Top Law News Court allows three medical colleges to admit more students September 30, 2011 / September 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Medical Council of India was Thursday directed by the Delhi High Court to grant an increase in the intake of students from 100 to 150 to three private medical colleges. The court justified its decision by saying that a developing country like India needed more doctors to improve the health facilities. Justice Kailash Gambhir […] Read more » admit more students Delhi High Court Justice Kailash Gambhir medical colleges Medical Council of India
Top Law News Court questions Kingfisher Airlines for sacking employee September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday sought a reply from Kingfisher Airlines for sacking an employee here on the basis of a police claim that he harboured his younger brother suspected to be involved in a murder in Uttar Pradesh. Read more » Kingfisher Airlines sacking employee
Top Law News Lawyers’ strike in Delhi district courts September 29, 2011 / January 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A daylong lawyers’ strike to protest a complaint lodged by a policeman, allegedly assaulted by bar association members of Rohini, Thursday affected work in all the six district courts in the capital. “We are observing a strike against the false FIR (First Information Report) filed by Vijay Vats, Station House Officer (Keshav Puram Police station), […] Read more » Lawyers' strike in Delhi district courts
Top Law News High court rap for top paramilitary medical officer September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has pulled up a top medical officer of the paramilitary forces for “misleading bureaucrats” of the home ministry to stay put in his job despite retiring in 2009. The court passed the strictures against R.S. Rathore, the additional director general (ADG) (medical). Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Suresh Kait asked the […] Read more » High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog Justice Suresh Kait paramilitary medical officer
Top Law News CBI shielding Chidambaram, petitioner tells Supreme court September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was Wednesday told that the probe into the 2G scam by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was ‘less than honest’ as it failed to examine the role of the then finance minister and present Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the fixing of spectrum price. The Centre for Public Interest Litigation […] Read more » Attorney General G. Vahanvati CBI CBI shielding Chidambaram Chidambaram counsel Prashant Bhushan CPIL Deputy Director P.G.S. Rao Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court
Top Law News Court notice to government on Delhi security September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court notice to government on Delhi security The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments after taking note of a petition seeking adequate security arrangements against terror attacks in the national capital Read more » Delhi High Court Delhi security
Top Law News Probe against Maran over, CBI tells Supreme court September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till tomorrow hearing on a petition by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy seeking a probe against Home Minister P Chidambaram for his role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The apex court asked for all documents pertaining to the then finance secretary Subba Rao to be submitted before […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation scam A. Raja CBI CBI Special Judge OP Saini Dayanidhi Maran justice AK Ganguly Justice GS Singhvi P. Chidambaram Senior counsel KK Venugopal Subramanian Swamy Supreme Court
Top Law News No political influence in commutation of death: Apex Court September 28, 2011 / September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday said it will decide on pleas for commuting death sentences to life imprisonment on the grounds of delay purely on the basis of law without being influenced by politics. “If there are 20 people sentenced to death, then … some must have the support of some group or other… some […] Read more » commutation of death Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya No political influence Supreme Court
Top Law News Court upholds Mamata Banerjee government’s Singur Act as valid September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a victory for Mamata Banerjee, Calcutta high court on Wednesday said that the Singur Land Rehabilitation Act is constitutional and valid. The act was introduced in June by her shortly after she became West Bengal chief minister. It allowed her government to cancel a 99-year-lease signed with Ratan Tata for nearly 1000 acres for […] Read more » Calcutta High Court Mamata Banerjee Singur Act valid Singur Land Rehabilitation Act
Top Law News Gujarat minister headed ‘crime syndicate’, Supreme Court told September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday told the Supreme Court that former Gujarat minister Amit Shah was the ‘commander of crime syndicate with some officials of state police as its foot soldiers’ who would eliminate crucial witnesses in the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Vivek Tankha CBI crime syndicate Justice Aftab Alam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai minister Amit Shah senior counsel Ram Jethmalani Supreme Court
Top Law News Lawyer complains of political, media reactions September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lawyer complains of political, media reactions Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) senior counsel in Supreme Court K.K. Venugopal Tuesday termed as “affront” the remarks of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha that his arguments on behalf of the probe agency, which included the defence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram, were “laughable”. Venugopal told the apex court bench of Justice G.S. […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi K.K. Venugopal P.J. Thomas
Top Law News N.D. Tiwari gets contempt of court notice September 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued a contempt notice to Congress leader N.D. Tiwari for defying its order asking him to give his blood sample in a paternity suit filed by a 32-year-old claiming to be his son. Justice Gita Mittal, referring to her Sep 23 judgment in which she had termed Tiwari’s refusal […] Read more » Justice Gita Mittal N.D. Tiwari The Delhi High Court Ujjwala Sharma