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
Top Law News Court asks police to book Vidya Balan for obscenity December 8, 2011 / December 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Controversies continue to dog `The Dirty Picture` with a city court directing police to book actress Vidya Balan for posing for indecent photographs on the film posters and promos. Nampally criminal courts ordered the Nallakunta police station in the city to book a criminal case against the Bollywood star. The court passed the orders on […] Read more » actress Vidya Balan Andhra Pradesh High Court Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act 1986 The Dirty Picture
Top Law News Court reserves order on plea against Hockey India ‘threats’ December 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday reserved its order on a plea alleging that Hockey India (HI) was threatening players to prevent them from taking part in the World Series Hockey (WSH) tournament. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw reserved its order after conclusion of arguments by […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court Indian Hockey Federation Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Top Law News Sharad Pawar protects the corrupt: Anna Hazare December 7, 2011 / December 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Not long after his controversial, tongue-in-cheek remark over the slapping incident involving Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare has once again taken Pawar head-on in his latest blog posting on Tuesday. In a strongly-worded post, Hazare signalled that after the Jan Lokpal movement, he would launch a movement to compel the state […] Read more » Anna Hazare Justice PB Sawant Commision Sharad Pawar protects the corrupt
Top Law News Jindal gets Justice Bhagwati Award December 7, 2011 / December 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Tuesday presented the Justice P.N. Bhagwati Award to O.P. Jindal Global University chancellor Naveen Jindal for his “outstanding contribution” to legal education and corporate philanthropy. Instituted by the Capital Foundation, the award was given away at a function here at which Supreme Court Judge Altamas Kabir was also present. Jindal, […] Read more » Justice P.N. Bhagwati Award Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Award O.P. Jindal Global University chancellor Naveen Jindal Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir