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
Top Law News Trial court to decide on Chidambaram’s role in afternoon February 4, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court on Saturday deferred till 12:30pm the pronouncement of its order on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s plea to prosecute home minister P Chidambaram in the 2G case. At 10am, Special CBI Judge allowed only Swamy to enter inside the court room and conveyed to him asked him to come before 12:30pm. “I […] Read more » Chidambaram's role in 2G spectrum Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi trial court
Top Law News Barred from Shivaji Park, MNS threatens street rally February 3, 2012 / February 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Barred from Shivaji Park, MNS threatens street rally The Bombay High Court Friday rejected the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNS) petition for permission to hold a poll rally at Shivaji Park. Terming the move as “partisan”, MNS chief Raj Thackeray said his party would hold the rally on Mumbai streets. The court rejected the petition to hold the rally Feb 13 on the grounds […] Read more » Bombay High Court MNS chief Raj Thackeray Nationalist Congress Party
Top Law News Delhi poll panel gets notice on MCD elections February 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday sought the state election commission’s response to a plea that has challenged the earmarking of seats as reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) in the April 2012 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). A bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher Friday issued a notice […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul MCD elections
Top Law News Nurses’ strike: Court orders police protection for hospital February 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed police to provide protection to a private hospital which recruited 100 new nurses after failure of talks over the last three days to end a strike by the staff seeking better wages. Nurses at the Lakeshore hospital here are on a strike seeking better working conditions, forcing the management […] Read more » Kerala High Court Lakeshore hospital United Nurses Association