Top Law News Recruiting married persons into JAG expensive: Delhi High Court March 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Recruitment of married men and women into the Indian Army’s legal branch, JAG, will be expensive for the Centre as it will have to incur “heavy expenditure” to find replacements for such recruits when they are absent from training due to their marital obligations, the government has claimed in the Delhi High Court. The submission […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal featured JAG Judge Advocate General Department Justice C Hari Shankar
Top Law News Consider allotting 2 plots in suburbs to house displaced people: Bombay High Court March 27, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today asked the Maharashtra government to consider allotting two plots in suburbs, originally reserved for a cancer hospital and a public housing project, to rehabilitate over 60,000 people whose houses were demolished by the local civic body on the court’s order as they were near the Tansa water pipeline. The high […] Read more » Bombay High Court Consider allotting 2 plots in suburbs displaced people featured house Maharashtra government Tansa water pipeline
Top Law News Supreme Court agrees to Delhi Jal Board (DJB) plea on Haryana water supply to Delhi March 26, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) alleging that Haryana was supplying 120 cusec less water to Delhi out of the 450 cusecs of water it was supposed to supply. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said […] Read more » Delhi Jal Board DJB featured Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court seeks Centre’s response on plea against polygamy and nikah halala. March 26, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the prevalent practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among the Muslims and sought responses from the Centre and the Law Commission. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission that an earlier five-judge constitution bench, in its 2017 verdict, had kept […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act 1939 featured nikah halala Nikah Misyar Nikah Mutah plea against polygamy and nikah halala polygamy
Top Law News Assure safety of P&W engines: Bombay High Court to DGCA March 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to list the steps being taken since 2007 to check the airworthiness of all Pratt & Whitney 1100 engines that power Airbus A320 New Engine Option (Neo) planes. A Division Bench of Justices Naresh Patil and Justice G.S. Kulkarni was hearing […] Read more » DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation f Justices Naresh Patil featured justice G S Kulkarni
Top Law News Delhi High Court upholds administrator’s amendments to DDCA Articles of Association (AoA) March 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today dismissed the objections raised by members of the controversy-ridden DDCA against amendments like the abolition of proxy voting to its Articles of Association (AoA) proposed by a court-appointed administrator. Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla directed the administrator, former Supreme Court judge Vikramajit Sen, to ensure that the proposed amendments, including the setting up of independent selection […] Read more » Articles of Association controversy-ridden DDCA DDCA Delhi High Court Supreme Court judge Vikramajit Sen
Top Law News Fourth Fodder Scam: Lalu Prasad Yadav Sentenced To 14 Years In Prison March 24, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was today sentenced to 14 years in jail and fined Rs 60 lakh by a special CBI court in the fourth fodder scam case pertaining to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore from the Dumka treasury in the early 1990s, a CBI counsel said here. CBI judge Shiv Pal Singh awarded […] Read more » Birsa Munda Jail Dumka treasury featured Fourth Fodder Scam fraudulent withdrawal of Rs 3.13 crore Lalu Prasad Yadav Lalu Prasad Yadav Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison
Top Law News 1984 riots accused Sajjan Kumar confessed to presence at incident site. March 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today sought a reply from Congress leader Sajjan Kumar on a letter written to it alleging that the accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case have confessed to being present at the spot where the violent incidents had occurred. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riots case 1984 riots Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee DSGMC featured Justice Anu Malhotra Sajjan Kumar
Top Law News Contempt against woman lawyer for derogatory remarks : Supreme Court March 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today initiated contempt proceedings against a woman lawyer for using “derogatory remarks against the court” despite warnings. The top court said that despite being warned of her conduct, “she persisted and dared the court to take action against her”. The heated arguments took place when a bench of Justices Adarsh Goel, U […] Read more » Contempt against woman lawyer derogatory remarks featured Justice Adarsh Goel justice R F Nariman Justice U U Lalit Nisha Priya Bhatia Supreme Court
Top Law News Its a victory of truth says Arvind Kejriwal after HC order March 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “It is a victory of truth,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said after the Delhi High Court set aside the Centre’s notification disqualifying 20 AAP MLAs in an office of profit case. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia too welcomed the order as he joined the AAP legislators in thumping tables in the Delhi Assembly […] Read more » 20 mlas in an office of profit case. Arvind Kejriwal Centre's notification disqualifying 20 AAP MLAs Centre's notification disqualifying 20 AAP MLAs in an office of profit case. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia featured
Top Law News Allahabad High Court directs Varanasi DM to finalise land for animals colony. March 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court today asked a committee headed by Varanasi commissioner to submit a report by April 10 on a plea seeking setting up of an animals colony outside the city. The court directed the district magistrate of Varanasi, vice-chairman of Varanasi Development Authority and officials of Avas Vikas Parishad and Nagar Nigam Varanasi […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Avas Vikas Parishad Chief Justice D B Bhosale featured finalise land for animals colony Justice Suneet Kumar Nagar Nigam Varanasi Varanasi DM
Top Law News Man gets 5 years’ Rigorous Imprisonment for sexually assaulting daughter March 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In one of the speediest trials in a POCSO Act case, a city court has sentenced the father of a 13-year-old girl to five years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting her. A fine of Rs 20,000 was also imposed on the 46-year old man, a roadside hawker, by Jimut Bahan Biswas, Special Judge (POCSO […] Read more » 5 years' Rigorous Imprisonment featured five years of rigorous imprisonment POCSO Act Sealdah Court sexually assaulting Special Public Prosecutor
