Top Law News Cancel licences of units employing child labourers: Court April 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday issued orders to cancel the licences of factories employing child labourers, an NGO here said in a statement. “Honorable Chief Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna passed an order to cancel factory license of the units where such child labourers were found working,” said Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), a […] Read more » Bachpan Bachao Andolan BBA Cancel Chief Justice Deepak Mishra child labourers Delhi High Court employing Justice Sanjeev Khanna licences
Top Law News Helpline in Delhi soon against child labour April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a bid to tackle child labour and handle complaints from workers, a toll free helpline would soon be launched by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, a state government official said Tuesday. The helpline number 12789 will be functional between 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., added the official. “It is being commissioned with an aim […] Read more » CHILD LABOUR Delhi Helpline Labour Minister Ramakant Goswami
Top Law News Former Gujarat top cop Sreekumar seeks security for Sanjiv Bhatt April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Gujarat additional director general of police R.B. Sreekumar has urged the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team to provide security to senior police officer Sanjiv Bhatt, who has filed an affidavit implicating Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots. In a letter addressed to SIT chief R.K. Raghavan, with copies to the registrar general […] Read more » Former Gujarat top cop R.B. Sreekumar Sanjiv Bhatt security seeks SIT chief R.K. Raghavan Supreme Court
Top Law News No airport development fee for Delhi, Mumbai: SC April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Passengers travelling out of Delhi and Mumbai airports would no longer have to pay Airport Development Fee (ADF) with the Supreme Court on Tuesday quashing the levy which has yielded about Rupees 2,500 crore in two years. Hearing an appeal against the Delhi High Court’s order which had upheld levying of ADF, a bench set […] Read more » AAI AERA Airport Development Fee Airports Authority of India Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India Delhi Delhi International Airport Ltd DIAL MIAL Mumbai Mumbai International Airport Ltd SC
Top Law News People should speak up against corruption: Ex-chief justice Verma April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on People should speak up against corruption: Ex-chief justice Verma People should speak up against corruption as every individual had a role to play in the fight against the malaise, former chief justice of India J.S. Verma said Monday. Presiding over a function to release a book titled ‘The Tangy Taste of Indian Politics and Beyond’ here, Verma said that corruption in high places needs […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Central Vigilance Commission corruption ex-chief justice J.S. Verma speak
Top Law News High-level committee to trail money laundering April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Monday told the Supreme Court that it has set up a multi-disciplinary committee, comprising top officials of different departments, to oversee and coordinate investigations into cases of money laundering and stashing black money in tax havens. An apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar was told that […] Read more » committee Gopal Subramanium Hasan Ali Khan High-level Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar money laundering Solicitor General Supreme Court trail
Top Law News Appointment of special police officers questioned April 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the central and the Chhattisgarh governments for taking recourse to an antiquated police act of 1861 to appoint special police officers (SPOs) and arming them with weapons in the trouble-torn areas of Chhattisgarh. “What is the rationale of appointing people under the 1861 act after the advent of the […] Read more » Appointment Chief Minister Raman Singh Gopal Subramanium Harish Salve Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar police officers questioned Solicitor General special Supreme Court
Top Law News Five more named co-accused in 2G phone spectrum case April 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday named five more people, including Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi, co-accused in the case involving the award of second generation (2G) phone spectrum. The supplementary chargesheet, the second thus far, filed by the premier probe agency in a special court here also names as co-accused […] Read more » 2G A. Raja Balwa co-accused Dayalu Ammal Five Gautam Doshi Hari Nair Kanimozhi phone spectrum case R.K. Chandolia Siddhartha Behura Surendra Pipara Swan Telecom promoter
Top Law News For seven years, presidential reference in Supreme Court April 25, 2011 / April 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on For seven years, presidential reference in Supreme Court A presidential reference to the Supreme Court over a water dispute between Punjab and Haryana is pending for nearly seven years, a Haryana minister has said in a letter to the central government. He believes resolving the issue will help bring more water to his state. “This perhaps is the only presi dential reference which […] Read more » presidential reference Supreme Court Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal
Top Law News Khap leaders to seek review of apex court direction April 25, 2011 / April 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Within a week of the Supreme Court’s direction to state governments to rein in khap panchayats (caste councils) from issuing illegal diktats, khap leaders from across Haryana held a meeting here on Sunday and decided to seek a review of the order. During the ‘Sarva Khap Mahapanchayat’, khap leaders decided to file a review plea […] Read more » 'Sarva Khap Mahapanchayat' apex court direction Gyan Sudha Mishra justices Markandeya Katju Khap leaders review
Top Law News Senior lawyers rally behind Bhushans, some decline comment April 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior lawyers like Rajinder Sachar and Kamini Jaiswal have backed the Lokpal Bill drafting committee co-chair Shanti Bhushan and his son and panel member Prashant Bhushan, who face allegations of corruption, while some others declined to comment on the controversy. Even as Sachar, a former chief justice of Delhi High Court, and Jaiswal described the […] Read more » Bhushans counsel S.B. Sanyal Counsel Shekhar Naphade Kamini Jaiswal Rajinder Sachar rally Senior lawyers
Top Law News Hegde not to resign, members to stay focused April 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After consultation here Saturday among the civil society members of the joint committee formed to draft the Lokpal Bill, it was announced that Karnataka Lokayukta Justice N. Santosh Hegde will not resign from the panel. “The panel members requested me to stay on saying they wanted me to contribute to the drafting of the bill. […] Read more » focused Hegde Justice N. Santosh Hegde Karnataka Lokayukta members resign