Top Law News Cycle rickshaws need of the hour, ban arbitrary: Court February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday termed the ban on cycle rickshaws on the city’s arterial roads “arbitrary” and stressed that non-motorised vehicles were the need of the hour in the wake of rising pollution and global warming. Read more »
Top Law News Court issues notice to MCD over ‘ghost’ employees February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and the state government over an alleged scam relating to ghost employees in the civic agency Read more »
Top Law News CBI defends clean chit to Tytler in anti-Sikh riots case February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday justified its closure report that gave a clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case before a city court. Read more »
Top Law News Apex court rues lack of basic amenities to people February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If words could bring warmth to the capital’s homeless in the biting winter cold, this was it. Read more »
Top Law News Farmer scores victory over president’s family members February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A humble, unemployed farmer fought for nearly three years to save his tiny two-acre land from none other than the family members of President Pratibha Patil – and succeeded here Wednesday. The president’s office declined to comment on the matter. Read more »
Top Law News CBI did not seek sanction to prosecute Justice Yadav: CJI February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Referring to news reports based on the condemnation by the bar, apex court secretary general said, "This is to clarify that no such request for sanction to prosecute a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has been made by the CBI to the CJI regarding the alleged delivery of cash at the judge's doorstep." Read more »
Top Law News Court sends Shibu Soren’s brother to judicial custody February 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Wednesday sent Lalu Soren, younger brother of Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren, to 14-day judicial custody in an eight-year-old hit and run case. Read more »
Top Law News Court adjourns Rathore’s case till March 10 February 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court adjourns Rathore’s case till March 10 Taking cognizance of the attack on disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore and his counsel Narayan Dutt Sharma, a local court here Wednesday adjourned the case in connection with his appeal against his conviction till March 10. Read more »
Top Law News Indian illegal immigrants in US up 64 percent last decade February 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India accounted for the third highest increase in the number of illegal immigrants in the US in 10 years, according to a new government report, though only 2 per cent of all illegal immigrants were Indians Read more »
Top Law News Apex court clears government way to acquire south Delhi land February 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has paved the way for acquisition of over 50,000 bigha south Delhi land for planned development of the national capital by the Union government. Read more »
Top Law News Court permits minor maintenance at Mayawati’s ‘dream projects’ February 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to take up some minor maintenance work at the memorial sites to various Dalit leaders in Lucknow, where all further construction and masonry work had been halted by the court last September Read more »
Top Law News Rathore attacker sent to police custody (Lead) February 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Central Bureau of Investigation special court held Rathore guilty in December of molesting 15-year-old Ruchika in Panchkula town in 1990 Read more »