Top Law News Man gets death sentence for sodomising and killing minor boy August 14, 2018 / August 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Madhya Pradesh has awarded death sentence to a 20-year-old man for sodomising and killing a 13-year-old boy. Datia’s Special Judge Hitendra Dwivedi awarded the punishment to Nand Kishore yesterday while the case of a 15-year-old co-accused was transferred to a juvenile court, public prosecutor Pushpendra Kumar Garg said. The prosecutor told the […] Read more » featured sodomising and killing minor boy
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear PIL alleging siphoning of funds meant for SC/ST students August 14, 2018 / August 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear next week a PIL alleging siphoning of Rs 18,000 crore funds meant for granting scholarship to students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A M Khanwilkar considered the submissions of lawyer M L Sharma seeking urgent hearing of […] Read more » featured funds for SC/ST students siphoning of funds meant for SC/ST students
Top Law News SC notice to Centre on court-monitored probe in suicide by ministry official and family August 14, 2018 / August 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking court-monitored CBI probe into the alleged suicide of B K Bansal, a Ministry of Corporate Affairs’ official, and his family. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued notice to the Centre after […] Read more » featured suicide by ministry official
Top Law News OCI card holders appear to enjoy freedom of speech, equality like other Indians: HC August 14, 2018 / August 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has said that Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) appear to enjoy the fundamental rights of equality before law and freedom of speech and expression in the same way as any other Indian citizen does. The court’s observation came while asking the Centre to place before it the material based on which […] Read more » featured OCI card OCI card holders
High Profile Cases Top Law News Supreme Court, brings up top NRC officials, for speaking to media August 7, 2018 / August 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Two senior civil servants pulled up by The Supreme Court, speaking to the media about Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) without informing the court. The apex court said, that you do not forget that you are a court employee, it is your duty to obey orders. So how did you go directly to the […] Read more » featured nrc assam Prateek Hajela Sailesh senior civil servants Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System High Profile Cases Top Law News Justices KM Joseph to take charge in Supreme Court August 7, 2018 / August 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Justice K.M. Joseph, the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, has taken oath as a judge of the Supreme Court on Tuesday. It came out with a notification last Friday on the appointment of three judges to the apex court by putting at third position the seniority of Justice K M Joseph. The Centre […] Read more » featured Justices Indira Banerjee justices km joseph
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Raj Info Commission asks courts to reduce RTI application fee August 6, 2018 / August 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jaipur: Supreme Court orders the Rajasthan Information Commission to ask all courts in the state, including the High Court to reduce RTI application fee. Disposing of an appeal of Anndaram Chaudhary, a resident of Merta City, the Commission in its order given last week, the copy of which was made available today, has expected from the […] Read more » Anndaram Chaudhary featured Right To Information (RTI) Rs 100 judicial stamp
Top Law News SC shows displeasure as states not appointments the board of visitors for jails by states August 6, 2018 / August 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court has expressed its disappointment that several states have not yet appointed the board of visitors who regularly inspect prisons to ensure that they are being run in accordance with rules. While terming the appointment of board of visitors “an absolute necessity”, a bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta […] Read more » Deepak Gupta featured justices Madan B Lokur
Criminal Law News Top Law News Salman needs permission every time he travels abroad, says Court August 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jodhpur: It was made clear today by the judge hearing a plea against the Salman Khan’s conviction in the blackbuck poaching case,that the actor will have to continue taking permission from the court every time he travels abroad. The actor’s counsel had moved an application before the District and Sessions Judge Chandra Kumar Songara here on Friday, […] Read more » blackbuck poaching case Judge Chandra Kumar Songara lawyer Mahesh Bora Public prosecutor Pokar Ram Bishnoi Salman Khaan
Criminal Law News Top Law News Ishrat case: Decision on two former-cops’ discharge pleas likely on Aug 7 August 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahmedabad: A special CBI court, hearing the discharge applications of former police officers D G Vanzara and N K Amin in Ishrat Jahan alleged fake encounter case, is likely to pass its order on August 7. Special CBI court Judge J K Pandya said the order, which was listed for today, will be passed on Tuesday. […] Read more » Amjadali Akbarali Rana Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) D G Vanzara Former Gujarat DIG Vanzara Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai N.K. Amin Sohrabuddin Sheikh Zeeshan Johar
Top Law News HC disappointed by officials’ apathy towards upkeep of Gandhi memorial August 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: Pained by the “apathy” of officials towards the upkeep of Rajghat, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi. “It is painful to see such apathy on the part of the officials tasked to deal with the issue of maintaining Rajghat, a memorial to the Father of the Nation,” a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal […] Read more » Chief Justice Gita Mittal featured Justice C Hari Shankar Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) t Rajghat samadhi
Media & Entertainment News Top Law News Kamal Haasan and his production to file reply by Monday August 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday ordered actor Kamal Haasan and his production house Rajkamal Films International to file a reply by Monday in connection with a suit seeking to stall the release of his “Vishwaroopam 2” on August 10. When the civil suit moved by Pyramid Saimira Productions International against Haasan for recovery of […] Read more » Aascar Films actor Kamal Haasan Justice C V Karthikeyan production house Rajkamal Films International
