Top Law News NGO moves SC against electoral bonds scheme ahead of Bihar assembly polls October 29, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahead of Bihar Assembly elections, an NGO has moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent hearing of its 2017 PIL challenging the 2018 Electoral Bonds Scheme meant for funding political parties. The NGO, ‘Association for Democratic Reforms’, had earlier also moved a similar plea seeking stay on the scheme ahead of Delhi Assembly polls in January […] Read more » Association for Democratic Reforms Bihar Assembly elections
Top Law News CBI probe in Hathras case to be monitored by Allahabad HC : Supreme Court October 29, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI investigation in the sensational Hathras case, in which a Dalit girl was allegedly brutally raped and died of injuries, will now be monitored by the Allahabad High Court, the Supreme Court Tuesday said. The apex court said that all the aspects of the case, including monitoring of probe and providing security to the […] Read more » Allahabad High Court CBI probe in Hathras case Supreme Court
Top Law News Hon’ble Karnataka High Court upholds rights of Unit Holders in Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund October 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CFMA to approach Hon’ble Supreme Court as ‘leaving the fate of 3 lakh Unit Holders at the mercy of Trustees without knowing the content of Forensic Audit will set a bad precedent’ Hon’ble Karnataka High Court upholds rights of Unit Holders in Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. The Hon’ble Karnataka High Court today delivered its final […] Read more » CFMA Franklin Mutual Fund Karnataka High Court
Top Law News 15 get life term in 24-year-old triple-murder case in UP’s Fatehpur October 21, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court has sentenced 15 people to life imprisonment in a triple-murder case in this district of Uttar Pradesh. District Government Counsel Sukhdev Gupta on Tuesday said, “Additional District and Sessions Judge Ajay Kumar sentenced 15 accused to life imprisonment on Monday and also slapped a fine of Rs 15,000 on each of them in […] Read more » triple murder case
Top Law News Suspended IAS officer Sivasankar feigned illness: Customs tells Kerala High Court October 21, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Customs probing the gold smuggling case on Tuesday alleged in the Kerala High Court that suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar feigned illness and got hospitalised to avoid answering questions by the agency. The Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate made the submission in a statement opposing the anticipatory bail application of Sivasankar, a day after the high court […] Read more » Suspended IAS officer Sivasankar
Top Law News Delhi riots : Court dismisses pleas of 3 people seeking statutory bail in UAPA case October 21, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has dismissed the application of student activist Gulfisha Khatoon, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), seeking statutory bail in a case related to the communal violence in northeast Delhi in February. The court also dismissed the applications of Saleem Khan and Tasleem Ahmed, arrested in the case under UAPA, […] Read more » UAPA case Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act
Top Law News Online Lecture Series to be launched on Role of the Legal System as custodian of Women’s rights October 17, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After Successful completion of several successful lecture series in the past, Akhil Bhartiya Adhivakta Parishad is launching a New Online Lecture Series […] Read more » Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Lecture Series Justice Ms. Meenakshi I. Mehta Mr. Sudhir Nandrajog New Online Lecture Series Role of the Legal System as custodian of Women’s rights Surinder Kaur
Top Law News SC to pass orders on plea against interim bail to ex-UP minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati in gang rape case October 15, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it would pass orders on October 15 on a plea of Uttar Pradesh government challenging the interim bail of two months granted to gang rape accused and former state minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati on medical grounds by the Allahabad High Court. The verdict was reserved by a bench […] Read more » gang-rape case Gayatri Prasad Prajapati
Top Law News Calcutta HC orders private schools to offer minimum 20 pc reduction in fees October 15, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court on Tu0esday ordered 145 private schools here to offer a minimum 20 per cent reduction in fees across the board, while directing that non-essential charges for use of facilities not availed of will not be permissible. Guardians of students of the 145 schools, mostly in an around the city, had moved […] Read more » 20 pc reduction in fees Calcutta HC Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya Justice Sanjib Banerjee
Top Law News Man sentenced to 15 years in jail for raping teenage girl in 2013 October 15, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a court here for holding a teenage girl hostage for four days and raping her in 2013. The additional district and session judge on Monday also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the 30-year-old convict Teerath Chaturvedi. Assistant Government Counsel, Ramsufal Singh, on Tuesday said, […] Read more » 15 years in jail for raping teenage girl Teerath Chaturvedi
Top Law News NGT notice to Centre on plea for quashing notification on groundwater extraction. October 15, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and the CPCB on a plea seeking quashing of a notification on groundwater extraction on the grounds that its commercial use was adversely affecting the flow of rivers and availability of drinking water in the country. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar […] Read more » groundwater extraction NGT plea for quashing notification on groundwater extraction
Top Law News HC asks Gujarat govt to deal with online gambling as per law October 15, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court has directed the state government to look into the issue of online gambling, and take action in accordance with the law in larger public interest before it is too late. The court said the existing Gujarat Prevention of Gambling Act-1887 remains completely silent on the issue, more particularly online rummy, even as […] Read more » Chief Justice Vikram Nath Gujarat High Court HC asks Gujarat govt to deal with online gambling as per law Justice J.B. Pardiwala online gambling Telangana Gaming Act 1974
