Top Law News Gulberg case:Defence seeks leniency in sentencing June 9, 2016 / June 10, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Counsel for the 24 convicted in the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre, which left 69 people including former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri dead, today sought lenient punishment for those guilty by the court which indicated that it will tomorrow decide on the date of pronouncement of the quantum of sentence. The special SIT court is hearing […] Read more » Court featured Gulberg case Law Legal News
Top Law News Justice Karnan given single bench after spat June 9, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Justice Karnan given single bench after spat Justice C S Karnan, who was involved in a spat with brother judge Justice Ashim Kumar Roy in a division bench over changing of a bail prayer order, was today given charge of a single bench. Justice Karnan will preside over a single bench on and from June 9, 2016 and hear education and old […] Read more » Court featured Justice Karnan Law Legal News
Top Law News 5-yr-old gets Rs 1.58L claim for injuries in road accident June 9, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A five-year-old girl has been awarded Rs 1.58 lakh compensation by the Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal for her injuries in a freak accident in 2013. Roshani Kamod Kumar, in her claim filed through her father Kamod Kumar Gupta, told the MACT that on January 18, 2013 she was playing near her house at Nerul […] Read more » 5-yr-old gets Rs 1.58L claim Court featured Law Legal News road accident Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal
Top Law News Producers of ‘Udta Punjab’ move HC seeking Censor Board order June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Amid the controversy over drug-themed Bollywood film “Udta Punjab”, its producers moved the Bombay High Court on Wednesday seeking a copy of the order passed by censor board’s review committee purportedly suggesting cuts in the movie and removal of reference to Punjab in it. The petition said that producers have not yet been given a […] Read more » Abhishek Chaubey direction Anurag Kashyap controversial cinemas Court featured Law Legal News Naik Naik and Co. Udta Punjab
Top Law News Order to reveal IB report on whistle-blower stayed June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today stayed an order of the Chief Information Commission (CIC) directing the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to make public its report on alleged harassment of whistle-blower IFoS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva stayed the operation of CIC’s April 21 order till the next date of hearing on August 9 on the IB’s […] Read more » .Chief Information Commission CIC Court directing the Intelligence Bureau featured IB Law Legal News whistle-blower
Top Law News Road repair work to be completed prior to monsoon: BMC to Bombay HC June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment 90% of road repair and maintenance work in the city has been completed and the remaining 10% will be carried out before the onset of monsoon, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court. A division bench of Justices Shantanu Kemkar and M S Karnik was hearing a suo-moto public interest […] Read more » BMC Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News monsoon Road repair work
Top Law News Bombay HC seeks details on drought refugees of Maharashtra June 8, 2016 / June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today sought factual details from Maharashtra government on exact number of persons who migrated to Mumbai and neighbouring districts from drought-hit areas of the state and what steps it has taken to help and rehabilitate such ‘drought refugees’. A division bench of justices V M Kanade and M S Sonak directed […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court drought refugees featured Law Legal News Maharashtra
Top Law News Judges argue in court over bail to flyover collapse June 7, 2016 / June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Two judges of a division bench of the Calcutta High Court today argued with each other in open court today over granting bail to some accused persons in connection with the Vivekananda Road flyover collapse. Justice C S Karnan, who had earlier been in news for staying his transfer order from the Madras High Court […] Read more » Calcutta High Court Court featured flyover collapse Law Legal News
Top Law News SC reserves verdict on appeals in DA case against Jayalalithaa June 7, 2016 / June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on a batch of appeals filed by Karnataka government and others against the High Court order acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and others in a disproportionate assets case. A vacation bench comprising justices P C Ghose and Amitava Roy, which has been hearing the appeals of […] Read more » Court DA case against Jayalalithaa featured Law Legal News Supreme Court verdict
Top Law News Madras HC to decide on granite scam probe after govt report June 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today said it will take a decision on entrusting further investigation in the multi-crore illegal granite quarrying scam to CBI or CB-CID or to maintain the current probe, on receipt of a composite report from the state government. When the matter came up before the first bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay […] Read more » Court featured granite scam Law Legal News Madras High Court
Top Law News Court grants bail to MHA official June 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special court today granted bail to Home Ministry official Anand Joshi, who was arrested for allegedly issuing FCRA notices arbitrarily to several NGOs for financial gains, observing that the accused cannot be put in jail for an indefinite period. Special CBI Judge Vinod Kumar gave the relief to Joshi, who was an under secretary […] Read more » bail Court featured Home Ministry official Anand Joshi Law Legal News MHA official
Top Law News SC refuses to order CBI probe into Mathura violence June 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to order CBI probe into Mathura violence in which 29 people, including two police officials, were killed during an eviction drive to remove about 3,000 encroachers from a little known armed sect from Jawahar Bagh. A bench of Justices PC Roy and Amitava Roy said that Allahabad HC was […] Read more » CBI Court featured Jawahar Bagh Law Legal News Mathura violence Supreme Court UP
