Top Law News Court questions medical college on students’ attendance June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued notice to Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC) for allegedly allowing students with barely 30 percent attendance to appear in final exams. The division bench of Justices S. Muralidhar and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, on its own initiative, took note of a media report on the issue and asked the […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Sahai Justices S. Muralidhar medical college students' attendance
Top Law News Court approves Hindu girl’s adoption by Christian couple June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Christian couple’s plea for adopting a two-year-old Hindu girl as their second child has got the nod from a Delhi court which concluded that they were financially sound enough to take care of a fourth family member. Associate professor in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Mandira Sarma and her husband Jesim Pais, an assistant professor […] Read more » Christian couple Hindu girl's adoption
Top Law News Apex court wants panel to examine Tamil Nadu school books June 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed an experts committee to be set up to look into the content of textbooks published by the Tamil Nadu government for schools. The apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said a committee of eight experts, to be headed by state chief secretary, will go […] Read more » apex court examine panel school books Tamil Nadu
Top Law News Madras High Court orders uniform school syllabus June 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major setback for Tamil Nadu’s AIADMK government, the Madras High Court Friday stayed an amendment to the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act that deferred the implementation of a uniform syllabus for school students. Disposing a batch of petitions, the court said the government can conduct detailed study of a common […] Read more » Madras High Court uniform school syllabus
Top Law News 115 mn kids exposed to hazardous work globally June 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Around 115 million of the world’s 215 million child labourers do hazardous work and there is an urgent need for action to halt this practice, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report launched in Geneva Friday. The report, ‘Children in hazardous work: what we know, what we need to do’ stated that every […] Read more » ILO International Labour Organization June 12 World Day Against Child Labour
Top Law News RTI query on assets of former CJI Balakrishnan June 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Right to Information (RTI) appeal was been filed Thursday seeking complete detail of assets and income of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Justice K.G. Balakrishnan during the period 2006-2011. RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal filed his appeal before Joint Secretary J.P. Meena who is appellate authority in the NHRC under the Right to […] Read more » CJI Balakrishnan RTI
Top Law News M.F. Husain dies exiled from his homeland June 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Maqbool Fida Husain, who was hailed as the Picasso of India but was forced to live in self-imposed exile from his homeland due to death threats from Hindu radicals, died in London Thursday. He was 95. Husain was ailing from age-related problems for some time and breathed his last in a London hospital after suffering […] Read more » exiled M.F. Husain
Top Law News Case against Digvijay for calling Ramdev ‘thug’ June 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bihar court Monday admitted a complaint seeking to register a case of sedition against Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh for calling yoga guru Baba Ramdev a “thug”. The chief judicial magistrate in Muzaffarpur, about 70 km from here, accepted the complaint filed by advocate Sudhir Ojha. Ohja sought to book Digvijay Singh for sedition, […] Read more » Digvijay Ramdev 'thug'
Top Law News Pillai, top cop get Supreme Court notice on Ramdev June 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and Delhi Police chief B.K. Gupta asking them what were the circumstances under which yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his supporters were forcibly evicted. A notice has also been issued to Delhi Chief Secretary P.K. Tripathi which has to be answered in […] Read more » Delhi Chief Secretary P.K. Tripathi Delhi Police chief B.K. Gupta Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatantar Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court moved on Ramdev’s eviction June 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was moved Sunday seeking direction to the central government to reveal details of the police action involving the detention of yoga guru Baba Ramdev and the eviction of his supporters from the Ramlila Ground here on the night of June 4-5 while they were protesting against graft. The matter will come up […] Read more » A. Raja DMK MP Kanimozhi Ramdev's eviction Supreme Court
Top Law News Court questions government on plea against Amod Kanth June 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday issued a notice to the central government on a plea to withdraw medals awarded to former Delhi Police officer Amod Kanth and one of his colleagues for their role in maintaining law and order during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the city. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra […] Read more » Amod Kanth Chief Justice Dipak Misra Government Justice Sanjeev Khanna plea
Top Law News Apex court declines plea against Delhi varsity semester system May 31, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a petition seeking a stay on a Delhi University notification introducing the semester system for under-graduate courses in various disciplines from the coming academic year. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad said: “We are not inclined to stay the notification.” Justice Singhvi […] Read more » apex court declines Delhi varsity semester system Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi