Top Law News Supreme Court stops all mining work in Bellary July 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday ordered the suspension of all mining operations in Karnataka’s Bellary region. “Mining (is) suspended with immediate effect till further orders,” said a bench headed by Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia and including Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Aftab Alam. “The greed of a few is making everyone suffer,” the bench […] Read more » Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa illegal mining in Karnataka Justice Aftab Alam Justice Swatanter Kumar Karnataka Lokayukta N. Santosh Hedge mining in Karnataka's Bellary region suspension of all mining operations in Karnataka
Top Law News Weak law, tracking system hampers missing kids’ recovery July 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There is a huge discrepancy in the number of missing children in the country as sourced from police records and that obtained through RTI applications, an NGO said Friday, adding that it was among the many challenges in their recovery. “According to the Zonal Integrated Police Network, the number of missing children from 10 districts […] Read more » Amod Kanth DCPCR Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act tracking system hampers missing kids' recovery Weak law
Top Law News RTI complaint hearings through video conferencing July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on RTI complaint hearings through video conferencing The Bihar State Information Commission (SIC) Thursday launched a video conferencing system for quicker hearing and disposal of complaints related to the Right To Information (RTI) Act, officials said. State Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) A.K. Choudhary said the SIC will help dispose complaints against principal information officers for denying information under the RTI Act to […] Read more » Chief Minister Nitish Kumar hearings through video conferencing RIGHT TO INFORMATION RTI complaint State Information Commission
Top Law News Bring PM under Lokpal, says BJP July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bharatiya Janata Party Thursday supported bringing the prime minister under the purview of Lokpal, expressing dissatisfaction on the draft anti-corruption bill not mentioning the issue. ‘The BJP does not appreciate the complete omission of prime minister from the draft Lokpal bill, the prime minister should come under Lokpal,’ party general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad […] Read more » anti-corruption bill Bring PM under Lokpal Lokpal party general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad
Top Law News Make Right to water, sanitation a law: UN chief July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all member states to integrate the right to water and sanitation into their body of laws, on Thursday. Ban’s statement came as he addressed the UN General Assembly during a plenary meeting on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation. ‘Many of your governments have already included the […] Read more » right to water and sanitation UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Top Law News Court directs railways to rehabilitate scavengers July 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today directed the Indian Railways to introduce bio-toilets in the trains and rehabilitate thousands of scavengers engaged for doing the menial job. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjive Khanna, who were hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Safai Karamchari Andolan, a federation of state-level organisations […] Read more » Bio-Toilets Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Indian Railways Justice Sanjive Khanna
Top Law News Income-Tax officials quiz Raja in court custody July 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Income-Tax (I-T) department Wednesday interrogated former communications minister Andimuthu Raja, who is currently in judicial custody for alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum allocation case, an official said. The I-T team reached the Patiala House Court premises here around 2 p.m. and questioned the DMK leader. “We are quizzing him regarding his family income,” […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation case court custody Income-Tax (I-T) department Income-Tax officials quiz Raja Shahid Usman Balwa Vinod Goenka
Top Law News Derogatory word to be removed from caste certificates July 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi government Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it will withdraw the word “chura” from certificates issued to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna was hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) stating that the revenue department of the Delhi government used the […] Read more » caste certificates Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court Derogatory word Derogatory word to be removed Justice Sanjiv Khanna PIL public interest litigation Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes
Top Law News Supreme court bench recuses itself from plea against OBC quota July 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Patnaik, constituting a Supreme Court bench, Wednesday recused themselves from hearing a petition challenging clause procedures being followed by Delhi University and the Jawaharlal Nehru University for admitting students against the quota for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs). The bench recused itself from hearing the matter after senior counsel […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Delhi University Jawaharlal Nehru University Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice R.V. Raveendran OBC quota OBCs. Other Backward Classes Supreme Court
Top Law News Canal water allocation not in judicial domain: Supreme Court July 26, 2011 / July 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said the decision on releasing water from rivers’ canals is in the domain of the government and the judiciary has no role to play in it. The court have the ruling while dismissing an application filed by an organisation from Gujarat’s Kutch region, which sought more water for canals in the […] Read more » Canal water allocation Gujarat High Court judicial domain Justice C.K. Prasad Justice Markandey Katju Kachchh Jal Sankat Nivaran Samiti Narmada canal to Kutch SupremeCourt
Top Law News Deemed universities: Supreme court denies government more time July 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday declined the central government’s plea for more time to complete the scrutiny of responses from 44 deemed universities threatened with the prospect of de-recognition. However, the court allowed the plea by the human resource development ministry to continue with the services of the Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (since superannuated) S.K. […] Read more » Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor (since superannuated) S.K. Ray deemed universities deemed universities threatened of de-recognition. Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma
Top Law News Can Rs.10 or Rs.20 buy enough food, asks Supreme court July 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the Planning Commission if Rs.10 in rural areas and Rs.20 in urban areas was enough to buy eatables to get 2,400 calories per head per day. The poser came from judges Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma when it was told that the Planning Commission considered that people getting Rs.10 […] Read more » Justice Dalveer Bhandari Justice Deepak Verma Justice Wadhwa committee on revamping the PDS Planning Commission Rs.10 or Rs.20 is enough to buy food Supreme Court