Top Law News ‘Legally literate’ Chandigarh students to help needy May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thanks to a novel initiative, legal nitty-gritty will be taught to students in government schools and colleges in Chandigarh so that they can help the poor and the needy get better access to justice. Student Legal Literacy Clubs in these institutions will be a unique platform for spreading legal literacy among people who have no […] Read more » 'Legally literate' Chandigarh National Service Scheme (NSS)
Top Law News Tribals on rail and road blockade in Goa May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nearly 10,000 tribals from Goa’s southern regions Wednesday laid siege to the National Highway 17 for nearly three hours and blocked a New Delhi bound Rajdhani Express passenger train, demanding that the state government honour constitutional rights conferred on tribals. The road and rail blockade was carried out at three places in South Goa district […] Read more » blockade Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Goa Tribals United Tribal Associations Alliance UTAA
Top Law News Low-intensity explosion outside Delhi High Court May 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A low-intensity bomb exploded on Wednesday outside the busy Delhi High Court triggering panic but no one was injured. The explosive, kept in a packet near a car belonging to a lawyer, went off at 1.15 p.m. causing panic, police said. The car caught fire after the explosion. Personnel of the Delhi Police’s Special Cell, […] Read more » Delhi High Court Low-intensity explosion
Top Law News Cradle in every village – to save the girl child May 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If someone casts her away, there will be others to cradle her. By October this year, cradles will be set up in 110 locations in 80 villages of Shrigonda sub-district in Maharashtra to enable new parents to ‘drop’ a female infant if she is unwanted – instead out snuffing out her life. The infant would […] Read more » Cradle in every village save the girl child
Top Law News Fair land takeover package will cut litigation: Apex court May 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday said there would be far less litigation relating to land takeover if governments paid reasonable compensation to landowners. The court said that landowners whose land was acquired had a ‘legitimate grievance’ that the government took away their land for peanuts ‘in the name of development’. ‘If the state takes steps for […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P.P. Malhotra apex court Fair land takeover Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi litigation
Top Law News Court paves way for fresh power tariff in Delhi May 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court on Monday gave the go-ahead to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to fix the power tariff for 2010-11, lifting curbs imposed on the process by the state government. Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna held the Delhi government and private electricity distribution companies responsible for delay in the […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court Delhi Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission DERC fresh power tariff Justice Sanjiv Khanna paves
Top Law News NCW says women molested in Bhatta-Parsaul, seeks CBI probe May 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Backing Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s claim that women were molested in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhatta-Parsaul village, the National Commission for Women (NCW) Saturday demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the matter. “Our team recently went to Bhatta-Parsaul village where they claimed to have seen the bones of human beings. We have prepared […] Read more » Bhatta-Parsaul CBI probe NCW Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Rahul Gandhi Yasmin Abrar
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Maharashtra’s training institutions May 20, 2011 / May 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has rejected the plea by a number of teachers training institutions in Maharashtra to recognise the admissions given to their students, saying that the institutes misrepresented facts about their recognition by the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE). The court directed these institutions to pay Rs.1 lakh each to their students as […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Panickar Radhakrishnan Maharashtra's training institutions National Council of Teacher Education NCTE Supreme Court
Top Law News No bail for Kanimozhi, Sharad Kumar May 20, 2011 / May 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV Managing Director Sharad Kumar were Friday headed to jail after a special Central Bureau of Investigation court rejected their bail pleas. The two were named co-conspirators in the 2G spectrum scam Read more » bail plea dismissed DMK leader T.R. Baalu DMK supremo M. Karunanidhi G. Aravindan Kanimozhi Rajathi Ammal Sharad Kumar
Top Law News Selling your vehicle? Get transfer documents right or face trouble May 20, 2011 / May 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Selling your secondhand two-wheeler or car, but not fulfilling the legal norms of transfer to the new owner could make you liable to pay for any accidents caused by the vehicle, the Delhi High Court has ruled. In its judgment early this week, the court made the original owner of the vehicle Mukesh Kumar equally […] Read more » Delhi High Court documents Justice Khetrapal MACT Motor Accidents Claims Tribunal selling transfer vehicle
Top Law News Jamia to continue with its minority status: High Court May 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Students wishing to take admission in Jamia Millia Islamia for this academic session face an uncertain future with the Delhi High Court Wednesday refusing to grant a stay on an amendment conferring it minority status. The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI) headed by Justice M.S.A. Siddiqui had recently granted ‘minority’ status to […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra High Court Jamia Millia Islamia Justice M.S.A. Siddiqui Justice Sanjiv Khanna minority status PIL public interest litigation
Top Law News Charges against Dinakaran modified, apex court told May 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday was told that the Judges Inquiry Committee (JIC) probing charges of corruption, land grabbing and misconduct against Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran has modified the charges in the notice of the motion moved in the Rajya Sabha seeking his impeachment and removal. Senior counsel U.U. Lalit, appearing for […] Read more »