Top Law News Autorickshaws remain off Hyderabad roads September 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment About one lakh autorickshaws and small goods carriers remained off the roads in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad for the second day Thursday, severely inconveniencing commuters. The Auto drivers’ Joint Action Committee has called for the strike to demand scrapping of a government order under which the traffic police have hiked penalty for […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation APSRTC Autorickshaws remain off in Hyderabad MMTS national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Asma Jahangir calls for probe into plot to kill her September 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir has demanded that the Pakistan government investigate a report in a leading US newspaper that military and intelligence leaders in her country had plotted to kill her. Jahangir demanded that the government take notice of the news in the Washington Post and find out the forces that wanted to […] Read more » Asma Jahangir Defence Intelligence Agency DIA ISI national news news Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jahangir todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Court notice to BJP leader, police chief in Dikshit case September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked BJP leader Vijender Gupta and police to file responses on the state government’s plea against a trial court order to register an FIR against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for alleged misuse of funds. The government funds were allegedly misused in an advertisement campaign ahead of the 2008 assembly polls. […] Read more » ASG Sidharth Luthra BJP Leader Vijender Gupta FIR against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Justice Sunil Gaur national news news right to information activist Vivek Garg todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC rejects corporate honchos’ 2G pleas September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday junked a batch of petitions by corporate honchos seeking the recall of its April 11, 2011 order barring the Delhi High Court from entertaining any plea against the orders of the 2G trial court. The court, while rejecting the plea seeking a stop on its monitoring of investigation into 2G scam […] Read more » 2G scam 2G trial court Asif Balwa Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan national news news R.K. Chandolia Rajiv Agarwal SC rejects corporate honchos Shahid Balwa todays news todays top news Top news Vinod Goenka
Top Law News People with non-judicial background can be CIC: SC September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a significant ruling, Supreme Court Tuesday recalled its own ruling and held that people with non-judicial background could be appointed to crucial posts of Central Information Commissioners across the country. The apex court bench headed by Justice A.K. Patnaik, however, held that in cases involving substantial question of law, the CIC shall endeavour to […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik national news news non-judicial background can be CIC todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Needless security to Asaram, observes SC September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Asaram Bapu was on Monday sent to 14 days’ judicial custody in Rajasthan. The Supreme Court on Tuesday criticised the government for unnecessarily providing heavy security to spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, accused of sexually assaulting a minor girl. “We are seeing on TV hordes of security around one accused,” the bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi […] Read more » accused of sexually assaulting minor girl Asaram Bapu Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice V. Gopala Gowda national news Needless security to Asaram news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Delhi Police get Tunda for five days’ questioning September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Dharmesh Sharma sent Tunda, 70, to police custody till Sep 8 after he was presented in the court amid high security on being discharged from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he was undergoing treatment. The Special Cell of Delhi Police moved the court seeking five days’ custody of […] Read more » Abdul Karim ASJ Dharmesh Sharma IED improvised explosive devices national news news todays news todays top news Top news Tunda
Top Law News SC to take up plea against Advani’s discharge in Babri case September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court is likely to hear, in October, the CBI plea challenging the Allahabad high court verdict of May 20, 2010, discharging BJP leader LK Advani and 19 others of the charges of criminal conspiracy in the demolition of the Babri Masjid December 6, 1992. A bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice V […] Read more » BJP leader LK Advani charges of criminal conspiracy in the demolition of the Babri Masjid Chief Justice P Sathasivam demolition of the Babri Masjid national news news Senior counsel KK Venugopal todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News 30 former Nazi guards may face prosecution September 4, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thirty former Nazi guards may face prosecution for facilitating mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp during World War Two, the German prosecutor’s office said Tuesday. An investigation of 49 former guards yielded enough evidence to press charges of accessory to murder, Xinhua reported quoting chief prosecutor Kurt Schirm as saying. Thirty of the investigated […] Read more » Auschwitz Birkenau chief prosecutor Kurt Schirm former SS officer Siert Bruins national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Mamata’s allowance to Imams unconstitutional: Court September 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected an allowance announced by West Bengal government for Imams and Muezzins, ruling it to be unconstitutional and against the public interest. A division bench of Justice P.K. Chattopadhyay and Justice M.P. Shrivastava passed the above order on a writ petition challenging the announcement. The court said the allowance violated […] Read more » Imam Mamata Banerjee Muezzins national news news todays news todays top news Top news West Bengal government
Top Law News N.V. Ramana sworn in Delhi’s new chief justice September 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana was Monday sworn in the new chief justice of the Delhi High Court. Justice Ramana, 56, who was a judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, will succeed Chief Justice D. Murugesan, who retired in June. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed has been the acting […] Read more » chief justice of the Delhi High Court Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Ex-air hostess suicide: Chaddha gets interim bail September 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday granted interim bail to Aruna Chaddha, a co-accused along with former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda, in the case of suicide by a former Delhi-based air hostess. Additional Sessions Judge M.C. Gupta granted interim bail to Chaddha, an official of Kanda’s now-defunct MDLR Airlines where the suicide victim, a Delhi resident, was employed. She was granted interim bail […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge M C Gupta Aruna Chaddha Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT MDLR Airlines national news news todays news todays top news Top news