Media & Entertainment News Delhi High Court urged to let all reappear at AIEEE May 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Delhi High Court urged to let all reappear at AIEEE The mother of a girl student, who appeared in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), Wednesday appealed to the Delhi High Court that all students who took the test be allowed to sit in the re-examination May 11. Schailka Tyagi, mother of student Manisha Tyagi, filed the petition in the court of Justice Kailash […] Read more » AIEEE Delhi High Court
Media & Entertainment News Striking Air India pilots seek prime minister’s intervention May 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With both the court and the management taking a stern view on their persistence with their stir despite contempt proceedings, 600-odd pilots of Air India on Tuesday sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to end the impasse. As the strike entered the seventh day, the state-run carrier has cancelled 165 flights in the domestic and […] Read more » Air India intervention Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Veena Birbal pilots prime minister seek striking
Media & Entertainment News Missing kids of Delhi – children of a lesser god? April 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment When toddler Ishaan, the son of a businessman, went missing, Delhi Police went into a tizzy, deploying 15 teams to look for him and tracing him in two days. Not everyone’s so lucky though. According to official figures, 550 children have gone missing in the capital since January, of whom only 146 have been found. […] Read more » children Delhi lesser god Missing kids
Media & Entertainment News Yeddyurappa land grab: High court told to decide in six weeks April 30, 2011 / April 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday rejected a petition challenging the Karnataka High Court’s interim order staying proceedings against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and family in an alleged land grab case before the Lokayukta, but asked the high court to decide the matter in six weeks. An apex court bench of Justice V.S. Sirpurkar and Justice T.S. […] Read more » High Court Justice T.S. Thakur Justice V.S. Sirpurkar Prevention of Corruption Act Supreme Court Yeddyurappa land grab
Media & Entertainment News Yeddyurappa land grab: Supreme Court asks high court to decide April 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday rejected a petition challenging the Karnataka High Court’s order staying criminal proceedings against Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and family in an alleged land grab case, but asked the lower court to take up the matter again. The apex court bench of Justice V.S. Sirpurkar and Justice T.S. Thakur asked the petitioner, […] Read more » High Court Justice T.S. Thakur Justice V.S. Sirpurkar land grab Supreme Court Yeddyurappa
Media & Entertainment News Senior official got extension despite CVC’s objections? April 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As the anti-corruption movement heats up in the country, documents obtained through RTI reveal that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) had objected to an extension for a top level public sector official but her term was renewed by the government for five years this year. Anju Banerjee was appointed chairperson and managing director (CMD) of […] Read more » Anju Banerjee CVC's despite extension objections Senior official
Media & Entertainment News Shiney Ahuja gets bail from Bombay High Court April 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Wednesday granted bail to Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, who is convicted of raping his maid. A Mumbai sessions court had on March 30 sentenced the actor to seven years in jail after he was found guilty of raping his maid in June 2009. “Shiney has been granted bail today on a […] Read more » bail Bombay High Court Shiney Ahuja
Media & Entertainment News Teachers cry foul over scrapping of Anna’s function April 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Teachers at Lucknow University Wednesday said the varsity administration’s decision to cancel a function involving social activist Anna Hazare is aimed at crippling his campaign against corruption and they would seek the governor’s intervention. “We will convene a general body meeting of teachers to decide our strategy against the varsity administration, whose decision is aimed […] Read more » Anna's cry foul function Lucknow University Teachers Association LUTA scrapping Teachers
Media & Entertainment News Indians continue to support Hazare through SMSes April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Despite the recent controversies surrounding civil society members of the Lokpal Bill drafting committee, support for Anna Hazare’s anti-graft campaign continues unabated, as evident from the thousands of SMSes pouring in from across the country, the organisers said Tuesday. An SMS that read – ‘Do you want to volunteer for Anna Hazare’s movement against corruption […] Read more » Anna Hazare Arvind Kejriwal continue IAC India Against Corruption Indians Jantar Mantar Kiran Bedi SMSes support Swami Agnivesh
Media & Entertainment News CWG scam: Suresh Kalmadi sent to 8-day police custody April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former chief of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi was on Tuesday sent to eight days police custody by a city court here. Kalmadi, who was arrested on Monday for alleged irregularities in awarding contracts for the October 2010 Games, had spent the night in CBI custody. 66-year-old Kalmadi has been accused of awarding […] Read more » CWG scam flung police custody Slipper Suresh Kalmadi
Media & Entertainment News Pragya Thakur alleges Sonia, Digvijay, Pawar behind Malegaon blasts April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, facing trial in the 2006 Malegaon blast and 2007 Sunil Joshi murder, Monday refuted her involvement and alleged that Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Congress leader Digvijay Singh, union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and slain anti-terrorist squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare were the main conspirators in both cases. Pragya was brought to Indore […] Read more » alleges Digvijay Singh Malegaon blasts Pragya Thakur Sharad Pawar Sonia Gandhi
Media & Entertainment News Sabarimala ‘celestial light’ man-made, admit authorities April 25, 2011 / April 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The ‘celestial light’ at the Sabarimala temple on Makara Sankranthi day is actually man-made, the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) told the Kerala High Court Monday, three months after a stampede killed 102 pilgrims there. The board, which oversees the functioning of all temples in Kerala’s southern districts, said this in an affidavit to the court, […] Read more » authorities celestial light celestial Makara Jyothi light Kerala High Court Kerala Yukthivadi Sangham KYS man-made Sabarimala Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB)