Top Law News Centre writes to CJI over pending adoption cases February 25, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Concerned over a large number of adoption cases pending in courts across the country, the Centre has written to Chief Justice of India on the need to sensitise judges. Maneka Gandhi-led Women and Child Development Ministry has also suggested a slew of measures in order to hasten the legal process. “Courts are going beyond the […] Read more » adoption cases Centre government Chief Justice of India CJI Court featured Law Legal News
Environment Law News Top Law News Bombay HC extends by 2 weeks stay on felling of trees for Metro line February 25, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today extended by two weeks the stay granted on felling of trees to pave the way for Seepz-Colaba Metro line project in the city on a plea alleging environmental damage. The stay was granted by a bench of Chief Justice Dr Manjula Chellur and Justice G S Kulkarni. Veena Verma and […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court Environment Law News featured Law Legal News stay on felling of trees for Metro line
Top Law News Roopa Ganguly gets anticipatory bail in assault case February 25, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court today granted anticipatory bail to BJP MP and actress Roopa Ganguly in connection with a case of alleged assault in South 24-Parganas district. A division bench comprising Justices Nadira Patheriya and Shiva Kant Prasad granted the relief to Ganguly, a Rajya Sabha member, on two surety bonds of Rs 5,000 each. […] Read more » assault case BJP Calcutta High Court Court featured Law Legal News Roopa Ganguly gets anticipatory bail
Criminal Law News Top Law News Man gets life term, friend 10-yrs for minor sisters’ rape February 25, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man was awarded life imprisonment and his accomplice a ten-year jail term for kidnapping two minor tribal sisters in Korba district of Chhattisgarh under the pretext of taking them to Mumbai to meet film stars and raping them. The special court judge Vijay Kumar Ekka yesterday pronounced Rajesh Goswami (24) and his friend Chandraprakash […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Man gets life term in minor girl's rape
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT orders inspection of power firms storing hazardous e-waste February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Power distribution companies storing hazardous e-waste have come under the lens of the NGT which has ordered inspection of their premises here after a plea alleged these were causing massive air pollution. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to jointly inspect areas […] Read more » Court E-waste Environment Law News featured inspection of power firms Law Legal News NGT
Top Law News Judicial restraint needed to permit compounding of offences:SC February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judicial restraint should be observed by the courts while permitting settlement between parties on criminal offences which are barred under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the Supreme Court has said. “We are of the considered opinion that encroaching into the right of the other organ of the government would tantamount clear violation of the […] Read more » Court featured Judicial restraint needed to permit compounding of offences Law Legal News Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Police chargesheets four for gangraping US tourist February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Police has chargesheeted four men for allegedly gangraping and criminally intimidating an American tourist in a 5-star hotel here last year. In a charge sheet filed before a city court, the agency has alleged that the accused — Aniruddha Singh, a Rajasthan- based tourist guide, Vivek Srivastatva, who was working in the hotel when […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi Police featured Gangrape Law Legal News US tourist
Criminal Law News Top Law News Gangrape: 9 men acquitted due to botched up probe February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Noida police officer left “no stone unturned” to botch up investigation in a 2009 case of gangrape of a 24-year-old MBA student that has led to the acquittal of nine persons by a Delhi court on the grounds that the identity of the real culprits could not be proved. The court pulled up the […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Gangrape Law Legal News Noida
Top Law News Teesta tweet case: Guj HC asks govt to submit report February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court today directed the state government to submit its report on police’s investigation after lodging of an FIR against social activist Teesta Setalvad for allegedly posting objectionable pictures of Hindu deities in 2014. During a brief hearing on Setalvad’s plea to quash that FIR, Justice N V Anjaria sought to know from […] Read more » Court featured Gujarat High Court Law Legal News Teesta Setalvad Teesta tweet case
Criminal Law News Top Law News Sheena Bora murder: Trial begins, adjourned for 2 weeks February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Trial in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case began today only to be adjourned for two weeks when defence lawyers objected to a legal point while a Mumbai police official was deposing as the first witness in a CBI court here. Sub-inspector Ganesh Dalvi had arrested the former driver of Indrani Mukerjea. However, an objection […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Indrani Law Legal News PETER MUKERJEA Sheena Bora murder case
Top Law News SC rejects plea on quashing case against Thakur February 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed an appeal of Himachal Pradesh government challenging the high court verdict quashing a criminal case against HPCA chief and BJP MP Anurag Thakur on allegations of encroaching land to construct the Dharamsala cricket stadium. “We do not see any ground to interfere with the impugned order. The special leave petition […] Read more » anurag thakur Court featured Law Legal News plea quashing case Supreme Court
Environment Law News Top Law News E-waste burning: NGT orders inspection of Ganga floodplains February 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed inspection of Ganga flood plains to probe dumping and burning of waste after a plea alleged illegal processing of electronic waste on the banks of Ramganga in western UP. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar directed officials from the Environment Ministry, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) […] Read more » Court E-waste burning Environment Law News featured Law Legal News NGT orders inspection of Ganga floodplains Ramganga Uttar Pradesh
