Top Law News Talks on how to enrol NRIs still on: Vayalar Ravi December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is having intensive discussions to find out the most “practical way to include nearly a million non-resident Indians in the electoral rolls, Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said here Tuesday. “Two rounds of discussions have been held with the election commission and external affairs ministry. Both agreed to enrol […] Read more » enrol NRIs Vayalar Ravi
Top Law News Forcible debt recovery from Vidarbha farmers irks high court December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upset with the harassment of a farmer who had paid double the loan amount as interest payment, the Nagpur division of the Bombay High Court issued notices to top officials of the Maharashtra cooperative society and land development bank against forcible debt recovery from Vidarbha farmers. The court converted the writ petition of a debt-stricken […] Read more » debt Forcible Vidarbha farmers
Top Law News Over 10,000 violations of Right to Education in Delhi December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Just nine months after the Right to Education (RTE) Act was implemented in India, promising free and compulsory education to all children in the age group of 6-14, over 10,000 cases of violation have been registered by a child rights body in the capital. Some children were denied admission to school, some were subjected to […] Read more » Right to Education violations
Top Law News Supreme Court asserts its powers, overrules technicalities of law December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that it holds vast powers under the constitution and an aggrieved person could not be rendered remediless on mere technicalities of law. ‘A mere technicality cannot prevent the court from doing justice in exercise of its inherent power,’ said the apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. […] Read more » overrules technicalities
Top Law News Bail plea of Akshardham terror attack accused admitted December 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court on Monday admitted a bail plea filed by an accused in the 2002 Akshardham Temple terror attack. The bench comprising Justices AM Kapadia and BN Mehta admitted the petition of Shaukatullah Ghori. The hearing on Ghori’s bail application is scheduled for Jan 12, 2011. Ghori was arrested in July 2009 from […] Read more »
Top Law News Haryana speaker asked to decide on defectors within 4 months December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday directed the Haryana assembly speaker to decide within four months on the disqualification of five legislators who defected. Justice Ajay Tiwari of the high court issued the directive to assembly Speaker Harmohinder Singh Chatha on the petition of the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), which sought disqualification of five […] Read more »
Top Law News Activists demonstrate against Punjab information commission December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Right to Information (RTI) activists Monday demonstrated outside the Punjab State Information Commission here to protest delays in giving details to applicants.Carrying placards and banners against Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) R.I. Singh, the activists raised slogans against the commission. “The people who are running the State Information Commission are least bothered about the common man. […] Read more » .Chief Information Commission RTI
Top Law News Judicial panel starts hearings in Kerala boat tragedy December 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Almost 15 months after a boat capsized in Kerala’s Thekkady wildlife reserve leaving 45 people drowned, the one-man judicial commission appointed by the government Monday recorded statements of various officials on the tragedy.Justice (Retd) E. Moideen Kunju recorded statements of officials from the forest and tourism departments and the police besides the locals regarding the […] Read more » Kerala boat tragedy
Top Law News NHRC to raise issue of harmful effect of pesticide in Kerala December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chief K.G. Balakrishnan Saturday said that he will take up with the central government the seriousness of the impact of the use of pesticide endosulfan in Kerala villages. “The matter is serious and would be brought to the attention of the centre. Just like the way in which the centre […] Read more » effect harmful NHRC pesticide
Top Law News India asks UN to do more against sexual violence December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Advocating greater participation of women in the areas of conflict prevention, peace negotiations, peace keeping and post conflict reconstruction, India wants UN organs to do more against sexual violence. New Delhi believes that the UN Secretariat and the Funds and Programmes can do more in this respect, Hardeep Singh Puri, India’s permanent representative at the […] Read more » sexual violence
Top Law News ‘Penalty imposed for denial of information unjustified’ December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A penalty of Rs.25,000 imposed on a public information officer for not supplying information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act was not justified, the Gujarat high court has held. However, the officer was fined Rs.10,000 for not discharging his duty. A single judge bench of Justice Akil Kureshi passed the order while hearing an […] Read more » RTI Act.
Top Law News Distribution of gas tragedy compensation begins – but not for all December 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The process of distributing enhanced compensation of Rs.750 crore to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy has begun but it would not be for all as of now, an official said Friday. The enhanced compensation would be distributed through the claim courts, which have to complete the process by March 31, 2011. However, […] Read more » Compensation gas tragedy