Top Law News Monuments to be illuminated for girl child day October 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Monuments to be illuminated for girl child day To observe the first ever International Day for the Girl Child, four monuments in Delhi and Hyderabad will be illuminated pink Oct 11, Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor said Tuesday. Qutub Minar, Humayun`s Tomb and Purana Quila in Delhi and Charminar in Hyderabad will be illuminated pink Thursday (Oct 11), said Anil Kapoor, goodwill ambassador for […] Read more » Anil Kapoor goodwill ambassador for NGO - Plan India Archaeological Survey of India ASI D.N. Dimri Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor Charminar in Hyderabad Humayun`s Tomb Hyderabad will be illuminated pink illuminated for girl child day International Day for the Girl Child message of protecting the girl child Monuments to be illuminated for girl child day Purana Quila in Delhi Qutub Minar Superintending Archaeologist
Top Law News SC asks government to notify norms to regulate eco-tourism October 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SC asks government to notify norms to regulate eco-tourism The Supreme Court Tuesday allowed the union government to issue “comprehensive guidelines” for conservation of tiger habitat coupled with regulated low-impact eco-tourism in national parks and sanctuaries. The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar, while giving the government seven days to notify its eco-tourism guidelines, said: “We can neither validate […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising comprehensive guidelines conservation of tiger habitat coupled with regulated critical tiger habitat for tiger conservation eco-tourism guidelines Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar low-impact tourism low-impact tourism in national parks and sanctuaries Non-consumptive regulated SC asks government to notify norms to regulate eco-tourism Wildlife Protection Act
Top Law News Disabled rights activists flay new mental health bill October 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Calling it “apartheid” against mentally ill people, disabled rights activists Tuesday criticised the new mental health bill proposed by the health ministry, saying it would make it easier to forcibly confine a person into a mental asylum. According to activists, the draft Mental Healthcare (MHC) Bill 2012, which is likely to be brought to the […] Read more » activists flay new mental health bill admission in mental asylums apartheid against mentally ill people Bhargavi Davar co-chair of NAAJMI deprive a person's liberty to psychiatry disabled rights activists Disabled rights activists flay new mental health bill Electroconvulsive Therapy Javed Abidi of the Disabled Rights Group medical professionals and psychiatrists Mental Health Act Mental Healthcare bill national Alliance on Access to Justice for People with Mental Illness
Top Law News Delhi gets two months to file report on waterlogging October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government was Tuesday given two months by the Delhi High Court to find solutions to and submit a report on waterlogging and flooding of roads in the city. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Vipin Sanghi allowed the submission of the Delhi government’s standing counsel Najmi Waziri for more […] Read more » comprises of heads of the trifurcated MCD coordination committee Counsel Najmi Waziri Delhi gets two months to file report on waterlogging Delhi Jal Board and irrigation department Delhi Municipal Council headed by chief secretary Indian Institute of Technology Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Justice Vipin Sanghi leading to waterlogging on major roads of the capital municipal corporations of Delhi NDMC prevent waterlogging during rains Public Works Department waterlogging and flooding of roads in the city
Top Law News Geetika suicide case: Custody of Kanda, Chaddha extended October 9, 2012 / October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Tuesday extended the judicial custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his employee Aruna Chaddha till Oct 12. The duo is accused of abetting the suicide of former flight attendant Geetika Sharma. While extending their custody, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D.K. Jangala listed the matter for scrutiny of the charge-sheet […] Read more » Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate D.K. Jangala Chaddha extended Chaddha is a former official of Kanda's Custody of Kanda and Chaddha extended Delhi's Ashok Vihar area former flight attendant Geetika Sharma Geetika Sharma Geetika suicide case Geetika suicide case: Custody of Kanda Gopal Goyal Kanda and his employee Aruna Chaddha Kanda and Chaddha for harassing her and driving her to suicide Kanda and Chaddha have denied the allegations Kanda's now-defunct MDLR Airlines MDLR Airlines where Geetika had worked
Top Law News SC notice to Mayawati on disproportionate assets October 9, 2012 / October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sent a notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), BSP chief Mayawati and the Centre on a review petition asking the court to further probe the disproportionate assets against the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. The Supreme Court in July this year had quashed an FIR filed by the CBI […] Read more » advocate Kamini Jaiswal BSP chief Mayawati CBI has no power to investigate CBI is at liberty to investigate illegal assets case disproportionate assets case against Mayawati FIR filed against the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister FIR filed by the CBI against Mayawati in the case pursue corruption case against Mayawati SC notice to Mayawati on disproportionate assets Supreme Court judgement filed by one Kamalesh Verma Taj Corridor case Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Top Law News Haryana rapes reflect skewed sex ratio: Child rights panel October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The spate of rapes in Haryana is a reflection of the adverse sex ratio in the state as well as the way the female sex is treated in society, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said Tuesday and demanded severe punishment for the rapists. “Gender discrimination and caste discrimination is reflected in […] Read more » caste discrimination demanded severe punishment for the rapists Gandhi demanded the "severest punishment" for the rapists Gandhi visited the family of a teenaged Dalit girl in Jind Gender discrimination Haryana is a reflection of the adverse sex ratio Haryana rapes reflect skewed sex ratio: Child rights panel National Commission for Protection of Child Rights PGIMS at Rohtak Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences severe punishment for the rapists Shanta Sinha NCPCR chairperson Sinha spoke as Congress chief Sonia Gandhi
