Top Law News Court refuses to stay honorarium to Imams May 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court Friday refused to stay the payment of honorarium by the West Bengal government to Imams in the state till a suit is pending in court. The high court was hearing a public interest litigation, filed by the BJP, which challenges the ex-gratia payment on the ground that a Supreme Court directive […] Read more » chief justice J.N. Patel honorarium to Imams Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarty
Top Law News Website content: Google, Facebook plea to be heard Aug 7 May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday deferred till Aug 7 the hearing on pleas filed by Facebook and Google challenging a trial court’s order to prosecute them for allegedly hosting objectionable content on websites. Justice Suresh Kait adjourned the case and said its interim order, which refused to stay the summons issued against Google and Facebook […] Read more » Website content of Google and Facebook
Top Law News Government pension scheme for Indians abroad May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is promoting a new Pension and Life Insurance Fund (PILF) scheme in a bid to provide financial security to poor Indians working abroad. PILF is for Indian workers aged between 18 and 50 who have a work permit or employment contract and whose passports carry the ‘Emigration Clearance Required’ stamp. Indian embassies have […] Read more » Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi Pension and Life Insurance Fund (PILF) pension scheme for Indians abroad pension scheme for NRI"S PILF
Top Law News Know where ‘Lakshman Rekha’ begins, SC tells media May 4, 2012 / May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday said media should know where the ‘Lakshman Rekha’ of reporting sub-judice matter begins while the Editors’ Guild of India questioned the court’s jurisdiction to frame guidelines for journalists. The apex court constitution bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice D.K. Jain, Justice S.S. Nijjar, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice J.S. […] Read more » lakshman Rekha For Media May 2 (IANS) The Supreme Court Wednesday said media should know where the 'Lakshman Rekha' of reporting sub-judice matter begins while the Editors' Guild of India questioned the court's jurisdiction t New Delhi
Top Law News 2G: Arguments on charges against Essar, Loop Thursday May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday reiterated that Loop was a front company of the Essar Group and was used to acquire licences and spectrum for offering second generation (2G) telecom services. Special Public Prosecutor U.U. Lalit, while advancing the probe agency’s argument on charge against Essar and Loop promoters, told CBI Special Judge […] Read more » 2G 2G telecom services CBI CBI Special Judge O.P. Saini Essar Group Special Public Prosecutor U.U. Lalit
Top Law News Going slow on hurried divorce May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Speedy divorce got delayed Wednesday with a proposed amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, getting stalled in the Rajya Sabha. The Marriage Law (Amendment) Bill, which was to amend Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, for including “irretrievable breakdown of marriage” among the grounds for divorce, could not be passed after opposition parties, prominently BJP, opposed […] Read more » Law Minister Salman Khurshid
Top Law News Delhi HC directs DDA to take encroached land back May 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to take suitable actions for taking back possession of land encroached by Delhi legislator Asif Mohammad Khan for running an illegal zoo. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice AK Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw hearing a public suit seeking the removal […] Read more » Chief Justice AK Sikri Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act Wildlife Protection Act
Top Law News Why no social security for unorganised workers : NAC asks government April 30, 2012 / April 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Advisory Council (NAC) has pulled up the central government for failing to formulate a social security package for India’s 430-million informal sector workers even though the Unorganised Workers’ Social Security Act (UWSSA) was passed three years ago. “The centre has not formulated a minimum social security package for all workers in the unorganised […] Read more » NAC communication National Advisory Council Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act Unorganised Workers' Social Security Act in 2008 UPA government
Top Law News Kolkata Slum dwellers’ eviction a crime: Binayak Sen April 30, 2012 / April 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Describing the eviction of people from slums in Nonadanga in the eastern part of the city as a “tragedy and great crime”, human rights activist Binayak Sen Sunday accused the West Bengal government of being inhuman. “It (eviction) is a great tragedy and a great crime committed. It is really inhumane on the part of […] Read more » human rights activist Binayak Sen Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority Nonadanga in the eastern part tragedy and great crime
Top Law News NHRC urged to help woman who tried to end life April 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been urged to help a woman who tried to end her life outside the Gurgaon deputy commissioners office on April 24 after being cheated in a land deal. The Bharatiya Janata Partys human rights cell has written to the NHRC chairman get the woman justice. We have requested the […] Read more » Bharatiya Janata Party Bharatiya Janata Partys human rights cell cheated in a land deal deputy commissioner P.C. Meena land deal National Human Rights Commission NHRC
Top Law News Child marriages : Government to hold national consultation April 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking a serious view of child marriages in the country, the government has decided to hold a national consultation on the issue with the states. A core group has been constituted by the women and child development ministry to organise the first national consultation this year to prevent child marriages, a ministry official said. “National […] Read more » child marriage child marriages marriage of Child National consultation social evils
Top Law News Graft case : Former Delhi judge awarded 3-year jail April 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court on Saturday awarded a 3-year jail term to a former judge in a 26-year-old graft case. Special CBI judge VK Maheshwari sentenced former judge Gulab Tulsiyani to undergo three years’ rigorous imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on him. Tulsiyani, while holding the post of […] Read more » Delhi court graft case judge Gulab Tulsiyani Special CBI judge VK Maheshwari special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court