Top Law News Court notice to centre on land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh October 1, 2009 / October 2, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, The Supreme Court today sought the central government’s reply to a lawsuit by the Uttar Pradesh government challenging acquisition of 21 acres of land to widen the state’s link road connecting the Commonwealth Games village to Noida. Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan also sought explanations from the Delhi government, while issuing notices […] Read more »
Top Law News Women panchayat members take oath as Ahimsa messengers October 1, 2009 / October 2, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Radha Devi fight the polls and won with a good margin from Rupari Kala in block Chaksu in Rajasthan. When Radha Devi first decided to fight panchayat elections four years ago, she was threatened by the elected representative in her area, by a man. Radha Devi, is one of the 25 women panchayat members who were Thursday […] Read more »
Top Law News Britain student visa seekers queue up to beat changed rules September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Britain student visa seekers queue up to beat changed rules Hundreds of youth and their relatives camped in the complex housing the British visa application centre of Chandigarh for the last two nights, seeking to beat the Oct 1 deadline when the changes in guidelines for student visas come into force. Presently, applicants may just keep the maintenance money in their bank accounts for a […] Read more »
Top Law News Quattrocchi case set for closure, government tells Supreme Court September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi, Sep 29 In Quattrocchi case the government told that ‘it has decided to close all cases against fugitive Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, accused of receiving Rs.7 billion in illegal kickbacks in the Bofors gun purchase scandal of the mid-1980s’. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium appearing for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), told the […] Read more » Quattrocchi case
Top Law News Apex court bans unauthorised religious places on public land September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Mukundkam Sharma also asked various governments to decide the fate of millions of existing unauthorised places of worship on public land “on case to case basis”. The Supreme Court banned all unauthorised new and future construction of places of worship on public land and sought strict compliance of […] Read more »
Top Law News Right to Information in problems in Jammu & Kashmir September 29, 2009 / September 30, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Right to Information in problems in Jammu & Kashmir Some activists claims that after six months of the Omar Abdullah government in Jammu and Kashmir brought out the J&K Right to Information (JKRTI) Act 2009, but till now it remains a non-starter. The state government has not set up an information commission as yet and several government departments have not appointed Public Information Officers. […] Read more »
Top Law News India, Holland to sign social security pact in October September 28, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi and Dutch Minister of Social Welfare and Employment Jan Piet Hein Donner had announced the pact during the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Europe (Indian Diaspora meeting) Sep 19 at The Hague, EuAsiaNews reported, citing Dutch website www.Indiawijzer.nl. Wahid Saleh, a prominent Indian social worker in the Netherlands who runs the […] Read more »
Top Law News No outstation cheque bounce cases to be heard in Delhi: High Court September 28, 2009 / September 28, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on No outstation cheque bounce cases to be heard in Delhi: High Court A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan, while hearing a public interest petition earlier this week, said: “We direct return of complaints of cheque bounce cases without jurisdiction.” “Courts are flooded with complaints that cannot be entertained and thus unnecessarily clogging the dockets of the subordinate courts. In fact, judges […] Read more »
Top Law News Sikh Students can carry Kirpan in US schools September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Now Sikh students studing in the schools run by the National Heritage Academies in US can carry a ‘Kirpan’, on school time. United Sikhs, a Sikh Organisation Group has advocated to NHA, the National Heritage Academies (NHA), which runs nearly 61 schools in the states of Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Ohio, […] Read more »
Top Law News Sukhram’s Telecom Scam Case referred to a larger high court bench September 25, 2009 / September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court a single-judge bench referred a corruption case against former telecom minister Sukhram to a larger bench, citing several legal issues. Justice S. Murlidhar remarked. “There are certain legal issues which I have framed in this case and it should be decided by a division bench,” “When can a decision be taken whether […] Read more »
Top Law News LAW-KERALA-LAVALIN CASE TWO LAST KOCHI September 24, 2009 / September 26, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vijayan’s counsel Mr Damodaran filed a criminal miscellaneous petition for a direction to the central investigating agency. When the court asked for four months time to complete the investigation in the case, the court rejected the request and posted the case for further hearing on December 30. The case relates to the alleged irregularities involving […] Read more »
Top Law News Mayawati gets another jolt from Allahabad HC September 22, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Allahabad HC gave yet another jolt to UP CM Mayawati as it stayed the construction of a boundary wall around the site of a memorial to late Kanshi Ram. court order came on a PIL moved by lawyer Sangam Lal Pandey. It relates to the site of the recently demolished Lucknow district jail, where a […] Read more »