Top Law News Supreme Court asks Centre for report on conditions in Rohingya camps March 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to file a “comprehensive status report” giving details of conditions in Rohingya refugee camps in various states. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submission of senior advocate Colin Gonsalves that conditions at the camps are unhygienic […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra conditions in Rohingya camps featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud Rohingya Rohingya camps Supreme Court
Top Law News Rigorous Imprisonment to advocate for trespassing in woman lawyer’s office. March 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Thane court has sentenced a 45-year-old lawyer to three years of rigorous imprisonment for trespassing in the office of a woman advocate and abusing her for refusing his marriage proposal. “When a woman says ‘no’, it is really ‘no’,” observed the court of First Class Judicial Magistrate R T Ingale. The lawyer was convicted […] Read more » Additional Public Prosecutor Rashmi Kshirsagar featured trespassing trespassing in woman lawyer's office
Top Law News Delhi Court allows ED to quiz Kashmiri businessman in Terror funding case. March 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today allowed the Enforcement Directorate to interrogate a Kashmiri businessman in connection with a terror funding case involving LeT chief and 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed to unearth the money trail. Additional Sessions Judge Tarun Sherawat allowed the application filed by ED’s counsel Nitesh Rana seeking permission to quiz Zahoor Watali, […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Tarun Sherawat featured FEMA PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act Syed Ali Shah Geelani. Terror funding case
Top Law News Bombay High Court notice to MCA on plea seeking dissolution of its committee March 17, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today issued a notice to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on a writ petition seeking that its managing committee be dissolved for non-implementation of the recommendations made by Justice R M Lodha Committee. A bench of Justices Shantanu Kemkar and M S Karnik directed the MCA to file its reply within […] Read more » bai Cricket Association Bombay High Court featured Justice M S Karnik Justice R M Lodha Committee Justice Shantanu Kemkar MCA
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects GJM leader Bimal Gurung’s plea seeking protection from arrest March 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed former GJM leader Bimal Gurung’s plea seeking protection from arrest in several cases lodged against him in West Bengal and for an independent probe into the alleged killings of Gorkhaland supporters in the state. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan rejected the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s plea […] Read more » Bimal Gurung featured former GJM leader Bimal Gurung's plea Justice Ashok Bhushan Justices A K Sikri
Top Law News Delhi High Court refuses to ground entire fleet of IndiGo’s A320neo March 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today refused to ground the entire fleet of IndiGo’s A320neo aircraft, which allegedly have defective engines. Advocate Yeshwanth Shenoy’s said in his plea that IndiGo’s A320neo fleet should be grounded until the manufacturers give in writing that the existing defects have been rectified and the DGCA is satisfied. “Your (petitioner) first […] Read more » Delhi High Court Directorate General of Civil Aviation featured fleet of IndiGo's A320neo IndiGo's A320neo
Top Law News Ram Sethu will not be damaged for shipping channel project : Supreme Court March 16, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today informed the Supreme Court that in the “interest of the nation”, it will not damage the mythological Ram Sethu for its Sethusamudram Ship Channel project. The Union Ministry of Shipping, in its affidavit, told a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that the PIL filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy against the Sethusamudram project can now be disposed […] Read more » featured Ram Sethu Sethusamudram Ship Channel project.
Top Law News ‘Panama Papers’ law firm shuts down operations March 15, 2018 / March 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The law firm at the heart of the “Panama Papers” global tax evasion scandal that brought down two world leaders announced today it would shut down operations, citing negative press and what it called unwarranted action by authorities. “Reputational deterioration, the media campaign, the financial consequences and irregular actions by some Panamanian authorities have caused […] Read more » featured Panama papers
Top Law News What is the policy for e-waste disposal: Delhi High Court March 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked municipal bodies and the Delhi government whether there was any policy to deal with the disposal of electronic waste (e-waste), dubbing it a “critical area” which has so far escaped attention. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to Sunita Narain, […] Read more » e-waste disposal featured Justice C Hari Shankar ting Chief Justice Gita Mittal
Top Law News Disproportionate Assets case: Court allows Abhay Chautala to travel to Pakistan March 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today allowed former Haryana chief minister O P Chautala’s son Abhay Chautala, accused in a disproportionate assets case, to travel to Lahore in Pakistan. Special Judge Arvind Kumar gave his nod to Abhay to travel from today till March 19 to Lahore for a wedding on furnishing a security of Rs 2 […] Read more » Abhay Chautala CBI Special Public Prosecutor Ajay Gupta disproportionate assets case featured O P Chautala ormer Haryana chief minister ormer Haryana chief minister O P Chautala's son
Top Law News Railway Claims Tribunal awards compensation to victims in Elphinstone Road stampede March 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Railway Claims Tribunal in Mumbai has granted compensation to 36 victims of the stampede at the Elphinstone Road station here in September last year. Relatives of the 17 deceased have been granted a compensation of Rs 8 lakh each while the 19 injured have been compensated as per their disability, an official said today. […] Read more » Elphinstone Road stampede featured Railway Claims Tribunal
Top Law News Did not block access to admin block : JNU Students Union to Delhi High Court March 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The office bearers of the JNU Students Union (JNUSU) have told the Delhi High Court that they have not violated its order on holding protests in the varsity as they did not block access to the administrative block. They also submitted before the high court that its August last year direction to not hold protests […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured JNU Students Union JNUSU Justice V.K. Rao
