Top Law News RBI may lift CRR, rates: Bankers April 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Growing concerns about runaway inflation and signs of stable economic recovery may prompt the Reserve Bank to hike its key short-term rates and cash reserve ratio by 0.25-0.5% at its annual monetary policy on April 20, top bankers today said. The apex bank, which began unwinding its monetary stimulus by upping the CRR (banks’ portion […] Read more »
Top Law News DDA asked to compensate Rs.15,000 to RTI applicant April 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to pay Rs.15,000 as compensation to an RTI applicant who ‘suffered’ because the housing agency provided the information after a delay of about four months. The decision came on an application filed by Govind Prasad Aggarwal, a resident of Haryana, who had sought […] Read more »
Top Law News Child killer couple want to have own baby April 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It seems life has come full circle for this couple in Punjab. Jasbir Singh, who is on death row, and his wife Sonia, who is serving life imprisonment, now want conjugal rights to bear a child. However, the family of the teenaged boy they kidnapped and killed in Hoshiarpur town in 2005 is vehemently opposed […] Read more »
Top Law News Justice Dinakaran yet to get transfer order April 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran, battling land grab allegations, has not received any communication so far that he has been transferred to another high court, the court’s spokesperson said on Saturday. “There is no communication so far,” the spokesperson told IANS. “No,” said the spokesperson when asked whether there was any talk […] Read more »
Top Law News Case against four AMU officials for breach of privacy April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court ordered a case to be registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against four Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) officials and two journalists for breaching the privacy of a gay varsity teacher S.R. Siras, officials said. Siras, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances Wednesday, had moved the chief judicial magistrate’s […] Read more »
Top Law News Gujarat police officer caught taking Rs. 3 lakh bribe April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A deputy superintendent of police-rank officer, caught while accepting a bribe of Rs.3 lakh, was Friday remanded in police custody for three days. P.S. Rana of the Ahmedabad rural division was nabbed accepting the money to favour the investigation in a case. The anti-corruption bureau laid a trap after Dharmendra Upadhyay lodged a complaint that […] Read more »
Top Law News Education department pulled up for ‘vague’ report on fees April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday pulled up the state government’s Directorate of Education (DoE) for filing a “vague” and incomplete status report about the fee hike in various schools of the capital. A division bench of Justices A.K.Sikri and Siddharth Mridul told the department to file a complete status report by April 23. According […] Read more »
Top Law News Kobad Ghandy’s trial to start April 15 April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy’s trial under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act will start April 15. A city court Friday transfered his case to a sessions judge for further proceedings. Ghandy will be brought before the court April 15. The court also agreed to provide copies of CD/DVD and other materials recovered from Ghandy […] Read more »
Top Law News Court to hear plea on allowing worship at Ayodhya April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a plea for easing restrictions imposed by the authorities on worshiping at the make-shift Ram temple built at the demolished Babri mosque site in Ayodhya. “We will consider your plea,” a bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Deepak Verma assured former union minister Subramanian […] Read more »
Top Law News High Court allows lawyer to argue case in Hindi April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on High Court allows lawyer to argue case in Hindi The Delhi High Court Friday allowed a lawyer to argue his case in Hindi, giving the official English language the go-by. Advocate Das Goninder Singh filed an application before Justice Rekha Sharma demanding that he should be allowed to argue his case in Hindi. Allowing the application, the judge heard his arguments in Hindi. However, […] Read more »
Top Law News Sukna scam: Retired general’s plea dismissed April 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed former military secretary, Lt. Gen. (retd) Avadesh Prakash’s plea against launch of a fresh court of enquiry (CoI) against him to ascertain his role in the Sukna land scam. A bench of Justice V.S. Sirpurkar and Justice M.K. Sharma dismissed Prakash’s plea, saying: ‘You are fighting a lost battle here.’ […] Read more »
Top Law News Efforts to cut a lead container led to radiation: Chavan April 9, 2010 / April 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan said efforts to cut a lead container carrying a radioactive substance led to radiation in a west Delhi industrial area. Interacting with media here, Chavan said experts have identified the material as Cobalt-60. Due to the radiation one person was seriously injured, while five others […] Read more »