Top Law News Indian Muslims split over wedding age June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi High Court ruling that a Muslim girl can marry once she attains the age of puberty has sharply split the community, with clerics backing the law and virtually everyone else against it. Muslim religious leaders across the country are pleased with the court verdict that based its judgement on the Sharia, the moral […] Read more » Indian Muslims split over wedding age muslim girls can marry at theageof12-13
Top Law News Court frames charges against IFS officer in trafficking case June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Paving the way for their trial in a case of alleged trafficking 8 persons to Germany in 2005, a Delhi court today framed charges of criminal conspiracy and corruption against an IFS officer and three others. Special CBI Judge Kanwaljeet Arora said there was prima facie evidence that accused Rakesh Kumar, former Director General (DG) […] Read more » IFS officer in trafficking case Special CBI Judge Kanwaljeet Arora
Top Law News Transfer of case to another court casts doubt on judge June 9, 2012 / June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Transferring a case from one court to another on mere “apprehension and presumption” of a litigant is not only an “abuse” of law but also casts a doubt on “integrity and competence” of a judge, the Delhi High Court has said. “The transfer of a case from one court to another on mere presumptions and […] Read more » doubt on judg Justice Mukta Gupta Transfer of case to another court
Top Law News High Court collects evidence against Sessions Judge June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking a serious note of complaints made by four persons against the Sessions Judge who absolved former Minister Rajendra Rathore of the charge of involvement in the Dara Singh fake encounter case, the Registrar (Vigilance) of the Rajasthan High Court on Friday summoned them for giving evidence to support their allegations. All four, including Sushila […] Read more » A. K.Jain evidence against Sessions Judge High Court Inspector General of Police A. Ponnuchami
Top Law News Ex-Army chief made accused in defamation case June 9, 2012 / June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ex-Army chief V K Singh, along with four senior serving officers, has been made an accused in a criminal defamation case filed by Lt General (retd) Tejinder Singh, who has accused them of misusing their official positions, power and authority to defame him. Metropolitan magistrate Jay Thareja asked the former Army chief and others to […] Read more » A K Antony of the bribery bid defamation case Ex-Army chief made accused Ex-Army chief V K Singh Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja
Top Law News No violation is minor: MoEF June 9, 2012 / June 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Whether a project developer builds a factory or a part of it illegally, the environment ministry will treat the entire construction illegal and won’t classify the violations as major and minor, unlike a proposal that was mooted earlier. A move had been made to dilute the norms of the ministry of environments and forests […] Read more » ministry of environments and forests MoEF No violation is minor
Top Law News High Court releases women beggars” June 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has ordered release of five women beggars from a welfare home on an undertaking by them and their husbands that they would not further indulge in begging in the Capital and go back to their native place in Rajasthan, dismissing the finding of a Special Metropolitan Magistrate that they are “professional […] Read more »
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