Top Law News Objectionable matter: Yahoo plea for staying case refused February 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday refused Yahoo India’s plea for staying a trial court’s proceedings against it for allegedly hosting objectionable content on its website and adjourned the case till Mar 1. The court was hearing Yahoo’s plea against the lower court’s order to prosecute the website for allegedly hosting objectionable content. Justice Suresh Kait […] Read more » Delhi High Court Facebook and Google Justice Suresh Kait
Top Law News Workers’ welfare boards’ accounts to be audited: Supreme Court February 9, 2012 / February 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that accounts of all state welfare boards set up for collecting cess and disbursal of funds under schemes meant for construction workers would be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). “All the state welfare boards shall be subjected to audit by the CAG within two months from today,” […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Construction Workers Welfare Cess Act 1996 Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News Falak case: Court wants guidelines for media February 9, 2012 / February 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to constitute a committee on a plea that sought guidelines to regulate media reporting and disclosure of details about children in cases like that of baby Falak. Falak, who is two years old, was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences here Jan 18 with severe […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Falak case Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Court notice to Delhi Police on cop’s front-rolls February 9, 2012 / February 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought an explanation from the Delhi Police commissioner and an officer after the latter allegedly made a constable do front-rolls within the Patiala House court complex as a punishment. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw took note of media reports and asked the […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Patiala House court
Top Law News Supreme Court clears decks for teachers’ recruitment in Assam February 8, 2012 / February 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday set aside an Assam High Court order thus paving the way for the recruitment of more than 82,000 elementary school teachers in the state. The Assam High Court, in its March 5, 2010 ruling, had imposed a ban on further recruitment of teachers in lower and upper primary schools. The High […] Read more » Assam High Court Justice Deepak Verma Right to Education Act Supreme Court
Top Law News Election Commission notifies ban on Exit Polls in five states February 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Election Commission has notified the period for ban on Exit poll from 0700 hrs on January 28 to 1730 hrs on March 3 as required under section 126 A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, both on electronic and print media about the ongoing elections to legislative assemblies in five states. Besides, […] Read more » Election Commission Representation of the People Act 1951 section 126 A
Top Law News Cop made to do frontrolls in court area, lawyers file complaint February 8, 2012 / February 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers at Patiala House courts here Tuesday were aghast when they saw a constable made to do frontrolls within the complex as punishment on the orders of his officer. On the lawyers’ complaint, a court directed the Delhi Police chief to take action against the officer. According to eye-witnesses, around 11 a.m. Tuesday Additional Deputy […] Read more » Advocate Mahender Singh Yadav District Judge H.S. Sharma Patiala House court
Top Law News Court reserves order on officials’ appraisal reports February 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday reserved its order on a plea that performance appraisal reports of government staffers, officially known as the Annual Confidential Report (ACR), should be available under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in “public interest”. The petitioner — RTI activist R.K. Jain — has raised the question whether performance appraisal reports […] Read more » Advocate Prashant Bhushan Delhi High Court Right to Information Act
Top Law News Cyber attack on website of petitioner against Facebook, others February 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The website of a petitioner and Islamic scholar who dragged Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others to court over allegedly objectionable content has been defaced and left with a message “Probably best not to piss the social networking sites off!” Petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi told that his website www.fatwaonline.in has been defaced for the past […] Read more » Cyber attack on website Delhi court facebook Google Yahoo
Top Law News Calcutta High Court stays compensation to hooch victims’ families February 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court Monday stayed the payment of compensation declared by the West Bengal government to the families of victims of last December’s hooch tragedy in South 24 Parganas. The division bench of Chief Justice J.N. Patel and Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti stayed the payment of compensation for eight weeks in a public interest litigation […] Read more » Calcutta High Court chief justice J.N. Patel December's hooch tragedy Justice Sambuddha Chakrabarti
Top Law News Objectionable content: Facebook, others get 15 days to file replies February 6, 2012 / February 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Admonishing internet firms like Google and Facebook, a Delhi court on Monday gave 15 days to 22 social networking sites to remove ‘objectionable’ contents from their websites. According to media reports, a judge presiding over the matter said that these sites did not deserve any more time. These firms have been asked to file a […] Read more » 22 social networking websites google and facebook Objectionable content
Top Law News Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on clinical trials February 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government on a plea seeking investigation into illegal and unethical clinical trials of drugs which are yet to be approved by the drug controller. An Apex Court bench headed by Justice R.M. Lodha issued notice on a plea by Madhya Pradesh-based ‘Swasthya Adhikar Manch’ that, in […] Read more » Justice R.M. Lodha Madhya Pradesh-based 'Swasthya Adhikar Manch' Supreme Court