Top Law News Tamil Nadu to file contempt plea against Karnataka October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Irked by Karnataka’s decision to stop release of Cauvery water, Tamil Nadu government on Friday decided to file a contempt petition “immediately” against its counterpart in the Supreme Court, saying its action amounted to impeding country’s federal structure. Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa chaired a review meeting with her senior cabinet colleagues and officials here to […] Read more » action amounted to impeding country's federal structure amounting to dishonouring Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa chaired CRA ruling asking the upper riparian state decision contested by both states file a contempt petition against Karntaka government Irked by Karnataka's decision to stop release of Cauvery water Karnataka also impeded the federal structure Krishna Raja Sagar dam citing depleted storage locked in the decades-long Cauvery dispute Tamil Nadu gets its due share of water Tamil Nadu government Tamil Nadu to file contempt plea against Karnataka unilaterally stopped releasing water
Top Law News Notify fresh guidelines on tiger reserves in a week: SC October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court today allowed the Centre to notify within a week its fresh guidelines on tiger conservation and indicated that it may modify its July 24 order staying all tourism activities in the reserved areas across the country. A bench of justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar, however, made it clear that the […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising critical tiger habitat usage fresh guidelines on tiger conservation guidelines to protect the depleting wild cat population guidelines ultra-vires of the Constitution Justices A K Patnaik justices Swatanter Kumar low-impact tourist visitation National Tiger Conservation Authority Notify fresh guidelines on tiger reserves in a week: SC preserve tiger population tourism activities in the reserved areas across the country tourism infrastructure tourist activities in the core areas of tiger reserves
Top Law News Hit-and-run case: Court rejects Salman’s plea to sell car October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has rejected the plea of Bollywood actor Salman Khan seeking permission to sell his Toyota Land Cruiser car which he was driving during the hit-and-run case in 2002 in which one person was killed and four others sustained injuries. The court yesterday rejected the application as the car is an evidence in […] Read more » Bandra metropolitan court seeking to sell his car Bollywood actor Salman Khan causing major injuries court had framed charges against Khan Court rejects Salman's plea to sell car culpable homicide not amounting to murder Hit-and-run case Hit-and-run case: Court rejects Salman's plea to sell car Khan's Toyota Land Cruiser Ramasray Pandey who witnessed the incident rammed into a bakery in suburban Bandra killing one rash and negligent driving Ravindra Patil his police bodyguard Toyota Land Cruiser car
Top Law News Owners of uninsured vehicle to pay damages: MACT October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has held both the original owner and a subsequent purchaser of an uninsured vehicle involved in road mishap liable to pay compensation to the mishap victim. MACT Presiding Officer B S Chumbak held both the original owner, in whose name the vehicle was registered and its “new bonafide purchaser’ liable […] Read more » accident involving the uninsured vehicle Brij Nandan Gupta compensation to the mishap victim During adjudication of Pushpa's plea for compensation East Delhi woman injured in the accident involving the uninsured vehicle Gurmeet Singh hit by a rashly-driven SUV Tavera Karkardooma resident Pushpa Rani MACT order came on the plea for compensation by Karkardooma MACT ordered West Delhi residents MACT Presiding Officer B S Chumbak Motor Accident Claims Tribunal Owners of uninsured vehicle to pay damages: MACT subsequent purchaser of an uninsured vehicle uninsured vehicle to pay damages
Top Law News Court reserves order on framing charges against Kalmadi October 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A trial court has reserved for November 21 its order on framing of charges against former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others accused in a CWG -related corruption case. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh concluded hearing the arguments on charges advanced by CBI as well as all the accused and reserved […] Read more » CBI had alleged Kalmadi Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Court reserves order on framing charges against Kalmadi CWG -related corruption case CWG OC Secretary General Lalit Bhanot CWG to Swiss Timing Director General (Procurement) Surjit Lal Joint Director General (Sports) A S V Prasad OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi OC's Director General V K Verma P D Arya and A K Madan of Faridabad-based Gem International Prevention of Corruption Act Scoring and Results (TSR) system special CBI judge Talwant Singh Swiss Timing Omega Treasurer M Jayachandran