Top Law News We are starving, say ex-staff of Union Carbide December 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment They are neither victims nor accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and yet 632 former permanent employees of the now defunct Union Carbide plant find themselves at the receiving end. They were employees at the plant, which saw the world’s worst industrial disaster break out on the night of Dec 2-3, 1984, killing thousands […] Read more » Union Carbide
Top Law News Gujarat court rejects plea against Ketan Desai December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) against the election of tainted former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai to the Gujarat University senate.The court also imposed a cost of Rs.10,000 on the petitioner. “I am deeply shocked that the court dismissed our PIL that challenged the election of […] Read more » Ketan Desai
Top Law News Don’t evict ‘unauthorized occupant’ without permission December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that even an unauthorized occupant of a house in a slum is treated as a tenant and permission of competent authorities is needed to initiate eviction proceedings against him. By no stretch of imagination can a trespasser (unauthorised occupant) be taken out of the definition of occupier (tenant) under the […] Read more » 'unauthorized evict
Top Law News Child rights panel comes to rescue of jailed Jharkhand girls December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked a Jharkhand official to take action in a case in which three arrested school girls were treated as adults and sent to jail, a statement said Wednesday. According to the commission, the girls should have been tried under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection […] Read more » jailed Jharkhand girls
Top Law News Court rejects 5 percent job quota for Gujjars in Rajasthan December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major jolt for agitating Gujjars, the Rajasthan High Court Wednesday rejected a petition seeking five percent reservation in government jobs for the community. The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mahesh Bhagwati held that Gujjars could not be given special reservation. The court said that the government failed to justify […] Read more » Gujjars Rajasthan
Top Law News Death sentence for Surinder Koli in Nithari case December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to Surinder Koli in the Deepali rape and murder case. Earlier, special CBI Judge AK Singh pronounced the verdict and held Koli guilty in the case of rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl Deepali.Koli, the domestic help of Moninder Singh Pandher, was the prime accused […] Read more » death sentence Nithari case Surinder Koli
Top Law News She battles for women’s property rights in tribal Kinnaur December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over a decade after she spearheaded a campaign on the issue, 57-year-old social activist Rattan Manjari is back to leading a movement in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district to secure the rights of tribal women – single or married – to inherit ancestral property. Manjari has taken on the patriarchal laws that bar tribal women from […] Read more »
Top Law News Farmers end Bhopal siege December 22, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The farmers’ agitation in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal ended Tuesday evening after the government issued written orders accepting their demands.The agitation ended almost nine hours after farmer leaders announced that they would end the protest. Hours after the state government accepted 50 of their 183 demands, farmer leader Shiv Kumar announced they would withdraw the […] Read more » Bhopal siege
Top Law News Slain Mumbai cop’s wife to get transparency law award December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Vinita Kamte, wife of slain Mumbai Police officer Ashok Kamte and who exposed the chaos in the police control room during the 2008 terror attack, has been selected for an award for using the transparency law to make an impact.Her husband, an Indian Police Service officer, fell to terrorists’ bullets. She is one of the […] Read more » Vinita Kamte
Top Law News Ruchika case: Witness accuses CBI of shielding cops December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A witness in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case on Tuesday said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) while filing a closure report in a court ignored his statement that the dead girl’s brother was tortured by police. Vijay Dheer told reporters in Panchkula that he told CBI officials that he had seen Ruchika’s brother Ashu […] Read more »
Top Law News Rajasthan High Court to take up Gujjar quota plea Wednesday December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The renewed agitation of the Gujjar community for job quota in Rajasthan entered its second day on Tuesday, a day before the Rajasthan high court is scheduled to hear a petition challenging a law that gives five percent reservation to the community. The high court on Wednesday will also hear a plea against 14% reservation […] Read more » Gujjar quota plea
Top Law News Adarsh scam: Court questions inaction against erring officers December 21, 2010 / December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Tuesday questioned the state government over inaction against erring officers involved in the Mumbai’s Adarsh cooperative housing society scam. ‘Why has the state government not filed an FIR (first information report) against the erring officers of Adarsh Society?’ asked the division bench of Justice B.H. Marlapalle and Justice U.D. Salvi. ‘You […] Read more » Adarsh scam