Top Law News Madras HC dispenses with appearance of CEC on election plea January 4, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today dispensed with the personal appearance of the Chief Election Commissioner in an election petition matter. Justice MV Muralidharan allowed a petition by Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer Rajesh Lakhani on behalf of the CEC, seeking to dispense with his personal appearance in court. The judge had, on December 23, ordered […] Read more » CEC Court election featured Law Legal News Madras High Court plea Tamil Nadu
Criminal Law News Top Law News Ex-MLA Ranveer Yadav gets life term in murder case January 4, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A court here today sentenced former MLA Ranveer Yadav to life imprisonment in a murder case that dates back to 1988. Additional District Judge Phool Singh also imposed on Yadav, an Independent MLA from Khagaria Assembly seat in 1990, a fine of Rs 50,000 after finding him guilty in the murder case of Sunil Yadav. […] Read more » Court Criminal news Ex-MLA Ranveer Yadav featured Law Legal News life term murder case
Top Law News Bombay HC asks Centre to decide on mandatory sealing of health care January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has directed the Centre to treat a petition — seeking mandatory sealing of health care products and consumer durables — as if it was a representation made to it and take appropriate decision expeditiously, preferably within six months. The direction was issued recently by a division bench headed by Justice Shantunu […] Read more » Bombay High Court Centre government Court featured health care Law Legal News
Criminal Law News Top Law News Court upholds JJB order convicting juvenile in sodomy case January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The accused in sexual assault cases can be convicted even in the absence of any medical evidence if the testimony of the victim is found “truthful and trustworthy”, a sessions court here has said while upholding the conviction of a juvenile for sodomising a 10-year-old boy. “Forensic evidence in sexual assault cases is only a […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured JJB order Law Legal News sexual assault case Sodomy case
Consumer Law News Top Law News Kin of man killed in mishap get Rs 21.8 lakh compensation January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The UP-based family of a man, who died in a mishap here in 2011, has been awarded Rs 21.81 lakh compensation by the Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT). Niyaz Ahmed Khatab Ansari (then aged 42), who worked as ‘mukadam’ (supervisor of labourers) at a private firm in Bhiwandi town of Thane, was going on […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News MACT man killed in mishap Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Rs 21.8 lakh compensation Thane
Top Law News BCCI administrators matter: SC replaces Nariman with Divan January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today replaced noted jurist F S Nariman with senior lawyer Anil Divan after he expressed his inability to assist the court in suggesting names for BCCI administrators. Nariman told a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur that he had represented the cricket body as a lawyer in 2009 and hence, […] Read more » Anil Divan BCCI administrators matter Court F S Nariman featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News CJI questions Centre over transfer of HC judges January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today questioned the Centre as to why judges and chief justices of high courts are not being transfered despite the recommendations of the collegium and asked it to file a status report on such pending transfers with detailed reasons in two weeks. The apex court said it gives rise to “speculation and […] Read more » Centre government CJI Court featured Law Legal News transfer of HC judges
Top Law News Madras HC ‘closes’ suit filed by Sasikala Pushpa January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today “closed” a civil suit filed by Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa, who has been expelled from the AIADMK, seeking to restrain the party from appointing late chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s aide V K Sasikala as party General Secretary. Justice K Kalyanasundaram had on December 23 reserved his orders on an […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court Sasikala Pushpa suit
Top Law News Cricket field is not a personal turf or fiefdom: SC January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The turf of cricket field is not a personal turf or fiefdom, said the Supreme Court today while noting that no persons would continue to be or be entitled for appointment as the office bearer of BCCI or a state association in breach of the Lodha panel norms accepted by it. The court was at […] Read more » Court Cricket field is not a personal turf or fiefdom featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News There should not be judicial redrafting of law: SC January 3, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment No form of government is perfect but these imperfections cannot be remedied by “judicial redrafting” of a legislative provision, the Supreme Court, in its minority verdict, today said while holding that the term “his religion” meant the faith of candidates only in the election law. The seven-judge bench, in a majority 4:3 verdict, took a […] Read more » Court featured judicial redrafting of law Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Do J&K HC judges take oath to uphold Constitution’ January 2, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Does the non-applicability of any Constitutional amendment in Jammu and Kashmir without a Presidential order under Article 370 of Constitution make it non-obligatory for judges there to uphold Indian Constitution was the question before the Delhi High Court today. However, without going into its merit, the high court said it would like to get a […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured J&K high court Law Legal News
Consumer Law News Top Law News “Death due to mosquito bite an accident” January 2, 2017 / January 2, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment In a ruling that will benefit many insurance holders, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has held that death due to mosquito bite causing malaria is an accident. “It is difficult for us to accept that the death due to a mosquito bite would not be a death due to an accident,” Justice V K […] Read more » consumer law court Court Death due to mosquito bite an accident featured insurance Law Legal News
