Top Law News SC summons Home Secys of 6 states over vacancy in police force April 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court took strong note today of huge vacancy in police force in six states, including Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, and asked their Home Secretaries to either personally appear or depute an officer to assist it. A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar referred to the vacancy in the states — Bihar, […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News summons to Home Secys of 6 states over vacancy in police force Supreme Cpourt
Criminal Law News Top Law News Jawan suicide case: Bail pleas of journo, retd army man rejected April 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has rejected the anticipatory bail applications of a New Delhi-based woman journalist and a retired army official charged with abetting suicide of Lance Naik D S Roy Mathew. Mathew had committed suicide after he purportedly figured in an expose by a news portal over alleged abuse of the “buddy” (orderly) system in […] Read more » Bail pleas of journo Court featured Jawan suicide case Law Legal News
Top Law News UP govt favours shifting of Kanpur tanneries April 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has favoured the shifting of British-era tanneries releasing toxic wastes into the river Ganga at Kanpur. The UP government has told the National Green Tribunal that hunt for a new site for setting up of these leather units, which are the “major source of pollution” in Ganga, is under […] Read more » British-era tanneries environmentalist Himanshu Thakkar featured shifting of Kanpur tanneries tanneries releasing toxic wastes into the river Ganga at Kanpur. toxic wastes into the river Ganga Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government
Top Law News PIL challenges AAP govt’s education policy April 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court challenging the AAP government’s education policy under which vocational subjects would replace languages like Sanskrit as the sixth compulsory subject at the secondary level. The public interest litigation filed by a society claims that the decision, which would be applicable on government schools, would result […] Read more » AAP AAP government on education policy AAP government's education policy AAP govt's education policy Delhi High Court featured National Skills Qualifications Framework NSQF PIL
Top Law News Finance Minister okays 8.65% interest on EPF April 16, 2017 / April 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Finance Ministry is believed to have permitted the Labour Ministry to go ahead with 8.65 per cent rate of interest on employees’ provident fund for 2016-17, which will benefit over four crore EPFO members. The Finance Ministry in its communication to the Labour Ministry has, however, put a rider that the interest rate should […] Read more » 8.65% interest on EPF Arun Jaitely Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) trustee EPF featured provident fund for 2016-17
Consumer Law News Top Law News Bombay HC asks railways to compensate woman who lost legs in mishap April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has asked the Railways to take a decision on granting compensation to a woman who lost both her legs while trying to board a moving train at Khandala railway station two years ago. A division bench of justices Abhay Oka and Anil Memon, while hearing a petition filed by the victim, […] Read more » Bombay High Court compensation to woman who lost legs in mishap Court featured Indian Railways Law Legal News
Top Law News Policeman declines SC’s offer for reinstatement if he shaves April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A policeman from Maharashtra, who was suspended for not adhering to no-beard policy of the state reserve force, has not agreed to the offer of the Supreme Court that it would revoke his suspension if he shaves. Zahiroddin Shamsoddin Bedade had approached the top court in 2013 after the Bombay High Court did not find […] Read more » \ J S Khehar Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra policeman Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Delhi HC convicts man for raping minor, terms the crime horrendous April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has convicted a man for kidnapping and raping a minor girl and then endangering her life by leaving the child in a deserted place after committing the “horrendous” crime. Justice S P Garg awarded 10 years jail term to the convict, a rickshaw puller, while modifying the trial court’s decision to […] Read more » Court crime horrendous Criminal news Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News rape case
Top Law News Magistrate can’t direct lodging of FIR outside jurisdiction: Delhi HC April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has held that a magistrate cannot direct the officer in-charge of a police station to investigate a cognisable offence in an area which is outside his jurisdiction. It was contended before the high court that a magistrate exercising jurisdiction under section 156(3) CrPC cannot direct registration of FIR and investigation, thereafter, […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Magistrate can't direct lodging of FIR outside jurisdiction
Top Law News Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan TV granted bail April 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Editor-in-Chief and Chief Managing Director of a news channel, who was arrested for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups here, was today granted bail by a court here. District Magistrate of Sambhal Bhupendra S Chaudhary said Suresh Chavhanke was produced before junior division judicial magistrate, where he was granted bail. Chavhanke on the other hand […] Read more » allegedly promoting enmity bail to Editor-in-Chief of Sudarshan TV Court featured Law Legal News Sudarshan TV
Criminal Law News Top Law News Police rapped for revealing identity of sexual offence victims April 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court has rebuked Delhi Police for blatantly violating the law on confidentiality by revealing the identity of minors subjected to sexual violence and their parents in a series of cases. Taking serious note of the names of the child victims and the names and addresses of their parents being mentioned in the charge […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi Police featured Law Legal News rape case sexual offence.
Criminal Law News Top Law News ‘Wife’s capability to earn, no ground to reject maintenance’ April 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Interim maintenance cannot be denied to a woman by her estranged spouse on the ground that she is capable of sustaining herself, a Delhi court has said. The sessions court made the observation while allowing a woman’s appeal against a magisterial court order that had refused her interim maintenance from her husband in a domestic […] Read more » Court Delhi court domestic violence case featured Interim maintenance Law Legal News magisterial court
