Top Law News Kudankulam: Centre furnishes copies of pacts June 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Copies of Kudankulam bilateral treaties India had signed with the erstwhile USSR and Russia in 1988 and 1988, respectively, for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant were furnished to the Madras high court by the Centre in a sealed cover on Thursday. A division bench comprising Justice P Jyothimani and Justice M Duraiswamy perused the documents […] Read more » Kudankulam bilateral treaties Kudankulam nuclear plant Kudankulam: Centre furnishes copies of pacts Madras High Court Madras high court on kudankulam deal Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board
Top Law News Big blow to Mamata Banerjee on Singur Deal June 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta high court division bench on Friday held the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, as unconstitutional and void, which is a major setback to West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee government. The court favoured the Tata Motors’ appeal against a trial court order which upheld the act and gave the West Bengal government two […] Read more » Big blow to Mamata Banerjee on Singur Deal Calcutta High Court Calcutta high court on singur deal Mamata Banerjee Mamata Banerjee government Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act Tata Motors at Singur.
Top Law News Assam rights panel moves NHRC against police atrocities June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A human rights group in Assam has moved to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) over alleged police atrocities on anti-dam activists in the state. The Barak Human Rights Protection Committee (BHRPC) of Assam has taken up with NHRC the case of alleged police intimidation of members of the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) for opposing […] Read more » Assam rights panel moves NHRC against police atrocities NHRC police atrocities police atrocities as violation of human rights police atrocities in north east India
Top Law News Yeddyurappa gets anticipatory bail in graft case June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday granted anticipatory bail by the Karnataka High Court in a graft case related to the multi-crore mining scam that is being probed by the CBI on the Supreme Court’s directive. Justice B. Subash B. Adi, who pronounced the order after hearing arguments of both the parties, also […] Read more » Former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa mining scam the Karnataka High Court Yeddyurappa gets anticipatory bail in graft case
Top Law News Delhi High Court: Maintenance laws misused by greedy June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The maintenance laws are “designed to help the needy and not the greedy“, the Delhi High Court has said while expressing displeasure at the misuse of the benevolent provisions to settle personal scores. The court’s remark, in a recent order, came on a plea filed by an elderly woman seeking enhancement of the maintenance amount […] Read more » Delhi High Court Delhi High Court: Maintenance laws misused by greedy maintenance laws
Top Law News Allahabad HC contempt to health officials for neglect of kids’ June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Directing all the officials to appear in person on July 4, the HC asked them “to file affidavits to show cause as to why each of them should not be punished for committing contempt of the order dated 25.05.2010”. The notice was issued to the Principal Secretary, Medical Education, of Uttar Pradesh, the Principal of […] Read more » Allahabad HC Allahabad HC contempt to health officials for neglect of kids'
Top Law News SC asked 6 states on all-India medical seats controversy June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked six states to reply to the allegations that they were usurping the PG medical seats for the all-India quota by not disclosing the vacant seats in their medical colleges. A vacation bench of justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai issued notices to Delhi, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh […] Read more » all-India medical seats controversy justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai SC asked 6 states on all-India medical seats controversy Supreme Court
Top Law News Insurer ordered to pay Rs 52 lakh for rejecting medi-claim June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra Consumer Redressal Commission has directed New India Assurance Company to pay Rs 52.07 lakh to a city resident for repudiating her foreign medical claim and deficiency in service. Presiding member P N Kashalkar ordered the insurance company to pay this amount along with interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum from […] Read more » Consumer forum consumer rights in case of rejection of medi-claim Insurer ordered to pay Rs 52 lakh for rejecting medi-claim Maharashtra Consumer Redressal Commission
Top Law News Doc’s certificate not enough to determine emergency June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CAT has held that a patient condition as an emergency case cannot be decided on the basis of the doctor’s certificate always. “Whether the case is of emergency nature or not is not always decided on the basis of the certificate of a doctor who treats the patient and performs the surgery,” the principal bench […] Read more » Doc's certificate not enough to determine emergency The Central Administrative Tribunal
Top Law News Renewal of licence : Commissioner asked to inquire into delay June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The State Consumer Commission has asked the Delhi government’s transport commissioner to inquire into an “inordinate delay” of five years in renewal of a driving licence, saying that such cases “smear the reputation.” The commission’s order came on a plea of a truck driver, who had filed an appeal against a district consumer forum’s order […] Read more » Consumer forum delay in Renewal of licence delay in Renewal of licence cases Delhi Consumer Commission Renewal of licence : Commissioner asked to inquire into delay
Top Law News Consumer forum fined DJB for imposing undue penalty on consumer June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A consumer forum here has imposed a penalty of Rs 5,000 on Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for “negligence” of its officials, who had sent her cheque for water bill to a wrong bank. The woman had issued a cheque drawn on the State Bank of India, but the DJB sent it to the Punjab National […] Read more » Consumer forum Consumer forum fined DJB for imposing undue penalty on consumer Delhi Jal Board East District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum
Top Law News Abhishek Verma case: expansion of judicial custody till July 4 June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today extended judicial custody till July 4 of businessman Abhishek Verma and his Romanian wife, arrested for allegedly receiving money from a Swiss arms firm for keeping it out of Indian government’s blacklist. Verma and his newly-wed Romanian wife Ancia Neascu were produced before Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh who extended their […] Read more » Abhishek Verma case Abhishek Verma case: expansion of judicial custody till July 4 Ordnance Factory Board scam