Top Law News Hit-and-run case: Salman Khan was driving the car April 14, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Hit-and-run case: Salman Khan was driving the car Contesting Bollywood actor Salman Khan‘s defence that his driver was driving the Toyota Land Cruiser at the time of the 2002 hit-and-run case,prosecution today asserted before the trial court that the superstar was very much behind the wheel. Driver Ashok Singh was a stooge and dummy witness and had lied on oath that he was […] Read more » before Judge D W Deshpande culpable homicide not amounting to murder Hit-and-run case Salman driving Toyota Land Cruiser Salman’s lawyer Srikant Shivade Toyota Land Cruiser
Top Law News One or Two Instances of Assault Do Not Make Cruelty Case: Court April 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment One or two instances of physical assault”, even if found to be true, cannot make for a case of cruelty for the purpose of satisfying unlawful demand, a Delhi court has observed, while discharging the in-laws of a woman in a dowry harassment case. Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala dismissed the woman’s revision petition and […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Pulastya Pramachala Assault Do Not Make Cruelty Cruelty Case Dowry Prohibition Act featured Instances of Assault
Top Law News Govt instituting rational framework for land acquisition: Modi April 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Under attack over Land Ordinance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the government was instituting a “rational framework” for acquisition of land without causing distress to farmers and other landowners. “We are instituting a rational framework for acquisition of land without causing distress to farmers and other landowners,” he said here while wooing global […] Read more » acquisition of land without causing distress to farmers featured Land acquisition Land Acquisition Ordinance rational framework for land acquisition
Top Law News HC upholds life term to man for raping daughter for two years April 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a 43-year-old man for raping his teenage daughter repeatedly for two years. The accused – Kishan Gehlot – was arrested on April 16, 2003 by the city police after his daughter, who was 17 years old then, lodged a FIR against him for raping her […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured HC upholds life term life term to man for raping daughter raping daughter raping daughter for two years
Top Law News Hit-and-run: Prosecution to submit written arguments tomorrow April 13, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The prosecution in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Bollywood superstar Salman Khan would submit final written arguments tomorrow as directed by the trial court here. Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat concluded the prosecution case on April 9 after commencing oral arguments from April 1. Defence counsel Shrikant Shivade commenced his final arguments on April 10. […] Read more »
Top Law News Man freed in rape case as wife turns hostile April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Man freed in rape case as wife turns hostile A man, accused of raping and threatening a woman, has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that she was happily married to him and had lodged a false case under pressure from her parents. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt absolved the man, a west Delhi resident, of the offences, saying that the woman turned hostile […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt featured Man freed in rape case rape case wife turns hostile
Top Law News Pvt firm drags Centre to high court on supply of condoms April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A condom manufacturer has dragged the Centre to Delhi High Court, expressing apprehension that it may be deprived of a contract for supply of over 100 million pieces of male contraceptives despite edging out others in the tender process. Pending the matter in which the private company cited the government’s previous year’s decision to involve […] Read more » accredited social health activists ASHA condoms featured Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed justice Sanjeev Sachdeva National Rural Health Mission NRHM
Top Law News Delhi HC asks steel company to pay Coal India 3 months’ holding cost for coal stock April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has suggested a steel company to consider depositing three months’ holding charges with Coal India Ltd (CIL) towards safety and security of 78,000 metric tonne of coal rejects left behind by it at a mine in Jharkhand. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said Electrosteel Castings Ltd (ESCL) can deposit the holding cost, which […] Read more » Coal India coal stock Delhi High Court featured pay Coal India 3 months' holding cost
Top Law News Govt in no haste to notify law scrapping collegium system April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government seems to be in no hurry to bring into force a law which would end the over two-decade-long collegium system of appointment of judges and would await the outcome of proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday before taking a final call. While referring the petitions challenging the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act […] Read more » collegium system featured Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda law scrapping collegium system National Judicial Appointments Commission Act
Top Law News Congress MLA’s bail plea rejected by Gauhati HC April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gauhati High Court has rejected the interim anticipatory bail applications of controversial sitting Congress MLA Rumi Nath in connection with alleged links with a kingpin of a pan India auto theft gang and arms dealer Anil Chauhan who was arrested recently. A single bench comprising Justice Indira Shah rejected two bail pleas of Nath yesterday […] Read more » bail plea bail plea of Rumi Nath Congress MLA Rumi Nath featured Gauhati HC
Top Law News Arms Act case against Salman: HC rejects Salman’s plea April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Rajasthan High Court today rejected actor Salman Khan’s plea against a trial court order allowing four more witnesses in the Arms Act case in connection with the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident. The examination of these four new witnesses will now begin in the trial court on Monday. “Khan had moved an application in the […] Read more » 1998 blackbuck poaching incident Arms Act case Arms Act case against Salman Blackbuck poaching featured government counsel Vikram Singh Rajpurohit Justice Nirmal Jeet Kaur Rajasthan High Court Salman
Top Law News Hit-n-run:Salman insists he was not driving April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Alleging that “evidence had been manufactured to falsely implicate him” in the , Bollywood actor Salman Khan today told the trial court here that there were circumstances to show that he was not driving the car which rammed into a shop killing one person and injuring four. Read more » 2002 Hit-n-run case featured Hit-n-run Salman insists he was not driving Salman Khan Salman Khan in hit and run case
