Top Law News Digvijay Singh got figures wrong: Kejriwal April 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A day after Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh targeted civil rights activists saying they spent Rs. 50 lakh on their campaign for a tough anti-graft law, activist Arvind Kejriwal Sunday said Singh had got the figures wrong. ‘He (Singh) is wrong to say that Rs.50 lakh were spent on four day agitation. I think he […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal Digvijay Singh figures wrong Prashant Bhushan
Top Law News More citizens should use RTI, urges activist April 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Involvement of more citizens in gaining information through the Right to Information (RTI) Act will pressurise authorities to disclose information voluntarily, RTI activist Ashok Ravat said here Saturday. Speaking at a workshop on RTI here, Ravat said: ‘More citizens should get involved with the RTI movement, and the goal must be to pressurise the authorities […] Read more » Citizens RTI
Top Law News Judiciary not super legislature: Chief justice April 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The judiciary should not try to act as a super legislature, Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia said Saturday. He also asked the political leadership to resist from giving protection to corrupt judges. Kapadia said this while delivering the fifth M.C. Setalvad memorial lecture on the ‘Canons of judicial ethics’ here. The chief justice also […] Read more » chief justice judiciary legislature S.H. Kapadia super
Top Law News Identify government jobs for the blind, Karnataka told April 16, 2011 / April 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Karnataka High Court Friday told the state government to set up a panel to identify government jobs for which the blind can apply and submit a report in two months. Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justice A.S. Bopanna also directed the government to allow visually challenged candidates to apply for the posts of first […] Read more » blind Chief Justice J.S. Khehar government jobs Identify Justice A.S. Bopanna Karnataka Public Service Commission
Top Law News Judge’s complaint on Hepatitis-B to be heard as PIL April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judge’s complaint on Hepatitis-B to be heard as PIL A complaint made by an Allahabad High Court judge against non-availability of a life saving drug in Uttar Pradesh hospitals is to be taken up for hearing as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) by Chief Justice F.I. Rebello Friday. The complaint was made by Justice Sudhir Agarwal on account of the agony and disgust that […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Chief Justice F.I. Rebello complaint Hepatitis-B judge Justice Sudhir Agarwal PIL Public Interest Litigation (PIL) WHO (World Health Organisation)
Top Law News Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani April 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Very happy with Sen getting bail: Ram Jethmalani Activist and physician Binayak Sen’s counsel Ram Jethmalani Friday said that while he is generally not much bothered with the victory or loss of a case, Sen’s bail has come as a ‘personal’ happy moment for him. ‘I must confess that this is one of those cases in which I am personally happy about what […] Read more » bail Binayak Sen Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.S. Bedi Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Gujarat panchayat workers to get same pay as government staff April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All village panchayats in Gujarat will now have to pay salaries and other allowances to their messengers on par with their counterparts in the state government, the Gujarat High Court has directed. A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala directed the state to ensure that the guidelines issued by the government […] Read more » Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya government staff Gujarat Justice J.B. Pardiwala panchayat workers same pay
Top Law News Court reserves order on plea of five former ad-hoc judges April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the petitions of five former ad-hoc fast track court judges whose services were terminated. The petitioners approached the high court seeking direction to the state government to retain them as ad-hoc additional district judges. A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala, after […] Read more » Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court former ad-hoc judges Justice J.B. Pardiwala order plea reserves
Top Law News Karnataka court to inform listing of cases through SMS April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Karnataka High Court will provide information on the listing of cases through SMS to litigants and lawyers, the court’s registrar said Wednesday. ‘Listing of cases in the cause-list filed in the high court and its circuit benches will be made available to the interested parties through SMS. Litigants, lawyers and others have to register […] Read more » cases Chief Justice J.S. Khehar inform Karnataka court listing SMS
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to lift ban on tobacco sachets April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to lift a ban on the sale of tobacco products in plastic sachets and asked the central government to file its reply to petitions challenging the curbs. The petitions were filed by manufacturers of chewing tobacco challenging the rules banning the product’s sale in plastic sachets. The ban came into […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan Supreme Court tobacco sachets
Top Law News Graft charges may spell trouble for Nitish Kumar April 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A petition filed in the Patna high court for re-hearing a public suit on alleged financial irregularities of Rs 11,412 crore, with fingers pointed at chief minister Nitish Kumar and 46 others, has got the ruling Janata Dal-United (JD(U)) worried. The petition was filed on Monday, nearly nine months after the state high court stayed […] Read more » CAG charges Comptroller and Auditor General graft Nitish Kumar Patna High Court Sushil Kumar Modi trouble
Top Law News Court sets aside divorce granted to man April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside the divorce granted to a man on the ground that his wife filed a criminal case to harass him and his family members following a matrimonial dispute. Justice Kailash Gambhir was hearing an appeal filed by Ruchi (name changed) challenging the 2009 decision of a trial court to […] Read more » aside Court divorce