Top Law News OBC’s 10 percent relief is on eligibility marks: Supreme court August 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Other Backward Classes (OBC) students will qualify for admissions if they have 10 percent less marks than the eligibility level fixed for the general category students, the Supreme Court has ruled. The apex court on Thursday clarified that 10 percent relaxation being given to OBC students did not mean it will be 10 percent less […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice R.V. Raveendran OBC eligibility marks Supreme Court
Top Law News Don’t pass burden on fellow judges: Supreme court August 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has expressed its ‘strong disapproval’ of the tendency of some judges to pass their burden to fellow judges or to subordinate courts when confronted with complicated issues. The court said that such an approach weakens our judicial system.‘Of late, we have come across several orders which would indicate that some of the […] Read more » Don't pass burden on fellow judges Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Supreme Court
Top Law News Court pulls up DDA over delay in allotting plots August 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for an over 30-year delay in allotting plots to around 25,000 applicants in a housing scheme. The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by applicants of north Delhi’s Rohini Residential Scheme, 1981. “It is pathetic to hear that some of the applicants […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra DDA delay in allotting plots Delhi High Court Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Top Law News Delhi lawyers support Hazare August 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Lawyers Tuesday organised a half-hour impromptu protest outside the Delhi High Court here against the detention of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare and his supporters, seeking implementation of a strong anti-corruption bill. “This is the black day of Indian democracy as the government has taken an unconstitutional step to scuttle the peaceful and democratic protest of […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption bill Arvind Kejriwal Delhi High Court Delhi lawyers Kiran Bedi
Top Law News Delhi High Court rejects plea seeking spot for peaceful protests August 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday refused to hear a public suit seeking to earmark a site in the national capital for holding peaceful protests, saying the plea was “dual” in nature. “There is a lot on confusion in you petition. The prayer has to be in consonance with your plaeding. One one hand you say […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Justice Sanjiv Khanna peaceful protests
Top Law News Ramdev to meet president August 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will meet President Pratibha Devisingh Patil Wednesday to submit a memorandum against the arrest of Gandhian activist Anna Hazare. Ramdev will meet the president at 11.45 a.m., said a statement from the guru.He will then go to Tihar Jail to meet Hazare, it added. Hazare was jailed here Tuesday ahead of […] Read more » Anna Hazare anti-corruption law President Pratibha Patil Swami Ramdev
Top Law News Elected person’s removal by no-trust motion legal: Apex court August 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Elected person’s removal by no-trust motion legal: Apex court An elected person can be removed by way of a no-confidence motion, which is a part of the democratic process, the Supreme Court has ruled. “Every democratic process is based upon the freedom to elect and the freedom to remove, in accordance with law,” said the apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Madhya Pradesh Bar Council MPBC no-trust motion
Top Law News 29-year wait for justice; Judge promises speedy verdicts August 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on 29-year wait for justice; Judge promises speedy verdicts “Justice delayed is Justice denied” – with this observation a Delhi court ruled to give back to two brothers their plot of land in Karol Bagh after a 29-year-long legal battle. The judge also owned up responsibility “on behalf of all my predecessors” for the inordinate delay in the case. The brothers, one of whom […] Read more » justice
Top Law News No stay on govt order for seizing Dawood’s kins’ properties August 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has refused to stay its single-judge bench order upholding the Centre s decision to forfeit the properties of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim s mother Amina Bi and his sister Hasina Ibrahim Parker Refusing to grant any interim stay on the government s order on a division bench of the high […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Dawood's kins' properties Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Sahai Justice Sanjiv Khanna
Top Law News Provision for parents’ concurrence to hike fee, illegal: HC August 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Provision for parents’ concurrence to hike fee, illegal: HC A provision in city government’s February 2009 notification, stipulating unaided private schools to hike their fees only with the concurrence of their Parents Teachers Association is illegal, Delhi High Court held on Saturday. While setting up a three-member panel yesterday to scrutinise the accounts of various unaided private schools, to determine the validity of the […] Read more » hike fee illegal Justice Siddharth Mridul Justices A K Sikri
Top Law News I-Day function must for Himachal court staff August 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court Saturday asked all its employees to attend the flag hoisting ceremony in the court premises on Independence Day Aug 15. ‘In case any employee is out of station, he’s also required to attend the flag hoisting ceremony in any court or government office, wherever he is at that time. But […] Read more » Chief Justice Kurian Joseph Himachal court staff I-Day function
Top Law News Dedicated cell in NHRC to deal with child labour August 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With an estimated 12.6 million child labourers in India, the National Human Rights Commission has set up a separate cell to give more focused attention to them. ‘The commission has set up a cell to monitor the progress in the bonded labour and child labour cases taken up with different public authorities. It was felt […] Read more » CHILD LABOUR NHRC