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
Top Law News Look for techonology to detect objects on tracks: HC March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Railways and the Maharashtra government should explore if there is any technology to detect presence of foreign objects on railway tracks so as to avert accidents, the Bombay High Court today suggested. A division bench headed by Justice V M Kanade had last week asked the railway authorities and the state government if they […] Read more » Advocate Suresh Kumar detect objects on tracks featured Justice Kanade Justice V.M. Kanade techonology
Top Law News Protests at JNU indicate something is wrong somewhere: HC March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The large number of student protests at JNU only indicates “there is something wrong somewhere”, the Delhi High Court told the varsity today while allowing the students to agitate near the admin block. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva made the observation after the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) said that in the past nine months there have been […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured JNU justice Sanjeev Sachdeva Protests Protests at JNU
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Will have last say on recommendations on national security: SC Collegium March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court collegium has made it clear that it will have the last say in cases where its recommendation for appointment of a judge is returned by the government on the grounds of national security and public interest. While accepting national security and public interest as the new ground of objection to appoint a […] Read more » featured National Judicial Appointments Commission Act recommendations on national security SC Collegium
Criminal Law News Top Law News Three arrested in Dharavi ATM cash van loot March 18, 2017 / March 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three persons have been arrested from Satara district in western Maharashtra in connection with the Rs 1.5 crore ATM cash van loot in Dharavi here, police said today. The trio–Sureshkumar Pandurangam, Arumugam Subramanyam Sherve and Kamala Nagraj Devendra– who were trying to flee, was nabbed from a private travels bus last night after Dharavi police, […] Read more » Arumugam Subramanyam Sherve Dharavi ATM cash van loot Dharavi ATM loot featured Kamala Nagraj Devendra Sureshkumar Pandurangam
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Memo against Mehra’s appointment before LG: HC March 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The memorandum against the appointment of Rahul Mehra as senior standing counsel for the city government is being considered by the Lieutenant Governor (LG), the Delhi High Court was told today. “The file pertaining to the issue raised in the petition is pending for consideration before the LG, who will take his decision soon,” Justice […] Read more » featured HC justice Sanjeev Sachdeva LG Mehra's appointment before LG Memo against Mehra's appointment Rahul Mehra as senior standing counsel
Top Law News HC stays Odisha government’s tax recovery notice on IOCL March 17, 2017 / March 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a setback to the state government, the Orissa High Court today passed an order to “keep in abeyance” a demand notice of VAT recovery from Indian Oil Corporation Limited. The state government in February had asked the IOCL to deposit tax of Rs 1485.98 crore for the sale of finished products from its Paradip […] Read more » featured finance minister Pradip Kumar Amat IOCL Justice Biswajit Mohanty Justice Indrajit Mahanti Orissa High Court Paradip Refinery project VAT recovery VAT recovery from Indian Oil Corporation Limited.
Top Law News HC directs ASI to finish temple repair work by June 2 March 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa High Court today directed the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to complete by June 2 the repair work of the prayer hall of the Jagannath Temple at Puri. Last September, the ASI had told the high court that the repair work it was undertaking in the temple was likely to be over by […] Read more » advocate N K Mohanty Archaeological Survey of India ASI Chief Justice Vineet Saran featured Jagannath Temple at Puri Orissa High Court
Top Law News Accused directed to fill water tanks kept for animals for bail March 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an unusual order, a court today asked a man accused of poaching to fill water tanks kept for animals for a month as a condition for releasing him on bail. Selvaraj (35) was arrested on February 20 near Annur in the rural limits for possessing venison and was lodged in the Central Jail here […] Read more » bail featured fill water tanks kept for animals fill water tanks kept for animals for bail
Top Law News Zakir Naik, IRF indulging in unlawful activity: HC March 17, 2017 / March 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today upheld the Centre’s decision to immediately ban Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF), saying the organisation and its president and members were indulging in “unlawful activity”. Turning down the foundation’s claim that the Centre has not given reasons for its order, Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said that there is material to […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured IRF justice Sanjeev Sachdeva UAPA Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act Zakir Naik Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation
