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
Top Law News Give permanent shelter to homeless near Jama Masjid: Court March 9, 2011 / March 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to provide a permanent alternative shelter to the homeless who were using a facility near Jama Masjid before it was demolished in 2003. The division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: ‘Till the shelter home is constructed, the […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court Delhi High Court homeless Jama Masjid Justice Sanjiv Khanna Municipal Corporation of Delhi permanent shelter Urban Shelter Improvement Board USIB
Top Law News Many strides but still trapped: Shifting realities of Indian’s women (March 8 is International Women’s Day) March 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Another International Women’s Day, another occasion for a national assessment of the status of women in a country where the glass ceiling is within reach but not broken, where health statistics are still determined by gender, where public entertainment is dominated by patriarchal cliches and where female foeticide continues despite strides in so many sectors. […] Read more » Indian's women International Women's Day March 8 realities shifting
Top Law News Court asks AIIMS to admit doctor to masters course March 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to allot a seat in a masters course to an MBBS doctor who denied this last year due to a change in the prospectus just before the counselling date. Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjeev Khanna said: ‘The AIIMS authorities […] Read more » admit AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences course Court Delhi High Court doctor masters
Top Law News CBI files charges against tainted judge March 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today filed a chargesheet against Justice Nirmal Yadav and four others in the 2008 cash-at-judge’s-door scam, on a day when she is to demit office as a High Court judge. The chargesheet was filed in the court of Special CBI Judge Ritu Tagore here under various sections, including 120B of the IPC relating […] Read more » against CBI charges files Justice Nirmal Yadav Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Punjab and Haryana High Court Special CBI Judge Ritu Tagore tainted judge