Top Law News Election Commission apologies before Guj High Court on issue of vehicles for poll duty December 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On the issue of requisitioning of vehicles the Election Commission has tendered an oral apology to the Gujarat High Court, because for the poll work, following which court reserved its verdict on the PIL challenging EC action. The division bench of Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala on reserved its verdict on the […] Read more » Ashok Munishwar Giri Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice J B Pardiwala Election Commission Gujarat High Court Harshil Dholakia PIL challenging Election Commission action
Top Law News Court to decide on plea against Khurshid and wife on Jan 21 December 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court said it will decide on January 21 if it has jurisdiction to entertain a plea seeking lodging of FIR against External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife Louise Khurshid for alleged criminal misappropriation of funds of a trust run by them. The court reserved its order after hearing the arguments on […] Read more » Dr Zakhir Hussain Memorial Trust External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid Louise Khurshid Metropolitan Magistrate Saumya Chauhan
Top Law News High Court tells husband to pay wife despite his unemployment, illness December 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has dismissed an appeal of a man to waive off interim monthly maintenance of Rs 5,000 to his wife as he was sick and unemployed, ruling that the payment should be made regularly until the divorce petition was disposed of. On this Justice Roshan Dalvi said, “Pending the petition, the interim maintenance would […] Read more » arthritis and TB susceptibility Bombay High Court HIV treatment HIV+ status Justice Dalvi Justice Roshan Dalvi Pending the petition Suryakant Tiwari
Top Law News Ensure safety of whistleblowers, activists: High Court December 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Criticising the Maharashtra government for failing to frame guidelines on safety of social activists and organisations that face threat due to their activism, the Bombay High Court asked the state to take immediate steps to ensure their security. a division bench of acting Chief Justice D D Sinha and Justice K K Tated said, “It is […] Read more » Bombay High Court Chief Justice D D Sinha and Justice K K Tated High Court Maharashtra government Nitin Deshpande Pune-based RTI activist Satish Shetty
Top Law News Supreme Court go-ahead to MCI for common entrance exam December 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has given its go-ahead to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for holding the first-ever common entrance examination for admission to MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses but restrained it from declaring the results until further orders. The court also allowed various states, universities and other institutions entitled to conduct their respective examinations for MBBS, […] Read more » BDS BDS and post-graduate course common entrance examination entrance examination for admission to MBBS MBBS Medical Council of India Medical Council of India (MCI) Medical Council of India and the Dental Council of India National Eligibility and Entrance Test Supreme Court Union of India
Top Law News No metalled roads for Amarnath yatra December 17, 2012 / December 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There will be no metalled or motorable road constructed on the route to the annual Amarnath Yatra, the Supreme Court has ruled on an issue that has stoked a lot of controversy recently. The apex court, in its judgement on December 13, has made it amply clear that its order was to ensure that there […] Read more » Amarnath Yatra annual Amarnath Yatra Baltal July-August Kashmir valley metalled or motorable road Pakistan leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani Panchtarni and Chandanvadi Supreme Court
Top Law News Hospital, BMC fail to reach agreement, High Court told December 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has been informed that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and multi-speciality hospital Seven Hills Healthcare have failed to arrive at an amicable solution in an ongoing dispute over 20% reservation of beds for poor patients. In June this year, FI Rebello has appointed by the High Court, retired Chief Justice of Allahabad […] Read more » 300 beds BMC Bombay High Court Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation FI Rebello former Bombay HC judge High Court hospital Justices AM Khanwilkar and RD Dhanuka multi-speciality hospital Seven Hills Healthcare retired Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Seven Hills Healthcare unconditional NOC
Top Law News Supreme Court go-ahead to MCI for holding common entrance exam December 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has given its go-ahead to the Medical Council of India (MCI) for holding the first-ever common entrance examination for admission to MBBS, BDS and post-graduate courses but restrained it from declaring the results until further orders. Various states has been allowed by the court also, universities and other institutions entitled to conduct their respective […] Read more » Entrance Test (NEET) MBBS MCI decision Medical Council of India National Eligibility and Entrance Test Supreme Court
Top Law News Life term to woman for strangulating husband December 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman, who had strangulated her husband two years ago here allegedly to marry another man, has been awarded life imprisonment by a Delhi court. The court, however, acquitted the woman’s alleged paramour of the charges of murdering her husband Shivnath due to lack of evidence against him. District Judge O P Gupta also imposed […] Read more » Delhi court District Judge O P Gupta life imprisonment section 302 (murder) of the IPC
Top Law News ‘No need to amend rule on helmet for woman’ December 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The city government on Friday told the Delhi High Court that “there is no need to amend the motor vehicle rules to make helmet mandatory for woman as the issue is sensitive.” Appearing for the Delhi government, Counsel Zubeda Begum told this to Justice Rajiv Shakdher and placed before him the file, dealing with Transport […] Read more » Counsel Zubeda Begum Delhi Commission for Woman Delhi government Delhi High Court Delhi Motor Vehicle Rules 1993 Delhi Motor Vehicles Rules Justice Rajiv Shakdher Zubeda Begum
Top Law News Supreme Court for death sentence to life in brutal murder case December 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The death sentence of a convict has commuted by the Supreme Court has commuted, who had brutally killed a woman and raped and injured her relative, to life imprisonment on the ground that he was drunk and not in proper state of mind at the time of committing the offence. A bench of justices Swatanter Kumar […] Read more » brutal murder death penalty justices Swatanter Kumar and Madan B Lokur pertaining to death sentence Section 354(3) of the CrPC Supreme Court
Top Law News SCBA Election 2012: MN Krishnamani Won by 136 Votes December 14, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SCBA Election 2012: MN Krishnamani Won by 136 Votes Here in Delhi Supreme Court bar association election 2012 (SCBA) has been done successfully after the victory of Senior Advocate MN Krishnamani. Senior advocate MN Krishnamani Won by 136 Votes in Supreme Court bar association election 2012. In between this elections (SCBA) president PH Parekh did not run for the Supreme Court Bar Association election […] Read more » Advocate Neeraj Kumar Sharma advocate Rupinder Singh Suri advocates Adish Aggarwala Anoop George Chaudhari bar association Bhim Singh Brijendar chahr K Radhakrishnan Neeraj Kumar Sharma as assistant treasurer Pallav Shishodia president PH Parekh Rajiv Dutta Ram Jethmalani SB upadhyay SCBA Senior Advocate MN Krishnamani Supreme Court Supreme Court Bar Association Supreme Court bar association election 2012 Won by 136 Votes