Top Law News Keep guards, inmates away for TIP by children: HC June 23, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court has directed Tihar Jail authorities to ensure a “congenial and conducive environment” during participation of child witnesses of below 12 years of age by keeping them away from inmates and “gun- toting guards” in the main prison complex. “Face-to-face” confrontation of children with criminals has to be strictly avoided and deployment of […] Read more » Delhi High Court gun-toting guards HC news Tihar Jail TIP todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Satyam fraud case verdict date may be fixed June 23, 2014 / June 23, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nearly five-and-half-years after the multi-crore accounting fraud surfaced in erstwhile Satyam Computer Services Limited, a special court set up to try the sensational case is likely to fix today the date for pronouncement of the much-awaited verdict. The trial in Satyam fraud case concluded last week before the special court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate […] Read more » Hyderabad news Satyam Satyam Computers Satyam fraud case todays news todays top news Top news Venkatpathi Raju
Top Law News Tulsi Prajapati: Court raps Amit Shah June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI court here Friday reprimanded the counsel of former Gujarat Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah for seeking yet another exemption for his client without assigning any reason for the BJP leader’s non-appearance in connection with the 2006 Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter case. “Every time you are giving an exemption application without assigning […] Read more » Amit Shah CBI Mumbai Prajapati encounter case Tulsiram Prajapati
High Profile Cases Top Law News Campa Cola case: Complaint filed against defiant residents June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In face of increasing resistance to eviction from Campa Cola compound residents, the civic body in Mumbai has filed a police complaint against those preventing officials from implementing the Supreme Court order even as its team has decided to try again to convince the occupants to leave the illegal flats on Saturday before opting for […] Read more » Campa Cola case eviction from Campa Cola compound Mohan Adtani Additional Municipal Commissioner
Top Law News Court notice on sexual harassment guidelines in foreign airlines June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday sought a response from the central and Delhi governments and SriLankan Airlines on a plea by an Indian woman seeking court’s direction for implementing Vishaka guidelines (against sexual harassment) in foreign airlines. A bench of Justice Sunita Gupta issued notice to the civil aviation and women and child development ministries, […] Read more » Delhi High Court sexual harassment sexual harassment guidelines in foreign airlines
Top Law News Rape on Rise Due to Failure of Live-in Relationships: Delhi High Court June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has held that rape cases are increasing due to failure of live-in relationship or young adults acting immaturely by getting into commitments that end up in break-ups. A bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir and Justice Sunita Gupta in a recently-delivered order said that boys and girls have to be very careful […] Read more » Delhi High Court Failure of Live-in Relationships Rape on Rise Due to Failure of Live-in Relationships
High Profile Cases Top Law News HC grants bail to JVM MLA Dhulu Mahto June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jharkhand High Court on Friday granted bail to MLA Dhulu Mahto after 11 months in judicial remand in connection with forcibly freeing a person from a police station in Dhanbad. Justice S Chandrasekhar granted the bail to the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha MLA on two sureties for Rs 10,000 each. Mahto had on July 9 […] Read more » granted bail to MLA Dhulu Mahto Jharkhand High Court Jharkhand Vikas Morcha MLA Justice S Chandrasekhar MLA Dhulu Mahto granted bail
Family Law News Top Law News Marriage in upper caste can’t deny quota benefits: court June 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If a person is born in a reserved category family and later marries into an upper caste, it does not deprive her of benefits of the reservation, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has ruled. Imposing a fine of Rs.200,000 on the state for not issuing a certificate of other backward class (OBC) to the petitioner, […] Read more » can't deny quota benefits if married to upper caste Himachal Pradesh High Court Marriage in upper caste
Top Law News HC relief for SRK, wife on petition about sex determination June 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today upheld the order of a magistrate`s court rejecting the plea seeking documents regarding the sex determination test allegedly undergone by actor Shah Rukh Khan`s wife prior to the birth of the couple`s third child. Justice Reveti Mohite-Dhere, in her judgement on the petition filed by activist Varsha Deshpande, rejected the […] Read more » AbRam Gauri Khan High Court news sex determination Shah Rukh khan todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Mukul Rohatgi takes charge as Attorney General June 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Mukul Rohatgi takes charge as Attorney General Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi today took charge as the new Attorney General and made a strong pitch for a multi-pronged approach to reduce backlog of cases by increasing number of court working days and fixing a time limit for advocates to argue the case. A noted corporate lawyer, 59-year-old Rohatgi, who will have a three […] Read more » Mukul Rohatgi new Attorney General new Attorney General news Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News HC notice to Adani for collecting deposits June 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Admitting a public interest litigation (PIL) alleging charging of unauthorised deposits from consumers with domestic PNG connection, the Gujarat High Court issued notices to Adani Gas Ltd and Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board here today. A two-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala, issued a notice and posted further […] Read more » Adani for collecting deposits Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya Gujarat High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Badaun rape case: Court nod for lie detection test June 20, 2014 / June 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court on Thursday gave permission to CBI to conduct lie detection tests on all the five accused in the alleged rape and murder of two Dalit cousins in Badaun district last month. “Passing the order on an application moved by CBI, Additional District Judge SN Tripathi said the court gives permission for lie […] Read more » Additional District Judge SN Tripathi Badaun rape case constable Chatrapal Singh counsel Gyan Swaroop Gupta news todays news todays top news Top news
