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
Top Law News Home ministry to answer in CP shootout: Court January 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Expressing surprise that suspended police official S.S. Rathi, one of the convicted policemen in the 1997 Connaught Place shootout case, is still on the rolls, the Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the union home ministry to verify his employment status and whether the service rules on dismissal pending appeal need to be reviewed. Justice […] Read more »
Top Law News Media cannot be used to fight corporate battles: Tata January 12, 2011 / January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tata group chairman Ratan Tata has questioned the ‘indiscriminate disclosure’ of private conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia and a host of others being justified under the right to free speech, saying the media cannot be used to fight corporate battles. ‘The right to freedom of expression cannot be a euphemism for waging surrogate corporate […] Read more » corporate battles Niira Radia Ratan Tata
Top Law News Gujarat High Court advocates to strike work from Jan 13 January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Advocates Association Tuesday passed a resolution to abstain from work for an indefinite period from Jan 13 to protest the non-appointment of judges. GHAA president Yatin Oza said the resolution condemned the inaction of the central government and other constitutional dignitaries over the issue. The resolution opposes the central government and […] Read more » Gujarat High Court
Top Law News Complaint filed against Swamy for comments on Rahul Gandhi January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Complaint filed against Swamy for comments on Rahul Gandhi A complaint has been filed in a court here against Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy for making derogatory comments against Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, a lawyer said Tuesday. Complainant Prakash Gurjar, general secretary of state Youth Congress, said that he filed the complaint as Swamy’s comments amounted to provoking a class of people amongst […] Read more » Janata Party chief Rahul Gandhi Subramanian Swamy
Top Law News 44 deemed universities facing closure get breather January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a relief to 44 deemed universities that were faced with the prospect of de-recognition, the government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it will carry out a fresh reappraisal of their infrastructure and facilities. Following the submission, the court gave the central government two weeks to issue individual notices to each of the 44 […] Read more » deemed universities
Top Law News Times have changed for K.G. Balakrishnan January 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four years ago, the sleepy village of Kaduthuruthy, 30 km from here, was basking in the glory of one of its sons, a humble Dalit who went on to become the 37th chief justice of India. K.G. Balakrishnan assumed the office of Supreme Court chief justice four years ago — Jan 12, 2007 — and […] Read more » K.G. Balakrishnan
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