Top Law News Supreme Court notice to government on plea against Cairn-Vedanta deal April 24, 2012 / April 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought the Centre’s response to a plea challenging the validity of the $ 8.5 billion Cairn-Vedanta deal and seeking a CBI probe into the reasons for ONGC and government in “not asserting” their legal rights on the issue. A bench of justices D K Jain and Anil R Dave issued notice […] Read more » Cairn-Vedanta deal Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Justice Anil R. Dave Justice C.K. Prasad Justice D.K. Jain Justice H.L. Dattu ONGC Supreme Court
Top Law News Supplementary charges filed in Andhra township case April 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday filed an additional set of formal charges in the Emaar-APIIC township case in a court here. Businessman Sunil Reddy, said to be an aide of YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, and Emaar MGF finance head (south) G.V. Vijaya Raghav have been named in the 90-page charge […] Read more » CBI Special court Emaar MGF finance head (south) G.V. Vijaya Raghav Emaar-APIIC township case IAS officer B.P. Acharya YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Top Law News Supreme Court dismisses plea against Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh April 23, 2012 / April 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition challenging the appointment of Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh as the next chief of army staff. Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh will succeed General V.K. Singh as the army chief when the latter demits office on May 31, 2012. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice H.L. […] Read more » General V.K. Singh Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice R.M. Lodha Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh Supreme Court
Top Law News Anti-Kudankulam protestors to fast from May 1 onwards April 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upset with the Tamil Nadu government for going back on its assurances, the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) Monday announced that it would resume an indefinite hunger strike from May 1 against the two 1,000 MW plants at Kudankulam. “We have decided to go on hunger protest once again from May 1 onwards as […] Read more » Anti-Kudankulam protestors Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) People's Movement Against Nuclear Energy
Top Law News Court decision April 27 on Bangaru Laxman graft case April 23, 2012 / April 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court will April 27 deliver its judgment in a 10-year-old graft case against former Bharatiya Janata Party president Bangaru Laxman for allegedly accepting a bribe from a fake arms dealer. Additional Sessions Judge Kanwaljeet Arora had April 2 reserved his order in the case. The case dates back to 2001, when Tehelka.com carried […] Read more » Bangaru Laxman graft case Delhi court Judge Kanwaljeet Arora
Top Law News Poor suffer the most due to delayed justice: Ansari April 22, 2012 / April 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Poor suffer the most due to delayed justice: Ansari Criticising the delay in delivering justice, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari Saturday said the poor people suffered the most due to delayed justice. “It is usually the individual citizen and the poor and marginalised among them, who bear the burnt of inadequate or non-existent Alternate Dispute Resolution mechanisms and extended judicial processes,” said Ansari while […] Read more » Calcutta High Court delayed justice Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari
Top Law News Court order on plea against army chief April 26 April 22, 2012 / April 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Saturday reserved for April 26 its order on a defamation case filed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Tejinder Singh against army chief Gen VK Singh, who has accused him of bribery. Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur listed the matter for order on the summoning of Army Chief and others after Tejinder Singh’s counsel said […] Read more » chief Gen VK Singh defamation case Delhi court Lt. Gen. (retd) Tejinder Singh Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar
Top Law News Punjab bans use of cancer causing pesticides in Malwa April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Punjab has banned the manufacture, import and use of pesticides causing cancer in Malwa region of the state, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) said Friday. The decision was taken based on directions by NHRC, which took suo motu cognizance of a media report, alleging that the disease of cancer among farmers in the Malwa region […] Read more » Department of Health and Family Welfare Department of Health and Family Welfare Malwa region National Human Rights Commission suo motu cognizance suo motu cognizance
Top Law News Court bans devotees’ entry to Kalighat ‘garbha griha’ April 21, 2012 / April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court on Friday banned the entry of devotees to the ‘Garbha Griha’ (sanctum sanctorum) of Kalighat’s Kali Temple, saying the large number of visits was defacing the shrine. A division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti, however, allowed any two priests on a day to enter the ‘Garbha […] Read more » Calcutta High Court chief justice J.N. Patel Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti Kalighat's Kali Temple
Top Law News Fill vacant seats for poor students in summer vacations: Court April 21, 2012 / April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday directed the state government’s education department to complete admission process for vacant seats for students from the economically weaker section (EWS) during the summer vacations to enable them to attend school after reopening in July 2012. The court’s order came after the government’s status report informed the court that around […] Read more » Chief Justice AK Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw RTE (Right to Education) Act 2009
Top Law News Kerala High Court orders probe into fake stamp papers April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed the use […] Read more » fake stamp papers Judge B Sudheendra Kumar Kerala High Court
Top Law News Court restrains airing of CD ‘featuring’ Singhvi April 20, 2012 / April 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Thursday granted a permanent injunction against publishing or distributing the contents of a CD allegedly depicting Congress spokesperson and senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi in a compromising position. The court’s direction came after Mukesh Kumar Lal, Singhvi’s former driver who allegedly prepared the CD, informed the court in a written […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Reva Khetrapal senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi