Top Law News Lack of waste management in Bihar can lead to emergency-like situation: NGT March 23, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Noting that lack of waste management in Bihar can lead to an emergency-like situation, the NGT has directed the Bihar chief secretary to submit a quarterly report on implementation of the Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel ordered that at least three major cities and three […] Read more » Lack of waste management in Bihar
Top Law News NGT directs Delhi chief secy to furnish report on illegal scrap units in Mayapuri March 23, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi chief secretary to furnish a status report on illegal scrap units, which do a business of around Rs 6,000 crore per annum, in Mayapuri here. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel also asked the authorities to adopt stern precautionary measures against polluters in […] Read more » illegal scrap units in Mayapuri NGT
Top Law News Supreme Court notice to Uttrakhand govt on plea seeking restoration of forest area in Pauri March 23, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Uttarakhand government on a plea seeking restoration of forest area in Gadoli-Mandakhal in the state’s Pauri district. A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Hemant Gupta issued notices to the Uttarakhand government and others while directing them to file their replies in six weeks. The […] Read more » Justice D Y Chandrachud Justice Hemant Gupta restoration of forest area in Pauri
Top Law News People run from pillar to post to get insurance claim from companies: Delhi consumer commission March 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi state consumer commission has observed that claimants are made to run from pillar to post to get medical reimbursement from insurance companies and it would be “extremely tenuous” to expect a layman to read each and every clause of an insurance document before signing it. On most occasions, a person who intends to […] Read more » Delhi Consumer Commission
Top Law News Woman and 2 accomplices get life term for killing husband March 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here has sentenced a woman, her paramour and their accomplice to life imprisonment for killing her husband and chopping his body into pieces five years ago. Mandi Additional Sessions Judge Aparna Sharma has imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on Lata Devi, her paramour Amar Chand and contract killer Satish for murdering Manoj […] Read more » killing husband Mandi Additional Sessions Judge Aparna Sharma
Top Law News YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy files plea seeking probe by independent agency into Vivekananda killing March 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy Tuesday filed a plea in the Andhra Pradesh High Court seeking a probe by an independent agency into the killing of his uncle and former minister Y S Vivekananda Reddy recently. In his petition, Jagan alleged that Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was trivializing the gruesome murder […] Read more » YSR Congress chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy
Top Law News Delhi High Court takes note of ‘dearth’ of special education teachers in Delhi schools March 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has taken note of the “dearth” of special education teachers in government schools here and said that despite repeated efforts, the vacancies have not been filled. Special education programs are designed for those students who are mentally, physically, socially or emotionally delayed and special educators are hired to meet the appropriate […] Read more » 'dearth' of special education teachers Delhi High Court Justice Vipin Sanghi JusticeA K Chawla
Top Law News Man gets 3-year RI for kidnapping and molesting minor. March 20, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to three years of rigorous imprisonment by a court in Thane district of Maharashtra for kidnapping and molesting a girl. Special POCSO court Judge P P Jadhav, in his order issued last week, also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Sandeep Vitthal Umap. According to the prosecution, on […] Read more » Man gets 3-year RI for kidnapping molesting minor Special POCSO court Judge P P Jadhav
Top Law News Acid attack uncivilised and heartless crime which does not deserve any clemency: Supreme Court March 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that acid attack is an “uncivilised and heartless crime” which does not deserve any clemency. The apex court observed this while asking two convicts, who have already undergone five year jail for throwing acid on a 19-year-old girl in 2004, to pay Rs 1.5 lakh each as additional compensation to […] Read more » acid attack Acid attack does not deserve any clemency Acid attack heartless crime Acid attack uncivilised Supreme Court Supreme Court on Acid attack
Top Law News The Bombay High Court stays Nusli Wadia defamation plea hearing against Ratan Tata some other directors of Tata Sons. March 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Monday stayed till March 27 the proceedings before a magistrate court in a 2016 criminal defamation case filed by Nusli Wadia against Ratan Tata and some other directors of Tata Sons. A single bench of Justice Mridula Bhatkar stayed the proceedings through an interim order. Justice Bhatkar will now hear a […] Read more » directors of Tata Sons. Nusli Wadia Nusli Wadia against Ratan Tata and some other directors of Tata Sons. Ratan Tata the Bombay High Court
Top Law News National Green Tribunal raps officials over action plan on noise pollution March 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has rapped the police and the district adminstration over their action plan to check noise pollution in West Delhi and termed the ATR as “inaction report”. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said the DCP and the SDM are merely avoiding the responsibility and shifting the burden […] Read more » action plan on noise pollution DCP Deepak Purohit National Green Tribunal NGT NGT action plan on noise pollution NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel SDM Nitin Jindal
Top Law News Will curb un-verified political ads on social media: Election Commission to Bombay High Court. March 19, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Election Commission (EC) Monday told the Bombay High Court that it will issue directions prohibiting all social media platforms from displaying political advertisements not pre-verified by it. The EC, through its counsel Pradeep Rajagopal, told the high court that a meeting between the commission and all social media intermediaries was scheduled for Tuesday. Following […] Read more » Bombay High Court Chief Justice Naresh Patil counsel Pradeep Rajagopal Election Commission Justice N.M. Jamdar
