Top Law News Gujarat acts to curb illegal mining after court’s intervention January 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upbraided by the Gujarat High Court for its inaction in curbing illegal mining, the state government Friday told the court of the series of measures it has initiated to curb the malaise. Mines and Minerals Secretary M. Sahu appeared in person before the bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi as per […] Read more » illegal mining
Top Law News Trade union trouble: Kerala manufacturer moves court January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Trade union trouble: Kerala manufacturer moves court Militant trade unionism seems to be raising its head in Kerala once again, with a manufacturer Friday approaching the state high court and also threatening to move out of the state after persisting problems with unloading goods. “We have approached the high court seeking its intervention in the matter,” said Sheila Kochuouseph, who runs the […] Read more » Trade union trouble
Top Law News Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark January 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court slams Kapil Sibal on telecom audit remark The Supreme Court Friday slammed Communications Minister Kapil Sibal for his remark that the official auditor’s report was “utterly erroneous” in assessing the loss on award of telecom spectrum at Rs.1.76 lakh crore ($40 billion).”It is unfortunate,” said the apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly. The court said the minister […] Read more » kapil sibal Supreme Court
Top Law News Court stops work on Tata housing project in Punjab January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court here Thursday stopped the construction of a controversial multi-storey housing project being executed by Tata Housing Development Company (THDC) in an ecologically fragile zone in Punjab, north of Chandigarh. The court ruling is likely to come as a blow to THDC and a number of politicians and other influential […] Read more » Tata housing project
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Teesta Setalvad January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday pulled up convenor of NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, Teesta Setalvad, for sending communications addressed to the special investigating team (SIT) probing the 2002 Gujarat riots to the UN Human Rights Commission. The SIT, headed by former CBI director R.K. Raghavan, is investigating the 2002 Godhra and post-Godhra riots. The […] Read more » Supreme Court Teesta Setalvad
Top Law News Former RAW official tries to undress in court January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official, to be frustrated at the frequent adjournments in a human trafficking case against her in the Delhi High Court, tried to undress before a judge Thursday but was stopped by police officials. Nisha Bhatia, in her late thirties, started to undress in a courtroom before Justice Ajit […] Read more » (RAW) Research and Analysis Wing
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