Top Law News Advocates told to uphold dignity of court May 10, 2011 / May 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said it was the responsibility of the judges, advocates and the court staff to maintain the integrity and sanctity of the judicial institutions. All the functionaries, be it advocates, judges and the rest of the (court) staff ought to act in accordance with morals and ethics, said the apex court bench […] Read more » Advocates dignity of court Uphold
Top Law News Apex court stays ‘strange, surprising’ Babri verdict May 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court stays ‘strange, surprising’ Babri verdict Calling it ‘a strange and surprising order’ as none of the parties had sought a partition, the Supreme Court Monday stayed last year’s Allahabad High Court verdict dividing the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmbhoomi disputed site into three parts. While Muslim groups welcomed the ruling, the BJP and RSS hoped that all legal impediments to a Ram temple […] Read more » Allahabad High Court apex court Babri verdict Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha strange surprising
Top Law News Lokpal should be independent, agree panel members May 8, 2011 / May 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lokpal should be independent, agree panel members Keen to finish drafting of the anti-graft Lokpal Bill by June-end, the government and civil society representatives Saturday identified areas of agreement on the proposed legislation and said the new authority should be independent and have a transparent process of appointment. The agreement on broad principles of legislation came almost a month after Gandhian Anna […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal Independent kapil sibal Lokpal panel members
Top Law News Hasan Ali’s judicial custody extended till Monday May 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Read more » extended Hasan Ali judicial custody
Top Law News Remand extended of Punjab BJP legislator May 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court here Saturday extended the remand of Punjab’s chief parliamentary secretary (CPS) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Raj Khurana and a former state employee till Monday. Khurana and Devinder Singh Bittu, who are accused in a Rs.1.5 crore graft case, were arrested by the CBI from the […] Read more » BJP legislator Central Bureau of Investigation Devinder Singh Bittu Punjab Raj Khurana remand Special Court Judge Ritu Tagore
Top Law News Goa court orders probe against NCP leader, bureaucrat May 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) national secretary Jitendra Deshprabhu and a top Goa mining department official are to be probed over allegations of illegal mining and abetment, respectively, a local court ordered Saturday. Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Pernem Vijayalaxmi Shivolkar directed Goa police to file a first information report (FIR) against Deshprabhu for operating an […] Read more »
Top Law News Kanimozhi active brain behind 2G scam: CBI tells court May 7, 2011 / May 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Challenging Kanimozhi’s bail plea in the special court, the CBI prosecutor Saturday said the DMK MP was the “active brain” associated with co-accused A. Raja in the second generation (2G) spectrum allotment issue. “It is totally false that she was not at all aware of the transfer of Rs.200 crore to Kalaignar TV, because she […] Read more »
Top Law News MPs can now spend up to Rs.10 lakh on physically disabled May 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MPs can now spend up to Rs.10 lakh from their Member of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) fund to assist physically disabled people, the ministry of statistics and programme implementation said Friday. The Indian government recently decided to increase the annual entitlement of MPLAD funds of MPs from Rs.2 crore to Rs.5 crore, the ministry […] Read more » Member of Parliament Local Area Development MPLAD MPs physically disabled spend
Top Law News Need better education facilities for girls: Balakrishnan May 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Need better education facilities for girls: Balakrishnan Emphasizing the importance of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson K.G. Balakrishnan on Thursday said there is a need for better education facilities for the girl child. Addressing the valedictory session of a three-day training programme of principals and education officers of Kendriya Vidyalya Sangathan on human rights, […] Read more » better education environment issues facilities girls K.G. Balakrishnan child rights manual scavenging Need Right to Education Act rights of elderly persons women's rights
Top Law News Swamy’s plea to be 2G prosecutor dismissed May 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A trial court Wednesday dismissed a petition of Janata Party leader Subramaniam Swamy seeking his appointment as the special public prosecutor in the 2G spectrum cases. ‘It is the prerogative of the central government to appoint special public prosecutor. The government has appointed U.U. Lalit as directed by the Supreme Court in its order April […] Read more » 2G prosecutor Swamy's
Top Law News Rehabilitate sex workers, Supreme Court tells states May 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked the states to comply with its earlier order on rehabilitating sex workers, failing which it will summon the chief secretaries of the errant states and seek an explanation. The apex court by its February 14 directions had asked the central and state governments to prepare schemes for giving technical and […] Read more » Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju Rehabilitate sex workers Supreme Court
Top Law News Court allows NRI accused of arson to go abroad May 4, 2011 / May 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An NRI, accused of committing arson, has been allowed to go to the US by the Gujarat High Court to keep alive his Green Card status. A division bench of Justice Ravi Tripathi and Justice P.P. Bhatt allowed the plea of Mahendra Kumar Patel. Patel moved the high court after the state filed a criminal […] Read more » Gujarat High Court Justice P.P. Bhatt Justice Ravi Tripathi