Media & Entertainment News CBI to court: Rajesh Talwar has no locus standi to argue January 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court here adjourned hearing in the Aarushi murder case till Jan 21 and asked the probe agency to provide all documents, including its closure report, to the victim’s parents even as the CBI said her father Rajesh Talwar had no ”locus standi” to argue. “On the basis of the findings of the […] Read more » CBI Court Rajesh Talwar
Media & Entertainment News CBI files fourth FIR, no mention of Kalmadi January 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI Thursday filed a fourth police complaint over corruption related to the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and raided at least 10 premises of four companies in the national capital region. Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi does not figure in the probe agency’s fresh complaint. ‘The CBI has registered a case against director general and […] Read more » CBI Commonwealth Games First Information Report Kalmadi
Media & Entertainment News Aarushi’s friends, family stage march, demand justice January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Braving the winter chill and holding placards with slogans like ‘We want justice for our friend’, friends and family of slain teenager Aarushi Talwar Thursday staged a protest at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi and asked for the case to be re-investigated. Aarushi’s classmate Fiza, 16, said: “We want justice. The CBI (Central Bureau of […] Read more » Aarushi justice
Media & Entertainment News Gujjars end agitation, assured job quota January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujjar community in Rajasthan late Wednesday called off their 17-day-old agitation for reservation in government jobs and said they had been assured five percent quota in government posts following several round of talks.”We have called off the agitation. We have reached an agreement with the state government,” said Roop Singh, spokesperson of the Gujjar […] Read more » agitation Gujjars
Media & Entertainment News Gujjars again talk to Rajasthan government January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 36-member Gujjar team began another round of talks Wednesday with the Rajasthan government even as the community continued to block rail tracks for the 17th day demanding job quotas. The delegation, led by retired army colonel K.S. Bainsla, opened negotiations with a three-member ministerial committee in a bid to end a dragging row over […] Read more » Gujjars K.S. Bainsla Rajasthan
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Kolkata doctors protest for Binayak Sen’s release January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing anguish and dissent over the life imprisonment of rights activist Binayak Sen, city-based medical practitioners, professors and students Tuesday held a protest here and started a signature campaign demanding his release. Over 250 doctors and students who assembled under the banner ‘Doctors in Solidarity: Free Binayak Sen Campaign’ joined the protest. ‘Binayak Sen was […] Read more » Binayak Sen
Media & Entertainment News If Binayak convicted wrongly, it’ll be corrected legally: Chidambaram January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Home Minister P. Chidambaram Tuesday said if rights activist Binayak Sen had been convicted wrongly for his Maoists links then it would be corrected through legal ways. ‘If he is wrongly convicted, it will be corrected in lawful ways,’ Chidambaram said, adding that the doctor-activist has been convicted by a court of law and ‘those […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram rights activist Binayak Sen
Media & Entertainment News Kalmadi ducks CBI, aides Bhanot and Bhore questioned January 4, 2011 / January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who was supposed to appear before the CBI for questioning about financial irregularities in the conduct of the October Games, evaded the investigative agency Tuesday, an official said.”We have no idea when he (Kalmadi) will appear for qestioning,” a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official told. However, Commonwealth […] Read more » Bhanot Bhore CBI Kalmadi
Media & Entertainment News Gujjar leader Bainsla to meet Ashok Gehlot January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Colonel (retd) K.S. Bainsla, leader of Rajasthan’s agitating Gujjar community, will Tuesday hold talks with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, even as the community’s stir for five percent reservation in government jobs entered its 16th day, disrupting some train services. Bainsla left Piloo Ka Pura near Bayana in Bharatpur district and is expected in Jaipur by […] Read more » Ashok Gehlot Bainsla
Criminal Law News Media & Entertainment News Supreme Court directive on bail in Shopian case July 25, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court asked the two senior police officers arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two women in Shopian to approach the Sessions Court in Jammu and Kashmir for bail. A Bench, comprising Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam, passed the order while disposing of special leave petitions […] Read more » Law News Legal News