Top Law News Nun Rape Case: Bishop Moves Kerala HC for anticipatory bail September 19, 2018 / September 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment KERALA: The senior Catholic priest Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, Tuesday filed an anticipatory bail petition in the Kerala High Court. The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Jalandhar would be appearing before the police probe team on Wednesday. Franco, 54, is accused of raping a Kottayam-based nun attached to the Missionaries of Jesus (MJ) […] Read more » featured Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan Nun Rape Case
Top Law News Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train: 1,000 affected farmers oppose land acquisition, approach HC September 19, 2018 / September 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment AHMEDABAD: As many as 1,000 farmers of Gujrat affected by the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet Train Project will approach the Supreme Court with a plea to stay the project. The farmers also submitted affidavits in the Gujarat High Court opposing the project. A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi is hearing […] Read more » bullet train Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy featured Justice V M Pancholi
Top Law News Bihar Shelter Home Rape Case: SC stays Patna HC order For a New probe team September 19, 2018 / September 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court stayed a Patna High Court order asking the CBI special director to set up a fresh team for Bihar’s Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case. The Apex Court bench comprising Justice MB Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta said changing the CBI team at this stage will be detrimental to the ongoing investigation. The high court had on […] Read more » Bihar Shelter Home Rape Case featured Justice Deepak Gupta Justice MB Lokur
Top Law News Koregaon-Bhima case: May order SIT probe if evidence cooked up, SC September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said it may order SIT probe if it found that evidence has been “cooked up” and the material supporting the arrest of the five rights activists in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case needed to be examined. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra extended till September 19 the house arrest of […] Read more » featured Koregaon-Bhima case
Top Law News Plea in HC challenging DUSU poll results September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court Monday challenging the Delhi University Students’ Union election results. The plea filed by three candidates alleged that EVMs were tampered with and questioned how “privately procured” EVMs could have been used in the polls held on September 12. The candidates sought securing of the Electronic […] Read more » DUSU poll results featured
Top Law News SC extends house arrest of rights activists till Sep 19 September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said that it will examine two days later whether there is material supporting the arrest of five rights activists in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra extended till September 19 the house arrest of the five rights activists–Varavara Rao, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves, […] Read more » 'house arrest' featured rights activists SC
Top Law News SC stays NGT order refusing exemption to two-wheelers from odd-even scheme September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday stayed the operation of the National Green Tribunal’s 2017 order which had directed that odd-even vehicle rotation scheme be made applicable to two-wheelers also in Delhi. A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Dipak Gupta was told by Additional Solicitor General (ASG) A N S Nadkarni, appearing for Delhi government […] Read more » featured NGT Odd-even scheme order refusing exemption to two-wheelers
Top Law News SC notice to Centre on plea seeking ban on 85 pesticides September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday agreed to examine a plea seeking ban on nearly 85 pesticides that are being used in India on the grounds that they pose health hazard. A bench of Justices Arun Misra and Vineet Saran issued notices to the Centre and other authorities concerned on the plea which also sought empowering state […] Read more » 85 pesticides Arun Misra and Vineet Saran featured The Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear plea seeking ban on 85 pesticides, notice to Centre September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court sought a response from Centre to examine a plea seeking ban on nearly 85 pesticides which have been posing health complications. A bench of Justices Arun Misra and Vineet Saran issued notices to the Centre and others on a plea by one Kavita Kuruganti who said empowering state governments to take decisions at their […] Read more » featured Justices Arun Misra justices vineet saran
Top Law News Rajiv assassination case: SC gave victims’ families permission to file additional documents September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, directed the victims’ families of the bomb blast which killed former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at Sriperumbudur in 1991, to amend their petitions of not releasing the convicts, and file fresh petitions after three weeks. The kins of those who had died in a bomb blast were objecting to the Tamil Nadu government’s decision to […] Read more » featured justices km joseph Justices Naveen Sinha justices rajan gogai rajiv gandhi assasination
Top Law News Bhima-Koregaon violence: Supreme Court says it may allow SIT probe if material is ‘cooked up’ September 18, 2018 / September 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court said that it may order an investigation a Special Investigation Team in activist arrest case if it is a cooked up story. We may quash the case here if it is a cooked up story. If it calls for our intervention, we will look into it,” said the top court. The court made the statement as it […] Read more » Bhima Koregaon violence chief justices dipak misra featured Justices A M Khanwilkar justices DY Chandrachud
Top Law News Plea in in Delhi High Court against poll outcome September 17, 2018 / September 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Three candidates of the Congress-backed National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) moved the Delhi High Court challenging the Delhi University Students’ Union election results, on the grounds that voting machines were allegedly tampered with. The plea filed by three candidates alleged that EVMs were tampered with and questioned how “privately procured” EVMs could have been used […] Read more » Delhi University Students' Union election results featured Justice A K Chawla justices S Ravindra Bhat
