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
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