Top Law News Court Asks Police Chief to Ensure Innocent’s Civil Liberty December 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police Commissioner has been asked by a court here to take remedial actions to ensure that “civil liberties of innocent, poor and helpless persons” were not curtailed by the cops without any justification. The observation was made by Additional Sessions Judge ( while acquitting a man, facing trial in a murder case. The […] Read more » ASJ Sandeep Yadav Civil Liberty
Top Law News 2007 Shingar Cinema blast: All 3 accused acquitted December 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today acquitted all the three accused of the Shingar Cinema blast case of 2007, in which six persons had lost their lives and many were injured, for lack of evidence. Giving benefit of doubt to the accused, Additional Sessions Judge H S Grewal said that the evidence produced by the prosecution on […] Read more » 2007 Shingar Cinema blast Additional Sessions Judge H S Grewal Gurpreet Singh Harvinder Singh Khalsa Ramminder Singh Rinku
Top Law News HC issues notice to govt on sexual harassment complaint December 16, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today ordered issue of notice to the government on a complaint of sexual harassment filed by some teachers against a school headmaster here. Justice M.M Sundresh, before whom the petition filed by seven Assistant lady teachers of Kolathur Government High School came up, directed the government pleader to get instructions from […] Read more » Justice M.M.Sundresh Madras High Court sexual harassment sexual harassment complaint
Top Law News Local Haryana court allows polygraph test on Rohtak sisters December 16, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court on Monday granted permission to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Haryana Police to conduct polygraph test on the two Rohtak sisters and their alleged molesters. Consent had been sought from the victims to conduct them, to which they agreed, the victims’ lawyer told reporters. He said SIT’s investigating officer Manjeet Singh […] Read more » lie-detector test on Rohtak sisters Local Haryana court polygraph test on Rohtak sisters
Top Law News Delhi High Court refuses to ban astrology-based TV shows December 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has refused to prohibit astrology-based shows on television while saying it was not in its domain to prescribe what the programming code should be. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw, which was hearing a petition filed by NGO Sai Lok Kalyan Sanstha, said since […] Read more » astrology-based TV shows Cable Television Network Regulation Act Delhi High Court Information and Broadcasting Ministry NGO Sai Lok Kalyan Sanstha provisions of Drugs and Magic Remedy Act
Top Law News Redevelopment of Jama Masjid: HC seeks PWD response December 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought the PWD’s response on a plea for time-bound implementation of the Jama Masjid redevelopment plan after the North MCD said the project is no longer with it. The North Delhi Municipal Corporation () submitted before a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Siddharth Mridul that according to a […] Read more »
Top Law News Point system: Delhi HC reserves decision on interim stay of order December 9, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Tuesday reserved its decision on an application seeking interim stay of its single judge bench verdict quashing the points system for nursery admission brought in by the Lieutenant Governor for private unaided schools here. “We will consider and pass an order on the application (for interim stay),” a bench of […] Read more » Chief Justice G Rohini Justice RS Endlaw student's educational fate
Top Law News Situation at Ashutosh Maharaj’s ashram normal: Police December 6, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Situation at the ashram of Ashutosh Maharaj, who has been declared clinically dead and Punjab and Haryana High Court has set dealine for performance of his last rites, remained normal on Friday, police said. “The situation is normal. There has been no report of any problem anywhere. The followers at the ashram have been cooperating […] Read more » Ashutosh Maharaj
Top Law News SC rejects plea on restraining jailbirds from contesting poll December 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging an amendment in Representation of People’s Act allowing jailbirds, except convicts, to contest elections, which was earlier barred by it. “If there is conviction and sentence, we can understand but the registration of an FIR and confinement is not sufficient to bar a person from contesting election,” […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu vendetta politics
Top Law News Bal Thackeray’s will was updated many times December 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A witness on Thursday stated before the Bombay High Court that Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray had amended his will eight to nine times between 1997 to 2011. F D’souza, a lawyer, said during a hearing before Justice Gautam Patel that every time a new draft of the will was prepared, it was […] Read more » Bal Thackeray's will Justice Gautam Patel
Top Law News Onus on disproving conflict of interest on Srinivasan: Supreme Court December 2, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday put the onus on BCCI president-in-exile N Srinivasan to prove that there was no conflict of interest involving him that came in the way of a probe into the IPL-6 scam and took strong exception to his counsel “repeatedly” naming finance minister Arun Jaitley in the proceedings. “You are repeatedly […] Read more » conflict of interest on Srinivasan
Top Law News HC reserves order on plea to quash provision of DCSR December 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has reserved its verdict on a plea seeking quashing of a provision that enables the general body of societies to fix higher charges of essential services in respect of dwelling units which are on rent. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said it will pass […] Read more » advocate Balraj Singh Malik Chief Justice G Rohini Delhi Cooperative Societies Rules Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw provision of DCSR
