Top Law News Congress terms Anna’s fast premature, insult to parliament December 12, 2011 / December 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Congress Sunday rejected Anna Hazare’s token fast for a strong anti-corruption Lokpal bill, terming it “preemptive” and “premature” and an “insult to parliament”. “I have no hesitation in saying that Anna is insulting parliament,” said Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi. “The Lokpal bill report has been submitted. There will be debate and decision will be […] Read more » anti-corruption Lokpal bill Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi Congress terms Anna's fast premature insult to parliament
Top Law News Form South Asian Human Rights Commission: Ganguly December 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court judge A.K. Ganguly has called a South Asian Human Rights Commission. Speaking here on Human Rights Day Saturday, he said that India had the “inescapable responsibility” to set up a Human Rights Convention for SAARC nations and therefore must take the lead. Delivering an address at at event organised by the O.P. Jindal […] Read more » Form South Asian Human Rights Commission judge A.K. Ganguly Supreme Court
Top Law News Lokpal: Anna Hazare to start day-long fast December 11, 2011 / December 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare will today start his day-long fast at Jantar Mantar against the Parliamentary Standing Committee report on Lokpal Bill. Hazare has reached at the Rajghat, memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, to pay tributes to the Father of the Nation. The 74-year-old social activist will go to Jantar Mantar where he will sit on […] Read more » Anna Hazare to start day-long fast Lokpal Bill Social activist Anna Hazare
Top Law News Look into nurses’ grievance, supreme court tells government December 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the central government to look into the nurses’ grievance that private hospitals were retaining their original professional certificates, thereby thwarting their chances of exploring better employment opportunities. A bench of Chief Justice S.H.Kapadia, Justice A.K.Patnaik and Justice Swatanter Kumar asked Additional Solicitor General Gourab Banerji to look into the matter […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News Court stays information panel’s order to RBI on RTI plea December 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday stayed an order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) directing the Reserve Bank of India to provide information regarding credit provided to industrialists by nationalized banks to a Right to Information (RTI) applicant. Justice Vipin Sanghi also issued notice to the RTI applicant, P.P. Kapoor, seeking his reply before the […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Vipin Sanghi RBI is exempted under section 8 (1) (a) Reserve Bank of India
Top Law News Why security for those who don’t deserve: Supreme Court December 9, 2011 / December 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Why security for those who don’t deserve: Supreme Court The Supreme Court on Friday expressed concern over the taxpayers’ money spent on providing security to people who don’t deserve it. An apex court bench headed by Justice GS Singhvi observed: “How much we are spending on the security of the people who don’t deserve it?” The court made the observation while hearing a petition […] Read more » Justice GS Singhvi Supreme Court Why security for those who don't deserve
Top Law News Court stays republishing of article against NDTV December 9, 2011 / December 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday restricted ‘The Sunday Guardian’, a weekly newspaper, from republishing or recirculating the allegedly ‘defamatory’ article against NDTV television channel published Dec 5, 2010. A bench of Justice Manmohan Singh directed M.J. Akbar, editor of ‘The Sunday Guardian’ and others against republishing or recirculating the article which was alleged to have […] Read more » 'The Sunday Guardian' Delhi High Court Justice Manmohan Singh NDTV television channel
Top Law News Gujarat officer facing land scam probe may get bail December 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday indicated that it may grant bail to Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service officer Pradip Sharma, currently in Bhuj jail for his alleged involvement in a land scam. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.P. Desai asked Sharma to give an undertaking that he would appear before the […] Read more » Gujarat officer facing land scam Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme court wants just relief to road accident victims December 9, 2011 / December 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday awarded a compensation of nearly Rs.11 lakh, including interest, to the parents of a man who died in a road accident in Tamil Nadu in 1999 and emphasised on giving just relief to victims of such incidents. Anbu alias Anbarasu died in an accident on Perunduri Road of Erode district in […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya relief to road accident victims Supreme Court
Top Law News Court stays information panel’s order on banks December 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order asking the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to give details of inspection reports of cooperative banks to a Right to Information (RTI) applicant. Justice Vipin Sanghi stayed the order against the rural development bank in view of a similar pending […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Vipin Sanghi National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
Top Law News Supreme Court Stays Goa Information Panel Order December 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday stayed all proceedings arising out of a notice by the Goa information commissioner asking the governor’s office to furnish all the reports it had sent to the president during the political turmoil in the state in 2007. The apex court bench headed by Justice Balveer Bhandari issued notice saying that some […] Read more » Bombay High Court Goa Information Panel Order Justice Balveer Bhandari Supreme Court
Top Law News TRS leader’s detention under NSA illegal: Court December 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Thursday ordered release of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader Cheruku Sudhakar, declaring his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) as illegal. Acting on petitions by his wife, TRS and Telangana Advocates Joint Action Committee (JAC), the court directed the government to immediately release Sudhakar on bail. The order […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh High Court Telangana Rashtra Samithi leader Cheruku Sudhakar TRS leader's detention under NSA illegal