Top Law News No one can touch a woman without her consent: Delhi court January 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No one can touch a woman without her consent, a Delhi court said and termed it unfortunate that women continue to be victimised by “lecherous and sexually- pervert” men. The court’s observation came while awarding five years jail term to Ram for sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl. Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini awarded rigorous imprisonment […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Seema Maini Delhi court featured No one can touch a woman without her consent: right to privacy of women touch a woman touch women without consent
Top Law News 10 yrs imprisonment to 3 arrested with liquor in Bihar January 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court in Bihar’s Munger district today awarded 10 years imprisonment to three persons who were apprehended last year with over 20 litres of country liquor, despite the total prohibition in force in the state. Additional district judge Tribhuvan Nath also slapped a fine of Rs 1 lakh on each of the three convicted […] Read more » 10 yrs imprisonment 3 arrested with liquor in Bihar Additional district judge Tribhuvan Nath featured liquor special public prosecutor Sanjay Kumar Singh
Top Law News Adequate efforts not made to examine witness of ’84 riots: SC January 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Adequate efforts were not made to examine key prosecution witnesses in the five 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases in which the Delhi High Court issued show cause notices to those acquitted asking them why re-trial should not be ordered, the Supreme Court said today. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra perused the records and […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riots cases 84 riots Adequate efforts not made Chief Justice Dipak Misra examine witness of featured Justice A.M. Khanwilkar Justice D.Y. Chandrachud SC
Top Law News Kotkhai rape and murder: HC rejects bail plea of IGP Zaidi January 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court today rejected the bail plea of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Z H Zaidi in connection with the custodial death of an accused in the Kotkhai rape and murder of a minor girl. The court had heard the bail plea on January 12 and reserved the judgement which was announced […] Read more » featured HC rejects bail plea IGP Zaidi Kotkhai Kotkhai rape and murder
Top Law News SC sets aside HC order on strictures against judicial officer January 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has set aside an order of the Himachal Pradesh High Court by which action was recommended against a judicial officer for granting bail to an accused within four days of rejection of his pre-arrest bail by a higher court. The high court had termed the action of the magistrate as “judicial impropriety” […] Read more » featured HC order Himachal Pradesh High Court judicial officer Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Ashok Bhushan SC strictures strictures against judicial officer Supreme Court
Top Law News HC permits Ryan Pinto to visit US, Dubai January 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court today permitted Ryan International Group’s CEO Ryan Pinto to visit abroad, more than four months after a seven- year-old student was killed at the group’s school in Gurugram. A single bench of Justice Rajan Gupta allowed Pinto to visit the US and Dubai, his counsel Arshdeep Singh Cheema said […] Read more » featured Justice Rajan Gupta Punjab and Haryana High Court Ryan Pinto
Top Law News Marital rape offence under penal law: AAP govt to HC January 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The AAP Government today told the Delhi High Court that marital rape, where a spouse indulges in sexual relations without the willingness of the other, is already an offence under a penal provision. The AAP government submitted that a woman is entitled to refuse sexual relations with her husband as the right to bodily integrity […] Read more » AAP govt Additional Standing Counsel Nandita Rao Advocate Karuna Nandy Delhi High Court featured HC marital rape Marital rape offence NGO All India Democratic Women's Association NGO RIT Foundation penal law
Top Law News Govt recovering tax : Cairn UK January 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Cairn India, now Vedanta Ltd, today told the Delhi High Court that proceedings regarding an over Rs 20,000 crore tax demand for non-payment of withholding tax on capital gains in 2006 by its former parent Cairn UK, need not continue as the authorities have taken action against the foreign entity. Cairn India, which in April […] Read more » Cairn Cairn UK Cairn UK Holdings Ltd. Delhi High Court featured Govt recovering tax Vedanta Ltd
Top Law News SC castigates government over construction workers welfare law January 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking the government to task for not implementing a law meant for the welfare of construction workers, an exasperated Supreme Court today asked it to formally state that the orders passed by the top court in the matter are “thrown in the dustbin”. The apex court questioned the Centre’s attitude on the issue and said […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General ASG Maninder Singh featured Justice Deepak Gupta Justice Madan B. Lokur National Campaign Committee for Central Legislation on Construction Labour SC castigates govt over construction workers welfare law
Criminal Law News Top Law News Father gets life term for raping, sodomising minor daughter January 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a man for repeatedly raping and sodomising his nine-year-old daughter, saying instead of protecting her, he had indulged in a “dehumanising act”. The division bench held that the man does not deserve any leniency as he has violated the privacy and sanctity of his […] Read more » Delhi High Court father Father gets life term for raping featured Justice C Hari Shankar Justice S.P. Garg life term raping minor daughter sodomising minor daughter
Top Law News HC questions need of committees for government to do its work January 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today questioned the need to set up “elaborate committees” for the government to do its work. “Does the government need committees to do its work? Why do you need elaborate committees,” was the query posed by a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla to the Delhi government. […] Read more » committees for government committees for govt Delhi High Court featured HC Justice A K Chawla Justice S. Ravindra Bhat need of committees for government
Top Law News Nirmala Sitharaman becomes 1st woman defence minister to take sortie in sSkhoi January 18, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an olive green pilot’s G-suit and a helmet on her head, Nirmala Sitharaman today soared high on a Sukhoi-30 MKI jet, the first Indian woman defence minister to go on a sortie on the all-weather, long-range fighter. The supersonic jet took off from the Air Force station at Jodhpur, where one of the Sukhoi […] Read more » featured HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Nirmala Sitharaman Nirmala Sitharaman in Sukhoi Nirmala Sitharaman1st woman defence minister sortie in sukhoi sukhoi
