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 »
Top Law News Jharkhand top cop sentenced for assault on judge May 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A tribunal here Thursday sentenced Jharkhand’s Inspector General of Police Nirmala Chaudhary to 15 days of rigorous imprisonment for ordering her bodyguards to beat up a judge in 2008. The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) also slapped a fine of Rs.2,000 each on the eight policemen involved in the case. Chaudhary had allegedly misbehaved with CAT […] Read more » assault Central Administrative Tribunal Indian Police Service Jharkhand judge Nirmala Chaudhary sentenced Supreme Court
Top Law News High Court refuses to stay engineering exam results May 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to stay the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) results for the candidates, who appeared for it on two different occasions this month following paper leaks at several centres. A Division Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said, “At this stage we are not inclined to stay […] Read more » AIEEE All India Engineering Entrance Examination CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education Chief Justice Dipak Misra Delhi High Court engineering exam results High Court HRD Ministry refuses stay
Top Law News Gujarat bar council suspends lawyer for life May 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Gujarat bar council suspends lawyer for life Bar Council of Gujarat charged Ajitsinh Gohil with professional misconduct and also slapped a fine of Rs 50,000 on him; the lawyer had made allegations against judges . The Bar Council of Gujarat on Tuesday suspended Bar Association of Gandhinagar president Ajitsinh Gohil for life and fined him Rs 50,000 for professional misconduct. […] Read more » Gujarat bar council lawyer suspends
Top Law News Liberalisation hasn’t led to education for deprived sections: Apex court May 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said the notion that liberalization and free-market economy in India would generate wealth which the government would use for providing higher education to deprived sections of the society has turned out to be “false and a mirage”. “For the past two decades, this country has been in the throes of early […] Read more » apex court deprived sections education Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar Liberalisation Supreme Court