Top Law News ‘Dam 999’ director moves Supreme Court against ban December 1, 2011 / December 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The director of the film ‘Dam 999’, which has been banned in Tamil Nadu for supposedly taking a pro-Kerala stand in the Mullaperiyar dam row, Wednesday said he had filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the move. The film has been made with a `global view` as dams have collapsed in Brazil, China […] Read more » ‘Dam 999’ director Sohan Roy Mullaperiyar dam row pro-Kerala stand Supreme Court
Top Law News Court questions government on hockey coach’s plea December 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central government and Hockey India (HI) after taking note of a hockey coach’s plea alleging that the latter was threatening players to prevent them from taking part in the World Series Hockey (WSH) tournament starting next month. The tournament, a joint initiative of the Indian Hockey […] Read more » Chief Justice A.K. Sikri Delhi High Court International Hockey Federation Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw
Top Law News Kashmir rights panel defunct for over a month now November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The functioning of Jammu and Kashmir’s State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) remained suspended for more than a month Tuesday as the government is yet to nominate its new chief after its previous chairperson’s term expired last month, panel sources said Tuesday. ‘Both the judicial and the administrative functioning of the commission have remained suspended for […] Read more » Gulzar Singh Slathia Jammu and Kashmir's State Human Rights Commission Justice (retd) Syed Bashir-ud-Din
Top Law News Can’t stigmatise judiciary, Supreme Court warns CBI November 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “One can’t stigmatise the judiciary,” the Supreme Court Tuesday said, slamming the CBI for casting aspersions on the subordinate judiciary in Gujarat while seeking the transfer of the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing’s trial outside the state. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.P. Desai pulled up the Central Bureau of […] Read more » 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh killing’s Can’t stigmatise judiciary CBI Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Supreme Court
Top Law News Woman IAS officer sent to judicial custody November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court Tuesday remanded Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi to judicial custody till Dec 12 in an illegal mining case involving former Karnataka minister G. Janardhana Reddy’s Obulapuram Mining Co (OMC). The court sent her to CBI custody for three days. The judge directed the CBI to produce her again before the […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh IAS officer Y. Srilakshmi special CBI court Woman IAS officer sent to judicial custody
Top Law News Fighting traditions and laws, tribal women seek property rights November 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It’s 8 in the morning and a group of women is ready to trudge miles of rugged, cold and inhospitable Himalayan terrain to spearhead a campaign — educating tribal women of Kinnaur about their rights to inherit ancestral property. With traditional folk songs on their lips, the members of the Mahila Kalyan Parishad, a women’s […] Read more » Fighting traditions and laws Mahila Kalyan Parishad tribal women seek property rights
Top Law News Three NE states could get own High Courts soon November 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tripura, Manipur and Meghalaya could soon get their own High Courts that would help in quicker disposal of cases, save litigants time and money, and fulfil a long-standing demand of these states. All the eight northeastern states, excluding Sikkim, come under the jurisdiction of the Gauhati High Court situated in Assam. It has benches in […] Read more » Gauhati High Court Three NE states could get own High Courts soon Tripura Manipur and Meghalaya
Top Law News Child rights panel slams facilities in Bengal hospital November 27, 2011 / November 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Slamming lack of infrastructure at West Bengal’s Malda district hospital where a series of crib deaths occurred in October and November this year, India’s supreme child rights panel Saturday said the hospital does not have requisite facilities to treat newborns. According to a release here Saturday, a five-member team, led by National Commission for Protection of […] Read more » Child rights panel slams facilities in Bengal hospital India's supreme child rights panel National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Top Law News Judiciary must exercise restraint: Kapadia November 26, 2011 / November 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judiciary must exercise restraint: Kapadia Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia Saturday urged the judiciary to exercise restraint and resist the temptation of encroaching upon the domains of the government and Parliament lest it jeopardises the entire system. “The judiciary needs to work in the area demarcated by the constitution,” said Chief Justice Kapadia at a function here to mark […] Read more » Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia Judiciary must exercise restraint National Law Day
Top Law News Agnivesh demands judicial probe into Kishenji killing November 26, 2011 / November 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Agnivesh demands judicial probe into Kishenji killing Social worker Swami Agnivesh on Saturday demanded judicial probe into the killing of top Maoist leader Kishenji in a gun battle in Junglemahal area of West Bengal. “We demand judicial probe in killing of Kishenji… He was killed in encounter is claimed by the police, and on the other hand other people are terming it […] Read more »
Top Law News Ramdev himself responsible for crackdown: Delhi Police November 26, 2011 / November 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police Friday sought to lay the blame for its post-midnight crackdown of June 4/5 at the Ramlila ground at the doorstep of yoga guru Ramdev, when it told the Supreme Court that he was responsible for creating a situation that forced the police action. Detailing the circumstances and the sequence of events to […] Read more » Delhi Police Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Ramdev himself responsible for crackdown
Top Law News 14 days judicial custody for Pawar attacker November 25, 2011 / November 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Harvinder Singh, who slapped union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, was Friday sent to 14 days judicial custody by a Patiala House court. Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur passed the order saying Singh be kept in judicial custory till Dec 9. Outraged by the assault on their party chief, workers of Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) attempted […] Read more » 14 days judicial custody for Pawar attacker Harvinder Singh Metropolitan Magistrate Jasjeet Kaur Patiala House court