Top Law News Mallya flew away just like ”Kingfisher” bird: Bombay HC September 20, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today observed that businessman Vijay Mallya aptly named his company ‘Kingfisher’, as like the bird of the same name he too flew away without bothering about boundaries. The remark was made by a division bench of justices S C Dharmadhikari and B P Colabawala while hearing an appeal filed by the […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Kingfisher Law Legal News Vijay Mallya
Top Law News SC grants 6 months for trial in a Guj riots case September 19, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today granted six more months to a lower court in Gujarat to conclude trial in the 2002 Naroda Gam riots case, one of the nine post-Godhra riots matters probed by the apex court-appointed SIT pertaining to the killing of eleven members of a community. “The City Civil & Sessions Court (at Ahmedabad […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured grants 6 months for trial in a Guj riots case Gujarat riots case Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Plea in HC against sr adv designation:Govt seeks time to reply September 19, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Centre today urged Delhi High Court to grant them more time to file their response to a plea challenging legal provisions and Supreme Court rules for designation of lawyers as senior advocates. The request was made before a bench headed by Justice S Ravindra Bhat, who on August 1 had issued notice to the […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Govt seeks time to reply Law Legal News plea sr adv designation
Criminal Law News Top Law News SC seeks Shahabuddin’s reply on plea challenging his bail September 19, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought response from controversial RJD leader Shahabuddin on a plea challenging the bail granted to him by the Patna High Court in a murder case. The apex court, however, did not grant any interim stay on operation of Patna High Court’s bail order and said “We intend to give him (Shahabuddin) […] Read more » bail Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News plea Shahabuddin Supreme Court
Top Law News Bombay HC asks Maha to serve summons by post to reduce pending cases September 18, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment In a move to bring down the huge pendency of cases of cheque bounce, the Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra Government to amend laws to provide for serving warrants and summons to accused and witnesses through registered post, in addition to the procedure followed by the police machinery. “We are of the view that […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra summons by post to reduce pending cases
Top Law News Plea in HC seeks to declare Hindi as national language September 18, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A petition has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to the Centre to take appropriate steps to declare Hindi as the national language of India. The plea, which is likely to come up for hearing next week, also sought a direction to the government to make Hindi a compulsory subject for […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Hindi Law Legal News national language plea
Top Law News Delhi HC verdict finds place in elite Yale Law School journal September 18, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A landmark judgement of the Delhi High Court, which had struck down an 1870 law on court fees, has found place, along with four others from around the world, in a prestigious international journal published by the Yale Law School of the United States. The judgement penned in 2013 by Justice Gita Mittal had struck […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News verdict finds place in elite Yale Law School journal
Top Law News Delhi HC seeks Centre’s reply on plea for electoral reforms September 17, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today sought the Centre’s reply on a plea seeking a slew of electoral reform measures, including setting aside of the six-year cap on the period of disqualification from contesting polls on being convicted and sentenced to two years or more. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News plea for electoral reforms
Top Law News SC to hear plea to cancel bail to Md Shahabuddin on Monday September 17, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday a plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to convicted gangster-turned-RJD leader Md Shahabuddin by Patna High Court in a case pertaining to the killing of a youth in Siwan town of Bihar. A few hours after the development, Bihar government too moved the apex court with its […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News murder case plea to cancel bail to Md Shahabuddin Supreme Court
Top Law News Bombay HC declines stay on BMC resolution on yoga September 16, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today declined to grant an interim stay on implementation of a resolution making yoga and ‘Surya Namaskar’ (sun salutation) mandatory in civic schools in the metropolis, saying it is just a form of exercise which is good for the body. Masood Ansari, a social worker, had filed a public interest litigation […] Read more » BMC Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News yoga
Top Law News PIL says only 1 lab in Mumbai for swine flu test; HC tells Maha to set up more September 16, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Hearing a PIL that claimed there is only one laboratory for testing swine flu in the city, the Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra government to inform how many such labs exist in the state and take steps to increase such facilities all over. The Public Interest Litigation claimed that there was only one laboratory […] Read more » 1 lab in Mumbai for swine flu test Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra government PIL
Top Law News MSEB rapped for disconnecting power of small industrial units September 16, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A consumer court here has rapped the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) for its deficient service, and asked it not to disconnect power supply to small scale units at an industrial estate in the city. It also directed the MSEB to pay the complainants small units Rs 3,000 each towards legal expenses in the case. […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Maharashtra State Electricity Board MSEB power of small industrial units
