Top Law News K’taka govt files review plea in SC in Jayalalithaa DA case March 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Karnataka government today moved the Supreme Court seeking a review of its verdict by which it had abated the proceedings in the disproportionate assets case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister late J Jayalalithaa. The state government has said that once the proceedings were abated, it will not be possible to recover the fine of […] Read more » Court featured Jayalalithaa DA case Karnataka Government Law Legal News plea Supreme Court
Top Law News DDCA case: Kejriwal appears, gets bail March 22, 2017 / March 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today granted bail by a Delhi court in a criminal defamation case filed by DDCA and cricketer-turned-politician Chetan Chauhan. Metropolitan Magistrate Abhilash Malhotra gave the relief to Kejriwal as he appeared before the court after the judge insisted on the chief minister’s presence. Kejriwal, who reached court at 3:40 pm, […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal bail Court DDCA case featured Law Legal News
Top Law News SC junks PIL against reservation March 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today junked a PIL seeking a direction that reservation on the basis of caste, sex, religion and financial status should be removed from the Constitution. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul rejected the plea filed by a chartered accountant who claimed […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News PIL against reservation Supreme Court
Top Law News EC favours barring convicts from contesting polls for lifetime March 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Election Commission of India (ECI) today told the Supreme Court that it was in favour of barring convicted persons from contesting polls for life and stopping their entry into judiciary and the executive. The commission also said it was in favour of setting up special courts to decide criminal cases related to people’s representatives, […] Read more » Court Election Commission featured Law Legal News PIL polls for lifetime
Top Law News Calcutta HC grants stay on criminal proceedings against Supriyo March 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court today granted a six-week stay on criminal proceedings against Union minister Babul Supriyo in connection with a case filed against him by Trinamool Congress MLA Mohua Moitra. Justice Joymalyo Bagchi passed an interim stay on the criminal proceedings which had been initiated by a city court order on Supriyo’s alleged derogatory […] Read more » Babul Supriyo Calcutta High Court Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Mohua Moitra Trinamool Congress
Criminal Law News Top Law News Ex-Bigg Boss contestant denied anticipatory bail March 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former ‘Bigg Boss’ contestant Swami Om, who along with his associate is accused of molesting and threatening a woman, saying the allegations against him were grave and he could hamper the investigation. Special Judge Sanjeev Aggarwal declined the relief to Swami Om, saying he could […] Read more » anticipatory bail Bigg Boss Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News molesting and threatening a woman Swami Om
Top Law News Parents can evict abusive adult children from their house: Delhi HC March 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Children who abuse their parents while staying with them in their house can be evicted from the property, the Delhi High Court has ruled. Justice Manmohan, in his ruling, specified that the house need not be self-acquired or owned by the parents. “As long as the parents have the legal possession of the property, they […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Parents can evict abusive adult children from their house
Top Law News Justice Navanithi Prasad Singh sworn in as Kerala CJ March 20, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Navanithi Prasad Singh was today sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Kerala High Court. Governor Justice (retd) P Sathasivam administered oath of office to Justice Singh at a function held at the Raj Bhavan here. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Congress MP and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor and top state officials were […] Read more » Court featured Justice Navanithi Prasad Singh Kerala High Court Law Legal News
Criminal Law News Top Law News 13 Maruti ex-employees get life term for 2012 violence March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Gurgaon court today awarded life sentence to 13 former employees of Maruti-Suzuki India Limited, who it had found guilty of murder, in connection with the violence at the automobile giant’s Manesar plant in 2012 in which a senior company officer had died. Additional district and session judge RP Goyal granted life sentence to the […] Read more » 13 Maruti ex-employees 2012 violence Additional district and session judge RP Goyal Defense counsel featured get life term for 2012 violence Maruti ex-employees get life term prosecution counsel Anurag Hooda Rebbecca John
Criminal Law News Top Law News Halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners urgent: HC March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has issued a slew of directions to expedite setting up of halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners and recruiting trained staff to be deployed there, saying these homes should start working with “utmost urgency”. Halfway homes are residences for individuals who are released from institutions treating the mentally ill or drug addicts […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured Halfway homes Halfway homes for mentally-ill prisoners HC IHBAS Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences Justice Anu Malhotra Justice Gita Mittal mentally-ill prisoners
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT transfers Darjeeling pollution case to Eastern Bench March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has transferred a case relating to the indiscriminate dumping of municipal waste in the picturesque Darjeeling and pollution in Mahananda river to the Eastern Zonal Bench. A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar, passed the order after lawyers appearing for the parties informed it that a similar case was […] Read more » Darjeeling pollution case Eastern Bench featured NGT NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar pollution in Mahananda river Siliguri Municipal Corporation State of West Bengal
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News New chief justice of MP High Court Justice Hemant Gupta takes charge March 19, 2017 / March 19, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Hemant Gupta today took oath as the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court at a brief ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here. Governor O P Kohli administered the oath of office and secrecy to Justice Gupta. The function was attended by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and members of the judiciary […] Read more » chief justice of MP High Court chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan featured Governor O P Kohli High Court Justice Hemant Gupta Justice Rajendra Menon New chief justice of MP
