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
Top Law News High court prompts Mayawati to release Banda rape victim January 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prompted by an Allahabad High Court directive, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday ordered the release of a 17-year-old rape victim whom a ruling Bahujan Samaj party lawmaker had falsely implicated in a theft case. Though it was a court holiday, senior judge Justice Rajesh Agrawal decided to take suo motto cognizance of the case […] Read more » Banda rape victim Mayawati
Top Law News Court moved on Delhi’s power tariff January 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) Friday filed a petition before Delhi High Court asking it to direct the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to determine the tariff for 2010-2011. In an application before a division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Manmohan, NDPL, a joint venture of Tata power company and the Delhi […] Read more » NDPL North Delhi Power Limited
Top Law News Why hide names of foreign account holders, asks apex court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the central government what was its difficulty in disclosing the names of people who have stashed away huge amounts of money in Swiss and German banks in Liechtenstein principality in Europe.”What is the privilege” in not disclosing their names, asked the apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and […] Read more » account apex court CBDT foreign holders The Central Board of Direct Taxes
Top Law News Plea for CBI probe into Goa’s cops-politician-drug nexus January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court bench in Goa will next week hear a public interest litigation (PIL) that has sought the Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the police-politician-drug nexus case. Hours after the petition was filed, Goa Police Friday appointed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe links of an anti-narcotics officer to the drug […] Read more » cops-politician-drug nexus
Top Law News India to ease travel permits for Pakistani Kashmiris January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government will “unilaterally” ease travel restrictions and give multiple-entry permits valid for six months to Pakistani Kashmiris who want to visit their families in Jammu and Kashmir, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said Friday. Pillai said Pakistan did not agree to the Indian government’s idea to ease travel curbs on families divided across the Line […] Read more » Kashmiris Pakistani permits travel
Top Law News ‘Information commissioners cause loss of Rs. 86 crores’ January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Information Commissioners across the country caused a loss of Rs. 86 crores to the exchequer during the last fiscal by not imposing penalties in cases where they should have under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, a study released here Thursday said. Public Cause Research Foundation studied 76,813 orders passed by 87 information commissioners and […] Read more » commissioners Information