Media & Entertainment News Top Law News CBI chief regrets rape analogy November 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A day after he made a rape analogy that caused outrage, CBI director Ranjit Sinha Wednesday expressed regret over his comment. “I regret any hurt caused as the same was inadvertent and unintended,” Sinha said, a day after he compared rape and betting in sports. “I reiterate my deep sense of regard and respect for […] Read more » CBI chief regrets rape analogy CBI chief statement on rape CBI director Ranjit Sinha
Corporate Law News High Profile Cases Top Law News SC bench recuses from hearing Niira Radia tape case November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking exception to the strong words used by senior counsel Rajiv Dhawan about court adjourning the hearing on the petition by industrialist Ratan Tata in Niira Radia tapes case, the Supreme Court bench headed by Justice G.S. Singhvi Wednesday recused itself from hearing the matter. “We will not hear this matter at all in view […] Read more » hearing Niira Radia tape case Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice G.S. Singhvi Wednesday recused itself Niira Radia tape case Niira Radia tapes case petition by industrialist Ratan Tata petition by industrialist Ratan Tata in Niira Radia tapes case Registrar of Companies RoC) senior counsel Rajiv Dhawan
Media & Entertainment News Top Law News Delhi court stays release of ‘Ram-Leela’ November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Tuesday stayed the release of Bollywood movie “Ram-leela”, starring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone. The movie is scheduled to be released Nov 15.Additional District Judge A.S. Jayachandra, in an ex-parte interim order, restrained the movie’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Eros promoters from releasing the movie till further orders. The court’s order […] Read more » Additional District Judge A.S. Jayachandra Delhi court stays release of 'Ram-Leela' director Sanjay Leela Bhansali Prabhu Samaj Dharmik Ram Leela Committee stay on release of 'Ram-Leela'
Top Law News SC seeks states’ response on trials of influential people November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the states to respond to a plea seeking fast track investigation and trial in cases involving influential people, including politicians, which otherwise keep on dragging for decades. The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice V. Gopala Gowda issued notice on the plea by Virendra Kumar Ohri, who […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice V. Gopala Gowda Lalu Yadav Shibu Soren speedy investigation and trial in cases involving influential people states' response on trials of influential people trials of influential people
Top Law News SC panel to probe sexual harassment November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday set up a committee of judges to go into a newspaper report in which a law graduate from Kolkata has alleged sexual harassment by a now retired Supreme court judge while she interned with him in December last year. Soon after lunch break, Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, heading the three-member bench, […] Read more » Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati Chief Justice P Sathasivam judges R.M. Lodha Justice H.L. Dattu Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai SC panel to probe sexual harassment sexual harassment
Consumer Law News Human Rights Top Law News Party promising to work for children will get votes: Badhte Kadam NGO November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 2,000 youngsters, associated with an NGO working for child rights, on Tuesday vowed to vote for a political party which promises to work for the welfare of homeless children. The first-time voters, all former street children, have written an open letter to all the political parties in Delhi ahead of the December 4 assembly […] Read more » Badhte Kadam NGO Party promising to work for children will get votes Party who work for children will get votes work for the welfare of homeless children
Top Law News Provide Hindi version of court proceedings to accused: SC November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking note of the pace with which Delhi High Court was “rushing through” with the hearing of death reference and appeals in the Delhi gang rape case, the Supreme Court Tuesday asked it not to proceed with the hearing of the appeal of two convicts till they are supplied with the Hindi translation of the […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra Chief Justice Sathasivam Hindi version of court proceedings Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Shiva Kirti Singh Provide Hindi version of court proceedings
Top Law News Police must register FIR: SC November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it is mandatory for the police to register FIR if a complainant approaches it for the registration of a cognizable offence. The apex court constitution bench headed by chief justice P Sathasivam said that action will be taken against the police officer for his failure to register a […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam FIR in case of cognizable offence Police must register FIR register FIR if a complainant approaches
Criminal Law News Top Law News Delhi gangrape: Convicts invoke Mahatma to oppose death penalty November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, two of the convicts on death row for the brutal torture and gangrape of a 23-year-old paramedical student on December 16 contested the trial court’s sentence today, telling the Delhi High Court even the father of the nation was against capital punishment. Commencing the arguments for convicts Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna Advocate A P Singh delhi gangrape Justice Pratibha Rani justices Reva Khetrapal
High Profile Cases Top Law News Produce material pertaining to Radia tapes probe’ November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government and its agencies, including Serious Fraud Investigation Office, to produce all material and reports pertaining to their investigations into the intercepted conversation of former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia or those emerging from it. The application moved by the […] Read more » material pertaining to Radia tapes probe' Produce material pertaining to Radia tapes probe' Radia tapes
Top Law News Plea on addressing ‘Your Lordship’ as ‘Sir’ November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked whether any direction was required for enforcing the Bar Council of India’s rule that judges should be addressed as “Sir” instead of the existing practice of addressing the apex court and high court judges as “My Lord” or “Your Lordship”. The apex court bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and […] Read more » addressing 'Your Lordship' as 'Sir Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjan Gogoi Plea on addressing 'Your Lordship' as 'Sir
Criminal Law News Top Law News Maid’s death: BSP leader, wife sent to four days’ judicial custody November 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday sent Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh and his wife, arrested for allegedly torturing their maid to death, to four days’ judicial custody. Dhananjay Singh, who represents Jaunpur Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested and booked for destruction of evidence and violating the provisions of the Juvenile Justice […] Read more » BSP parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh four days' judicial custody Jagriti maid death case Maid's death Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha
