Top Law News Court reserves order on MCD polls February 17, 2012 / February 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on petitions by a group of councillors seeking quashing of the state election commission’s decision to reserve seats for candidates of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections to be held in April. The councillors of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress moved […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul MCD polls
Top Law News Scope of penal provision on gay sex wide: Supreme Court February 17, 2012 / February 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Scope of penal provision on gay sex wide: Supreme Court The Supreme Court Thursday said the scope of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was wide and could not be limited to holding homosexuality or sex between the same sex as being against the order of nature and criminal. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya said that […] Read more » homosexuality Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Supreme Court
Top Law News Court orders police action on lawyer’s assault February 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Delhi government to ensure that a police complaint was lodged under appropriate provisions over an alleged assault on a lawyer in south Delhi the day before. Family members of Sanjeev R. Vashisht, 38, alleged that he was was beaten up badly Wednesday near Bhagat Singh College by goons […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw lawyer's assault
Top Law News Notice to government over re-appointment of Jamia Hamdard VC February 16, 2012 / February 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notices to the central government through the human resource development ministry, the University Grants Commission (UGC) against the continuation of G.N. Qazi as Jamia Hamdard vice-chancellor as he turned 65 in August last year. Justice Siddharth Mridul sought their response as well of the Jamia Hamdard Society, by May […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jamia Hamdard VC Justice Siddharth Mridul
Top Law News Homosexuality, lesbian relationships unnatural : Supreme Court February 16, 2012 / February 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday was told that homosexuality and lesbian relationship were unnatural and against the order of nature as provided under the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Senior counsel Amarendra Saran told the court during the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the Delhi High Court’s July 2, 2009 verdict […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya lesbian relationship Supreme Court
Top Law News Court rejects Jagan aide’s plea for laptop in jail February 16, 2012 / February 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh High Court Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by Vijay Sai Reddy, a jailed aide of YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, to allow him to use his laptop in prison. Vijay Sai Reddy, who is in jail in a case related to Jaganmohan’s alleged illegal assets, approached the high court after […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh High Court Indian Administrative Service officer B.P. Acharya Vijay Sai Reddy
Top Law News Supreme Court issues notice to CBI on Essar Teleholdings’ petition February 15, 2012 / February 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Cout Wednesday issued notices to the CBI, the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) and others on a petition of Essar Teleholdings Ltd and Loop Telecom Ltd, questioning the special CBI court’s jurisdiction to try them even though they have not been charged under the anti-corruption Act. A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi […] Read more » Essar Teleholdings' petition Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Supreme Court
Top Law News Plea on Supreme Court lawyers dismissed February 14, 2012 / February 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Plea on Supreme Court lawyers dismissed The Delhi High Court Monday dismissed a plea challenging the Supreme Court Rules of 1966 which allow only a select group of lawyers, known as advocates-on-record, to file petitions in the apex court. The rules prescribe the eligibility before an advocate could act as an advocate-on-record. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Supreme Court Supreme Court Rules of 1966
Top Law News Supreme Court questions government on Balakrishnan February 14, 2012 / February 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the government what action it has taken on the representation by NGO Common Cause alleging misconduct against National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairman Justice K.G. Balakrishnan. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.S. Kapadia asked Attorney General G. Vahanvati to inform the court whether any action has been […] Read more » Chief Justice S.S. Kapadia Justice K G Balakrishnan Supreme Court
Top Law News India ranks high in corruption-hit nations: Court February 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on India ranks high in corruption-hit nations: Court India ranks prominently high in the list of countries plagued by corruption, a Delhi court has said while handing down one year imprisonment to two convicts in a 24-year-old graft and forgery case. Observing that the anti-corruption measures in India were perceived by people to be ineffective, Central Bureau of Investigation Special JudgeV.K. Maheshwari said […] Read more » corruption-hit nations Prevention of Corruption Act Special JudgeV.K. Maheshwari Tihar Jail
Top Law News Calcutta High Court judge laments farmer suicides February 12, 2012 / February 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Calcutta High Court judge laments farmer suicides In the wake of rising number of farmer suicides in the country, a Calcutta High Court judge Saturday said India was not yet free and political justice was a misnomer and impossible to get. “Peasants who feed the entire country are taking away their lives because they are not getting even the minimum price they […] Read more » Calcutta High Court Justice K.J. Sengupta laments farmer suicides
Top Law News High court does not allow minor to live with boyfriend February 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday denied permission to a Class 9 girl to live with her boyfriend, a student of Class 12 of the school she was in, and handed over her custody to her parents. The girl from a private school in Paschim Vihar had moved the court seeking approval to remain with her […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Mukta Gupta minor to live with boyfriend