Top Law News Conference on freedom of sex workers July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On Saturday Kolkata will host a conference on freedom of sex workers. 550 sex workers representatives from about 44 countries will participate in the event. The two-day event, to be held on July 21 and 22, will run parallel to the XIX International AIDS Conference being organized in Washington DC from Sunday. The sex workers […] Read more » AIDS Conference on freedom of sex workers conference on sex workers freedom of sex workers HIV Kolkata sex sex workers US government Washington DC
Top Law News Being called pahadi can lead you to divorce July 20, 2012 / July 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If you use a word like pahadi or Bihari or any word which indicates your spouse and his/her family geographical background can lead you to the divorce path. As people are sensitive about this. The Bombay high court observed on Thursday, that a reason for a marriage breaking up was that the wife’s father referred […] Read more » Bombay High Court calling pahadi can lead to divorce causes of divorce divorce divorce on ground of using bad words
Top Law News HSBC Money Laundering: Govt will probe the matter July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India on Thursday said it will “get to the bottom” of the alleged violation of safety compliance by HSBC’s staff in the country against money laundering and terrorist financing as it was “serious” matter. New Delhi also said it would seek more information from Washington on the probe by the US Senate’s Permanent Sub-committee on […] Read more » govt will probe the HSBC Money Laundering case HSBC HSBC Money Laundering case
Top Law News Forced implementation of RTE: NCPCR seeks report from Karnataka govt July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked the Karnataka government to submit a report following allegations that four students from economically weaker section (EWS) were humiliated in a prominent Bangalore school in a bid to implement RTE. Taking suo motu cognisance of a media report, the National Commission for Protection of Child […] Read more » child abuse controller NCPCR National Commission for Protection of Child Rights NCPCR NCPCR action on Bangalore school humiliation case NCPCR against child abuse Right to Education Act RTE
Top Law News 2G case: Goenka exempted from personal appearance for a week July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment DB Realty MD Vinod Kumar Goenka, facing trial in 2G spectrum allocation case, has been exempted by a Delhi court from appearing before it for a week to take care of his business in Mumbai. Special CBI Judge O P Saini exempted Goenka from personal appearance for a week, brushing aside his plea for permanent […] Read more » 2G 2G case 2G spectrum allocation case
Top Law News Man pierced wife’s genitals in Indore July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The brutal tale of a mechanic in Indore will belie the fact that we’re living in the 21st century. Sohan Lal pierced the genitals of his wife and inserted a lock there in order to prevent her from having an affair. The mechanic Sohan Lal was arrested on Tuesday. The incident of piercing of genitals came to […] Read more » 498 A of the IPC genitals inserting a lock in woman's genital insrting a lock in wife's genitals piercing of wife's genitals Sections 326 IPC
Top Law News Child Marriage: Groom held for marrying minor girl July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Child Marriage: Groom held for marrying minor girl In a child marriage case a 22-year old man who tied the knot with a “minor” girl landed behind the bars with police arresting him within hours of the wedding on the charge of child marriage in the district today. Besides the bridegroom, the father and mother of the 15-year old girl, studying seventh standard […] Read more » arrest in Child Marriage child marriage Child Marriage Act Child Marriage Act in India Child marriage in India Prevention of Child Marriage Act
Top Law News IGL fined for delaying gas connection July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the supplier of Piped Natural Gas in Delhi has been fined by a consumer forum here to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation to a customer for delay in providing gas connection to him. The South West District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum observed that the IGL had “failed to perform” its […] Read more » consumer court consumer court in Delhi IGL IGL fined by consumer court IGL for defiency in service IGL supplier of Piped Natural Gas South West District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum
Top Law News SC issued notice on Italian govt’s plea July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and the Kerala government on Italian government’s plea to quash the ongoing trial of two of its marines for allegedly gunning down two Indian fishermen off the southern state’s coast in February this year. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and J Chelameswar also issued […] Read more » Italian Italian government's plea Italian govt's plea Italian Naval officer Chief Sargeant Massimilano Lattore Italian Naval officer Sargeant Salvatore Girone Italian Naval officers Justice J. Chelameswar justices Altamas Kabir Kerala High Court NATO Supreme Court ted Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas UNCLOS
Top Law News Nitish Kumar: Amendment in Bihar Jail manual after 87 years July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar said that Bihar Jail Manual would be amended after 87 years to categorise the inmates as per their offence and educational qualification The jail manual was last modified in 1925. Young offenders aged between 18 and 21 will be seperately housed from notorious criminals so that the former do not […] Read more » Bihar CM Kumar Bihar Jail Manual Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar CM Kumar CM Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar
Top Law News HIV+ convict’s jail term reduced by court July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court reduced two-year jail term awarded to a HIV + man for stealing a railway property to six months on compassionate grounds. Additional Sessions Judge Pawan Kumar Jain reduced the convict’s jail term, showing leniency to him because he being a HIV+ but rejecting his appeal against a magisterial court’s July 2011 judgment, which had […] Read more » compassionate ground for HIV+ Delhi court HIV HIV positive HIV+ convicts HIV+ man release of HIV+ on compassionate ground Section 3 of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act
Top Law News Big B, Priyanka issued notice for obscenity during IPL inaugural July 19, 2012 / July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Big B, Priyanka issued notice for obscenity during IPL inaugural Top B-town actors alongwith top officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) were issued notice by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Wednesday for participating in an alleged obscene stage performance at the inaugural of Indian Premier League (IPL)-V in Chennai on April 3, seeking registration of a […] Read more » BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 Indian Premier League -V IPL IPL -v IPL inaugural Madras High Court Madurai Bench Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1956