Top Law News WB Post-poll violence: SC seeks Centre’s response for imposing President Rule in state July 6, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea seeking direction to the Centre to impose President’s Rule in West Bengal in view of deteriorating law and order situation due to the post-poll violence which started on May 2, the day of assembly election results. The plea also sought direction to the Centre to […] Read more » Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain Justice Dinesh Maheshwari justices vineet saran SIT Special Investigation Team WB Post-poll violence
Top Law News Bombay HC expresses shock on death of Stan Swamy in custody awaiting medical bail July 6, 2021 / July 6, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, died on Monday while waiting for an interim bail on medical grounds. Dr Ian D’souza, director of the Mumbai-based Holy Family Hospital, the private facility where Swamy was undergoing treatment, and the tribal rights activist’s lawyer Mihir Desai informed a bench of the […] Read more » death of Stan Swamy in custody awaiting medical bail Justice N J Jamadar Justices S S Shinde The Elgar Parishad case
Top Law News SC refuses to stay HC order allowing pvt schools to levy development and annual fees June 29, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday refused to stay the Delhi High Court order permitting unaided private schools in the national capital to levy annual fee and development charges from students. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar did not agree with the submission of the Directorate of Education (DoE) of the Delhi government that the […] Read more » directorate of education (DOE) Justice A M Khanwilkar pvt schools to levy development and annual fees
Top Law News SC pays tribute to 77 lawyers of SCBA who died due to Covid June 29, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday paid tribute to 77 advocates of the apex court lawyers’ body, who lost their lives due to COVID-19. At the start of the day’s proceedings, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana expressed condolence on behalf of the Supreme Court judges. We are informed by the Secretary of […] Read more » Chief Justice N.V. Ramana Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranaryanan
Top Law News SC rejects plea seeking SIT probe into alleged forceful conversion in Nuh District June 29, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking setting up of a special investigating team (SIT) to probe the alleged forceful conversion of Hindus in Haryana’s Nuh district. Sorry, the plea is dismissed, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana told senior advocate Vikas Singh, who was appearing for the […] Read more » Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain forceful conversion of Hindus in Haryana Justice A.S. Bopanna justice Hrishikesh Roy life imprisonment for Nikita Tomar's murder Nikita Tomar
Top Law News SC closes plea on trial in sexual assault case against Tejpal, says court rendered verdict June 29, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday closed the case related to extension of time after noting that a trial court in Goa has completed the trial by rendering acquittal verdict in the sexual assault case against Tehelka magazine founder Tarun Tejpal. On May 21, a trial court of Mapusa town of Goa acquitted Tejpal, the former […] Read more » SC closes plea on trial in sexual assault case against Tejpal sexual assault case against Tejpal
Top Law News Dawood’s brother Iqbal Kaskar gets one-day NCB custody in drugs case June 26, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane district has remanded Iqbal Kaskar, brother of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody for one day in a drugs case. Magistrate M M Mali on Friday remanded Kaskar in the anti-drugs agency’s custody. Kaskar’s alleged involvement in the case surfaced following the […] Read more » Iqbal Kaskar MCOCA
Top Law News Make strategic reserve of Oxygen for 2-3 weeks like petroleum: NTF to SC June 26, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court-appointed National Task Force (NTF) of top medical experts, set up to formulate a methodology for allocation of oxygen to states and union territories, has recommended that the country should have strategic reserves of the gas for 2-3 weeks of consumption on the lines of the arrangements made for petroleum products. The 12-member NTF […] Read more » National Task Force
Top Law News SC directs state boards to declare internal assessment results by July 31 June 26, 2021 / June 26, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday directed all the state boards to declare results of internal assessment of Class 12 examination by July 31, making it clear that each board is free to formulate its own evaluation method for students and there can’t be a “fit-all” scheme. The apex court, which said it would not pass […] Read more » declare internal assessment results by July 31 Justice Dinesh Maheshwari Justices A M Khanwilkar
Top Law News Court denies bail in gang rape case, terms allegations ‘very grave’ June 26, 2021 / June 26, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Thursday denied bail to an accused in a gang-rape case, saying the allegations against him were grave and he may flee if allowed to come out of jail. Accused Ajay Gupta allegedly lured a woman hailing from Rajasthan with a gold chain and the earrings, took her to a hut of a […] Read more » gang-rape case
Top Law News Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Advises on Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation June 24, 2021 / June 24, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment IndiaCyril Amarchand Mangaldas (Firm) acted as the legal counsel to Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited (DHFL) on DHFL’s corporate insolvency resolution process. The CoC of DHFL comprises of banks, financial institutions, and authorised representatives acting on behalf of a large number of debenture holders (both institutional and retail) and public […] Read more » DHFL
Top Law News Delhi High Court takes cognisance of Covid norms’ violation in markets June 22, 2021 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday took cognisance of the violation of Covid protocols in various markets in the national capital and observed that such breaches would only hasten the third wave, which could not be permitted at all. The high court asked the Centre and Delhi government to take strict measures, sensitise shopkeepers and […] Read more » breach will hasten third wave Justice Asha Menon Justices Navin Chawla
