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
Top Law News Court relief for man who tape recorded proceedings January 8, 2012 / January 8, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside its earlier order of sending a businessman for mental check-up for recording court proceedings on his mini-tape recorder. The division bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice R.V. Easwar Friday said that till Jan 23, the next date of hearing, the order for mental check-up of Deepak Khosla […] Read more » Delhi High Court Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences Justice R.V. Easwar Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Top Law News Court fines Sheila Dikshit Rs.3,000 January 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday fined Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit Rs.3,000, for failing to file a reply in her defamation case against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijendra Gupta. Justice Kailash Gambhir imposed the fine even as Dikshit’s counsel sought adjournment of the case, saying he needed more time to file […] Read more » c.m of delhi slapped Rs. 3000 by delhi court Court fines Sheila Dikshit Rs.3 Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission DERC Justice Kailash Gambhir
Top Law News Agra lawyers to step up stir for high court bench January 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers in the five districts of Agra division have decided to intensify their agitation for an Allahabad High Court bench in this city. And this will include a siege to the Taj Mahal. Agra shutdown will be observed Jan 16, followed by a ‘gherao’ of the Taj Jan 21. Lawyers in Mathura, Firozabad, Aligarh, Hathras, […] Read more » advocate Rajvir Singh Allahabad High Court Allahabad High Court bench high court bench in Agra
Top Law News Lawyers’ protest stays new petition format in Jharkhand January 6, 2012 / January 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jharkhand High Court Friday kept in abeyance a new format for petitions after lawyers protested. The format issued by the court Thursday sought petitioners’ caste, religion, sex, telephone number, e-mail id and other details. The lawyers had lodged their protest terming it impractical. “The notice issued Jan 4 in relation to computerised presentation form […] Read more » Jharkhand High Court Subodh Dubey