Top Law News Parts of hostile witness’s evidence can be used: Supreme court May 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Parts of hostile witness’s evidence can be used: Supreme court Judges should not treat as totally erased the evidence tendered by a witness whom the prosecution terms as hostile during a trial, the Supreme Court has said. “It is a settled legal proposition that the evidence of a prosecution witness cannot be rejected in toto merely because the prosecution chose to treat him as hostile […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Dipak Misra Parts of hostile witness's evidence can be used Supreme Court
Top Law News Framing of charges underway in Aarushi case May 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The initial arguments to frame charges against Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, the parents of murdered teenager Aarushi, finally began in a Ghaziabad court Tuesday afternoon. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) prosecutor R.K. Saini submitted before the court of Special CBI Judge S. lal that the parents were responsible for killing their daughter and had […] Read more » arushi case Arushi-Hemraj murder case Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice J.S. Khehar senior counsel Pinaki Misra
Top Law News Deaf-mute can be credible witness: Supreme Court May 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday said a deaf-mute need not be prevented from giving evidence in court merely on account of his physical disability as he can do so either by writing or through gestures. The court said this while upholding the Rajasthan High Court’s verdict of May 29, 2005 by which it had quashed […] Read more » Deaf-mute can be credible witness Deaf-mute can be witness Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi government clears marriage registration bill May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the government Monday clearing the draft Delhi Registration of Marriages Bill 2012, married couples in the capital will soon have to get their marriages registered and failing to do so may invoke a fine of up to Rs.10,000. The bill is likely to be presented in the budget session of the Delhi assembly starting […] Read more » Delhi Registration of Marriages Bill 2012 Hindu Marriage Act marriage registration bill Special Marriage Act
Top Law News B.S. Yeddyurappa charge sheeted in land case May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa was Monday charge sheeted in a land case, further weakening him in his battle to unseat his successor D.V. Sadananda Gowda. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) first chief minister in Karnataka has been charged with “criminal misconduct as public servant” to cause a loss of over Rs.80 million to […] Read more » B.S. Yeddyurappa charge sheeted in land case
Top Law News Court sends activist’s death probe to crime branch May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday shifted the probe into the death of a right to information activist in a road accident here last month to the crime branch of Delhi Police and sought fortnightly reports on the investigation. Activist and retired government employee Ravinder Balwani, an aide of Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal and a […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Kejriwal's NGO Parivartan Ravinder Balwani Ravinder Balwani rti activist
Top Law News Man allowed divorce over wife’s ‘illicit’ affairs May 21, 2012 / May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man was allowed by a Delhi court to end his marriage with his wife on the grounds of mental agony suffered due to her suspected illicit relationships. Additional District Judge Sujata Kohli, in an order made available on Monday, said: “It has been clearly established from the unrebutted testimony of the petitioner (man) that […] Read more » Additional District Judge Sujata Kohli Man allowed divorce Man allowed divorce wife's 'illicit' affairs wife's 'illicit' affairs
Top Law News Supreme court permits access to Kalighat temple’s sanctum sanctorum May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday permitted devotees to access the sanctum sanctorum of Kolkata’s Kalighat temple to pay obeisance to the deity. An Supreme court bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya cleared the decks for the entry of devotees into the sanctum sanctorum after it stayed the April 20 order of the Calcutta High […] Read more » 'garbha griha' Justice Deepak Verma Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Kalighat temple's sanctum sanctorum Senior counsel Ashok Bhan
Top Law News N,D.Tiwari asked to furnish blood sample in Delhi High Court dispensary May 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress leader N.D. Tiwari has been asked to appear in the Delhi High Court dispensary on Saturday to submit his blood sample for a DNA test in a paternity suit. The court’s joint registrar, Deepak Garg, Monday asked the dispensary head to appoint a doctor to take Tiwari’s blood sample. “Let an option be given […] Read more » Congress leader N D Tiwari D.Tiwari asked to furnish blood sample Delhi High Court dispensary N
Top Law News Lok Adalat settles 1,400 power bill cases May 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 1,400 disputes related to electricity bills and power thefts involving Rs.3.5 crore were settled Sunday in a special Lok Adalat held here. The Lok Adalat was conducted by the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) at the Tis Hazari district court complex. “Approximately 1,400 cases were settled and the settlement amount was approximately […] Read more » 400 power bill cases Lok Adalat settles 1
Top Law News Mamata Banerjee: A study in contrast May 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Mamata Banerjee’s car still stops at all traffic signals, she still lives in a single-storey house in a dingy lane, and wears her trademark cotton saris and rubber slippers. But professors get arrested for circulating her cartoons and for supporting slum dwellers, she loses her cool over uncomfortable questions and sees a conspiracy if there […] Read more » Mamata Banerjee- A study
Top Law News Personal liberty can’t be curtailed illegally: Supreme Court May 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Personal liberty is the “most precious and prized right” guaranteed by the Indian constitution and it can’t be taken away without following the due procedure of law, says the Supreme Court. The court said this as a caution while holding that a person who is already in custody could be ordered to remain in detention […] Read more » Personal liberty can't be curtailed illegally Supreme Court