Top Law News Muslim quota: Govt to move SC next week June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government will move the Supreme Court on the issue of 4.5% quota for socially and educationally backward classes belonging to minorities early next week keeping in view the ongoing admission process at central universities across the country, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Sources in the HRD ministry confirmed that the government was […] Read more » Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati Govt to move SC next week Muslim quota
Top Law News SC OKs online counselling for quota med seats” June 8, 2012 / June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to begin online counseling for allotment of over 2,000 seats in medical colleges for MBBS and BDS courses under 15% all-India quota from this academic session. After the regulator, Medical Council of India (MCI), said it had no objection to online counseling, a […] Read more » \ J S Khehar 15% all-India quota Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan online counselling for quota med seats
Top Law News Court rap on police for not filing FIR” June 8, 2012 / June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up Delhi Police for not registering an FIR for over a year on a complaint made by an elderly couple, a trial court has directed Delhi Police Commissioner to file a report giving details of legal provisions that bar an officer from lodging the FIR without prior approval from superiors. The court was hearing […] Read more » Court rap on police Court rap on police for not filing FIR” Delhi Police for not registering an FIR filing FIR”
Top Law News ”Man can’t be evicted if he gets wife a home”. June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If a man arranges an alternative accommodation for his estranged wife, she cannot take recourse to the Domestic Violence Act to force her husband to leave his house, the Delhi high court has said. Justice M L Mehta gave the ruling while disposing of a city’s resident plea for quashing of his wife’s complaint for […] Read more » ”Man can’t be evicted Domestic Violence Act' Justice M.L. Mehta
Top Law News Aarushi case: SC rejects Nupur Talwar’s review plea June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday rejected dentist Nupur Talwar’s petition for review of its earlier order that she and her husband Rajesh be tried for the murder of their daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj. It also turned down the plea for further investigation in the case. The court, however, allowed Nupur Talwar to […] Read more » Aarushi case Nupur Talwar's review plea rejected SC rejects Nupur Talwar's review plea
Top Law News 2G: Accused says prosecution using forged records June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI special court here hearing the 2G case Thursday kept as pending its order on a plea seeking specimen signature of a prosecution witness whose signatures were allegedly forged in the visitors’ book of the telecom department. Read more » 2G case 2G spectrum prosecution using forged records
Top Law News ‘Jism 2’ cast collaborates with PETA June 8, 2012 / June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The cast of Jism 2 has decided to auction the clothes they wore in the film and give the proceeds to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Jism 2, a sequel to Bipasha Basu and John Abraham-starrer 2003 release Jism, stars Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone, Randeep Hooda and Arunoday Singh. “Part proceeds […] Read more » 'Jism 2' cast collaborates with PETA auction the clothes for PETA
Top Law News SC permits online counselling for undergraduate medical courses June 8, 2012 / June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the union health ministry to undertake online counselling for admission of students to undergraduate medical courses for 15 percent central seats in government colleges across the country. AnSupreme court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice J.S. Khehar cleared the decks for online counselling for admissions to MBBS and […] Read more » admissions to MBBS and BDS counselling for admissions to MBBS and BDS counselling for undergraduate medical courses Justice J.S. Khehar Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan online counselling for medical courses online counselling for undergraduate medical courses
Top Law News Supreme court challenge the reservation in Uttar Pradesh poll June 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday asked the Uttar Pradesh government whether it intended to contest the state high court’s finding that reservation in municipal agencies, where elections are scheduled to be held, was flawed. An Supreme court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice J.S. Khehar asked Uttar Pradesh advocate general Gaurav Bhatia whether the state […] Read more » Justice J.S. Khehar Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan
Top Law News Muslim girl can marry if she attains puberty June 7, 2012 / June 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ruling that a Muslim girl can marry as per her choice at the age of 15 years if she has attained puberty, the Delhi high court has held the marriage of a minor girl valid and allowed her to stay in her matrimonial house. “This court notes that according to Mohammedan Law a girl can […] Read more » justices S Ravindra Bhat Muslim girl can marry at age 15 Muslim girl can marry at puberty Muslim girl can marry below the age18 S P Garg
Top Law News Court issues notice over taxing internet-based firms June 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central government, social networking site Facebook India and Google India on a plea seeking recovery from them of tax arising out of their internet-based business in the country. A division bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rajiv Shakdher asked the government and the internet-based companies […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Vipin Sanghi taxing internet-based firms
Top Law News High court refuses stay on release of film ‘Shanghai’ June 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking stay on the June 8 release of Bollywood film “Shanghai”, saying there was nothing insulting in its song “Bharat Mata ki jai” and it merely depicted “the existing state of affairs” in India. A division bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Rajiv Shakdher said: “We […] Read more » "Shanghai Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Vipin Sanghi release of film 'Shanghai' stay on release of film 'Shanghai'