Top Law News Pending criminal cases to be fast-tracked: Moily January 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Pending criminal cases to be fast-tracked: Moily All criminal cases pending before lower courts across the country will be fast-tracked within the next three months, Union Law Minister M. Verappa Moily said here Sunday. Addressing a press conference, Moily said: ‘Things are already in the process and the union government has given away a sum of Rs.20,000 crore to different states to […] Read more »
Top Law News Thousands march against corruption in Delhi January 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Holding aloft banners and shouting slogans against rising levels of corruption in the country, thousands of people from all age groups stepped out of their homes Sunday to demand an effective anti-graft law. Streaming banners that read ‘Corruption: Enough is enough’ and ‘Common people are raped in government offices’, the protestors gathered at the Ramlila […] Read more »
Top Law News Thousands march against corruption in Pune, Aurangabad January 30, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Thousands march against corruption in Pune, Aurangabad Marking the 63rd death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, thousands of people participated in a protest march against corruption in Pune and Aurangabad Sunday, an official said. The march, that is taking place simultaneously in 60 cities across India, is part of an anti-graft campaign by civil society groups. ‘In Pune, we have made it a […] Read more »
Top Law News India protests radio-tagging of duped Indian students in US January 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India Saturday said it has told United States that the use of monitors on some duped Indian students of closed American Tri-Valley University by authorities was “unwarranted” and demanded the immediate removal of the measure. The Tri-Valley University (TVU) in Pleasanton, a suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, was raided Tuesday and charged with helping […] Read more » radio-tagging Tri-Valley University
Top Law News Moily for CBI probe into Karnataka church attacks January 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Moily for CBI probe into Karnataka church attacks Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily Saturday said the judicial panel, which absolved the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Hindu groups of attacks on churches in Karnataka, had suppressed the truth. ‘Only a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will bring out the truth,’ he told reporters here a day after the justice […] Read more » M. Veerappa Moily Union Law Minister
Top Law News Supreme Court dismisses plea to stop Haj subsidy January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition by former Bharatiya Janata Party MP and Hindu ideologue Praful Goradia seeking the abolition of the subsidy given to Haj pilgrims. “There is no force in this petition and it is dismissed,” the court said. The court also said that a “very small expenditure in proportion to the […] Read more » Haj subsidy
Top Law News ‘This is not America’, court tells married man in live-in relationship January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “This is not America”, is what the Delhi High Court Friday told a 22-year-old woman in a live-in relationship with her brother-in-law, who had deserted her sister and two children and sought the court protection on the ground that they faced a threat to their lives from her family members. Justice Hema Kohli pulled up […] Read more » live-in relationship
Top Law News 62 convicted in fodder scam, 23 jailed January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court here Friday convicted 62 people, including 27 government officials, in the 1996 multi-million fodder scam and 23 of them were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ranging from three to five years. Special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) judge R.R. Tripathy pronounced the judgment in the case related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs.8.37 […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation fodder scam
Top Law News Vedanta University: Apex court orders status quo January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Orissa Government to maintain status quo on acquisition of 6,000 hectares of land for setting up an international university by U.K.-based Vedanta group in the holy city of Puri. Admitting a bunch of cross-appeals, a bench of justices D.K. Jain and H.L. Dattu asked the State Government to […] Read more » Vedanta University
Top Law News Apex court, BJP question CVC’s appointment, Moily meets PM January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The BJP Thursday launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the appointment of P.J. Thomas as the Central Vigilance Commissioner, saying the ‘trail’ in the selection leads to his door even as the apex court wanted to know if the correct procedure was followed in selecting the corruption watchdog whose name figures […] Read more » CVC
Top Law News G.R.Sofi to head Kashmir Information Commission January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment G.R.Sofi, a serving income tax officer, was Thursday appointed the Chief Information Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir. He will head the first information commission in the state. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand and opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti met in the afternoon and selected Sofi to head the […] Read more » G.R.Sofi Kashmir Information Commission
Top Law News Apex court questions Thomas’ appointment procedure January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it wanted to know if correct procedure was followed in the selection of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) P.J. Thomas. The court asked if withholding information from a high-powered committee for the CVC’s selection about a pending charge sheet against Thomas and the sanction granted by the Kerala government to prosecute […] Read more » apex court Appointment Thomas