Top Law News Every direction by EC will be followed during polls : Bombay High Court April 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Nagpur collector-cum-returning officer Sunday assured the Bombay High Court that every direction and guideline issued by the Election Commission (EC) will be followed during the elections and post-poll arrangements. The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court was hearing a petition filed by Nana Patole, Congress’ Nagpur Lok Sabha candidate. Patole had filed the […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice R K Deshpande Justice S M Modak Nagpur collector-cum-returning officer
Top Law News AgustaWestland charge sheet leak : Delhi court issues notice to ED on Christian Michel’s plea April 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate on plea of Christian Michel, alleged middleman arrested in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, alleging the agency of politicising the case by leaking the chargesheet copy to the media. The agency, on the other hand, sought an enquiry as to how the copy of the […] Read more » AgustaWestland charge sheet leak David Nigel John Syms
Top Law News Public Confidence In Integrity Of Electoral Process Will Increase With 50% VVPAT Verification: 21 Opposition parties Tell Supreme Court April 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Twenty-one opposition parties, led by Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu have submitted their rejoinder before the Supreme Court of India stating that 50% verification of VVPAT units against EVM machines in each constituency/segment will raise the level of public confidence in the integrity of electoral process in the country. These parties are petitioners in a […] Read more » Public Confidence In Integrity Of Electoral Process
Top Law News Nobody for opaqueness, but judiciary can’t be destroyed in name of transparency: SC April 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nobody wants a “system of opaqueness” but in the name of transparency the judiciary cannot be destroyed, the Supreme Court said Thursday, while hearing the appeals of its registry against the Delhi High Court order that the CJI’s office falls under the ambit of RTI Act. A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice D Y Chandrachud Justice Deepak Gupta Justice N.V. Ramana Justice Sanjiv Khanna National Judicial Accountability commission Act
Top Law News Doctor can abort over 20-wk pregnancy to save woman’s life: Bombay High Court April 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A registered doctor can terminate a pregnancy that has crossed the 20-week period without permission from the court only if it poses risk to the woman’s life, the Bombay High Court has ruled. A division bench of Justices A S Oka and M S Sonak in its judgement on Wednesday, however, said permission from either […] Read more » 20-wk pregnancy justice A S Oka Justice M S Sonak i Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act MTP Act
Top Law News Supreme Court Refuses Urgent Hearing On Petition Seeking Stay On Modi Biopic April 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday refused urgent listing of a plea seeking a stay on the release of the biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said, “What biopic? We have not seen it. Perhaps we will watch it over the weekend, then you mention.” The bench told […] Read more » narendra modi biopic Stay On Modi Biopic Stay On movie on narendra Modi Biopic stay on the release of the biopic on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Top Law News No Bar In Considering Anticipatory Bail Pleas Even After 2018 SC-ST Act Amendment: Bombay High Court April 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “Only because the first informant belongs to scheduled tribe or scheduled caste, the crime cannot be registered for offence punishable under the Act and offence can be registered under the Act only if there are ingredients of the offences punishable under the Act in the accusation.” The Bombay High Court has held that Sessions Court […] Read more » Justice Mangesh S. Patil Justice TV Nalawade Justice U U Lalit Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel No Bar In Considering Anticipatory Bail Pleas
Top Law News Justice Mohammad Rafiq Appointed Acting CJ Of Rajasthan HC April 5, 2019 / April 5, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The President of India has today notified the appointment of Justice Mohammad Rafiq as the Acting Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, following the transfer of former Chief Justice Pradeem Nandrajog to Bombay High Court. Justice Rafiq is the senior most judge of Rajasthan High Court. It was on April 1 that the transfer of […] Read more » CJ of Bombay High Court Justice Mohammad Rafiq Justice Nandrajog Justice Nandrajog as CJ of Bombay High Court
Top Law News JNU sedition: Delhi govt seeks month’s time to grant sanction to prosecute Kanhaiya April 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government on Wednesday sought before a court here a month’s time to decide whether to grant sanction to prosecute former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others in the 2016 JNU sedition case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat directed the AAP government to file a “proper reply”, citing a definite time-frame. DCP […] Read more » 2016 JNU sedition case.
Top Law News Congress manifesto aimed at ‘balkanisation’ of India: BJP April 3, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The ruling BJP Tuesday dubbed the election manifesto of the Congress “dangerous and unimplementable”, saying it was aimed at “balkanisation” of India. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, Finance Minister and senior party leader Arun Jaitley said the Congress does not deserve “even a single vote” for its promises, such as doing […] Read more » Congress manifesto
Top Law News Mayawati justifies construction of statues in UP, tells SC they represent will of people April 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment BSP supremo Mayawati Tuesday defended in the Supreme Court the construction of life-size statues of herself in Uttar Pradesh, saying they represent the “will of the people”. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, in an affidavit filed in the apex court, said the memorials and statues of herself and other leaders were “intended to promote […] Read more » BSP supremo BSP Supremo Mayawati Mayawati
Top Law News Employee Not Entitled To Full Back Wages On Acquittal, Unless His Prosecution Was Found Malicious: Supreme Court April 2, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “We do not see any difference between initiation of the criminal proceedings by the department vis-a-vis a criminal case lodged by the police.” The Supreme Court has held that the employer cannot be mulcted with full back wages on the acquittal of an employee by a criminal Court, unless it is found that the prosecution […] Read more » Employee Not Entitled To Full Back Wages On Acquittal Unless His Prosecution Was Found Malicious
