Top Law News Court questions plea against Ketan Desai December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Monday questioned the “public interest” involved in a suit challenging former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai’s election to the Gujarat University senate. Desai was arrested in April this year for allegedly taking Rs.2 crore bribe from a Punjab-based medical college. The MCI suspended his medical licence in October. […] Read more » Ketan Desai
Top Law News Neera Yadav granted bail December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Uttar Pradesh chief secretary Neera Yadav, sentenced to a four-year jail term for wrongful allotment of a plot during her tenure as Noida Authority chief, was Monday granted bail by the Allahabad High Court. Flex Industries chairman Ashok Chaturvedi, who had also been sentenced to four years imprisonment, was also granted bail. Special Central […] Read more » bail granted Neera Yadav
Top Law News Gujarat government pulled up for delay in food adulteration cases December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gujarat High Court has come down heavily on the state government for being slow in allowing tests and subsequent prosecution in food adulteration cases, which results in a case being quashed or the accused being acquitted. Though a hearing in the case of Pepsico India Holdings Ltd vs the state of Gujarat is still going […] Read more » food adulteration cases
Top Law News Women’s commission demands strict punishment for rapists December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Stringent punishment for rapists is essential to discourage such crimes, chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW) Girija Vyas said Monday. ‘It (rape cases) is a serious issue… and it is repeating again and again. I think that unless the culprits get severe punishment, the cases will occur again and again,’ Vyas said. She […] Read more » commission Women's
Top Law News Centre didn’t prevent NREGA fund diversion: Apex court December 13, 2010 / December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the central government for doing nothing to prevent the diversion by the states of funds allocated under National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). ‘This is a very serious issue,’ said an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia while hearing a public suit by the Centre for […] Read more » NREGA
Top Law News Supreme Court clears MCI’s common medical entrance test December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Medical Council of India ( MCI) to conduct a common test for undergraduate medical courses even as it decides on pending cases against the council. An apex court bench headed by Justice RV Ravindran said the central government did not need the court’s approval for framing the rules […] Read more » common medical entrance test MCI's
Top Law News Mayawati flays ‘anti-Dalit’ temple ritual in Karnataka December 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has slammed an age-old temple ritual in Karnataka where people, the majority of them Dalits, roll over plantain leaves with leftovers of meals eaten by Brahmins, believing this will cure them of skin ailments. Called the ‘urulu seve’ (roll over ritual), the tradition at […] Read more » 'anti-Dalit ritual temple
Top Law News Ex-MCI chief’s election to Gujarat varsity senate challenged December 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of doctors Friday filed a petition in the Gujarat High Court, seeking to disqualify Medical Council of India’s tainted former chief Ketan Desai from the senate of the Gujarat University. Desai was recently elected unopposed to the senate on a seat meant for a registered medical practitioner. ‘Desai managed to get elected ‘unopposed’ […] Read more » Gujarat senate varsity
Top Law News Court rider on information on officials’ assets December 11, 2010 / December 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday ordered public information officers (PIO) to issue notice and consider the objections of all concerned before passing an order on a Right To Information (RTI) disclosure of the annual property returns (APRs) of public servants. The court order came as it heard the petition of senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) […] Read more »
Top Law News Money stashed abroad not near $1.5 trillion, court told December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Friday gave the Supreme Court the status report on the action taken by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on money stashed away by Indian nationals in Swiss and German banks in Liechtenstein in Europe and said the amount is no way near the whopping sum of $1.5 trillion. There are twelve […] Read more »
Top Law News Need to look into Radia tapes leak: Government to apex court December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was taking every step to ensure that there was no leakage of the telephone tapes of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia in the 2G spectrum scam and that the leaks to the media needed to be looked into. The government said this in reply to […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court refuses to expunge ‘rotten’ remark December 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday upheld its controversial remarks that something was “rotten” in the Allahabad High Court where the “uncle judges syndrome” was rampant and needed cleansing. A bench of justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, while dismissing the Allahabad High Court’s related stories application for expunging of the remarks, however, clarified that […] Read more »