. Speaking on the scam for the second time this week, he said employees conniving with fraudsters is worrisome. Also worrisome is that […] Read more » Arun Jaitley featured Finance Minister Finance Minister Arun Jaitley PNB fraud PNB fraud PMLA case Punjab National Bank Rs 11400-crore fraud at Punjab National Bank
High Profile Cases PNB fraud : ED attaches houses and land worth INR 523cr of Nirav Modi group February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached 21 properties, including a penthouse and a farmhouse, of Nirav Modi and his group worth over INR 523 crore in fresh action against the beleaguered jeweller in the alleged Rs 11,400 crore fraud in the PNB The central probe agency said it has issued a provisional order for […] Read more » featured Nirav Modi group PMLA PMLA Nirav Modi PNB fraud
High Profile Cases Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram moves SC for protection of fundamental rights February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has approached the Supreme Court seeking protection of his fundamental rights, including the right to privacy, amid summons to his son Karti Chidambaram and raids by the CBI and the ED in connection with cases related to Aircel-Maxis and INX Media. Chidambaram, who is also a senior advocate, has claimed […] Read more » featured Karti Chidambaram P. Chidambaram protection of fundamental rights raids by the CBI Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram
High Profile Cases Need to introspect on effectiveness of POCSO Act: Justice Madan B Lokur February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Madan B Lokur today said time has come to “introspect” on the “effectiveness” of the law to protect children from sexual abuse and what has been achieved in the nearly six years since the enactment of the POCSO Act. He said there is a need to carry out an “assessment of the impact” the […] Read more » featured Justice Madan B. Lokur POCSO POCSO Act
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court upholds order granting anticipatory bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in two anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today upheld a trial court order granting anticipatory bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in two anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. Justice Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, seeking to cancel the anticipatory bail of Kumar, saying that as per the […] Read more » anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. assassination of Indira Gandhi Congress leader featured Justice Anu Malhotra Sajjan Kumar
High Profile Cases Media & Entertainment News Delhi High Court rejects plea alleging glorification of Sati in Padmaavat February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea seeking penal action against the producers and the director of Bollywood movie ‘Padmaavat’ for alleged glorification of the practice of ‘sati’. ‘Sati’ is an obsolete funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband’s pyre and the law prohibits it. A bench of Acting Chief Justice […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal advocate Mehmood Pracha CBFC Central Board of Film Certification featured glorification of Sati Justice C Hari Shankar obsolete funeral custom Padmaavat Sati
High Profile Cases HC dismisses petition in 2007 Gorakhpur riot case February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea seeking an independent probe into an FIR related to the 2007 Gorakhpur riot case in which the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and the then Gorakhpur MP, Yogi Adityanath, was one of the accused. A bench of Justices Krishna Murari and Akhilesh Chandra Sharma dismissed the petition filed […] Read more » 2007 Gorakhpur riot case Allahabad High Court Anju Chaudhri chief minister featured Gorakhpur MP Justice Akhilesh Chandra Sharma Justice Krishna Murari the then MLA Radha Mohan Agarwal then mayor of the city Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath
High Profile Cases PNB fraud: Centre opposes plea for SIT probe February 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today opposed in the Supreme Court a PIL seeking an independent probe and deportation of billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi in the over Rs 11,000 crore PNB fraud case, saying an FIR has been lodged and a probe was on. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud PNB PNB fraud PNB fraud PMLA case Punjab National Bank Reserve Bank of India Rs 11000 crore PNB fraud case
High Profile Cases Trial court to hear the case tomorrow in Bofors case February 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A BJP leader, who has been pursuing the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-off case for over a decade, today filed an application before a Delhi court asking it to grant permission to the CBI to reinvestigate the case. Advocate Ajay Agrawal, who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Rae Bareli against the then […] Read more » Bofors case featured trial court
High Profile Cases Sohrabuddin case : Bombay High Court poser to CBI over Tulsiram Prajapati’s escort team February 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the CBI to confirm whether the four police officials, who had accompanied Tulsiram Prajapati, an aide of Sohrabuddin Shaikh, to Ahmedabad just days before his death in an alleged encounter, had gone with him as his escort team on previous occasions as well. The court’s question came after Rajasthan […] Read more » an aide of Sohrabuddin Shaikh Bombay High Court featured HC poser to CBI Sohrabuddin case Tulsiram Prajapati Tulsiram Prajapati's escort team
High Profile Cases Court sends suspected IM terrorist Ariz Khan to custodial interrogation by police February 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has sent an alleged Indian Mujahideen terrorist, who had escaped during the 2008 Batla House encounter and was wanted in connection with several blasts, to 25 days police custody. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma gave Delhi Police 25 days to conduct Ariz Khan’s custodial interrogation. Khan, who was arrested on February 13, […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma Ariz Khan Ariz Khan's custodial interrogation Batla House case Batla House encounter custodial interrogation Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma featured IM terrorist Ariz Khan
High Profile Cases Use technology for welfare of children : Supreme Court February 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s status as a technological power house in the world would remain on paper if the state does not take advantage of its resources to benefit the children or track the missing ones, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme court, while stressing the need for use of technology in Juvenile Justice Boards (JJB) and […] Read more » Child Welfare Committees CWC featured JJB Justice Deepak Gupta Justice Madan B. Lokur Juvenile Justice Boards SC technology track the missing children Use technology for welfare of children welfare of children
