Top Law News Daiichi-Ranbaxy row: High Court allows sale of Singh brothers’ firms May 9, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today allowed the sale of unencumbered shares of the firms of former promoters of India’s Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd in listed companies to repay the Rs 3,500 crore arbitration award in favour of Japanese pharma major Daiichi Sankyo. Justice Jayant Nath also directed the debtors to fully cooperate with the chartered accountant […] Read more » Daiichi-Ranbaxy Delhi High Court featured Justice Jayant Nath Malvinder Singh Ranbaxy
Top Law News Supreme Court asks Water Resources Secy to bring draft Cauvery management scheme May 8, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Secretary of the Union Water Resources Ministry to personally appear before it on May 14 with a draft of the Cauvery management scheme for implementation of its verdict on water sharing between four states including Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra told the […] Read more » A M Khanwilkar Cauvery Chief Justice Dipak Misra D Y Chandrachud featured Karnataka Supreme Court
Top Law News Tihar Jail to High Court: Shahabuddin not in solitary confinement but in high security cell May 8, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tihar Jail authorities have brushed aside in the Delhi High Court allegations by controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin that he was being kept in solitary confinement and tortured, saying he was lodged in a high security cell with all the facilities given to any other inmate incarcerated there. Taking note of the submission, a bench […] Read more » featured Mohammad Shahabuddin P S Teji Rahul Mehra RJD Supreme Court Tihar Jail Vipin Sanghi
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear in July plea to restrain MPs making statements on judges removal May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said that it would hear in the third week of July a plea seeking to restrain members of Parliament (MPs) from making public statements on removal of a judge of higher judiciary without there being any such notice in Parliament. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, while […] Read more » Ashok Bhushan featured Justices A K Sikri Parliament plea Rajya Sabha Supreme Court
Top Law News CJM court fixes May 22 as next date of hearing May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court today posted for May 22 the hearing in the case of the juvenile accused in the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) A S Langeh fixed the hearing for May 22. Earlier on April 25, the juvenile presented himself before the court amid heavy security. CJM […] Read more » Chief Judicial Magistrate CJM Langeh featured Kathua gang Supreme Court
Top Law News National Green Tribunal seeks report on illegal banquet halls, wedding farm houses in Ghaziabad May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahead of the wedding season, illegal banquet halls and wedding farm houses in Ghaziabad have come under the scanner of the National Green Tribunal which has sought an action taken report from the authorities against them. A bench headed by acting Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim directed the Ghaziabad Development Authority to file a detailed affidavit […] Read more » Central Ground Water Authority featured Ghaziabad Development Authority Jawad Rahim NGT
Top Law News Supreme Court strikes down UP law allowing ex-CMs to keep govt house May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today struck down the amendment to a Uttar Pradesh legislation which allowed former chief ministers retain government accommodation even after demitting office, saying it violated the concept of equality, A bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the amendment in the legislation was ultra vires to the Constitution since it transgresses the […] Read more » Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions featured Justice Ranjan Gogo salaries Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court likely to decide tomorrow: Kathua case transfer to CBI May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court is likely to hear tomorrow the Kathua gangrape-and-murder case along with the petitions seeking shifting of the trial to Chandigarh and handing over the investigation to the CBI. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, which had stayed the trial in the case till tomorrow, would deal with the […] Read more » CBI Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra featured Kathua case Supreme Court
Top Law News Wife’s allegation of infidelity is cruelty, says High Court; grants divorce to husband May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has granted divorce to a man holding that his estranged wife’s false allegation of illicit relation between him and his widowed sister-in-law amounted to cruelty. Holding that the allegations of illicit relations were not true, Justice J R Midha granted divorce to the man while setting aside a trial court’s order […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured High Court Justice J.R. Midha
Top Law News Supreme Court: Adult couple can live together without marriage May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An adult couple has a right to live together without marriage, the Supreme Court said, while asserting that a 20-year-old Kerala woman, whose marriage had been annulled, could choose whom she wanted to live with. The top court held that live-in relationships were now even recognized by the Legislature and they had found a place […] Read more » 2005 ct Domestic Violence A featured High Court Supreme Court
Top Law News High Court tells Maha govt: List steps taken to tackle malnutrition May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to list down the steps taken by it to implement previous orders of the court on tackling malnutrition in the state. A bench of justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni earlier this week gave the directions while taking note of the information given by petitioners […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured G S Kulkarni HC Manjula Chellur Maha govt Naresh Patil
Top Law News Swamy, Rahul Gandhi accuse each other of delaying trial: Herald case May 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment BJP leader Subramanian Swamy and Congress president Rahul Gandhi today accused each other in a Delhi court of wasting its time and delaying the trial in the National Herald case. Complainant Swamy and the accused, including Rahul Gandhi and his mother Sonia Gandhi, traded charges before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal who was hearing […] Read more » featured Fernandes Herald case Motilal Vora Rahul Gandhi Sonia Gandhi Subramanian Swamy Vora
