Top Law News Apex court issues contempt notice to Subrata Roy December 9, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy as to why criminal contempt proceedings should not be initiated against him for allegedly interfering in the investigations into the money trails in 2G scam. The notice has also been issued to journalist Upendra Rai and another person. The apex court bench headed […] Read more » contempt notice to Subrata Roy
Top Law News Civil service aspirants protest near parliament December 9, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hundreds of civil service aspirants protested outside Parliament House on Monday, demanding changes in the examination pattern of the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC). Police used water cannons to disperse the protestors, who were demanding a change in the UPSC syllabus, a review of the examination pattern, and inclusion of certain subjects in the syllabus […] Read more » Civil service aspirants protest near parliament
Top Law News Tarun Tejpal case: Shoma Chaudhury to record statement December 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former managing editor of Tehelka Shoma Chaudhury arrived at a Goa court on Saturday to record her statement in the alleged rape case filed against the news weekly’s founder-editor Tarun Tejpal. Chaudhury arrived from New Delhi in Goa on Friday night and appeared before the judicial magistrate first class Panaji on Saturday, where her statement […] Read more » Shoma Chaudhury to record statement Tarun Tejpal case
Top Law News AK Ganguly Case December 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment BJP leader Arun Jaitley said on Friday that the Supreme Court cannot escape from its judicial responsibility by finding an “escapist route” by ruling out action in the case of “unwelcome behaviour” by retired Justice AK Ganguly with a woman intern. In an article, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said the standard that the […] Read more » AK Ganguly Case retired Justice AK Ganguly
Top Law News Supreme Court issues notice on CBI plea against Gauhati High Court verdict December 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central government on a plea by the CBI challenging the Gauhati High Court verdict holding the agency unconstitutional after quashing the April 1, 1963 home ministry resolution setting it up under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act. Issuing the notice, a bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice […] Read more » Gauhati High Court verdict Supreme Court issues notice on CBI plea
Top Law News Tenant cannot dictate usage of space to house owner: New Delhi Court December 7, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The tenant of a 65-year-old handicapped widow in Nizamuddin, New Delhi, was served eviction orders by a Delhi court Saturday. The tenant was also told that he could not suggest ways in which his landlady might use her space. Additional Civil Judge M.P. Singh’s order came as a relief to Femida Begum who had sought […] Read more » Additional Civil Judge M.P. Singh New Delhi Court Tenant cannot dictate usage of space to house owner
Top Law News Make milk adulteration punishable with life imprisonment: SC December 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday urged the state governments to make necessary amendments to their laws to make production and marketing of adulterated milk, which is injurious to human consumption, an offence punishable with life imprisonment. Read more » milk adulteration punishable with life imprisonment
Top Law News Law will run its course if Ganguly is guilty: Meira Kumar December 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Asserting that India has the legislations to tackle sexual harassment cases, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Wednesday said the law would take its course if an accused was proved to be guilty. “There are laws in the country to deal with such cases,” Meira Kumar told mediapersons on the sidelines of the closing ceremony of […] Read more » Law will run its course if Ganguly is guilty
Top Law News Delhi’s first time voters want clean leadership good governance December 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment They are barely out of their teens and still exploring their career choices, but a majority of Delhi’s first time voters are sure about one thing – their burning desire to vote for a government that could work for their betterment and improve their lives. Issues like women safety in the wake of the Dec […] Read more » clean leadership good governance
Top Law News Meghalaya special court tries inner line permit seekers December 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court in Meghalaya Tuesday held its first sitting to try criminal cases against leaders of 14 pressure groups sponsoring the ongoing agitation demanding re-introduction of the British-era Inner Line Permit (ILP). However, none of the leaders of the agitating pressure groups, barring Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO) leaders Agnes Kharshiing and Evangeline Thabah, […] Read more » Meghalaya special court tries inner line permit seekers
Top Law News Delhi polls seen as national trend-setter December 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It is not a full-fledged state and has only 70 assembly seats but polls in Delhi are keenly watched as it is the centre of the country’s political power and has, many times in the past, served as a pointer to the Lok Sabha polls. The BJP, keen to end its 15-year power drought in […] Read more » Delhi polls seen as national trend-setter
Top Law News 1984 riots: SC dismisses Sajjan Kumar’s appeal December 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday declined a plea by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for quashing the charges against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. A bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice V. Gopala Gowda declined the appeal even as his lawyer, senior counsel Mukul Rohtagi argued that Sajjan Kumar could not be charged under […] Read more » 1984 riots SC dismisses Sajjan Kumar's appeal
