Top Law News 2G: Apex court allows review plea withdrawal May 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday allowed the government to withdraw its petition seeking a review of the Supreme Court verdict cancelling 122 licences that were allocated on and after Jan 10, 2008 by the then telecom minister A. Raja. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan granted withdrawal of the review […] Read more » 122 spectrum licences ASG Indira Jaising cancellation of 122 spectrum licences by Supreme Court Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan
Top Law News Derogatory content to be removed against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Google told May 11, 2012 / May 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed Google to remove, within 36 hours, derogatory content posted by a blogger against Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Justice Manmohan Singh, hearing a defamation case filed by followers of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, also issued notice to Google and Jitender Bagga who allegedly posted derogatory contents […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jitender Bagga Justice Manmohan Singh removal of derogatory content Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Top Law News CBI backs magistrate’s stand against Talwars May 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI Thursday told the Supreme Court that discrepancies in the charge sheet could not be a ground for the recall of a magistrate’s decision to take cognizance against the dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the 2008 Aarushi Talwar-Hemraj double murder. The probe agency said the magistrate’s decision to reject its closure […] Read more » case against Talwars CBI
Top Law News Krishna Tirath discusses issues of community-based organisations May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath Monday met the representatives of community-based organisations working for transgenders, sex workers and urban poor from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Maharashtra. She discussed with them the issues faced by such organisations, and explained the benefits of various ministry-run schemes. The representatives pointed […] Read more » community-based organisations Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath
Top Law News Suit against army chief shifted to another judge May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday transferred the defamation case filed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Tejinder Singh against Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh to another judge for hearing. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Bansal transferred the case to Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Jay Thareja from MM Sudesh Kumar. The case file was sent to Bansal by Sudesh […] Read more » Additional Director General of Public Information Major Gen. S.L. Narsimhan Army Chief Gen V K Singh army vice chief Lt. Gen. S.K. Singh Director General Directorate General of Public Information staff officer Lt. Col. Hitten Sawhney Lt. Gen. B.S. Thakur Lt. Gen. Tejinder Singh MM Jay Thareja
Top Law News Blacklisted Israel Military Industries moves Delhi High Court May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the defence ministry and the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) on a plea by the Israel Military Industries (IMI), Israel’s state-run defence equipment supplier, seeking to set aside OFB’s decision cancelling its contract to set up a plant to manufacture an advanced propellent for artillery ammunition at Nalanda […] Read more »
Top Law News Supreme court mulling total ban on plastic (Lead) May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme court mulling total ban on plastic (Lead) The Supreme Court Monday said it would consider whether to completely ban the use of plastic in the interests of animals and the environment. An Supreme court bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi said this during the hearing of a PIL (public interest litigation), drawing attention of the court to the plight of animals, which were […] Read more » total ban on plastic
Top Law News Apex court notice to government on SIMI ban May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government on two pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, under which the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was banned six times since 2001. The court sought a response within 10 weeks on the petitions filed by two former SIMI […] Read more » ban on SIMI
Top Law News Supreme court reserves order on suit against Balakrishnan May 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday reserved its order on a petition seeking a presidential reference into allegations of misconduct against National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman K.G. Balakrishnan when he was the chief justice of India. Besides allegations of misconduct against Balakrishnan, it has also been alleged that his two sons-in-law and brother amassed wealth disproportionate […] Read more » suit against Balakrishnan
Top Law News Delhi land scam: Charges to be framed against 10 accused May 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI special court has decided to frame charges against 10 accused, including ex-officials of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), for alleged lapses in the allotment of plots as part of the resettlement of slum dwellers. The accused were allegedly involved in allotment of plots in fictitious names under the scheme executed by the […] Read more » CBI Special Judge Anoop Kumar Mendiratta Delhi land scam
Top Law News Rajnath Singh wants Hindi in Supreme Court May 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Rajnath Singh wants Hindi in Supreme Court BJP leader Rajnath Singh Saturday advocated the introduction of Hindi and other Indian languages in the Supreme Court of India. Singh, who was the chief guest at the Annual Seminar of Bar Association of National Capital Region in Ghaziabad said that he was in favour of Hindi and other Indian languages in the Supreme court […] Read more » Hindi in Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Right to self-defence extends to killing only in grave danger’ May 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The right to self-defence cannot be used to escape aggressive offences punishable under law, and the person invoking the right has to demonstrate that there was fear of suffering grievous injury or death, the Supreme Court has ruled. “Right of private defence cannot be used to do away with a wrongdoer unless the person concerned […] Read more » 'Right to self-defence Justice Dipak Misra Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan killing only in grave danger'