Top Law News Government reply sought on plea over bus corridor January 19, 2012 / January 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Delhi government to file its reply on a petition by autorickshaw drivers to allow three and four-wheelers to run on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in south Delhi. The petition was filed by Nyay Bhoomi, an organisation representing autorickshaw drivers, through its president Lt. Col. B.B. Sharan. The […] Read more » Bus Rapid Transit corridor Delhi High Court Justice A.K. Sikri Justice R.S. Endlaw
Top Law News Nursery admissions on course as court reserves order January 19, 2012 / January 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on the admission process for pre-school (nursery) classes in city schools which are scheduled to put up on February 1 the first list of selected toddlers for the 2012-13 academic session. Hearing a plea challenging the Delhi government’s guidelines on admissions to schools, the court reserved […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Nursery admissions
Top Law News Court tells Sterlite to seek licence from pollution board January 18, 2012 / January 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Sterlite Industries to apply afresh to the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board for the renewal of its licence to run its Tuticorin copper smelting plant. The plea would be decided after an inquiry by the board in accordance with pollution control laws, the court said. The apex court bench […] Read more » Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board
Top Law News Lawyers’ protest clogs central Bangalore January 18, 2012 / January 18, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hundreds of lawyers protesting police assault on one of their colleagues caused massive traffic jams in the heart of the city for over six hours Tuesday, leaving the city dwellers and commuters fuming. The protest that started around 12.30 p.m. at Mysore Bank circle, one of the busiest junctions in the IT city’s central business […] Read more » Association president K.N. Subba Reddy Lawyers' protest clogs central Bangalore Police Commissioner B.G. Jyothiprakash Mirji
Top Law News Rajasekhara Reddy’s widow withdraws plea from Supreme Court January 17, 2012 / January 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Late Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s widow Y.S. Vijaya Monday withdrew from the Supreme Court her petition imputing bias to the Andhra Pradesh High Court in an illegal assets’ case involving politicians. The apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice T.S. Thakur asked senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for Vijaya, […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh High Court Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice T.S. Thakur Rajasekhara Reddy's widow Y.S. Vijaya Supreme Court
Top Law News Court firm on punishing lawyer for assaulting woman colleague January 17, 2012 / January 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Monday refused to recall its order, sending a lawyer to seven days in judicial custody and restraining him from entering the court premises, for assaulting a female lawyer during an hearing. Ruling on the lawyer’s plea Monday urging the court to recall its order, the court held him guilty under criminal […] Read more » assaulting a female lawyer Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Top Law News Can’t control content, Google, Facebook tell court January 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Internet giants Google and Facebook told the court on Monday that it is not possible for to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that has stoked fears about censorship in the world’s largest democracy. Google and Facebook are among 21 companies that have been asked to develop a mechanism […] Read more » Can't control content on Google and Facebook tell court google and facebook Justice Suresh Kait no control of content on google and facebook
Top Law News Age row: Army chief VK Singh takes govt to court, Cong downplays move January 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In an unprecedented move, today moved the Supreme Court against the government’s rejection of his claim on his date of birth. In writ petition, he is believed to have questioned the government’s decision to treat his date of birth as May 10,1950 instead of May 10,1951 as claimed by him on the basis of his […] Read more » Army Chief Gen V K Singh Army Chief Gen V K Singh move to Supreme Court Home Minister P. Chidambaram
Top Law News Plea to make officials’ appraisal reports public January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The performance appraisal reports of government staffers, officially known as the Annual Confidential Report (ACR), may not be confidential anymore, with a petition before the Delhi High Court seeking to make them available under the RTI Act in “public interest”. The petitioner — RTI activist R.K. Jain — has raised the question whether performance […] Read more » ACR Annual Confidential Report Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shah RTI RTI Act.
Top Law News Convict denied fund money for daughter’s marriage January 15, 2012 / January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man serving a life term in Tihar Jail for the murder of a 10-year-old boy approached a Delhi court seeking permission to use his contribution to a victim’s welfare fund for his daughter’s marriage. The court declined, observing that the man was a habitual offender and the money was meant only for families of […] Read more » Special Judge V.K. Maheshwari Tihar Jail Tihar Jail authorities Victim Welfare Fund
Top Law News Circumstantial evidence should be conclusive: Supreme Court January 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman found murdered, her jewellery gone missing and her two neighbours arrested after their “confession” — what the Kerala Police built as an open-and-shut case was torn apart by the Supreme Court, which maintained that circumstantial evidence should leave absolutely no room for doubt. “In a case resting on circumstantial evidence, the prosecution […] Read more » Circumstantial evidence should be conclusive Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Tamil Nadu on film ban January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday slammed the Tamil Nadu government for banning the screening of film ‘Dam 999’, saying that “when the whole country has one constitution, your state can`t have a separate constitution”. A bench of Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly and Justice J.S. Khehar asked the state`s Additional Advocate General Guru Krishna Kumar how the […] Read more » film ‘Dam 999’ Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court