Top Law News Himachal mid-day meal workers plan protest September 16, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mid-day meal workers in Himachal Pradesh will stage a protest in Shimla in November over their demands, including the grant of employee status, so that they too can avail of benefits that government employees do, activists said Sunday. The state and central governments are not serious about the demands of the mid-day meal workers in […] Read more » Centre of Indian Trade Unions CITU Communist Party of India-Marxist CPI-M Jagat Ram national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News After visa row, Pakistani team shifted to Mohali September 16, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Pakistani cricket team, which has come here to participate in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, was Sunday asked to leave a five-star hotel in Chandigarh and shift to Mohali town in adjoining Punjab. Nearly 20 players of Faisalabad Wolves team were asked to move from the JW Marriot hotel, where they had checked in, […] Read more » BCCI Champions League Twenty20 national news news Pakistan test captain Misbah-ul-Haq PCA Punjab Cricket Association todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News President agonised over communal clashes, gang rapes September 16, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Describing the incidents of killings and gang-rapes of women and children in the recent communal clashes as a “sad spectacle”, President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday expressed his agony over the violence and called for “widespread” public mobilisation for gender sensitisation. The President stressed that religion should not be the vehicle for spreading hatred and violence […] Read more » gender sensitisation national news news Railing against female foeticide todays news todays top news Top news Vidyasagar University Midnapore
Top Law News Two new courts for Gurgaon sub-division September 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two new courts will start functioning in Gurgaon’s Sohna subdivision from Sep 18 to provide speedy and inexpensive justice to litigants, an official said Saturday. District and Sessions Judge Shekher Dhawan said the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh acceded to the public demand for creation of courts at Sohna, 26 km from the city […] Read more » courts for Gurgaon sub-division courts in Gurgaon's Sohna subdivision Two new courts in Gurgaon's Sohna subdivision Two new courts will start functioning in Gurgaon's Sohna subdivision
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Top Law News Delhi gang-rape defence lawyer in trouble over remarks September 15, 2013 / September 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Delhi gang-rape defence lawyer in trouble over remarks The defence lawyer of two convicts in the December 16, 2012 gang- rape has been flayed for terming the verdict politically and emotionally driven and that he would have burnt his daughter alive had she been involved in pre-marital sex and were she to step out with boyfriends at night. The Bar Council of Delhi […] Read more » Delhi gang-rape defence lawyer Delhi gang-rape defence lawyer in trouble
Top Law News Modi can apply for visa like anyone else: US September 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Narendra Modi would still have to apply for a visa “like any other applicant”, said the US after the Gujarat chief minister was anointed BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. “There’s no change in our longstanding visa policy,” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters Friday, while declining to comment on Bharatiya Janata Party’s announcement regarding Modi. […] Read more » application of visa for Modi Modi can apply for visa
Top Law News China’s home alone children are vulnerable: Report September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Beijing, Sep 14 (IANS) Girls who are left behind at home in rural China and the children of migrant workers are more likely to become victims of sexual assault, said a report. According to statistics released Friday, girls of migrant workers account for up to 88 percent of sexual assault victims in some districts of […] Read more » CCTF China Children and Teenagers' Fund national news news Research Centre for Philanthropy and Social Enterprise todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News White kurta pyjamas for gang rape convicts September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The four convicts in the Delhi gang-rape case returned from court to jail and wore white kurta pyjamas, indicating they were no more undertrials. According to the Tihar Jail practice, undertrials who are sentenced in a case get the formal prisoners’ dress and shifted to sections in the prison meant for convicts. Convicts Pawan Gupta […] Read more » Akshay Thakur Convicts Pawan Gupta Mukesh national news news todays news todays top news Top news Vinay Sharma
Top Law News SC notice on PIL seeking shelter for homeless September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central and Maharashtra governments to respond to a PIL seeking shelter for people, without a roof of their own, living on footpaths and other open public places. NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch, in its PIL, urged the court to direct the Maharashtra government restore to the […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai national news news NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch PIL seeking shelter for homeless todays news todays top news Top news Yatish Mohan
Top Law News Asaram moves high court for bail September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Controversial self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, who is in judicial custody in the alleged sexual assault case of a minor, today moved a bail application in the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur. The hearing on the petition is scheduled on Monday, one of Asaram’s counsels said. Last week a lower court had rejected the bail plea […] Read more » Asaram Bapu Asaram moves high court for bail sexually assault case of a minor
Top Law News Those who attack women should be brought to justice: UN September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As four convicts in the Dec 16 gang-rape of a young woman were Friday sentenced to death, the UN said though it was against capital punishment, perpetrators of crimes against women should be brought to justice. “While the UN does not support capital punishment, perpetrators of crimes against women must be brought to justice,” Rebecca […] Read more » death sentence December 16 gangrape case Delhi gangrape case fight against rape national news news Rebecca Reichmann Tavares todays news todays top news Top news UN Women’s Office for India victim's parents
Top Law News SC stays Karnataka order to Jayalalithaa case prosecutor September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday stayed the Karnataka government communication to special public prosecutor Bhavani Singh asking him not to appear before the Bangalore special court hearing a corruption case against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan and Justice S.A.Bobde issued notice to Karnataka government and other respondents, returnable in 10 days. […] Read more » counsel Mukul Rohtagi Ilavarasi Jayalalithaa Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice S.A. Bobde national news news public prosecutor Bhavani Singh Sasikala Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa todays news todays top news Top news V.N. Sudhakaran
