Top Law News Pachauri withdraws plea from HC agnst media house April 6, 2016 / April 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment TERI’s Executive Vice Chairman R K Pachauri, accused in a sexual harassment case, today withdrew his plea seeking to restrain a media house from publishing reports on the proceedings and outcome of inquiry against him. Pachauri, who has denied all allegations levelled against him, through his counsel told a bench of justices Gita Mittal and […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Pachauri withdraws plea from HC R K Pachauri sexual harassment case Teri
Top Law News Just pouring kerosene on self no suicide bid: Delhi Court April 6, 2016 / April 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A man accused of trying to commit suicide by pouring kerosene oil on himself at an MCD office here 16 years ago, has been acquitted by a Delhi court which said it was “merely a preparation” to commit suicide and nothing more. The court said the act of the accused, who poured kerosene on himself […] Read more » Court Delhi court featured laws Legal News suicide bid
Top Law News Married woman gets Rs 51.75L compensation April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Awarding Rs 51.75 lakh to a married woman for the accidental death of her brother, a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has held that legal heirs, even if not dependent on the deceased, are eligible for compensation. The claimant, Divya Alok Srivastav informed Thane MACT that on May 23, 2007, her brother 237-year-old brother Abhisek Kumar, who […] Read more » Compensation Consumer news Court featured insurance Law Legal News Motor Accident Claims Tribunal
Top Law News Madras HC grants advance bail to mentally ill man April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today granted anticipatory bail to a 61-year-old mentally challenged man, who allegedly murdered his wife and inflicted injury on himself last year. Granting anticipatory bail to the man, on a petition by one of his sons Kamaraj fearing arrest of his father, Justice S Vimala said, “putting the senior citizen behind […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Madras HC grants advance bail to mentally ill man Madras High Court
Top Law News PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol April 6, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed today in the Patna High Court challenging the Bihar governments decision to clamp total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol in the state. An ex-serviceman A N Singh filed the PIL in the Patna High Court, a day after the Nitish Kumar ministry declared Bihar a total […] Read more » ban on alcohol BIHAR Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol
Top Law News Two Delhi HC judges transferred April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Two judges of the Delhi High Court — Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Rajiv Shakder — were today transferred to the High Courts of Andhra Pradesh-Telangana and the Madras respectively. A Law Ministry statement said here that Justice Kait has been transferred to the High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and directed to […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Two Delhi HC judges transferred
Top Law News Delhi HC refuses to grant interim protection to Virbhadra’s children April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today refused to grant any interim protection to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s two children, who have challenged the Enforcement Directorates provisional attachment of some of their assets in a money laundering case. “We will give them (ED, Ministry of Finance) an opportunity to file response and then we will […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Himachal Pradesh Law Legal News Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Free legal aid counsel for Sharmila April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Free legal aid counsel for Sharmila A local court today appointed a free legal aid counsel for rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu. Sharmila had submitted an affidavit at the chief judifical magistrate court, Imphal West, stating that she wanted to fight her case against the state government without a counsel. The hunger striker, who was present in the court, talking to […] Read more » Court featured Free legal aid counsel Law Legal News Manipur Sharmila chanu
Top Law News Government lab submits report on Maggi in SC April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A government laboratory today submitted its test report on Maggi noodles in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court which directed that copies of it be given to the Centre and Nestle India. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh directed the registry to give the report of the Mysore-based institute to […] Read more » Centre government Consumer news featured Legal News Maggi noodle Nestle India Supreme Court
Top Law News SC slams BCCI for not checking how hefty sums are being spent April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today came down heavily on cash-rich BCCI, saying the cricket body was running like a “mutually beneficial society” and “practically corrupting” its members by not seeking any explanation on how crores of rupees allotted to them were being spent. While scrutinising the fund allocation and expenses of the Board of Control for […] Read more » BCCI Court featured Law Legal News SC slams BCCI for not checking how hefty sums are being spent Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi HC asks Virbhadra why he was not joining DA probe April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, an accused in a disproportionate assets case along with others, today said he had no problem in joining the CBI’s investigation in the matter after the Delhi High Court asked him why he was not doing so. “Your (Singh) name is there in the FIR. Why don’t you join the […] Read more » Court DA probe Delhi High Court featured himachal padesh Law Legal News Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Madras HC moved against cyber pornography April 5, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A PIL has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to police to take steps to check cyber pornography, saying such content had an extremely bad effect on the youth and was leading to various types of social problems and perpetration of crime. When the petition came up for hearing, a bench […] Read more » Court cyber pornography featured Law Legal News Madras HC moved against cyber pornography Madras High Court
