High Profile Cases Top Law News HC declines to entertain plea claiming telecom services illegally stopped during protests in Delhi December 24, 2019 / December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea which alleged that telecom services were disrupted in various parts of the national capital during the anti-citizenship law protests in violation of rules. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar refused to entertain the PIL after Additional Solicitor […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel Citizenship Amendment Act Justice C Hari Shankar MHA Ministry of Home Affairs telecom services illegally stopped
High Profile Cases Top Law News Daryaganj violence: Delhi court dismisses bail pleas of 15 people, sends them to judicial custody December 24, 2019 / December 24, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Monday dismissed bail pleas of 15 people arrested in connection with the violence in Delhi’s Daryaganj area and extended their judicial custody by two weeks. Metropolitan Magistrate Kapil Kumar dismissed the bail applications, saying there was no sufficient ground to grant them the relief. The court passed the order after they […] Read more » Daryaganj violence Metropolitan Magistrate Kapil Kumar
Top Law News Supreme Court to hear on Dec 18 plea of Congress, ex-Tripura Maharaja challenging Citizenship Act. December 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday said it will hear on December 18 pleas of the Congress and former Maharaja of Tripura Pradyot Kishor Deb Barman challenging constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said it will hear the pleas along with other pending matters coming […] Read more » CAA Chief Justice S A Bobde Citizenship Amendment Act Indian Union Muslim League IUML Maharaja of Tripura Pradyot Kishor Deb Barman senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi
High Profile Cases Top Law News HC junks BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur’s application on plea challenging her election December 14, 2019 / December 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday dismissed BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur’s application questioning maintainability of a petition challenging her election to the Lok Sabha from Bhopal. The petition, filed by Bhopal-based journalist Rakesh Dixit, alleged the controversial Hindutva leader, during campaigning, delivered speeches on religious lines, thus violating election norms. The high court […] Read more » BJP MP BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur's Pragya Singh Thakur
High Profile Cases Top Law News Bank loan fraud: Delhi court grants bail to Ratul Puri in a money laundering case. December 14, 2019 / December 14, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Friday granted bail to businessman Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in a money laundering case related to a bank loan fraud. Special Judge Arvind Kumar granted the relief to Puri saying no purpose will be served by keeping him in further custody. The Enforcement Directorate had last […] Read more » AgustaWestland money laundering case Moser Baer nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath PMLA Prevention of Money Laundering Act ratul puri Ratul Puri nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath Rs 354 crore bank fraud case
High Profile Cases Top Law News Chopper scam: ED moves HC to cancel Ratul Puri’s bail in money laundering case December 13, 2019 / December 13, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday moved the Delhi High Court seeking cancellation of bail granted by a trial court to businessman Ratul Puri, nephew of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, in the AgustaWestland money laundering case. The plea by the ED was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and […] Read more » 3600-crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case AgustaWestland money laundering case AgustaWestland VVIP Chief Justice D.N. Patel Enforcement Directorate Justice C Hari Shankar money laundering case Ratul Puri's bail Ratul Puri's bail in money laundering case
High Profile Cases Top Law News One of 4 convicts moves SC seeking review of death penalty in Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case December 11, 2019 / December 11, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment One of the four convicts, Akshya Kumar Singh, moved the Supreme Court Tuesday seeking review of its 2017 judgement handing down death penalty to all of them in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case. The apex court, on July 9, 2018, had dismissed the review pleas filed by three other convicts in the […] Read more » 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case death penalty in rape and murder case Nirbhaya case rape and murder case review of death penalty review of death penalty in Nirbhaya review of death penalty in Nirbhaya case
High Profile Cases Top Law News Iqbal Mirchi PMLA case: ED files charge sheet December 10, 2019 / December 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate on Monday filed charge sheet in the money-laundering case involving gangster Iqbal Mirchi. ED is probing Mirchi’s purchase of three properties of Sir Mohammad Yusuf Trust in Worli area in the metropolis in September 1986 for Rs 6.5 lakh through his Rockside Enterprise. Four persons have been arrested under the Prevention of […] Read more » ED files charge sheet Enforcement Directorate Iqbal Mirchi PMLA case money-laundering case involving gangster Iqbal Mirchi
High Profile Cases Top Law News Delhi court allows Robert Vadra to travel abroad December 10, 2019 / December 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Monday allowed Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, to travel abroad for medical treatment and business purposes. Vadra is facing a probe under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, following allegations of money laundering related to purchase of a property in London at 12, Bryanston Square, […] Read more » Delhi court on Monday allowed Robert Vadra the son-in-law of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
High Profile Cases Top Law News SC to hear after four weeks PIL seeking greater autonomy for ECI December 5, 2019 / December 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear after four weeks a PIL seeking that the chief election commissioner and election commissioners be appointed by a three-member collegium. The collegium will comprise the prime minister, the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and the chief justice of India. A bench comprising Chief Justice S A […] Read more » Chief Justice S A Bobde election commissioners be appointed election commissioners be appointed by a three-member collegium. Justice Surya Kant justices B R Gavai PIL seeking that the chief election commissioner prime minister the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha and the chief justice of India. three-member collegium.
High Profile Cases Top Law News Shahjahanpur law student granted bail in extortion money from Swami Chinmayanand. December 4, 2019 / December 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday granted bail to the law student charged with trying to extort money from Swami Chinmayanand, the BJP leader whom she has accused of rape. Chinmayanand, whose trust runs the Shahjahanpur law college where the woman studied, was arrested under section 376-C of the IPC and continues to be in […] Read more » Allahabad High Court extort money from Swami Chinmayanand
Top Law News The Supreme Court agrees to hear PIL seeking consecutive jail terms in cases of corruption and terrorism November 28, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear after four weeks the PIL seeking various jail terms awarded to a convict under special laws on corruption and terrorism to run consecutively, as in countries like the US, and not concurrently. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde considered the submissions by lawyer and […] Read more » Chief Justice S A Bobde Code of Criminal Procedure FCRA Fugitive Economic Offenders Act PMLA the Black Money and Imposition of Tax Act the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act the Prevention of Corruption Act PCA the Prevention of Money Laundering Act the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act The Supreme Court Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA)
