High Profile Cases HC asks Pune police if EOW can probe Osho trust funds case January 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the Pune police commissioner if a case pertaining to alleged fraud and misappropriation of funds of the Osho Rajneesh Trust can be transferred to the Economic Offences Wing. A division bench headed by Justice B R Gavai was hearing a petition filed by Pune resident Yogesh Thakker, alleging that […] Read more » featured Osho trust funds case
High Profile Cases Citizens’ body asks HC if yoga and meditation classes are taxable January 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A citizens’ body has urged the Bombay High Court to decide whether providing yoga and meditation classes was taxable under the law. The Malabar Hill Citizens’ Forum wanted the court to clarify whether these classes are covered under the ‘health and fitness services’ category of the Finance Act. A division bench of justices S C […] Read more » CESTAT Customs Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal featured featuredSupreme Court The Malabar Hill Citizens' Forum yoga and meditation yoga and meditation classes are taxable
High Profile Cases SC questions locus of BJP leader who filed appeal in Bofors case January 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked BJP leader Ajay Agrawal to explain his locus in filing an appeal in the politically-sensitive Rs 64 crore Bofors pay-offs case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra noted that the CBI has not filed any appeal in the apex court challenging the May 31, 2005 Delhi High Court […] Read more » Bofors case Bofors pay-offs case Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court featured Justice R S Sodhi retired Justice J D Kapoor
High Profile Cases Coal scam: Supply documents to Jindal and others January 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court on Monday directed the CBI to hand over some documents filed along with the charge sheet to industrialist Naveen Jindal and others in a coal scam case against them.Special Judge Bharat Parashar passed the direction after the accused informed the court that they had not received certain papers which the agency had filed with its final […] Read more » coal scam court directs CBI featured industrialist Naveen Jindal Supply documents to Jindal Urtan North coal block in Madhya Pradesh
High Profile Cases I was pressurised to withdraw Loya plea in SC : Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla January 13, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Congress leader, who filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of Special CBI judge B H Loya, today alleged he was pressurised by a senior advocate to withdraw his petition. Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla, who had filed the petition, said just before his plea was […] Read more » B H Loya CBI judge Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla featured Justice Arun Mishra Justice M M Shantanagoudar Loya mysterious death of Special CBI judge B H Loya Special CBI judge B H Loya
High Profile Cases SC to hear tomorrow pleas for probe in judge B H Loya’s death January 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear tomorrow two separate pleas seeking independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud, in the forenoon, took note of the […] Read more » B H Loya B H Loya's death Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured judge B H Loya's death Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case
High Profile Cases SC to form fresh SIT to monitor probe into 1986 anti-Sikh riot cases January 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would constitute a fresh three-member SIT, to be headed by a former high court judge, to monitor probe into 186 anti-Sikh riot cases, that followed the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, in which investigations were closed A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » 1986 anti-Sikh riot cases anti-Sikh riots Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Petitioner S Gurlad Singh Kahlon Pramod Asthana an IPS officer of 1986 batch
High Profile Cases Bilkis gangrape: SC for Gujarat’s reply on compensation January 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea demanding exemplary compensation for Bilkis Bano, who was gangraped during the 2002 riots in Gujarat, today led the Supreme Court to seek the response of the state government. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the Gujarat government seeking its reply […] Read more » 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case Bilkis gangrape Chief Justice Dipak Misra featured Justice D.Y. Chandrachud Justices A M Khanwilkar
High Profile Cases Plea seeks SIT probe into rationalist M M Kalburgi’s murder January 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Slain author and rationalist M M Kalburgi’s wife today approached the Supreme Court seeking a probe by Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the murder of her husband in 2015. The apex court sought the response of probe agencies NIA and CBI and the governments of Maharashtra and Karnataka within six weeks on her allegation that […] Read more » featured Govindrao Pansare M M Kalburgi murder M.M. Kalburgi Narendra Achyut Dabholkar Slain author and rationalist M M Kalburgi
High Profile Cases Gujarat cops for HRD ministry reply on complaint against Setalvad January 9, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A complaint has been lodged with the Gujarat police charging Teesta Setalvad and her NGO Sabrang Trust with trying to “mix religion with politics” and spreading disharmony through the curricular material prepared for the erstwhile UPA government which had given it a grant of about Rs 1.4 crore. The complaint, lodged with the Ahmedabad city […] Read more » featured Gujarat Central University Vice Chancellor S A Bari Ministry official Gaya Prasad Setalvad Supreme Court lawyer Abhijit Bhattacharjee Teesta Setalvad
High Profile Cases PMLA case: 2nd charge sheet filed against Misa Bharti and her husband January 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a second charge sheet against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Misa Bharti and her husband in a money laundering case before a Delhi court, which today kept both charge sheets for consideration on February 5. Irked over the repeated filing of charge sheets by the ED in connection […] Read more » 2nd charge sheet filed ED featured Misa Bharti PMLA case Prevention of Money Laundering Act Shailesh Kumar Special Judge N K Malhotra
High Profile Cases Give report on Rohini ashram founder’s whereabouts: HC to CBI January 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today termed as “extremely suspicious” the conduct of the founder of a north Delhi-based ashram where girls were allegedly kept in illegal confinement and asked the CBI to give a report on his whereabouts. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar prima facie found substance […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal CBI Delhi High Court featured HC Justice C Hari Shankar Rohini ashram Rohini ashram founder’s whereabouts Virender Dev Dixit
