Top Law News Khan Market demolition, sealing drive put off by court March 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday stayed the New Delhi Municipal Council’s (NDMC) proposed drive to remove illegal constructions in the Khan Market here. The drive was to begin Friday. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said: “Till further order no demolition work will be carried out by the NDMC.” The court would hear the matter April 27. […] Read more » demolition drive Khan Market sealing
Top Law News Apex court to hear plea seeking CBI probe into Batcha’s death March 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Thursday hear an application seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of Sadiq Batcha , who had been questioned by the investigating agency in the 2G spectrum scam. An apex court bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly said it would hear the matter after […] Read more » A. Raja apex court Asok Kumar Ganguly Batcha's death CBI probe Central Bureau of Investigation Justices G.S Singhvi plea Subramanian Swamy Supreme Court
Top Law News Police told to probe child trafficking gangs March 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday took a serious view of police failure to trace missing children and directed Delhi Police chief to constitute a task force to find out if gangs were involved in child trafficking. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna pulled up police while referring to a […] Read more » child police probe trafficking gangs
Top Law News Uphold dignity of women, Delhi Police told March 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has censured Delhi Police over a girl with a plastered leg being dragged in a court complex, saying the dignity of women must be upheld. ‘The commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports alleging that a young girl having plaster in her leg was dragged by police […] Read more » Delhi Police Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta DIGNITY National Human Rights Commission Uphold women
Top Law News Court tells exam board to re-evaluate marks promptly March 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Central Board of Secondary Education to evolve a mechanism to complete in a time-bound manner the re-evaluation of marks of Class 12 students seeking admissions to colleges. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna gave the direction on the petition of a student […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court Delhi High Court exam board Jalnidh Kaur Justice Sanjiv Khanna marks Prabhsahay Kaur promptly re-evaluate St. Stephen's College
Top Law News Court denies relief against arrest to ex-India cricketer March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday refused interim protection against arrest to cricketer Jacob Joseph Martin, who represented India in ODIs in 1999, in a case of forging documents to facilitate illegal immigration. Justice Hima Kohli directed Martin, and the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) and assistant commissioner of police (ACP) of Indira Gandhi International (IGI) […] Read more » against arrest Court Delhi High Court denies ex-India cricketer Justice Hima Kohli Relief
Top Law News Not just poverty, corporate callousness drives children to labour March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment His hair neatly combed, T-shirt tucked into his trousers, Sunil, all of 12, sits on a bench outside a children’s home here and recounts the horror tales of scores of boys like him employed to stitch bags for a company with a ‘no child labour’ policy. Sunil is one of the 25 child labourers who […] Read more » callousness children corporate drives labour poverty
Top Law News Six ex-judges get interim bail in PF scam March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A CBI special court in Ghaziabad Monday granted interim bail to six accused former judges in a scam involving misappropriation of funds in the provident fund (PF) accounts of class III and IV employees of the Ghaziabad district courts. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Judge A.K. Singh granted interim bail to the accused on Rs.one […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation ex-judges interim bail Judge A.K. Singh PF scam six
Top Law News Right to education law, spectrum scam top apex court’s agenda March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A suit challenging the right to education law, the investigations into the 2G spectrum scam and the black money stashed away by Indians abroad will figure prominently in the Supreme Court this week. A request to transfer the investigation into Gujarat’s Tulsiram Prajapati shootout killing case from the police to the Central Bureau of Investigation […] Read more » agenda apex court Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Foreign Exchange Management Act Hasan Ali Khan Income Tax Act Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice K.S. Panickar Radhakrishnan Justice P. Sathasivam Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Law Right to Education Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium spectrum scam
Top Law News Bar council to upload budding lawyers’ exam results March 14, 2011 / March 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday told the Delhi High Court that it will place on its website the statement of marks for candidates who appeared in the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) held on March 6. The examination tests the skills and basic knowledge of those aspiring to practice law. Justice S. […] Read more » AIBE All India Bar Examination Bar Council budding lawyers Delhi High Court exam Justice S. Muralidhar results upload
Top Law News Apex court to hear Tiwari’s plea against DNA test Monday March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Monday hear veteran Congress leader N.D. Tiwari’s plea challenging a Delhi High Court order directing him to undergo a DNA test on a suit filed by a man claiming to be his biological son. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha will hear the 85-year-old leader’s […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi Lok Adalat disposes 7,900 pending cases March 13, 2011 / March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Lok Adalat (people’s court) organised by the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) here Saturday disposed more than 7,900 pending cases, including 6,700 related to dishonoured cheques. Asha Menon, DLSA member secretary, said: ‘In this Lok Adalat, all kinds of matters were taken up pending in various district courts of Delhi.’ About 90 percent of […] Read more » Delhi Legal Services Authority DLSA Executive Chairman Justice Vikramajit Sen Justice Dipak Misra