Top Law News River water use: Notice to Centre, Odisha & Essar December 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has sought replies of the Union and the Odishagovernments and Essar Steel BSE 0.41 % to a plea accusing the firm of drawing water from Baitarani river without forest clearance to facilitate iron ore transport. An NGT bench of its acting Chairman Justice A S Naidu and expert member P […] Read more » Baitarani river Chairman Justice A S Naidu Essar Steel Essar Steel BSE Essar Steel Orissa forest clearance memorandum of understanding NGT bench Odisha Government Odishagovernments P C Mishra questionable illegal action The National Green Tribunal UK-based Stemcor Group Union
Top Law News Govt agrees to fast-track probe, increase policing December 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government agreed to fast track investigations into sexual offences like rape and increase policing that includes deployment of the force in plain clothes to instil sense of security in the capital for heeding to suggestions from public. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Union Minister of State for Home R P N Singh in a meeting with, […] Read more » 911 in the US Acid attacks CCTVs Congress chief Sonia Gandhi day-to-day trial Government GPS plain clothes protesters rape sexual offences Sonia Gandhi Union Minister Union Minister of State for Home R P N Singh
Top Law News Chargesheet filed in spectrum case in NDA regime December 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A charge sheet has been filled by the CBI in connection with alleged irregularities in spectrum allocation during the NDA regime involving three telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India, while pegging the loss at Rs 846 crore. The CBI in its charge sheet filed before Special CBI Judge O P Saini named as accused […] Read more » CBI Director of BSNL former Deputy Director General (VAS) IAS including Bharti Airtel JR Gupta NDA regime ormer Telecom Secretary Shyamal Ghosh section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC Special CBI Judge O.P. Saini telecom companies Vodafone India
Top Law News Businessman gets bail in CWG Queen’s Baton scam December 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A businessman Ashish Patel who is based in UK, is an accused in a case of alleged financial bungling during the 2009 Queen’s Baton Relay (QBR) in London, ahead of the games here, today appeared in a Delhi court which granted him bail. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh granted bail to Patel, whose two firms, A […] Read more » Ashish Patel CWG Organising Committee CWG Queen's Baton scam Darbari Delhi court Jaychandran Mahendroo Queen Baton scam Queen’s Baton Relay special CBI judge Talwant Singh UK
Top Law News Digvijay Singh gets bail in defamation case filed by Gadkari December 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In Delhi, a court granted bail to Congress leader Digvijay Singh bail by a Delhi court in connection with a criminal defamation case filed against him by BJP President Nitin Gadkari. Singh appeared before Metropolitian Magistrate Sudesh Kumar in pursuance to the summons issued against him by the court on November 17 and the judge granted bail to […] Read more » advocate Ajay Digpaul Ajay Digpau bail BJP President Nitin Gadkari criminal defamation case Delhi court Digvijay Singh Metropolitian Magistrate Sudesh Kumar MP Ajay Sancheti sections 499 and 500 of the IPC. Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh summons
Top Law News High Court sets January 15 deadline for meters recalibration December 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court set a deadline till January 15 for the Maharashtra government to complete the process of recalibration of meters in autos and taxis across the city pursuant to the fare hike in October. The state government faced flak from the High Court for poor implementation of calibrating meters, and basing its decision […] Read more » autos and taxis Bandra Bombay High Court Byculla Justices D Y Chandrachud and Amjad Sayed Kandivli Maharashtra government NGO public interest litigation recalibrate meters
Top Law News Rapes in India rise by 873 percent from 1953 December 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment According to the CPI-M’s “People’s Democracy” latest edition which has been released recently, “The number of rapes in India shot up from 1953 to 2001 by a staggering 873 percent.” “Sexual crimes against women have been rising alarmingly all across the country,” it said in the wake of the brutal gang-rape of a young woman in […] Read more » cognizable crimes CPI-M's "People's Democracy gang-rape of a young woman in a bus Home Secretary R K Singh rapes in India Sexual crimes against women
Top Law News CRPF kills villagers in Odisha: rights body December 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In Odisha five men killed by the CRPF as Maoists were “daily wage earners and church functionaries”, said by the Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO). The killings took place near Bhaliaguda village in Gajapati district, CDRO told in a statement. It said an investigation by a six-member team showed that the men allegedly killed by […] Read more » (CRPF) Bhaliaguda village in Gajapati district Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisations (CDRO) Maoists Maowadi Odisha Odisha Maowadi Party
Top Law News Call centre employee awarded compensation December 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A call centre employee, has been awarded Rs 3.70 lakhs as compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), he had suffered multiple fractures in a road mishap involving a Blueline bus. MACT Presiding Officer Dinesh Bhatt ordered Oriental Insurance Company Limited, with which the offending vehicle was insured, to pay the sum to the victim. […] Read more » Compensation compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) Oriental Insurance Company Limited Sarai Rohilla
Top Law News High Court seeks MoEF response on Adarsh plea December 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) has been directed by the Bombay High Court to file its reply to a plea by the controversial Adarsh housing society to transfer its petition challenging the demolition order to the National Green Tribunal (NGT). A division bench of acting Chief Justice D D Sinha and Justice […] Read more » Bombay High Court Coastal Regulation Zone green tribunal Green Tribunal Act National Green Tribunal Union government Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF)
Top Law News Former Andhra Pradesh Minister Mopidevi granted interim bail December 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bail to former Andhra Pradesh Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao has been granted by a special CBI court, Mopidevi is an accused in disproportionate assets case involving YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, to enable him to go on Sabarimala pilgrimage. The court allowed Mopidevi an interim bail for 10-days from December 24 to […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh Minister Mopidevi Venkata Ramana Rao CBI court chief minister interim bail Lord Ayyappa Nimmagadda Prasad Sabarimala Sabarimala pilgrimage special CBI court YSR Congress chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy
Top Law News Delhi High Court dismisses PIL against Sachin’s nomination to RS December 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A PIL challenging cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha has been dismissed by the Delhi High Court. According to division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, “The petition is dismissed” Earlier, Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra, who appeared on behalf of the Centre, had said that Tendulkar’s nomination […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra Article 80 of the Constitution Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Delhi High Court High Court Rajya Sabha Ram Gopal Singh Sisodia Sachin Tendulkar