Top Law News Chhattisgarh gets notice for botched eye operations January 25, 2012 / January 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh High Court Tuesday issued notice to the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on botched eye operations in September that left several aged persons blinded in one eye. The high court, which is based at Bilaspur town, some 100 km from Raipur, issued the notice as it took up a public interest litigation […] Read more » Bharatiya Janata Party botched eye operations Chhattisgarh High Court
Top Law News ‘Nod needed for hearing Essar, Loop plea’ January 25, 2012 / January 25, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked Essar Teleholdings, Loop Telecom and the CBI to seek a clarification from the Supreme Court on the companies’ plea to delink their cases from the other co-accused in the 2G trial. The companies say their case should not be heard by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court […] Read more » 2G case Delhi High Court Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice V.K. Jain Loop Telecom and the Essar Group Supreme Court
Top Law News Court rejects plastic bag makers’ plea January 24, 2012 / January 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday refused to stay the state government’s draft notification aimed at putting a blanket ban on the manufacture, sale and use of plastic bags in Delhi. The bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw rejected the plea of the All India Plastic Industries Association, terming it premature. […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Court rejects plastic bag makers' plea Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Paying minimum wages in rural job scheme: Supreme Court January 24, 2012 / January 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday reminded the central government that the Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was a socially beneficial legislation and the government could not be seen as being reluctant in releasing funds for the scheme. “It’s (MGNREGA) a piece of beneficial legislation. You should give it yourself instead of being seen […] Read more » Justice Cyriac Joesph Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Karnataka High Court Mahatama Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Supreme Court
Top Law News Illegal mining: Court allows probe of Krishna, Kumaraswamy’s role January 21, 2012 / January 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a jolt to External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and a major embarrassment to the Congress, the Karnataka High Court Friday allowed probe into charges that he had illegally de-reserved large forest areas for mining when he was chief minister during 1999-2004. Also facing embarrassment is former prime minister and Janata Dal-Secular president H.D. Deve […] Read more » External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna illegal mining Judge N K Sudhindra Rao Justice N. Ananda Karnataka High Court
Top Law News Delhi lawyers strike work against bills January 21, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi lawyers Friday observed a day-long strike as part of the Bar Council of India’s nationwide protest against two bills, including one which they claim will take away the powers of the council to hear complaints against lawyers, said the Delhi Bar Association. The strike paralysed legal proceedings at all six district court complexes. Around […] Read more » Delhi Bar Association Delhi lawyers Higher Education and Research Bill 2011 Legal Practitioners Bill 2010
Top Law News Law panel study on backlog of cases sought January 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Law panel study on backlog of cases sought The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it will ask the Law Commission to undertake a study on the additional courts and judges needed in lower judiciary to tackle piled up cases. The government assured the court that it will “request the Law Commission to consider and convey to the government … its recommendations […] Read more » Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice T.S. Thakur Law panel study on backlog of cases Supreme Court
Top Law News Expel three Christian priests: Kashmir Sharia court January 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Sharia court Thursday issued a decree seeking expulsion of three Christian priests from Jammu and Kashmir and monitoring of the activities of Christian missionary schools in the Valley. Maintaining that the decree of the Sharia (Muslim Personal Law) court was not against the Christians in any manner, Kashmir’s grand mufti Bashir-ud-Din told a media […] Read more » Christian missionary schools Jammu and Kashmir Kashmir Sharia court three Christian priests
Top Law News Court puts off hearing on Google, Facebook pleas January 20, 2012 / January 20, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday adjourned the hearing on petitions of Google India and Facebook India challenging a trial court’s order to prosecute them for allegedly hosting objectionable content. “The matter is likely to be taken up Feb 2 or Feb 3,” said Justice Suresh Kait. Google India and Facebook India earlier told the high […] Read more » Delhi High Court facebook Google Justice Suresh Kait Metropolitan Magistrate Sudesh Kumar
Top Law News Supreme Court stays bar association resolution on membership January 19, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday stayed a resolution of its bar association that sought to overcome an apex court verdict restricting its membership to control bogus voting in its election. An apex court bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir stayed the resolution till Friday when it will take up the matter for hearing. The resolution, passed […] Read more » bar association resolution on membership Justice Altamas Kabir Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi’s lower court lawyers to strike work Jan 20 January 19, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers in all districts courts have decided to abstain from work on January 20 to enforce a nationwide protest against the Centre’s proposal to establish an ombudsman consisting of judges to hear complaints against lawyers. The Co-Ordination Committee of all bar associations of Delhi district courts said in a statement that the Bar Council of […] Read more » Bar Council of India Co-Ordination Committee Delhi district courts
Top Law News In intercaste marriage, facts decide offspring’s status: Supreme Court January 19, 2012 / January 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday said that the determination of caste of a person born of a marriage between a tribal and a non-tribal cannot be determined in complete disregard of attending facts of the case. In such a marriage, there may be a presumption that the child has the caste of the father. This presumption […] Read more » intercaste marriage Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Supreme Court