High Profile Cases Top Law News NGT slaps Rs 9.16 cr fine over illegal sand mining in Rampur October 10, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A leaseholder for sand mining has been ordered by the National Green Tribunal to pay Rs 9.16 crore as environmental compensation charges for damaging ecology by excavating sand beyond permissible limit from the Kosi river in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh. An NGT bench headed by Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore imposed the penalty saying the […] Read more » Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore Kosi river in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh
High Profile Cases Top Law News Koregaon Bhima case: SC extends protection from arrest to Gautam Navlakha till Oct 15 October 4, 2019 / October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday extended till October 15 the interim protection from arrest granted by the Bombay High Court to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha in the Koregaon Bhima violence case. The apex court directed the Maharashtra government to place before it the material collected during the ongoing investigation against Navlakha in connection with the […] Read more » Koregaon-Bhima case
Top Law News Bombay High Court dismisses petitions on Aarey Colony, says ‘greens have failed’ October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “The greens (environmentalists) have failed,” the Bombay High Court said on Friday, while refusing to declare Aarey Colony a forest and declining to quash the BMC tree authority’s decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the green zone to set up a metro carshed. The court imposed a cost of Rs 50,000 on Shiv […] Read more » Bombay High Court chief justice Pradeep Nandrajog Justice Bharati Dangre
High Profile Cases Top Law News Bombay High Court junks pleas seeking forest tag for Aarey colony. October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a setback to environmental activists, the Bombay High Court on Friday refused to declare Aarey colony a forest and also declined to quash the BMC tree authority’s decision allowing felling of over 2,600 trees in the suburban green zone to pave way for a metro carshed. A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog […] Read more » Bombay High Court
High Profile Cases Top Law News Woman gets 7 years in jail for abusing 5-year-old October 4, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Thane court has sentenced a woman to seven years rigourous imprisonment for sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter of her live-in partner. District Judge D G Murumkar also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the 33-year-old woman, a resident of Mumbra town in Thane district. In the order on October 1, the judge observed […] Read more » District Judge D G Murumkar jail for abusing 5-year-old sexually abusing the five-year-old daughter
Top Law News Curbs in Kashmir: There has to be balance between personal liberty & national security October 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There has to be a balance between personal liberty of an individual and national security, the Supreme Court said Tuesday while hearing the pleas that have raised issue of curbs in the Kashmir Valley after the abrogation of provision of Article 370. The top court’s remarks came after the Jammu and Kashmir administration said that […] Read more » Curbs in Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Corporate Law News Top Law News Child trafficking case: Delhi court orders framing of charges against 7 people October 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has ordered framing of charges against seven people for allegedly abducting children, including newborns, and selling them. It observed that trafficking in human beings is a multi-layered phenomena that can take different forms and occur in various industries. “There common characteristic is the element of constraint, deceit, threat, fraud, coercion, etc. used […] Read more » Child trafficking case
Top Law News IAF personnel killing: Hearing adjourned, Yasin Malik to be presented through video-conferencing October 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday adjourned hearing in the case of killing of four IAF personnel in 1990 after Tihair Jail authorities expressed their inability to present main accused JKLF chief Yasin Malik in court due to security reasons. They posted the matter for October 23. Malik would now be presented before […] Read more » Yasin Malik t
Top Law News Woman accused of running brothel acquitted by Maharashtra court. October 1, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here in Maharashtra has acquitted a 48-year-old woman of charges of running a brothel and forcing women into flesh trade. Assistant Sessions Judge Shailendra Tambe held that the prosecution miserably failed to prove the charges against the accused, Veena Bharatbhai Soni, under Indian Penal Code Section 370 (buying or disposing of any person […] Read more » Additional public prosecutor Rekha Hiwrale Assistant Sessions Judge Shailendra Tambe running brothel
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to further entertain plea for producing Farooq Abdullah October 1, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday refused to further entertain Rajya Sabha MP Vaiko’s plea seeking production of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah before it and said the MDMK leader can challenge the detention order under the Public Safety Act. “He (Abdullah) is under detention under the Public Safety Act,” a bench headed […] Read more » Farooq Abdullah
Top Law News Blackbuck poaching case: Salman Khan skips local court hearing September 28, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Actor Salman Khan on Friday did not appear before a local court here in connection with the blackbuck poaching case. Khan’s counsel moved two applications in the court, one for his exemption from the court on Friday and the other for permanent exemption from personal appearance. The court accepted the application for exemption from appearing […] Read more » blackbuck poaching case Salman Khan
Top Law News Maradu flats: SC directs demolition to be completed in 138 days September 28, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday directed that demolition of flats built on the coastal zone of Kochi’s Maradu be completed in 138 days, in accordance with the time schedule provided by the Kerala government. The apex court also directed payment of R 25 lakh as interim compensation by the state government to each flat owner […] Read more » Justice Arun Mishra Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Maradu flats
