Top Law News Court adjourns Rathore’s case till April 15 March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court on Wednesday adjourned till April 15 the molestation case against former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore after being told that his counsel was recovering from an injury. Additional District and Sessions Judge Raj Shekhar Attri gave the ruling. Rathore was accompanied by his wife and another counsel, Abha Rathore. His main counsel, Narayan […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Rani Jhansi would be proud today of her nation’ March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As India took a decisive step towards giving its women one-third representation in legislatures, many women keenly watched history being made on their TV sets, celebrated the moment in their own small ways and said their country has made them proud. Clearing the first hurdle, the Women’s Reservation Bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha […] Read more »
Top Law News Four more missing tribals traced, apex court told March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh government told the Supreme Court Tuesday that it has traced four more of the 12 tribals who were missing. The apex court was moved for a probe into the alleged killings of 10 villagers by security forces in the state’s Dantewada district during anti-Maoist operations. Chhattisgarh government counsel Atul Jha told a bench […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court raps Delhi for not filling teachers’ posts March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Government had to contend with the Supreme Court’s rap on Tuesday for its failure to fill up over 200 vacant posts of government school teachers and principals for the last two years when free education for students up to 14 years has been made a fundamental right. A bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari […] Read more »
Top Law News The women’s bill was worth the risk, says Sonia March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment ‘I am very happy,’ Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared Tuesday after the Rajya Sabha passed the women’s bill to reserve a third of seats in all legislatures for women, adding the ‘larger picture’ of women’s empowerment was worth the political risk that the ruling coalition had taken. Speaking to NDTV’s Barkha Dutt, Gandhi said she […] Read more »
Top Law News Court extends ‘godman’s’ police custody March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court Tuesday sent so-called godman Shiv Murat Dwivedi, accused of running a prostitution racket, to police custody for six more days. Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria accepted the police plea that it had to take Dwivedi, arrested with seven others including six women, from south Delhi Feb 26 to other places for investigation. They […] Read more »
Top Law News Haryana will have separate high court: Hooda March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Tuesday reiterated that his state will have a separate high court in Chandigarh. ‘The opposition is raising this issue of a separate high court of Haryana, and we will certainly take up this matter strongly in the coming days. The chief justice of India has agreed in principle that […] Read more »
Top Law News Indian courts can’t decide NRI family disputes: high court March 10, 2010 / March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday ruled that Indian courts have no jurisdiction to adjudicate family disputes of India-born foreign nationals. Justice S.N. Dhingra quashed the order of a lower court that allowed an Indian-American wife to get custody of her child when she came to India to meet her parents, and said the court had […] Read more »
Top Law News Women’s bill ‘historic step forward’, says PM March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said the historic women’s reservation bill set to pass in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday was “a historic step forward” for the emancipation of the Indian women. “This is a momentous development in the long journey of empowering our women,” he said at the end of a lively debate on the bill […] Read more »
Top Law News Honeymoon should not be televised, court tells Rahul Mahajan March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court Tuesday allowed Rahul Mahajan to leave the country on a honeymoon with his newly wedded wife but imposed a condition that the trip will not be telecast on any reality show. Special judge J.P.S. Malik granted Rahul the permission and released his passport after he furnished a fixed deposit of Rs.500,000 alongwith […] Read more »
Top Law News PM apologises to Ansari March 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday apologised to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for the “disrespect shown to you” by MPs opposed to the women’s reservation bill. “I owe you a profound apology for the disrespect shown to you. These things should never have happened. They have happened, and we have to reflect how to […] Read more »
Top Law News Soren fails to appear in murder case March 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Soren fails to appear in murder case Chief Minister Shibu Soren Monday failed to turn up in a district court in Jharkhand in a 36-year-old double murder case. Additional District Judge N.N. Singh deferred the hearing to April 3 and asked Soren to be present in the court. Soren’s lawyer said he could not appear in the court as the assembly session […] Read more »