Top Law News Gujarat tribunal ex-chief moves high court for salary dues December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A retired Gujarat High Court judge has approached the court claiming salary dues on the ground that he should have been paid a higher salary than what he got during his nearly 10-month tenure as a tribunal chairman in 2006. Former judge H.H. Mehta approached the high court after the state government rejected his claim […] Read more »
Top Law News Making voting compulsory unfeasible: Quraishi December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Making voting compulsory unfeasible: Quraishi Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi Thursday opposed the idea of introducing compulsory voting, saying it was ‘neither desirable nor feasible’. ‘Democracy and compulsion don’t go together,’ Quraishi said at a press conference called to release consultation papers on electoral reforms. Quraishi said that educating people was a better option than making voting compulsory for bringing […] Read more » Quraishi
Top Law News Gadkari slaps defamation suit against Tewari December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Hitting back at allegations that he owned a ‘benami’ (held by proxy) flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing Society here, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari Thursday filed a defamation suit against Congress spokesman Manish Tewari . Gadkari in his complaint lodged before the Esplanade Metropolitan Court charged Tewari with making “false, baseless, reckless […] Read more » Nitin Gadkari
Top Law News Court upholds Rs.79,000 fine for cutting 1,500 trees December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court has upheld a penalty of Rs.79,000 slapped by the state government on a village head for chopping down more than 1,500 trees without permission. The court ruled that the authorities could impose the maximum fine of Rs.1,000 for each tree cut illegally. The penalty has been prescribed by the Saurashtra Felling […] Read more »
Top Law News President clears court probe against Prasar Bharti chief December 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment President Pratibha Patil has given her assent for a Supreme Court inquiry into charges of financial mismanagement against Prasar Bharti Chief Executive Officer (CEO) B.S. Lalli, official sources said Thursday. Sources said Patil’s assent came on a reference made by the government. It would set in motion the process for removal of Lalli, who can […] Read more » Pratibha patil
Top Law News Government told to hear TV channel out on ‘Bigg Boss’ row December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court Wednesday directed the union information and broadcasting ministry to serve a fresh show cause notice to Colors TV channel and give it a hearing over the content and timings of its reality show “Bigg Boss”. The direction came during the hearing on the ministry’s order last month to the channel to […] Read more » Bigg Boss
Top Law News Apex court reserves verdict on monitoring spectrum probe December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on a petition seeking its monitoring of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the 2G spectrum controversy. The petition was moved by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL). The court also expanded the scope of CBI investigation into the 2G spectrum controversy by directing it […] Read more » monitoring spectrum
Top Law News Bhopal gas tragedy: Centre, Dow issued notices December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the central government to file details of the steps taken by the Task Force Committee constituted for removing toxic waste from the Bhopal gas accident site, a lawyer said Wednesday. The division bench of Justice K.K. Lahoti and Justice Sushma Shrivastava Tuesday also directed […] Read more »
Top Law News CBI competent to handle alleged 2G scam, no comment: Sibal December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Communications Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday declined comment on the raids by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on the premises of his predecessor A. Raja and associates over the 2G spectrum allocation saying the matter was sub judice. “CBI is an independent, competent investigating agency. What it does, it does on its own. There […] Read more » CBI competent
Top Law News Have special courts for financial offences, says court December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday favoured the setting up of special courts to try offences of huge financial magnitude. The court said these courts could come up to try acts of crime covered by the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and other laws dealing with financial offences. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and […] Read more » financial offences
Top Law News Top law official suspended, Raja denies wrongdoing December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court Tuesday ordered the suspension of the Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry Bar Council chairman on charges of trying to influence a judge in a case linked to former central minister A. Raja, who has denied any wrongdoing. A division bench of Justice F.M. Ibrahim Khalifulla and Justice M.M. Sundaresh ordered the immediate […] Read more » denies Raja wrongdoing
Top Law News Bill against sexual harassment at workplace introduced December 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bill against sexual harassment at workplace introduced A bill aimed at preventing sexual harassment of women at workplace was introduced in parliament Tuesday. It includes a clause which brings students, research scholars, patients and women in the unorganised sector within the ambit of the proposed law. The Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill will be the first legislation addressing […] Read more » harassment sexual