Top Law News Madras HC stays indefinite strike by TN govt employees, teachers September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today stayed an indefinite strike by government employees and teachers in Tamil Nadu, after a PIL was filed seeking ban on the stir. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by T Sekaran, Justices K K Sasidharan and G R Swaminathan of the High Court’s Madurai bench passed an interim order […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court strike by government employees and teachers in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu government
Criminal Law News Top Law News NTR’s son gets 6 months in jail in cheque bounce case September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has sentenced former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao’s son Nandamuri Jayakrishna to six months’ simple imprisonment in connection with a 2015 cheque bounce case. The tenth Special Magistrate court yesterday found Jayakrishna, proprietor of Rama Krishna theatre at Abids here, guilty under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh Court featured Law Legal News N T Rama Rao Nandamuri Jayakrishna NTR's son gets 6 months in jail in cheque bounce case
Top Law News SC grants 6 weeks’ time to Punjab, Haryana on SYL canal row September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today granted six weeks’ time to the Centre to explore the possibility of an amicable solution to the Satluj-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal row between Punjab and Haryana. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was informed by Attorney General K K Venugopal that efforts were on to resolve the dispute between […] Read more » Court featured Haryana Law Legal News Punjab Satluj-Yamuna Link Supreme Court SYL canal row
Top Law News Have set up a panel on data protection: Centre tells SC September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A committee to deliberate on the issue of data protection in India has been set up under the chairmanship of former apex court judge Justice B N Srikrishna and a law can be evolved after it submits its report, the Centre told the Supreme Court today. The government told the court that there was all […] Read more » Centre government Court featured Law Legal News panel on data protection Supreme Court
Top Law News How did Par create an exception when consent age is 18 yrs: SC September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today posed a query to the Centre how Parliament could create an exception in the penal law declaring that intercourse or a sexual act by a man with his wife, aged between 15 and less than 18 years, is not rape, when the age of consent is 18. The apex court said […] Read more » apex court Court featured Law Legal News marital rape Supreme Court
Top Law News SC allows 13-year-old rape survivor to abort her pregnancy September 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today allowed a 13-year-old alleged rape survivor to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy after taking note of a medical report. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar perused the medical report filed by a board of doctors of J J hospital Mumbai, set up by […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News rape survivor can abort her pregnancy Supreme Court
Top Law News SC to hear IDBI plea agnst stay on Jaypee’s insolvency September 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea of IDBI Bank seeking modification of its order by which the insolvency proceedings against real estate firm Jaypee Infratech was stayed. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar considered the submission of the bank that staying the order […] Read more » Court featured IDBI plea agnst stay on Jaypee's insolvency Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Will examine if CVC appointee is of impeccable integrity’ September 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said it would not go into the aspect of “political favouritism” but only examine whether a person appointed to the posts of central vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioners met the criteria of having “impeccable integrity”. The apex court was hearing a petition filed in 2015 challenging the appointment of the incumbent […] Read more » Court CVC appointee is of impeccable integrity featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News SC orders CBI probe into death case of Karnataka DySP September 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today ordered a CBI investigation into the death of M K Ganapathy, a deputy superintendent of Karnataka police, saying there were “startling facts” in the case which needed to be probed in a fair manner. DySP Ganapathy had died at Madikeri in Karnataka under mysterious circumstances on July 7 last year. A […] Read more » CBI probe into death case of Karnataka DySP Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi HC dismisses Vodafone’s plea on IUC September 6, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has dismissed Vodafone’s petition against the consultation process adopted by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for fixing interconnection usage charges (IUCs) between cellular and fixed line operators. “The petition is dismissed,” Justice Vibhu Bakhru said. IUCs are charges paid by operators of telecommunication services on whom the call originates […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News TRAI Vodafone's plea on IUC
Top Law News Banning charged ‘netas’: SC to consider setting 5-judge bench September 5, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said it would consider setting up a five-judge constitution bench to hear a plea seeking barring of those politicians against whom charges have been framed in serious offences, from contesting elections. The petition, which was mentioned before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, has raised a question whether a […] Read more » Banning charged 'netas' Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News SC stays insolvency proceedings against Jaypee Infratech September 5, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed the insolvency proceedings against real estate firm Jaypee Infratech at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and sought the firm’s response on a plea seeking protection of the interests of hassled home buyers who have neither got homes, nor their money back. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » Court featured Jaypee Infratech Law Legal News National Company Law Tribunal Supreme Court
