Media & Entertainment News Bhopal tragedy: Supreme Court questions CBI for delay in plea April 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the CBI for approaching it 16 years after it had diluted in September 1996 the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the accused in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. A five-judge special bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia raised the question on delay and […] Read more » Attorney General GE Vahanvati Bhopal tragedy CBI Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Bhopal tragedy: Hearing on harsher charges begins Wednesday April 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Wednesday hear petitions of the CBI and the central government for restoration of stringent charges against the then head of Union Carbide India Keshub Mahindra and six others in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy case and enhancemment of compensation for victims. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved the apex court […] Read more » Bhopal tragedy Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia J.N. Mukund Justice Aftab Alam Justice Altamas Kabir Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice R.V. Raveendran K.V. Shetty methyl isocyanate (MIC) S.I. Quereshi S.P. Chaudhary senior executives Kishore Kamdar
Media & Entertainment News Anna Hazare has become symbol for a better India April 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Anna Hazare has become symbol for a better India It needed a 72-year-old man with no pretensions, a school dropout at that, to wake up India. And in just five days, Anna Hazare proved that it wasn’t enough to have an honest prime minister if the country really needed to battle and overcome the cancer of corruption. That he managed to unite a people […] Read more » Anna Hazare better India symbol
Media & Entertainment News Anna Hazare calls for ‘Jail Bharo’ campaign on April 13 April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As his fast-unto-death against corruption entered the fourth day Friday and talks with the government stalled on some points, social activist Anna Hazare asked his supporters to court arrest April 13 under a ‘Jail Bharo Andolan’. The septuagenarian had earlier called for the ‘Jail Bharo’ campaign April 12. Anna Hazare’s announcement came after Human Resource […] Read more »
Media & Entertainment News Sonia pleads but Hazare not to give up as talks fail April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment His crusade against corruption triggering a virtual tsunami in India, social reformer Anna Hazare Thursday vowed to fast until death even as Congress president Sonia Gandhi urged him to end the agitation saying his demands will get the government’s “full attention”. Addressing thousands of young and old at the protest venue here, Anna Hazare, who […] Read more » Hazare pleads Sonia talks fail
Media & Entertainment News Hazare undeterred by slight weakness, support swells April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The third day of Anna Hazare’s fast-unto-death has started taking a toll on the social activist’s health, with doctors saying Thursday that his blood pressure was slightly high. However, the feisty leader remained unperturbed as he continued to smile and wave at the ever-growing sea of supporters at Jantar Mantar, in the vicinity of Parliament […] Read more » Hazare Jantar Mantar swells undeterred weakness
Media & Entertainment News Court restricts cable operators from showing ‘Thank You’ April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday restrained cable operators nationwide from distributing, telecasting and broadcasting the forthcoming release “Thank You” and/or otherwise infringing the copyright, production house UTV said in a statement. Those thinking of enjoying on their home TV sets the Akshay Kumar starrer through cable network will have to scrap their plans after UTV, […] Read more » Akshay Kumar Bobby Deol cable operators Celina Jaitly Court Delhi High Court Irrfan Khan restricts Rimmi Sen Sonam Kapoor Suniel Shetty Thank You
Media & Entertainment News Please don’t legalise prostitution, say victims April 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Please don’t legalise prostitution, say victims Twenty-year-old Noor was just 10 when she was sold off to a brothel owner and forced into sex trade in West Bengal. She was rescued by activists a decade later and went on to become a vociferous community mobiliser. Noor says prostitution should not be legalised. ‘Prostitution is a vicious world. If a woman gets […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation don’t legalise prostitution
Media & Entertainment News Notice issued to MCD on community hall site April 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought a response from the Muncipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) after it failed to identify a site for the construction of a community hall in a posh south Delhi colony. Issuing notices to Delhi’s civic agency and also the builder DLF Universal, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra community hall site Delhi High Court issued Justice Reva Khetrapal MCD notice
High Profile Cases Media & Entertainment News CBI to probe Raja associate’s death April 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will investigate the alleged suicide of Sadiq Batcha, a close associate of former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja now in jail in the 2G spectrum scam. A Supreme Court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly was told by CBI senior counsel K.K. Venugopal that a request for […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaisingh Andimuthu Raja associate's death CBI CBI senior counsel K.K. Venugopal Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Raja Sadiq Batcha Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Declining child sex ratio matter of concern: Tirath March 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Concerned at India’s child sex ratio declining to 914 females per 1,000 males, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Thursday said she would take up the matter with ‘problem states’. According to Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner C. Chandramouli, who released the provisional data for Census 2011, the child sex ratio (0-6 […] Read more » C. Chandramouli child Commissioner concern Declining Krishna Tirath matter Registrar General of India and Census sex ratio Tirath Women and Child Development Minister
Media & Entertainment News 50 percent women married as minors: Experts March 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nearly 50 percent of marriages in India involve minors – children under the age of 18 years, thanks to the poor implementation of the law, experts said Monday. ‘The consequence of child marriage is in conflict with the development aspirations of the country,’ Ranjana Kumari, president of the WomenPowerConnect (WPC), said at a national workshop […] Read more » 50 percent child marriage domestic violence Experts female foeticide married minors' Prohibition of Child marriage Act women WomenPowerConnect WPC