Criminal Law News Top Law News Two get seven years jail for raping woman December 29, 2017 / December 29, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today sentenced two men to seven years imprisonment for raping a 45-year-old woman in 2015. Sessions court judge R N Majgaonkar also slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 each on Akash alias Gotya Ashok Burkhud (22) and Vilas alias Kakdya Rama Burkud (28). Prosecutor D R Tare informed the court that on […] Read more » jail for raping women Sessions court judge R N Majgaonkar
Top Law News Senior SC lawyer Rajeev Dhavan to appear in Ayodhya case December 29, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who recently gave up court practice in wake of his courtroom spat with Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, has reconsidered his decision on the request of his client to appear in the Supreme Court in the Ram Janama bhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Seventy-four-year-old Dhavan had on December 11 called it quits […] Read more » Ayodhya case Ayodhya dispute featured Rajeev Dhavan Ram Janama bhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Rohingya refugees SC lawyer Rajeev Dhavan SEBI- Sahara Senior SC lawyer Rajeev Dhavan to appear in Ayodhya case
Top Law News Failure of authorities made Delhi a polluting city: HC December 29, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has rapped authorities in the city saying had kept their eyes open, the national capital would not have become a “polluting city”. Expressing displeasure over the connivance of officials of municipal corporations in allowing industrial units in residential and non-conforming areas, a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice […] Read more » Delhi a polluting city Failure of authorities featured HC
Top Law News Court upholds order summoning AIIMS doctor as accused December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has upheld an order summoning as accused an AIIMS doctor for allegedly refusing to treat a patient and misbehaving with his family, saying that direction cannot be interfered with. Special judge Rajesh Kumar Singh dismissed the revision petition of the junior resident doctor of the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences […] Read more » accused AIIMS doctor AIIMS doctor as accused Court Special judge Rajesh Kumar Singh summoning AIIMS doctor as accused
Top Law News Housing scam: Delhi court acquits ex-minister Thungon December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former union minister P K Thungon, facing trial for 21 years in a corruption case relating to allotment of government quarters, has been acquitted by a special court which said the CBI has failed to prove that he abused his official position. Besides 71-year-old Thungon, the court also acquitted 14 others, including several government officials, […] Read more » Delhi court ex-minister Thungon featured Former union minister P K Thungon housing scam Special CBI Judge Kamini Lau
Criminal Law News Top Law News NCDRC orders Railways to compensate for jewellery theft from train December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex consumer commission has directed the Railways to pay Rs 2.7 lakh to a passenger for theft of her jewellery, including diamonds, from a Rajasthan- bound train, noting that no official came to her rescue even after she raised an alarm. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) bench, while dismissing the revision petition […] Read more » compensate for jewellery theft from train featured jewellery theft jewellery theft from train NCDRC NCDRC orders Railways NCDRC orders Rlys to compensate for jewellery theft from train Train
Top Law News None has right to use government land as burial ground: Delhi HC December 28, 2017 / December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No one has the right to indiscriminately use any open land, especially that belonging to the government, as a burial ground, the Delhi High Court has held. The ruling by a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar came on a PIL challenging a sub- divisional magistrate’s order questioning use […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal burial ground Delhi HC featured government land as burial ground Justice C Hari Shankar Kabristan Intzamia Association
Top Law News Bill criminalising triple talaq introduced in Lok Sabha December 28, 2017 / December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bill to make instant triple talaq illegal and void and awarding a jail term of three years for the husband, was introduced in the Lok Sabha today. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, calling it a “historic day” amid opposition to its introduction by members […] Read more » Bill criminalising triple talaq featured jail term of three years Lok Sabha non-bailable offence triple talaq triple talaq bill
Top Law News Sadhvi Pragya, Purohit to go on trial for terrorism in Malegaon blast case December 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt Col Prasad Purohit and six others accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast will stand trial on stringent terror charges, a special NIA court today ruled in the politically-sensitive case that raised speculation of saffron militancy. However, Special NIA judge S D Tekale dropped organised crime charges against them under the […] Read more » Colonel Purohit featured Malegaon blast case Sadhvi Pragya Special NIA judge S D Tekale trial for terrorism in Malegaon blast case
Top Law News NGT directs AAP govt to take decision on steel pickling units December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi government to decide in a week whether steel pickling units fall under the prohibited list of industrial activity as per norms set by the Central Pollution Control Board. A bench headed by acting chairperson Justice U D Salvi warned that in case of non-compliance with the order […] Read more » AAP govt decision on steel pickling units featured NGT steel pickling units
Top Law News Meticulous planning done before printing Class 9 book : HC December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Publication and Curriculum Research has told the Bombay High Court that meticulous planning and preparations were done before the publication a Class 9 history and political science textbook. Sunil Magar, director of the textbooks bureau, filed an affidavit last week in response to a petition by city resident Amritpal […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured High Court Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Publication and Curriculum Research Meticulous planning Operation Blue Star printing Class 9 book
Top Law News No coercive action against Deepak Talwar in FCRA case: HC December 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has asked the CBI not to take any coercive action against corporate lobbyist Deepak Talwar and his NGO in a criminal case lodged against them over alleged violation of foreign funding laws. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and I S Mehta, however, made it clear that this protection would be […] Read more » Deepak Talwar FCRA case featured High Court Justice S. Muralidhar JusticeI S Mehta No coercive action No coercive action against Deepak Talwar in FCRA case: HC
