Top Law News PM petitioned against amendments to RTI Act July 29, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Activists have launched an online petition addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the amendment likely to be made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act in the upcoming parliament session. “We are informed that the government is thinking of amending the RTI Act to negate the Central Information Commission order that the political parties are public authorities under the act,” said […] Read more » National Campaign for People's Right to Information national news NCPRI news PM petitioned against amendments to RTI Act RIGHT TO INFORMATION RTI todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Court to pronounce sentence in Batla House shootout July 29, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday will pronounce the sentence in 2008 Batla House shootout case in which the lone accused and Indian Mujahideen (IM) operative Shahzad Ahmad was convicted. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who convicted Ahmad for killing Delhi Police Special Cell Inspector M.C. Sharma during Batla House shootout, will pronounce the quantum of sentence. Ahmad, from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, was […] Read more » Batla House Batla House case Batla House shootout Batla House shootout case Court to pronounce sentence in Batla House shootout Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri national news news Shahzad Ahmad todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Youth who tried to molest techie in Bengal train arrested July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A youth, who allegedly tried to molest a woman techie in a moving train in West Bengal, forcing her to jump out, was arrested on Saturday, police said. Debshankar Shaw, 36, was arrested from Uttarpara in Hooghly district on the basis of a sketch based on the description of the accused given by the victim. […] Read more » national news news todays news todays top news Top news Youth who tried to molest techie in Bengal train arrested
Top Law News 2G case: AIIMS team checks Dayalu Ammal’s health July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A four-member team of medical experts from New Delhi’s AIIMS carried out a check on Dayalu Ammal, the wife of DMK president M Karunanidhi, here on Saturday to ascertain whether she is in a good condition to depose before a CBI court in the 2G telecom scam. A key prosecution witness in the case, Dayalu […] Read more » 2G case: AIIMS team checks Dayalu Ammal's health national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC seeks firm set-up to regulate new drugs’ clinical trials July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the central government to discuss with states all facets of a legal framework to regulate and monitor clinical trials of new drugs by foreign firms across India. A bench of Justice R.M.Lodha and Justice Madan B. Lokur also asked petitioner Swasthya Adhikar Manch, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), NGOs […] Read more » Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice R.M. Lodha National Human Rights Commission national news news NHRC SC seeks firm set-up to regulate new drugs' clinical trials Swasthya Adhikar Manch todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Obama names Indian-American judge in California July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment President Barack Obama has nominated yet another Indian American legal luminary, Vince Girdhari Chhabria, to a key judicial post in California. Nominated to be US district judge for the northern district of California, Chhabria is currently deputy city attorney for government litigation at the San Francisco city attorney’s office, where he has worked since 2005. Announcing Chhabria’s nomination […] Read more » Indian American legal luminary judge Charles R. Breyer national news news Obama names Indian-American judge in California President Barack Obama todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Court issues warrant against Raj Thackeray July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Refusing to grant exemption from personal hearing to Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and spokesperson Shirish Parkar, a Delhi court Friday issued non-bailable warrants against them on a complaint of making “hate speeches” against the people of Bihar. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma issued NBWs against Thackeray and Parkar for Aug 24. Last month, […] Read more » advocate Premchandra Jaiswal Court issues warrant against Raj Thackeray hate speeches against the people of Bihar Magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief national news news Raj Thackeray Shirish Parkar todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Man says cash missing after Metro ride, CISF unsure July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A money changer has alleged that he lost foreign currencies valued at Rs.150,000 after a Delhi Metro ride but the CISF Friday raised doubts about the claim. Police said Dileep Singh, who works for a private travel company, claimed he boarded Delhi Metro at Rithala station Wednesday afternoon. He was headed to Peeragarhi. After […] Read more » CISF unsure Man says cash missing after Metro ride national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Acid attack on woman in Ghaziabad July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 22-year-old married woman suffered serious burn injuries today when a man threw acid at her face after she rejected his proposal in Vijay Nagar area in Ghaziabad. The accused, identified as Lakhan, had proposed to the victim two days back at her residence while her husband had gone outside for work. However, she rejected […] Read more » Acid attack on woman in Ghaziabad national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC breather to Gujarat Police officer in Ishrat Jahan case July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a breather to Gujarat Police’s Additional Director General Puthvipal P. Pandey – an accused in Ishrat Jahan staged shootout case, the Supreme Court Friday said he would not be arrested till Monday when he will appear before the trial court. A bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice S.A. Bobde said the protection from […] Read more » Gujarat Police’s Additional Director General Puthvipal P. Pandey Ishrat Jahan case Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice S.A. Bobde national news news SC breather to Gujarat Police officer in Ishrat Jahan case todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News ISI operative held in Lucknow with fake currency July 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Suspected ISI agent held with fake currency notes in UP Lucknow: Anti-terror squad of Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday arrested a suspected ISI operative and a major supplier of fake currency notes in the state from Kaiserbagh bus stand here, a senior police official said today. “ATS arrested Imran Ahmed Teli alias Munna alias Aftab […] Read more » Imran Ahmed Teli ISI operative ISI operative held in Lucknow with fake currency national news news supplier of fake currency notes todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News CIC adjourns BCCI hearing July 26, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Information Commission today adjourned a crucial hearing on declaring the Indian cricket board as public authority under RTI Act after the sports body produced a stay from the Madras High Court. The Commission had constituted a Full Bench to hear the matter and issued notice to the Board of Control for Cricket in […] Read more » BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India Central Information Commission CIC adjourns BCCI hearing national news news todays news todays top news Top news