High Profile Cases Top Law News Fate of judge who quit after acquitting Assemanand not yet clear April 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The fate of the judge, who quit hours after exonerating Hindutva preacher Swami Assemanand and four others in the Mecca Masjid blast case yesterday, was unclear today as speculation swirled over the reason for his surprise action. There was no official word on whether his resignation has been accepted, with a top official of the […] Read more » Hindutva preacher Swami Assemanand Hyderabad High Court Mecca Masjid
Top Law News High Court tells petitioner to file affidavit: Aarey metro car shed April 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today directed a group of activists opposing the construction of the proposed metro car shed in Aarey Colony area to file an affidavit supporting their claim that the Maharashtra government flouted environmental norms in approving the construction work. A bench of Justices SC Dharamadhikari and PD Naik directed the petitioners to […] Read more » Aarey Colony featured High Court Janak Dwarkadas The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation
Top Law News High Court poser to Delhi govt: Can convict of one state be jailed in another April 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Can a man convicted in one state be lodged in prison in another state where there is no case against him and is such imprisonment legal? These were posers put to the Delhi government by the Delhi High Court today during the hearing of a plea of Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for conspiring to assassinate […] Read more » advocate Mehmood Pracha Delhi High Court featured High Court Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh Tihar Jail
Top Law News High Court allows NRI woman to record consent for divorce via Skype April 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has allowed an NRI woman to record her consent for a mutual divorce from her estranged husband via Skype or any other video calling technology. Justice Bharati Dangre, earlier this month, set aside an order of the city’s family court which refused to register the US-based woman’s petition seeking divorce on […] Read more » Bombay High Court divorce via Skype featured Justice Bharati Dangre
Top Law News Centre tells Supreme Court: Process to appoint eminent jurist to select Lokpal underway April 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today told the Supreme Court that the process to fill up the vacancy of an eminent jurist in the selection committee for appointing Lokpal was going on. Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi that recommendation for induction of an eminent jurist in the panel has been […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal Justice Ranjan Gogoi Lokpal Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Top Law News Charge sheet filed against four DU students for ‘stalking’ Smriti Irani April 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police has filed a charge sheet against four Delhi University students for allegedly misbehaving with and stalking union minister Smriti Irani in 2017. The final report was filed before Metropolitan Magistrate Snigdha Sarwaria who took cognisance of the charge sheet and put up the matter for October 15. The four youths, identified as […] Read more » DU students featured Smriti Irani
Top Law News Kathua case: SC asks J-K govt to protect victim’s kin, lawyer April 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Jammu and Kashmir government to provide security to the family of the eight-year-old Kathua gangrape and murder victim, the lawyer and a family friend assisting them in pursuing the case. The apex court also took note of a plea of the victim’s father seeking transfer of the trial of […] Read more » featured
Top Law News NGT notice to UP govt on encroachment in Agra park April 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Aggrieved by the alleged encroachment on a park, a housing society in Agra has moved the National Green Tribunal, prompting the green panel to seek responses from the state government and the local authorities. A bench headed by acting NGT Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh government, Agra Development Authority, Agra […] Read more » Agra Development Authority Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim Gautam Singh Jawahar Nagar Co-operative Society municipal corporation National Green Tribunal NGT Snehil Sonam Uttar Pradesh government
High Profile Cases Top Law News All accused, including Aseemanand, acquitted: 2007 Mecca Masjid blasts April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Eleven years after powerful bombs ripped through Hyderabad’s historic Mecca Masjid, killing nine people and wounding 58, a special NIA court on Monday acquitted all five accused, including Swami Aseemanand due to lack of clinching evidence. Some of the accused even left the premises after the fourth additional metropolitan sessions-cum-special court for NIA cases announced […] Read more » featured Mecca Masjid Mecca Masjid blast Swami Aseemanand
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear plea for transfer of trial in Kathua case April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The trial in the Kathua rape and murder case involving an eight-year-old girl began today with police presenting all the eight arrested accused persons including a juvenile before a Sessions Court here. The police has filed a separate chargesheet against the juvenile accused. The trial against the juvenile will be held before the Chief Judicial […] Read more » Ankur Sharma Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kathua featured Kathua rape
Top Law News BCI asks Jammu, Kathua bar bodies to call off strike April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) today asked the Jammu and Kathua bar associations to call off their strike and decided to send a five-member team headed by a former high court chief justice to investigate the alleged incident of misconduct on part of the lawyers there in connection with the Kathua rape-murder case. BCI […] Read more » Bar Council of India Crime Branch of J-K Police featured Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court to Centre: Form panel to disburse medical claim under CGHS April 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a bid to protect retired public servants from “unnecessary harassment” in claiming reimbursements under the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS), the Supreme Court has asked the Centre to “expeditiously” set up a high-powered committee to disburse claims in a month. A bench of justices R K Agrawal and Ashok Bhushan also directed the Ministry […] Read more » Ashok Bhushan CGHS CRT-D featured Medical Reimbursement Claims MRC R K Agrawal Supreme Court
