Top Law News SC issues notice to Centre, Trai for cap on SMS charge April 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notices to the Centre and TRAI on a plea seeking its direction to the government to fix cost-based tariff as cap for SMSes in view of “arbitrary charges” being levied by telecom operators. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir agreed to hear a PIL which pleaded that the […] Read more » Chief Justice Altamas Kabir news SC issues notice to Centre: Trai for cap on SMS charge Top news TRAI
Top Law News You are “manipulating” courts: SC to Sahara group April 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court, on Monday, pulled up the Sahara group for not furnishing details of the depositors to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), and made it clear that if there were untraced depositors in the total deposits of about Rs.24,000 crore, the money should be remitted to the Central Government. A Bench […] Read more » Sahara SEBI Subrata Roy You are "manipulating" courts: SC to Sahara group
Top Law News Woman’s dignity must be protected: HC April 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: Stating that modesty, honour, dignity and reputation of a woman has to be protected at all places including her home and office, the Bombay High Court has upheld the conviction of an employee of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation for molesting a colleague at work. Justice S C Dharmadhikari last week dismissed an appeal filed by Nandkumar Sonawane, […] Read more » Advocate K P Anilkuma Bombay High Court Justice S.C. Dharmadhikari Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation Nandkumar Sonawane news Top news Woman's dignity must be protected: HC
Top Law News SC upholds 7-year jail term of man for spying for Pak April 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has upheld the seven years rigorous imprisonment awarded to a man for spying for Pakistan intelligence agency and supplying secret information to it about the Indian military establishment. The court also held that even if police conduct search of a premises in an illegal manner, it would not affect the legality of […] Read more » justices C K Prasad justices V Gopala Gowda news Rajasthan High Court Safi Mohammad SC upholds 7-year jail term of man for spying for Pak Top news
Top Law News Five-year-old girl’s rapist in judicial custody till May 4 April 22, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Sunday sent the accused in a five-year-old girl’s brutal torture and rape here to 14 days’ judicial custody. Manoj, who was arrested from his village in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, was presented before a magistrate who sent him to judicial custody till May 4. The girl was abducted April 15 and kept hostage […] Read more »
Top Law News Police must be held accountable: Amnesty April 21, 2013 / April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amnesty International India Sunday called for an impartial probe into the alleged misconduct of police officials in the case of abduction and rape of a five-year-old girl in the national capital. “This case shows the appalling extent of indifference in the police to violence against women and girls, and the inadequacy of internal processes to […] Read more » Police must be held accountable
Top Law News Rapes expose police failure: Human Rights Watch April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The brutal rape of a five-year-old girl here “has again exposed the failure of police training and reform in India”, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. “Enacting strong laws are simply a first step but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of […] Read more » Rapes expose police failure
Top Law News 13-year-old gang-rape victim attempts suicide April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 13-year-old girl attempted suicide Saturday after being allegedly gang-raped by eight men, four of whom are known to her. She is in ICU in serious condition, the family said. Three of the accused have been arrested, police said Saturday. The girl, who was abducted March 15 by the men and released after nine days, […] Read more » 13-year-old gang-rape victim attempts suicide
Top Law News 336 percent jump in child rapes in a decade’ April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid a public outcry over a brutalsexual assault on a five-year girl here, a report by rights group Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) shows there has been an increase of 336 percent in cases of child rapes from 2001-11. The ‘India’s Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes’ report, circulated Saturday, said sexual offences against […] Read more » 336 percent jump in child rapes
Top Law News Issue guidelines on rape victims: SC April 21, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that the victims of sexual assault required a different kind of treatment and it was incumbent upon state governments to issue guidelines as how to deal with them. “It is an obligation on the part of the state authorities and, particularly, the director general of police and home ministry of […] Read more »
Top Law News Warrant against SHO in case against MNS chief April 20, 2013 / April 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court has issued a bailable warrant against a Delhi police official for failing to file a status report regarding lodging of an FIR against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly branding north Indian Muslims as insurgents and threatening to throw them out of Maharashtra. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Naveen Arora issued the bailable warrant against […] Read more » Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Naveen Arora Dwarka South police station SHO MNS chief Raj Thackeray Warrant against SHO in case against MNS chief
Top Law News Judge who upheld Kasab’s hanging demits office April 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Aftab Alam, the judge who was part of the Supreme Court bench which upheld the death sentence of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case, demitted office today. Justice Alam also headed the bench which delivered the recent verdict dismissing Swiss pharma major Novartis AG’s plea seeking a patent for […] Read more » Judge who upheld Kasab's hanging demits office Justice Aftab Alam news Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab todays news Top news