Top Law News SC to pronounce order on mandatory linking of Aadhaar tomorrow December 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today reserved its interim order for tomorrow on a batch of pleas seeking a stay on the government’s decision of mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various welfare schemes, as the Centre extended the deadline up to March 31 next year. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the […] Read more » Aadhaar card Centre government Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News EC bribery: Dhinakaran named as accused in supp charge sheet December 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police has accused AIADMK (Amma) leader T T V Dhinakaran of corruption and conspiracy in a supplementary charge sheet filed before a city court in the Election Commission bribery case. Additional Sessions Judge Kiran Bansal, before whom the 272-page supplementary charge sheet was filed, is likely to take its cognisance on December 21. […] Read more » AIADMK (Amma) Court Delhi Police EC bribery featured Law Legal News T T V Dhinakaran
Top Law News Calcutta HC allows dyslexia patient to appear in class 12 exams December 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court today allowed a dyslexia patient to appear for the class 12 CBSE board examination with subjects mutually agreed upon by him and his school, which had earlier been refused by the institution citing lack of infrastructure. Justice Tapabrata Chakraborti directed Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballygunge, to allow Sankalpa Das as a special case […] Read more » Calcutta High Court CBSE board examination Court featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Bodies should be handled in a dignified way, says Bombay HC December 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today rapped a hospital and the railways over the handling of bodies of 23 victims of the stampede at Elphinstone Road railway station that were numbered on foreheads with marker pens and called for a more humane approach. A division bench of Justices N H Patil and N W Sambre was […] Read more » Bodies should be handled in a dignified way Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT clarifies Amarnath cave shrine not declared as silent zone December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Following protests over its decision, the National Green Tribunal today clarified it has not declared a “silence zone” at the Amarnath cave shrine in the south Kashmir Himalayas. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar said that due silence has to be maintained only in front of the ice stalagmite resembling the ‘ShivaLinga’. […] Read more » Amarnath cave shrine Court featured Law Legal News National Green Tribunal NGT
Criminal Law News Top Law News Dalit woman rape: Court awards death sentence to labourer December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today awarded death sentence to Ameerul Islam, the lone convict found guilty in the rape and murder case of a 30-year old Dalit law student in Kerala last year. Ernakulam Principal Sessions court judge N Anil Kumar awarded death penalty to Islam, a migrant labourer from Assam, for committing murder of the […] Read more » Court Criminal news Dalit woman rape featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC disposes of Mukul Roy’s plea alleging phone tapping December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today disposed of former TMC leader Mukul Roy’s plea alleging phone tapping, after the Centre and the West Bengal government said his numbers were not being intercepted. The order was passed by Justice Vibhu Bakhru after he perused the affidavits filed by the two governments. The court, however, gave Roy the […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Mukul Roy Phone-tapping
Top Law News MCD polls: Court acquits candidate of defacing public property December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court has acquitted an RJD candidate for the Delhi civic polls earlier this year of the charge of defacing public property by pasting her posters on an electric pole, as the complainant himself was the investigating officer in the case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Manish Khurana absolved the woman, who had contested from the […] Read more » Court Delhi civic polls Delhi court Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act featured Law Legal News MCD polls
Environment Law News Top Law News ‘Install online air monitoring systems, RO in Singrauli’ December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh governments to to install online air quality monitoring systems in Singrauli and Sonebhadra districts after a plea alleged pollution in these areas due to industrial and mining activities. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also ordered installation of reverse osmosis […] Read more » Court Environment Law News featured Law Legal News Madhya Pradesh National Green Tribunal NGT Singrauli Uttar Pradesh
Criminal Law News Top Law News Tripura HC notice on journalist killing December 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Tripura High Court has issued separate notices to the state government, the Centre and the CBI seeking a reply as to why a CBI probe should not be ordered into the killing of TV journalist Shantanu Bhowmik. The journalist was hacked to death on September 20 last when he went to Mandai in West […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News notice on journalist killing Tripura High court
Top Law News Delhi HC to hear Yadav’s plea against disqualification from RS December 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court agreed to hear today former JD(U) president Sharad Yadav’s plea seeking immediate setting aside of his disqualification from the Rajya Sabha. The matter for urgent hearing was mentioned before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar on the ground that the Winter session of Parliament […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News plea Rajya Sabha Sharsd Yadav
Top Law News SC Constitution bench to hear pleas against Aadhaar tomorrow December 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said that a five-judge constitution bench would hear tomorrow pleas seeking an interim stay on the Centre’s decision directing mandatory linking of Aadhaar with various government schemes and welfare measures. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said that the larger bench […] Read more » Aadhaar card constitution bench Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
