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
Top Law News Using cuss words no crime, rules high court March 13, 2011 / March 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Using expletives and abuses while talking to a colleague is common among jawans and is, therefore, not a valid ground for dismissal from service, the Delhi High Court has ruled and ordered reinstatement of a CISF trooper who was dismissed for using cuss words with a senior. The ruling was given by a division bench […] Read more » Central Industrial Security Force CISF cuss words Delhi High Court High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog Justice Suresh Kait no crime Sub Inspector R.L. Pandit
Top Law News Death sentences in ‘honour killing’ case commuted to 20 years March 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday commuted the death sentence awarded to five people in an honour killing case in Haryana to 20 years imprisonment, while acquitting two men for want of evidence. A division bench of Justices S.K. Mittal and M. Jeyapaul converted the death sentence, ordered by a sessions court in Haryana’s […] Read more »
Top Law News Hockey India to send team for Azlan Shah cup: Apex court March 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday cleared the decks for Hockey India to send the Indian hockey team for the Sultan Azlan Shah cup tournament in Malaysia, starting May 5. The apex court bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice H.L. Gokhale cleared Hockey India to send its team to Malaysia after being told that the International […] Read more » apex court Azlan Shah cup Hockey India Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice J.M. Panchal Supreme Court team
Top Law News Court questions police on ‘wrongdoing’ in orphanage March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday asked Delhi Police whether they would investigate alleged trafficking of minor children from an orphanage here. Justice Ajit Bharihoke said: ‘Delhi Police are directed to clarify their stand whether or not they are inclined to investigate into the functioning of Bal Vihar Orphanage Centre from the angle of the trafficking […] Read more » Bal Vihar Orphanage Centre Court Delhi High Court orphanage police questions wrongdoing
Top Law News Transparency law to free India from poverty, graft: Aruna Roy March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Social activist Aruna Roy Thursday said India’s second war of independence has to be fought with the right to information (RTI) law, to free the nation from poverty and corruption. ‘The next battle is ready with information and understanding of issues through the RTI and it is the ideal tool to help eradicate poverty and […] Read more » Aruna Roy free graft India poverty transparency law
Top Law News Vedanta: Apex court moved against denial of forest clearance March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC), a joint venture with Vedanta’s sister concern Sterlite Industries, has moved the Supreme Court against a decision of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to deny forest clearance for the proposed bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri hills. The OMC is a joint venture partner in this mining project […] Read more » apex court denial forest clearance Vedanta
Top Law News Merit seat reserved for women can be given to men: Court March 9, 2011 / March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment If requisite merit is not available for the seats reserved for women, the seat can be given to male candidates, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. Justice Jayant Patel and Justice J.C. Upadhayaya has ruled that reservation for women is horizontal and not vertical. ‘In respect of seats for women, the merit will be at […] Read more » Court Gujarat High Court Justice J.C. Upadhayaya Justice Jayant Patel men Merit reserved seat women
Top Law News MPs, MLAs salaries should be cancelled for misconduct: Court petitioned March 9, 2011 / March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 69-year-old man knocked the doors of the Gujarat High Court seeking cancellation of salary and other perks given to MPs and MLAs on grounds of their ‘misconduct and behaviour with selfish motives’. The petitioner, Prabhudas Patel, who appeared in person before the court, annexed various newspaper reports with his petition to prove his point. […] Read more » cancelled Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court Gujarat High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala misconduct MLAs MPs petitioned Prabhudas Patel salaries