Top Law News Courts can’t decide poll dates: Supreme Court January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere in the conduct of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, dismissing a petition seeking rescheduling of elections in the two states. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia said it was not for the court to decide on the election schedule. Petitioner C […] Read more » Central Board of Secondary Education Chief Justice SH Kapadia Supreme Court
Top Law News Three year jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict: Supreme Court January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over five years after Alistair Pereira, driving under the influence of alcohol, ran over 15 labourers sleeping on a Mumbai pavement killing seven of them, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Bombay High Court verdict awarding him a three-year jail sentence. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice J.S. Khehar cancelled […] Read more » jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict Justice J.S. Khehar Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
Top Law News Law panel to study need for more judges, court told January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Thursday told the Supreme Court that it would amend the terms of reference of the 19th Law Commission to include that it would conduct a scientific study and recommend if there was need to increase the number of lower courts in view of the huge backlog of cases. The court was also […] Read more » Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice T.S. Thakur Law panel to study need for more judges Supreme Court
Top Law News Filter content or face blackout, court warns Facebook, Google January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Like in China, Facebook and Google India’s websites can be blocked if they fail to come up with a mechanism to check and remove derogatory contents from their web pages, the Delhi High Court warned Thursday. “Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait said, after Facebook and Google India said that […] Read more » Delhi High Court Facebook and Google Justice Suresh Kait Senior advocate Siddharth Luthra
Top Law News Lawyers’ strike cripples Delhi district courts January 13, 2012 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Litigants suffered as district courts in the capital were paralysed Thursday by a day-long strike of lawyers who are demanding all property cases be transferred from the Delhi High Court to district courts. Judges held court as usual but in the absence of lawyers most cases were put off to other dates. The ongoing 2G […] Read more » Delhi High Court property cases Rajiv Khosla spokesperson of the district courts
Top Law News Facebook, Google move court; Delhi Police issued notice January 11, 2012 / January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to Delhi Police on a petition filed against summons issued by a trial court to 21 websites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and YouTube, for allegedly hosting obscene and derogatory content. Challenging a trial court order that issued summons to the websites, Facebook and Google had Wednesday approached the […] Read more » Delhi High Court facebook Google Justice Suresh Kait Yahoo YouTube
Top Law News Fresh Scheduled Tribes’ quota in Uttar Pradesh house suggested January 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday directed the Election Commission to consider a plea for reservation for the Scheduled Tribes in Uttar Pradesh assembly on the basis of the modified census data. The supreme court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice J. Chelameswar asked the commission to either take figures of the Scheduled Tribes’ (STs) population in […] Read more » Election Commission Justice Altamas Kabir Justice J. Chelameswar Supreme Court
Top Law News John Abraham hails ban on bull sport January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bollywood actor John Abraham, on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, Monday wrote to the Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, thanking her for the ministry`s decision to ban the use of bulls as performing animals. “I was very happy to learn from my friends in PETA that Jallikattu (a bull taming […] Read more » Bollywood actor John Abraham Madras High Court People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Top Law News No need to reveal design of Metro pillar: Supreme court January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order directing the Delhi Metro to disclose the design of an elevated corridor’s pillar that collapsed in south Delhi in July 2009, killing six labourers. The apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice J. Chelameswar stayed the high court order after Attorney General G.E. […] Read more » Delhi Metro plea Justice J. Chelameswar Justice P. Sathasivam Supreme Court
Top Law News Plea on Jamia Milia students union poll withdrawn January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former student of Jamia Milia Islamia Monday withdrew from the Delhi High Court a petition seeking quashing of a 2006 decision of the central university to ban elections to the students union. Ikrar Khan withdrew the petition as the court declined to hear it. He was one of the petitioners who had moved court […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jamia Milia Islamia Justice Rajeev Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Top Law News Supreme court upholds needy landlord’s right to evict tenant January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Supreme court upholds needy landlord’s right to evict tenant Upholding a needy landlord’s right to evict a tenant, the Supreme Court has set aside an Uttarakhand High Court order which said that “greater comparative hardship” would be caused to a tenant, as compared to his landlord, if a decree of eviction was passed against him. The apex bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Supreme Court Uttarakhand High Court
Top Law News Bribe case: CBI custody of excise official extended till Jan 10 January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of a central excise official and an alleged middleman were Saturday extended till Jan 10 by a special court here for allegedly demanding a bribe of Rs.60 lakh from mobile phone importers. The CBI Special Judge Talwant Singh extended the custody of central excise superintendent Lallan Ojha and […] Read more » Bribe case CBI special judge Talwant Singh Central Excise Commissioner A.K. Srivastava