Top Law News Delhi lawyers to strike work Thursday March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers of Delhi’s four district courts struck work Friday, protesting the Delhi High Court’s decision to debar top advocates R.K. Anand and I.U. Khan for four months after they were found guilty of attempting to bribe a key witness in the high-profile BMW hit-and-run case. “The strike was successful in all the four courts. The […] Read more »
Top Law News Court seeks response on three-year medical course (Lead) March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The health ministry’s plan to start a Rural MBBS course of three-and-a-half years to provide treatment in far-flung areas will create half baked professionals and will be discriminatory in nature, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Friday. “This step would be discriminatory to both the people who get treatment from such half baked professionals […] Read more »
Top Law News Lawsuit seeks derecognition of political parties March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to accord urgent hearing to a plea to derecognize major political parties for launching welfare schemes in the name of their leaders and issuing advertisements enhancing their poll prospects at the cost of the public exchequer. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice B.S. Chauhan […] Read more »
Top Law News Why no control over IOA, court asks government March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government how it was funding the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and why it had no control over it and other sports federations that had neither accountability nor transparency. A division bench of acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta questioned the government on a public […] Read more »
Top Law News Protests against proposed Green Hunt operation March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of people protested here Wednesday against the proposed Green Hunt anti-Maoist operation, alleging it would lead to human rights violations. The group, called the ‘Anti Operation Green Hunt Citizens Forum’, protested at the gate of the assembly here, raising slogans like ‘Stop Green Hunt. Stop using army against citizens of the country’. ‘The […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Women village heads still struggle for acceptance’ March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Even as all eyes are riveted on parliament over the Women’s Reservation Bill, female panchayat (village council) members gathered in the capital Wednesday said they still have to struggle for acceptance among their peers. Roshani Devi, who is a sarpanch (village head) in Haryana, said: ‘When I decided to take regular rounds of my village […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme Court reserves ruling on Lalu’s graft case March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on appeals filed by Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi and the CBI, challenging a Patna High Court order that permitted the Bihar government to prefer an appeal against a trial court’s verdict acquitting them in the disproportionate assets case, fallout of the […] Read more »
Top Law News Court issues notice for death due to falling in drain March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has asked the municipal corporation to remove all encroachments from public land in the capital, without giving any prior notice. “The MCD (Municipal Corporation of Delhi) has right to remove encroachments from public land without any notice,” Justice S.N. Dhingra said Friday. “No notice is required where encroachment of roads, public […] Read more »
Top Law News Grand Mufti urges Muslim women to enter politics March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A top Islamic cleric Wednesday welcomed the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha, describing it as ‘a great step towards women’s empowerment’. ‘This is a great step towards women’s empowerment. I would urge Indian Muslim women to enter politics and get themselves elected to parliament and state assemblies. They will have […] Read more »
Top Law News Rights activist continues fast after release from jail March 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Manipur human rights activist Irom Sharmila, who has been on a fast-unto-death for 10 years over the repeal of an armed forces act in the state, was under police supervision as she continued her fast despite being released by the court, officials said here Wednesday. The activist is protesting the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘One hurdle down, many more ahead for women’s bill’ March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on ‘One hurdle down, many more ahead for women’s bill’ Activists Wednesday lauded the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha but said that it was just one of the many hurdles it will face before women get true representation in governance. Manorama Bawa, patron of the All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), said she anxiously watched the proceedings in the Rajya Sabha […] Read more »
Top Law News Sajjan Kumar gets bail in anti-Sikh riots case March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and nine others were Wednesday granted bail by a city court in two cases related to their alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar granted bail to the accused, including Sajjan Kumar, after they all appeared before him. All the accused furnished a surety and […] Read more »