Top Law News Apex court seeks status report on K.G. Balakrishnan February 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court Friday asked Attorney General G. Vahanvati to submit the status report on the home ministry’s investigation into a complaint alleging former chief justice K.G. Balakrishnan possessed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatantra Kumar gave the attorney […] Read more » apex court Attorney General G. Vahanvati Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatantra K.G. Balakrishnan National Human Rights Commission President Pratibha Patil Supreme Court
Top Law News Compulsory education gives poor right to dignity: Court February 17, 2011 / February 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court said Thursday provision of free and compulsory education to the disadvantaged sections of society was to afford them a right to live with dignity. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar made the observation in the course of the hearing of a […] Read more » Right to Education Supreme Court
Top Law News Not attacking judiciary, but corrupt judges: Congress MP February 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress MP K.Sudhakaran, who is facing heat following his remarks that he witnessed an apex court judge taking a bribe, Thursday said he was not attacking the judiciary but corrupt judges. ‘In my speech last week, I never ever uttered a word against the judiciary, but I mentioned that I was witness to a bribe […] Read more » Chief Minister K.Karunakaran.
Top Law News Have a job to do, wrongdoers will not escape: Manmohan Singh February 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Declaring that he “had a job to do and was not quitting”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday responded to questions on corruption and other issues confronting his 21-month-old United Progressive Alliance (UPA) II government, announced that “wrongdoers will not escape” and added that the country will witness the next round of economic reforms soon. “You […] Read more » escape Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wrongdoers
Top Law News Court allows CBI to seek Pakistan’s help in hacking case February 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI will seek Pakistan government’s help in identifying members of a hacker group ‘VERGIL’ operating from that country and was allegedly involved in defacing the official website of Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) in 2010. Accepting a CBI plea, a Delhi court today issued a ‘letter of request’ to the department of […] Read more » CBI hacking case Pakistan
Top Law News Moily criticises Congress MP for graft claim against judge February 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Tuesday said he disapproved of passing remarks that damage the judiciary’s image and reputation. ‘Whoever it is, be it a minister, MP or anybody, one has to be careful,’ he told reporters here on queries about Congress MP K.Sudhakaran’s claim to have witnessed an apex court judge take a Rs.2.1 […] Read more » Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily
Top Law News Thousands of Bihar lawyers strike against evening courts February 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Thousands of Bihar lawyers strike against evening courts Thousands of lawyers in Bihar Tuesday began a weeklong strike to protest against evening courts that were introduced in the state in December last year. Bihar State Bar Council chairman Baleshwar Prasad Sharma said nearly 80,000 lawyers have joined the strike. The lawyers, including those from the Patna High Court, district courts and subdivisional courts, […] Read more » Bihar lawyers evening courts Patna High Court
Top Law News Deaf can be given driving licences, rules court February 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Deaf can be given driving licences, rules court The Delhi High Court Monday asked the government to grant driving licences to deaf people, so far prohibited from driving under the Motor Vehicles Act, if they satisfy other necessary criteria. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said: “We are obliged to certify that if an applicant is totally […] Read more » Delhi High Court driving licences
Top Law News Poverty, not pleasure, forces women into prostitution: Court February 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said it was because of ‘abject poverty’ and not for ‘pleasure’ that a woman is compelled to indulge in prostitution. It also ordered formulation of rehabilitation schemes for sex workers. ‘If such a woman is granted opportunity to avail some technical and vocational training, she would be able to earn her […] Read more » Supreme Court
Top Law News Navy war room case: Supreme Court issues notice to CBI February 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on a petition by Commander (retd) Jarnail Singh Kalra seeking access to the confidential documents being relied upon by the prosecution against him and others in Navy war room leak case. An Supreme Court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan […] Read more » CBI Navy war room case Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court offers relief to two Haryana officers February 13, 2011 / February 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has partially stayed a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling holding two Haryana officers guilty of willful disobedience of its order and asking them why they should not be punished. The officers hauled up for contempt of court were Indian Administrative Service officer and Special Secretary, Department of Town and Country Planning […] Read more » Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Allocate more funds to implement Domestic Violence Act’ February 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A delegation of activists and academicians Saturday met Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee to discuss and submit recommendations for the union budget 2011-12, including provisions of a flexible pool of funds for better implementation of the Domestic Violence Act by the states. A statement by the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (CBGA), under whose aegis […] Read more » Domestic Violence Act'