Top Law News HC asks govt to set up compensation commission in a week May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to set up a compensation commission within one week to decide the claims of victims of large scale violence witnessed in some parts of the state in 2009, in the wake of the death of a particular community leader, Sant Ramanand, in Vienna […] Read more » Chief Justice M.M. Kumar Justice Alok Singh Punjab and Haryana High Court set up compensation commission
Top Law News Punjab: Tribunal to probe land grabs by VIPs in Union Territory periphery May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The illegal possession of land by top politicians, bureaucrats and police officers of Punjab in the periphery of Chandigarh will now be investigated by a tribunal. While issuing the directions on Tuesday, the Punjab and Haryana high court set a four-month deadline for the tribunal to complete the probe and submit a report. The three-member […] Read more » DGP Sumedh Singh Saini land grabs by VIPs in Union Territory Parkash Singh Badal Tribunal to probe land grabs by VIPs
Top Law News No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus: High court May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a first, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has reinterpreted provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act to hold that public servants, who can be removed by the subordinate authorities other than the government, are not entitled to protection of sanction. It means that they can be proceeded against even without the grant of […] Read more » Justice Mehinder Singh Sullar No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 Punjab and Haryana High Court to remove corrupt babus
Top Law News Orient policies for women, NAC tells government May 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Orientation of social schemes and policies towards women can help control the declining sex ratio in the country, a member of the National Advisory Council’s (NAC) working group on gender and sex ratio said here Tuesday. “The national policy on declining sex ratio needs to look at all the laws pertaining to women’s issues. We […] Read more » NAC NAC-Orient policies for women National Advisory Council Orient policies for women
Top Law News Wife’s position made stronger-Cabinet clears tweak to marriage bill May 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid Opposition demands to make divorce more women-friendly, the government today approved fresh amendments in a Bill pending in the Rajya Sabha to give the wife a clearly defined share in the husband’s immovable residential property in case of a divorce. A meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, took up […] Read more » Cabinet clears marriage bill Hindu Marriage Act 1955 immovable residential property share in the husband's immovable residential property Special Marriage Act 1954 Wife’s position made stronger
Top Law News Don’t link woman’s character to rape:SC May 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If a woman of “easy virtue” accuses a person of rape, then courts must not discard her evidence but it must be “cautiously appreciated”, the Supreme Court ruled while acquitting a Delhi resident concurrently held guilty of rape by a trial court and the Delhi high court. “Merely because a woman is of easy virtue, […] Read more » Don’t link woman’s character to rape:SC Justice Dipak Misra Justices B.S. Chauhan link of woman’s character to rape women character and rape women character related to rape
Top Law News Andhra Pradesh high court strikes down 4.5% sub-quota for minorities May 29, 2012 / May 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh high court on Monday set aside a controversial central government order, providing OBC minorities a sub-quota of 4.5% in central educational institutions and public sector establishments on the grounds that it has been implemented based on religious grounds and not on the ‘backwardness’ of the intended beneficiaries. The Centre had on December […] Read more » 4.5% sub-quota for minorities Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice Sanjay Kumar
Top Law News Bombay High Court to hear suit against petrol price hike May 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court will Wednesday hear a public suit against the recent hike in petrol prices. Acting on the suit filed Monday by Rajendra Phanse, the court issued notice to the central government, the petroleum and natural gas and finance ministries and three oil marketing companies. Phanse’s petition claimed that the recent hike […] Read more » Bombay High Court suit against petrol price hike
Top Law News Court gets draft Delhi bill on trafficking of kids May 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Monday submitted in the the Delhi High Court a draft of a bill aimed at preventing trafficking of children through unregulated placement agencies. The court was given the draft of the Delhi Private Placement Agencies (Regulation) Bill, 2012 during a hearing on NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan’s plea alleging that some of the […] Read more » Court gets draft Delhi bill trafficking of kids
Top Law News SC chides government over Bhopal’s toxic waste May 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday chided the central government for not doing anything for disposing toxic waste for 28 years since the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya said that there was total “apathy” in dealing with the situation “because the victims of Bhopal gas tragedy […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji Bhopal's toxic waste German Society for International Cooperation GIZ Gujarat Pollution Control Board Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya SC
Top Law News Sports Games purchases:Suresh Kalmadi May 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi Monday told a Delhi court hearing a graft case that the youth affairs and sports ministry was aware of purchases made for the 2010 sporting event. “Everything related to the Games was brought to the notice of youth affairs and sports ministry,” said Kalmadi, while […] Read more » CBI special judge Talwant Singh Commonwealth Games CWG Prevention of Corruption Act Sports Games purchases Suresh Kalmadi
Top Law News Court refuses to accept Tejinder Singh’s plea May 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Monday refused to accept the plea of Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh seeking an end to an inquiry and pronouncement of its order on issuing summons to Army chief General V K Singh in a defamation case. Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja said that summons had already been issued to the Defence […] Read more » accept Tejinder Singh's plea Army chief General V.K. Singh Metropolitan Magistrate Jay Thareja Tejinder Singh's plea