Top Law News SC asks MoEF to decide on clearance to Adani SEZ July 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to take a decision on grant or denial of clearances to Adani Port Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) within eight weeks. A forest bench headed by Justice J S Khehar, expressing unhappiness over delay, said this will be the last chance to the ministry […] Read more » Adani Port Special Economic Zone APSEZ ministry of environment and forests MoEF news Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Missing kids: SC seeks states’ compliance reports July 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan to file a report giving details of the states that have complied with its earlier order on recovering missing children. A bench of Justice H.L.Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra asked senior counsel H.S.Phoolka to prepare a report after compiling the status reports filed by the different […] Read more » Justice Arun Mishra Justice H.L. Dattu NALSA National Legal Services Authority news NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Hearing on Amit Shah’s plea adjourned till July 24 July 15, 2014 / July 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A sessions court here today adjourned till July 24 the hearing on a discharge application filed by BJP leader Amit Shah in connection with the alleged fake encounter cases of Tulsiram Prajapati and Sohrabuddin Sheikh. The CBI had charge sheeted Shah, former minister of state for Home in Gujarat, and others, including several police officers, […] Read more » BJP leader Amit Shah Hearing on Amit Shah's plea news todays news todays top news Top news Tulsiram Prajapati
Top Law News Activist accused of molesting woman cop gets relief July 15, 2014 / July 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An animal rights activist, against whom a woman police officer had filed a case of molestation, was on Monday granted interim protection from arrest till August 6 by a local court. The activist Devdutt Nayak, member of People for Animals, in his anticipatory bail application filed before a sessions court earlier, had alleged that he […] Read more » animal rights Mumbai news People For Animals todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Lufthansa directed to pay Rs 4.5 lakh to flyer July 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment German airline Lufthansa has been directed by a consumer forum here to pay Rs.4.5 lakh to a flyer for causing harassment and mental agony after his baggage went missing while flying from Frankfurt to London in 2007. The New Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum directed the airline, whose office is located here, to pay Rs.3 […] Read more » Delhi Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum German airline Lufthansa Lufthansa Lufthansa directed to pay Rs 4.5 lakh news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Lalu to record statement in fodder scam case July 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment RJD supremo Lalu Prasad will record his statement in a fodder scam case and appear in two other Animal Husbandry Department scam cases in separate CBI courts in Ranchi today. His statement will be recorded in the court of AK Rai under CrPC 313 (power to examine the accused) in connection with RC 64A/96 pertaining […] Read more » advocate Prabhat Kumar Animal Husbandry Department scam fodder scam fodder scam case Lalu Prasad Lalu to record statement in fodder scam case news RJD supremo Lalu Prasad todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Nepal’s CJ stresses on speedy justice July 14, 2014 / July 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of Nepal Damodar Prasad Sharma today stressed on the need for speedy justice saying it will help in reducing the crime rate. “Speedy disposal of the cases would indirectly reduce the crime rate,” he said while speaking to reporters in Vrindavan. “For speedy justice, not only the number of trial courts should be […] Read more » Chief Justice of Nepal Damodar Prasad Sharma Nepal's CJ stresses on speedy justice news speedy justice todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Consumer forum dismisses man’s plea July 14, 2014 / July 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A consumer forum here has dismissed a man’s plea seeking direction to Delhi Jal Board to improve water pressure in his area, saying he was not entitled to any relief as the complaint was “false and misleading”. The West Delhi District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum rejected the complaint of Vijay Kumar Pabbi, a resident of […] Read more » Consumer forum Delhi Jal Board news todays news todays top news Top news West Delhi District Consumer Disputes
Consumer Law News Top Law News Let law graduates preside over traffic courts: Law panel July 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With constituting 37.4 per cent of the 2.68 crore cases clogging the lower courts, the Law Commission has come out with a novel way to deal with the situation by recommending appointment of law graduates to preside over special traffic courts. In its latest report submitted to the Law Ministry, the panel has said if […] Read more » traffic challan cases
Top Law News Make serving on bench mandatory for senior counsel July 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment will always be a headache in this country as long as senior lawyers are queasy about crossing over from the bar to the bench. Being a practicing advocate has its advantages: One is free to take up cases one likes, there’s more money to be made, not to speak of the freedom from reading monotonous […] Read more » fill up judicial vacancies to clear pendencies Judicial vacancies Justice Markandey Katju Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman Justice Soumitra Sen of the Kolkata High Court Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Make serving on bench mandatory for senior counsel
Top Law News HC sets aside selection of 9 asst profs in DU’s Buddhist dept July 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside the selection of nine assistant professors in the Department of Buddhist Studies of Delhi University and asked the varsity to conduct the employment process afresh. “The writ petition is allowed. The selections made pursuant to advertisement dated January 11, 2012 are set aside. The University of Delhi would […] Read more » HC sets aside selection of 9 asst profs in DU's Buddhist dept Justice Rajiv Shakdher selection of 9 asst profs in DU's Buddhist dept
Top Law News Bhiwandi court summons Rahul Gandhi over RSS defamation charge July 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A magisterial court in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra’s Thane district today ordered issuing summons to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi asking him to appear before it on October 7 in connection with his allegedly defamatory speech against RSS made during Lok Sabha elections. The court’s directive came on a case filed by secretary of Bhiwandi unit […] Read more » Bhiwandi court summons Rahul Gandhi Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi Kunte's lawyer Ganesh Dharghalkar news Rahul Gandhi secretary of RSS Bhiwandi Rajesh Kunte todays news todays top news Top news