Environment Law News Top Law News NGT directs AAP govt to immediately devise mechanism to deal with waste at overflowing landfill sites July 20, 2017 / July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the AAP government to convene an immediate meeting to decide a detailed mechanism for dealing with the waste lying at various overflowing landfill sites in Delhi. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar ordered the chief secretary of Delhi government to hold the meeting and come out with a complete mechanism to reduce the […] Read more » AAP government Court Environment Law News featured Law Legal News mechanism to deal with waste at overflowing landfill sites NGT
Top Law News Centre seeks early hearing of plea on entry of foreign lawyers July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre has moved the Supreme Court seeking early hearing on a plea that has raised the issue whether foreign lawyers and law firms be allowed to practice in the country. The Ministry of Law and Justice, in its plea, termed the issue as “an important” and “urgent one” and said that the Bar Council […] Read more » Centre government Court featured Law Legal News plea on entry of foreign lawyers Supreme Court
Top Law News Food grains include pulses: Delhi HC July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Food grains are synonymous not only with cereals but pulses as well, the Delhi High Court has held. The ruling came on a plea challenging a Delhi government notification which exempted vehicles carrying food grains from the Environment Compensation Charge (ECC), but not those transporting pulses. Disagreeing with the government’s stand, Justice Vibhu Bakhru said, […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court ECC Environment Compensation Charge featured Food grains include pulses Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC pulls up ED over seizure of Qureshi’s wife’s passport July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today pulled up the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seizing the passport of controversial meat exporter Moin Qureshi’s wife summoned in connection with a money laundering probe against her husband. Justice Vibhu Bakhru questioned the authority of the law enforcement agency to impound the passport. “This is not the way, a body […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court ED Enforcement Directorate featured FEMA Foreign Exchange Management Act Law Legal News money laundering
Criminal Law News Top Law News Ramjas college: Court pulls up police for not filing report July 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court pulled up today the police for not filing an action taken report (ATR) despite several opportunities in a complaint seeking lodging of an FIR in the Ramjas College incident in which anti-national slogans were allegedly raised in February this year. Taking note of failure of the police in filing a detailed ATR […] Read more » anti-national slogans Court Criminal news Delhi court Delhi Police featured Law Legal News Ramjas college
Criminal Law News Top Law News Non-bailable warrant against Amanmani Tripathi July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has issued a non- bailable warrant against Independent MLA from Nautanwa Amanmani Tripathi in connection with a kidnapping case. Additional Sessions Judge A K Ravi issued the non- bailable warrant against Tripathi yesterday. The case is registered with the Gautampalli Police Station in Lucknow. An FIR was lodged by contractor Rishi Kumar […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured kidnapping case Law Legal News Non-bailable warrant against Amanmani Tripathi Rishi Kumar Pandey
Top Law News Soldiers injured before Independence entitled to war injury July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) has ordered that troopers injured in pre-Independence wars be given ‘war injury pension’ like those wounded after it, in a relief to a 94-year-old war veteran. Seeking to end the discrimination in injury benefits to soldiers injured in pre-Independence and post-Independence wars, the Chandigarh Bench of the tribunal said they […] Read more » AFT Armed Forces Tribunal Chandigarh Bench Court featured Law Legal News Sowar Amar Singh
Top Law News Delhi HC baffled as police books teacher after child falls into manhole during picnic July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today expressed concern over a government school teacher being booked for the death of an 11-year-old student who fell in an open manhole in a city park during a picnic. “If the manhole was visible and the teacher had sent the boy, then he could have been made liable,” a bench […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court Delhi Police featured Government school Law Legal News Millennium Park
Criminal Law News Top Law News Court to pronounce order on charges against Bhatkal on Aug 1 July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today reserved for August 1 its order on whether to put Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Yasin Bhatkal on trial in four separate terror cases. Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma reserved its order after concluding the hearing of arguments on charges in the cases. While two cases relate to the 2010 Jama Masjid […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi court featured Indian Mujahideen Jama Masjid attack Law Legal News Yasin Bhatkal
Top Law News Liezietsu to face trust vote tomorrow, HC dismisses his plea July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the Gauhati High Court dismissing his petition today, Nagaland Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu will seek a vote of confidence at a special session of the assembly tomorrow. Governor P B Acharya directed Speaker Imtiwapang Aier to summon the emergent special session of the assembly at 9.30 am tomorrow for the purpose. Earlier in the […] Read more » Court featured Gauhati High Court Law Legal News Liezietsu to face trust vote tomorrow Nagaland Shurhozelie Liezietsu
Top Law News Delhi HC seeks govt’s stand on pleas for making marital rape an offence July 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to spell out its stand petitions seeking to make marital rape a criminal offence. Marital rape (or spousal rape) is an act in which one of the spouses indulges in sexual intercourse without the consent of the other. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News marital rape
Criminal Law News Top Law News Four acquitted in sensational Moga molestation case July 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Punjab court has acquitted a bus driver and his three accomplices of charges of molesting a 13 -year-old Dalit girl and pushing her off a moving bus leading to her death in Moga in 2015, citing “lack of evidence” after the victim’s mother turned hostile. Additional District and Sessions Judge Lakhwinder Kaur Duggal yesterday […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Moga molestation case Punjab court
