Top Law News Poll spending: Delhi HC asks ECI for regulation on it May 4, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to place before it the regulation for bringing transparency regarding expenditure of political parties and funds received by them. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra directed the counsel for the poll panel to inform whether the parties […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court ECI regulation Election Commission of India featured Law Legal News Poll spending
Criminal Law News Top Law News Loan fraud case: Court grants ED custody to director of pvt May 4, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here today sent the director of a private company to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till May 13 in an alleged Rs 2,650-crore bank loan fraud case. Special Judge Kamal Joshi ordered to sent the director of Zoom Developers Private Limited Vijay Madanlal Chowdhary (59) – to the ED custody till May […] Read more » Court Court grants ED custody to director of pvt Criminal news Enforcement Directorate featured Law Legal News Loan fraud case Vijay Madanlal Chowdhary Zoom Developers Private Limited
Top Law News SC rejects review plea of man who raped, killed 4-yr-old May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed a review petition of a 55-year-old man and sent him to gallows for raping and stoning to death a four-year-old girl in 2008. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said “no case is made out” and dismissed the review petition. The bench, which also comprised Justices R F Nariman […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News murder case plea rape case Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Nizamuddin dargah teacher acquitted in rape case May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Sufi teacher, accused of raping a divorced woman on the pretext of resolving her troubles, has been let off by a Delhi court saying the woman had lodged the complaint in a fit of anger. The court observed that the woman, who had entered her second wedlock with the accused, a ‘khwaja’ (teacher or […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi court featured Law Legal News Nizamuddin dargah rape case
Criminal Law News Top Law News Former ED officer surrenders, sent to police custody May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Enforcement Directorate officer Manoj Kumar was today remanded to police custody till May 12 after he surrendered before a city court in connection with an extortion case that allegedly revealed his links with the accused in the Rose Valley chit fund scam. Kamal Somani, a chartered accountant, had lodged a complaint at Shakespeare Sarani […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Former ED officer surrenders Law Legal News police custody Rose Valley chit fund scam
Top Law News MP HC summons top govt official on May 15 May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madhya Pradesh High Court has summoned a top state government official to explain what steps he has taken to rectify a purportedly wrongly-translated Hindi list of dalits and tribals, negating their quota benefits. A bench of justices S K Seth and H P Singh ordered the state’s General Administration Department’s secretary yesterday to appear […] Read more » Court featured government official Law Legal News MP high court
Top Law News SC seeks govt’s response on plea for upward revision of MSP May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to respond to suggestions, including upward revision of minimum support price (MSP) for foodgrains, given by an NGO to ameliorate the plight of farmers, who were committing suicide. “P S Narsimha, Additional Solicitor General, seeks some time, so as to enable him to analyse the documents placed on […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News plea for upward revision of MSP Supreme Court
Top Law News Rohatgi leaves for Geneva to attend UN human rights meet May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi would project India’s record on human rights protection at a global conference of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The top law officer, who left for Geneva tonight, said he will represent the country and “put forth India’s record of protection of human rights in front of group of […] Read more » Court featured Geneva Law Legal News Mukul Rohatgi Rohatgi leaves for Geneva UN human rights meet United Nations Human Rights Council
Top Law News SC asks Essar to pay Rs 1038.27 cr to Guj Govt as power duty May 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed the appeals of Essar Steel and Essar Power and upheld the Gujarat High Court’s order holding them liable to pay Rs 1038.27 crore towards electricity duty to the state government. “We are dismissing the appeals,” a bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said. Essar has been seeking […] Read more » Court Essar featured Gujarat government Law Legal News power duty Supreme Court
Top Law News Ensure that schools don’t sell books, uniforms, Delhi HC tells CBSE May 2, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today directed the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to ensure that the schools affiliated to it must not indulge in commercial activities, such as selling books and uniforms, inside their campuses. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhothra also noted that the CBSE has recently […] Read more » CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education Court Delhi High Court Ensure that schools don't sell booksand uniforms featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Man shows remorse, jailed to period undergone behind bars May 2, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court today took a lenient view in a case of stabbing by sentencing a young accused to seven months in jail, a term he has already undergone, for stabbing two persons, as the victims too did not seek any further action against him. The court also considered the remorseful attitude of the 20-year […] Read more » Court featured jailed to period undergone behind bars Law Legal News Man shows remorse
Top Law News No bribe charge made out against sacked cop: Court May 2, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court today declined to take up a case against a sacked policeman, accused of hitting a woman with a brick in 2015 after she refused to bribe him, saying no offence of demanding illegal gratification was made out against him. Special Judge Hemani Malhotra said the evidence prima facie showed that no offence […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News No bribe charge made out against sacked cop Prevention of Corruption Act