Top Law News Supreme Court: Examine US Vietnam war veteran’s asylum plea May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has asked Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati to examine a plea by US Vietnam war veteran Jeff Knaebel seeking political asylum in India. Knaebel describes himself as a practitioner of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violence. A bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice H.L. Dattu told Vahanvati that the petitioner was seeking relief […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi serial blasts: Charges filed against two May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police on Saturday filed a charge-sheet against two suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists accused of involvement in the 2008 Delhi serial blasts The chargesheet against Salman Ahmad and Mohammed Shahzad was submitted in a sealed cover to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. The court will take it up May 20. Baweja May 5 allowed […] Read more »
Top Law News Frame charges against Sajjan Kumar for 1984 riots: Court May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court on Saturday ordered framing of charges against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and seven others for allegedly killing five people during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Sessions Judge Sunita Gupta passed the order. The court will now hear the matter May 18 when Kumar and others will present their defence. Sajjan Kumar, Khushal […] Read more »
Top Law News Slain scribe’s mother denied bail May 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Jharkhand’s Koderma district on Saturday rejected the bail petition of slain scribe Nirupama Pathak’s mother Sudha, arrested on charges of killing her daughter. Chief Judicial Magistrate NK Agrawal rejected the bail petition while police in Koderma continued to interrogate Sudha in jail in connection with her daughter’s death. Police had filed a […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects plea on Prabhakaran’s mother (Lead) May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday rejected a plea seeking direction to the central government to fly the ailing 86-year-old mother of the slain Tamil Tigers chief to Chennai for medical treatment. The mother of Velupillai Prabhakaran, Parvathi Ammal, 86, who is suffering from paralysis, is presently in Colombo. The apex court said that for coming to […] Read more »
Top Law News Former MCI president’s judicial custody extended May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Friday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of former Medical Council of India (MCI) president Ketan Desai and three others arrested in a corruption case. Additional Sessions Judge O.P. Saini asked the jail authorities to present Desai, J.P. Singh, Kanwaljit Singh and Sukhwinder Singh before court May 28. Desai was arrested […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court denies bail to former MP jailed for murder May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed the bail plea of criminal-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh, a former Lok Sabha MP serving life sentence for the murder of a Bihar district magistrate in 1994. Mohan was sentenced to life term for killing Gopalganj district magistrate G. Krishnaiah Dec 5, 1994. Read more »
Top Law News Apex court lawyer gets five-year jail for graft May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Meghalaya Thursday sentenced a Supreme Court lawyer, Halida Khatoon, to five years in jail on charges of trying to tamper with evidence in a corruption case against her. Special Judge S.R. Sen also fined Khatoon Rs.5,000 for bribing a CBI constable Rs.1 lakh in exchange for […] Read more »
Top Law News No bail to maid servant who defrauded employers May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday rejected the bail application of a maid servant who allegedly transferred the property of her employers to her name as well as fraudulently withdrew money from their bank accounts. Denying the bail, Justice S.N.Aggarwal said: “Taking stock of all the facts and circumstances of the case, I do not find […] Read more »
Top Law News Trial judge faces high court flak for poor knowledge May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Thursday slammed a trial court judge for lacking elementary knowledge of law and directed him to hear arguments afresh in a murder case. A division bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Suresh Kait directed the trial court judge to hear arguments expeditiously and complete the hearing of the arguments by […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to help legislator who holds court May 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday declined to interfere with the Allahabad High Court’s proceedings looking into allegations that a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator from Uttar Pradesh holds a parallel court and dispenses justice. A bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar let the high court deal with the matter […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court okays company law tribunal May 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today cleared the decks for setting up of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to deal with disputes related to companies by upholding the validity of the 2002 amendments to the Companies Act with certain conditions. Once the Tribunal is established, all company-related matters pending with the Company Law Board, the Board […] Read more »