Top Law News Varsity slammed for unfairly filling up vacant quota seats January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprashtha University not to admit in an unfair manner students from the general category against vacant reserved seats. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan set aside an order of a single judge who allowed the admission of general category candidates […] Read more » vacant quota seats
Top Law News Women demand codification of Muslim Personal Law January 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Activists of the Muslim Mahila Andolan from different parts of Uttar Pradesh converged in Lucknow on Sunday to demand codification of the Muslim Personal Law, which they say is being “misinterpreted to the disadvantage of women”. They also demanded an “immediate ban” on the malpractice of divorce by triple utterance of the word ‘Talaaq’. Prominent […] Read more » Muslim Personal Law
Top Law News Law students to assist Gujarat courts January 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat National Law University has decided to send its fifth year students to the Gujarat High Court to assist the judiciary, Vice Chancellor Bimal Patel said Sunday. The university will also send its fourth year students to various lower courts in Ahmedabad, Patel said. The decision was taken after Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya asked […] Read more » Law students
Top Law News New age art celebrates 50 years of the pill January 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In the age of fast love, multiple relationships and early maturity, the ‘pill’ or the oral contraceptive has become the woman’s most intimate friend. And a first-of its kind art project, featuring works by leading contemporary Indian and international artists will celebrate 50 years of the pill in the capital. The exposition beginning Jan 22 […] Read more » oral contraceptive
Top Law News Supreme Court panel vetoes mining by Reddy brothers January 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) Friday recommended the cancellation of the mining leases of Reddy brothers in the Bellary reserved forest area, saying they were engaged in illegal mining. The CEC recommended to the forest bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan to cancel their mining […] Read more » Bellary reserved forest area Reddy brothers Supreme Court
Top Law News Bhagat Singh’s niece fights 21-year legal battle January 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh’s kin have been fighting a 21-year legal battle to get justice for one of their relatives, who is believed to have been killed by the Punjab Police when terrorism in the state was at its peak. He has been missing since 1989. The family of Surjit Kaur, Bhagat Singh’s niece, is […] Read more » Bhagat Singh
Top Law News India urged to repeal sedition law January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian parliament should repeal the colonial-era sedition law which it said was employed to silence peaceful political dissent, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. And the Indian government should drop sedition cases against prominent activists such as Binayak Sen, Arundhati Roy and others, the US-based body said. In two recent cases, in New Delhi and […] Read more » Arundhati Roy Binayak Sen sedition law
Top Law News No change in CBI plan to withdraw Bofors case, court told January 6, 2011 / January 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday told a court that despite the income tax tribunal ruling that kickbacks had indeed been paid in the Bofors deal, there was no change in its stand to close cases against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, one of the alleged recipients of the bribe. CBI’s lawyer, Additional Solicitor General […] Read more » Bofors case CBI
Top Law News Settle corruption cases speedily, Himachal courts told January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Himachal Pradesh High Court’s Chief Justice Kurian Joseph has directed all the session judges in the state to dispose of corruption cases on a priority basis, an official statement said Tuesday. In a missive to the session judges, Justice Joseph has directed them to dispose of corruption cases prior to 2008 by June 30, 2011. […] Read more » corruption Himachal courts
Top Law News Parents refuse to take back child, child panel to take action January 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As parents of abandoned Chiku refused to accept him, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) Tuesday said they will take action against the parents if they don’t take the child back. Chiku, now six months old, was abandoned by his parents, Rajiv Kumar and Sunita in June last year soon after he […] Read more » Amod Kanth Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Top Law News Chhattisgarh High Court gets new building January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Chhattisgarh High Court has got a new sprawling building spread over 44,500 sq metres of land, an official said Tuesday. The new building has come up at Bodri locality on the outskirts of Bilaspur town, some 100 km from state capital Raipur. It became operational Monday. A staggering Rs.108 crore has already been spent […] Read more » Chhattisgarh High Court Public Works Department
Top Law News Court pulls up lawyer facing contempt charges January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up a lawyer facing contempt of court proceedings, the Gujarat High Court has been directed him to remain present before it Jan 24. The bench comprising Justices A.M. Kapadia and B.N. Mehta directed Girish Das, in a suo motu contempt proceeding, to be present in court as he failed to do so during a […] Read more » charges contempt lawyer