Top Law News Court allows expelled student to sit for examination February 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday allowed a Class 11 student expelled from his school for allegedly molesting a girl to sit for his final term examination. Justice G.S. Sistani stayed the expulsion order served on the student by the Chander Shekhar Azad Sarvodya Bal Vidyalaya, New Friends Colony, subject to the condition that the petitioner […] Read more »
Top Law News Sajjan Kumar gets anticipatory bail in 1984 riot cases February 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress leader Sajjan Kumar was on Friday granted anticipatory bail by Delhi High Court in two 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases. Earlier on Thursday, Delhi Police suspended a personal security officer of Sajjan Kumar for making a false diary entry on the leader’s whereabouts which, police claim, helped Kumar give his escorts the slip and go […] Read more »
Top Law News Madhya Pradesh allowed to resume work on dam projects February 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday permitted the Madhya Pradesh government to resume the stalled canal work for the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar dam projects, saying construction work that had been going on for years cannot be stopped. ‘A construction work which has been going on for 15 years cannot be stopped like this. Even the photographs […] Read more »
Top Law News Cabinet clears Women’s Reservation Bill February 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Cabinet has cleared the Women’s Resrvation Bill which provides for 33 per cent reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state assemblies. The bill was easily one of the most contentious pieces of legislation to be considered by Parliament. It has been hanging fire for close to 14 years due to lack of political […] Read more »
Top Law News Ensure better quality of Delhi roads, court tells MCD February 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Ensure better quality of Delhi roads, court tells MCD While the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is busy re-surfacing the city’s roads ahead of the Commonwealth Games, the civic agency was Thursday told by the Delhi High Court to ensure “better life” for the roads so that they do not “crumble with the onset of the monsoon”. Justice Kailash Gambhir said, “The MCD shall […] Read more »
Top Law News Court employee flings slipper at judge February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman employee of a court in Andhra Pradesh Thursday flung her slipper at the judge in a court room after alleging that he had humiliated her. Police said they have arrested Radha Rani, a stenographer in a family court, for throwing the slipper at Fourth Additional District Judge Shanmugam. The judge has also suspended […] Read more »
Top Law News CIC orders disciplinary action against MCD employee February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to take disciplinary action against one of its employees for not fulfilling his duty as prescribed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The decision came on an RTI application filed by Hari Ram who had sought some information from the multi-level […] Read more »
Top Law News Procedures violated in ordering my court martial: Avdhesh Prakash February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lt. Gen. (retd) Avadesh Prakash, the former military secretary at army headquarters who has won a temporary reprieve against a court martial ordered against him, alleges that the Indian Army chief violated a long-standing military practice in recommending the action. The army chief, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, had violated a rule in place since 1993 that […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Hirakud dam is failing, farmers are killing themselves’ February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dozens of farmers have committed suicide in Orissa in the past one year as the Hirakud dam is no longer serving its purpose, says a new study that warns of a grimmer situation in the coming days if urgent steps are not taken. The dam, built across the Mahanadi river, about 350 km from here […] Read more »
Top Law News Court sends MCD engineer to jail for seven days February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Coming down heavily on a building firm which carried out illegal constructions by misleading the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), the Delhi High Court Tuesday asked it to pay the civic agency a fine of Rs.200,000 . Justice Gita Mittal slammed Chiranji Properties Ltd for misleading the Lt Governor and the MCD by asking for […] Read more »
Top Law News MCD ‘ghost’ employees: court demands inquiry report February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to file a detailed inquiry report over an alleged scam relating to ‘ghost’ employees in the civic agency. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta directed the MCD to file a detailed inquiry report by April […] Read more »
Top Law News Admit economically weak students, court tells schools February 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up a few private schools for not giving admission to students from economically weaker sections of the society. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta pulled up Modern School and the Indian School for filing vague and baseless affidavits with regard to the […] Read more »