Top Law News Pipili probe panel issues notices to Odisha govt June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Just a day after the Odisha High Court disposed of a PIL pertaining to police investigation and treatment of the Pipili gangrape victim, the Justice PK Mohanty Commission of Enquiry probing into the incident, on Wednesday issued notice to the Odisha Government asking it to submit the case diaries and station diary entries of the […] Read more » Odisha High court Odisha Pipili gangrape case Pipili gangrape case Pipili probe panel Pipili probe panel issues notices to Odisha govt
Top Law News Atrocities against Dalits: AP CID begins investigation in Dalit murders June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Andhra Pradesh’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has initiated an inquiry into the June 12 killing of four Dalits at Lakshmipet village in Srikakulam district even as three police officials were brought under Vacancy Reserve (VR) for inaction, a top police officer said. As per Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy’s directive, the CID has taken […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh Dalit murders Atrocities against Dalits Atrocities against Dalits: AP CID begins investigation in Dalit murders conditions of Dalits in India Dalit murders in India
Top Law News Self-styled godman Nithyananda to undergo medical test June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Ramanagaram court on Wednesday allowed the CID to conduct medical and physical tests on self-styled godman Swami Paramahamsa Nithyananda in connection with a rape and sexual abuse case lodged against him in 2010. Chief judicial magistrate Varthur Venkatagiriyappa Pushpavathi passed an order in this regard after the CID filed an application seeking permission to […] Read more » Nithyananda case Nithyananda in sexual abuse case Self-styled godman Nithyananda Self-styled godman Nithyananda to undergo medical test
Top Law News Bhawari Devi murder accused Bishna Bishnoi taken to court amid tight security June 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bishna Ram Bishnoi was yesterday taken to a local court for hearing with his hands cuffed amid tight security after the escape of Bhawari Devi murder accused Kailash Jakhar from the court premises. Lack of adequate security had led to the escape of Jakhar from the Rajasthan high court premises here on June 14 after […] Read more » Bhawari Devi murder accused Bhawari Devi murder accused Bishna Bishnoi taken to court amid tight security Bhawari Devi murder case
Top Law News Too late to give grace marks under sports quota: HC June 20, 2012 / July 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Refusing to grant relief to over 800 students seeking 25 grace marks in their SSC exams under sports quota, the Bombay High Court today said it was too late to accept their plea and it would affect other students also. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice N M Jamdar was hearing […] Read more » Bombay High Court Justice Mohit Shah and Justice N M Jamdar sports quota case Too late to give grace marks under sports quota: HC
Top Law News India’s stand on French rape case:Law of land will prevail in rape case against French official June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The controversy regarding who’s law will prevail in French rape case is over. A day after French consulate official Pascal Mazurier was arrested for allegedly abusing his minor daughter, External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna stressed Wednesday that he did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and made it clear that the Indian law will prevail. “From what […] Read more » French rape case India’s stand on French rape case:Law of land will prevail in rape case against French official
Top Law News Bhandarkar in copyright case: Court reserves order June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has reserved its order for June 27 on an author’s plea for lodging a first information report (FIR) against Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar for copying the plot of his 2008 film ” Fashion“ from her book. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Sharma said that the court would June 27 decide on the […] Read more » Bhandarkar in copyright case Bhandarkar in copyright case: Court reserves order Madhur Bhandarkar
Top Law News Court pulls up cop for lax rape probe June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up the investigation officer (IO) in a four-year-old girl’s rape case, a Delhi court has sought an explanation from her for not conducting the probe in a proper manner. The court said the case file revealed that the statement of the girl had not been recorded since the June 14 incident in south Delhi’s […] Read more » Court pulls up cop for lax rape probe direction of the Delhi High court for conducting investigation of rape victim lax in rape probe
Top Law News New committee will monitor property tax assessment June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chennai Corporation council on Tuesday passed a resolution on constituting a committee for property tax assessment in the city. Powers for assessment of property over 50001 sq ft in both residential and non-residential have been delegated to Corporation’s Additional Commissioner (Revenue and Finance). The revenue officer will have powers to assess residential and non-residential […] Read more » Chennai Corporation council on property tax assessment New committee will monitor property tax assessment property tax assessment property tax assessment in chennai
Top Law News Chennai Corporation on violation of building regulations: Schools, colleges under the scanner June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chennai Corporation took note of violation of building regulations and for this it will start a field-level verification of all private educational institutions, including schools, colleges and research centres, in the 426 sq km of the city. Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy on Tuesday said the civic body will launch a drive to identify violations […] Read more » Chennai Corporation Chennai Corporation on violation of building regulations: Schools Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority colleges under the scanner Mayor Saidai S. Duraisamy
Top Law News A Delhi Court dismisses man’s plea to disown son June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man’s plea to a Delhi court to declare his son as having no ties with him as he married without his consent and to divest him of his rights over his property, has been dismissed on the ground that the plea was “ineffective.” Senior Civil Judge Anil Kumar Sisodia dismissed the plea citing the […] Read more » A Delhi Court dismisses man's plea to disown son Delhi court disowning cases in matters marrying without parents consent plea to disown son cases Senior Civil Judge Anil Kumar Sisodia
Top Law News TN Secretariat row: Supreme Court refuses to step into the dispute June 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to interfere with a plea pending at the Madras High Court and seeking to restrain the Tamil Nadu Government from shifting the State secretariat building at Omandurar Government Estate in Chennai to erstwhile Fort St George on coast. “How can we issue a writ of prohibition to the high […] Read more » justices H L Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai Res judicata Supreme Court TN Secretariat row TN Secretariat row: Supreme Court refuses to step into the dispute