Top Law News Is Makara Jyothi light man-made or not: Court to Kerala government January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Kerala High Court Thursday came down heavily on the state government and the Devaswom Board on the Sabarimala stampede tragedy, and directed that the ‘truth’ should come out on the Makara Jyothi that is believed to be a celestial light. The bench of Justice Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan and Justice P. […] Read more » Jyothi Kerala government Makara
Top Law News 168 ‘ghost’ MCD workers detected, police tell court January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi Police told the Delhi High Court Wednesday that 168 employees of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have failed to turn up for physical verification camps held to weed out “ghost” employee. The division bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna asked the additional commissioner of police, crime branch (economic offence […] Read more » MCD workers Municipal Corporation of Delhi
Top Law News Rights panel concerned over farmers’ suicides in Orissa January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Wednesday expressed concern over the increasing cases of starvation deaths and farmers’ suicides in Orissa and gave a list of recommendations to the state government for the overall improvement in the human rights situation.”The commission has received complaints of starvation deaths and farmers’ suicides in the backward KBK (Kalahandi, […] Read more » National Human Rights Commission NHRC
Top Law News Indian money stashed abroad a national plunder: Apex court January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court Wednesday said the stashing away of ill-gotten money outside the country in foreign banks was a “national plunder” and asked the government to give it all the information it had on Indians who had siphoned off their illicit money to tax havens. Describing as “mind boggling” the amount of money that […] Read more » apex court Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) national plunder Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Price rise: Court issues notice to Sonia Gandhi January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Congress president and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi was on Wednesday issued notice by a local court on a petition filed by a city-based NGO over the issue of price rise. Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Anshul Berry issued a notice and fixed April 7 as the next date of hearing in the case. […] Read more » Price rise Sonia Gandhi
Top Law News Maharashtra governor pushes information commissioner’s removal January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The process to remove defiant State Information Commissioner Ramanand Tiwari got a fillip with Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan Tuesday referring the issue to the Supreme Court, an official said.The governor has referred the case to the apex court under Right to Information Act, Section 17(1), said an official who declined to be identified. The section […] Read more » information commissioner removal RIGHT TO INFORMATION
Top Law News Can we bypass elected head, Supreme Court asks January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Can we bypass elected head, Supreme Court asks The Supreme Court Tuesday asked whether it could exclude Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh from the proposed independent committee to monitor the implementation of the relief package for the displaced tribals of Dantewada and Bijapur districts. The apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S. Nijjar said: “Given the constitutional scheme of […] Read more » bypass elected head Supreme Court
Top Law News Can’t use housing complex as religious building: Gujarat court January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A residential complex cannot be used as a religious building, the Gujarat High Court has ruled and stated that doing so would amount to a breach of the Bombay Provincial Municipalities Act. Justice R.R. Tripathi ruled that residential buildings were different from those used for religious purposes. The issue involved in the petition was whether […] Read more » Gujarat court housing complex religious building
Top Law News Widows will be protected, given justice: Supreme Court January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The widows will be protected and given justice, said the Supreme Court Monday while setting aside an Allahabad High Court order transferring the trial in a murder case against a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator from Kanpur to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh. The court said this while hearing a petition filed by the widow of […] Read more » Supreme Court widows
Top Law News Probe wing of police not answerable to political bosses: Court told January 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The investigative wing of the police force is a part of the criminal justice delivery system and it was not answerable to a minister or the political bosses, the Supreme Court was told Monday. The apex court was hearing submissions on the report of the monitoring committee headed by Justice (Retd.) T.K. Thomas on the […] Read more » Supreme Court
Top Law News Court allows prayers at demolished mosque site January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to allow 10 devotees to offer prayers for the next two months at the site of a mosque that was demolished in south Delhi last week. The court gave the devotees two months’ time to work out a solution for amicably settling the […] Read more » demolished mosque The Delhi High Court
Top Law News Samjhauta train bombing: Aseemanand’s statement recorded January 15, 2011 / January 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Swami Asseemanand, radical Hindu activist, was on Saturday presented before the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) in Panchkula to record his statement in connection with the 2007 Samjhauta Express blasts case. Aseemanand, who was sent to judicial custody Thursday and lodged in Ambala jail, was taken to the court of CJM Rakesh Singh around 12.15pm. The […] Read more » Aseemanand Samjhauta train bombing