Top Law News Court seeks views of NGOs, media in Gujarat riots case November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court hearing a case related to the Gulberg Society massacre during the 2002 Ahmedabad riots Monday sought the views of NGOs and the media on various aspects of the criminal litigation. Judge B.U. Joshi observed: “Since the matter in question is linked to national unity, it is necessary not to limit the scope […] Read more » Gujarat riots case
Top Law News Northeast students complain to PM, hold rally November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Holding placards and shouting slogans, scores of students and professionals from India’s northeast protested here Monday against the rape of a BPO staffer from Mizoram and submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Arijit Kakaty, a student of Delhi University who took part in the protest at Jantar Mantar in central Delhi, said: “It’s […] Read more » northeast students
Top Law News CBI files report in apex court on spectrum probe November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After the Supreme Court slammed it for not questioning former telecom minister Andimuthu Raja, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday filed a report on its probe into the scandal involving allocation of spectrum to mobile companies. The status report was filed in a sealed cover. The matter would come up for hearing Tuesday. The […] Read more » spectrum probe
Top Law News Conditional practicing licence for Gujarat law graduates November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The law graduates of Gujarat will now get licence to practice in courts without having to clear the professional test conducted by the Bar Council of India (BCI). Bar Council of Gujarat president J.J. Patel Monday said that a resolution in this regard has been passed and licences will be issued after taking an undertaking […] Read more » Gujarat law graduates
Top Law News Ratan Tata goes to court against publication of Radia tapes November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tata group chairman Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court Monday seeking judicial restraint on the publication of transcripts of phone intercepts of top corporate lobbyist Nira Radia with leading business, media and political figures on the ground of right to privacy. The petition was similar to what had been filed by Radia herself in the […] Read more » Nira Radia Ratan Tata tapes
Top Law News Government planning to raise widows’ pension November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The women and child development ministry Monday mooted various proposals to better the lives of widows in the country, including raising the pension to Rs. 1,500 a month. Releasing a study on the condition of widows in the Braj area of Uttar Pradesh here, D.K. Sikri, secretary of the ministry, said the ministry was planning […] Read more » pension widows
Top Law News Petition inquiring Sonia Gandhi’s religion dismissed November 29, 2010 / November 29, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday dismissed a petition which sought details on the religion of Congress president Sonia Gandhi from the Registrar General of Census Operations. A division bench of the high court dismissed the petition of former Haryana police chief P.C. Wadhwa, on whether the registrar general is bound to provide details […] Read more » religion Sonia Gandhi
Top Law News Court moved over ‘anti-India’ speech by Kashmiri separatist November 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A human rights activist Saturday filed a petition in a local court demanding registration of a case against Kashmiri separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq for his alleged anti-India speech at a seminar here earlier this week. Judicial Magistrate Paramjeet Kaur fixed Dec 1 for the hearing. ‘Separatist leaders like Mirwaiz should not be allowed to […] Read more »
Top Law News Demand for details on judges goes to constitutional bench November 27, 2010 / November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday referred to the constitution bench whether details including file notings and correspondence in pursuance to the appointment of judges to higher judiciary could be accessed under the Right to Information Act.’We are of the considered opinion that a substantial question of law as to the interpretation of the constitution is involved […] Read more »
Top Law News Don’t interfere in governance, CJI tells courts November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court Chief Justice SH Kapadia on Friday urged the courts to refrain from interfering in the governance of the country as otherwise they would become like a bull in a china shop. Chief Justice Kapadia, who touched on several issues in the course of his address on the National Law Day, told the courts […] Read more » CJI
Top Law News Police to patrol ‘unsafe’ areas after BPO staffer’s gangrape November 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after a northeastern woman working in a BPO was abducted and gangraped in the capital, Delhi Police on Friday agreed to the demand of a northeast delegation that special patrolling will be done in ‘unsafe’ areas of the city. Madhu Chandra, spokesperson of the Northeast Support Centre and Helpline, who led a delegation […] Read more » 'unsafe Gangrape patrol police
Top Law News Plea on appointment of judges referred to larger bench November 26, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday referred to the larger bench a petition seeking details of the apex court collegium on the appointment of judges in higher judiciary. Using the Right To Information (RTI) Act, the petitioner Subhash Agarwal had also sought information on the correspondence between the chief justice of India and the government on such […] Read more »