Top Law News Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court November 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court This scam puts all other scams put together to shame, remarked the Supreme Court on Wednesday during the hearing of the case, filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation on the 2G spectrum allocation. A Bench, comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, made its displeasure known at so many things […] Read more » apex court mother scams spectrum case
Top Law News Letter casts aspersions on judges hearing spectrum case November 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday revealed that it had received a letter alleging that the bench hearing the case related to allocation of spectrum to mobile companies had been ‘managed’. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice A.K. Ganguly’s revelation shocked the people present in the court including Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium and […] Read more » aspersions letter spectrum case
Top Law News Mirchpur caste violence: Apex court makes strong observations November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment ‘What is happening in the country’, an upset Supreme Court remarked Tuesday when told of how people belonging to the Valmiki community of Mirchpur village in Haryana’s Hissar district were deserting their village due to threats from those accused in an arson attack on the community in April. Witness after witness in the case of […] Read more » Mirchpur caste violence
Top Law News PM not to blame for delay in reply, Swamy tells apex court November 24, 2010 / November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former MP Subramanian Swamy Tuesday told the Supreme Court that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had no malafide intention in blocking his letter seeking sanction to prosecute then telecom minister Andimuthu Raja in the scandal involving spectrum allocation to mobile companies. “The prime minister had no evil or bad intention to delay decision on my letter,” […] Read more »
Top Law News Haryana bureaucrat gets five years’ jail for fraud November 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Haryana bureaucrat has been sentenced by a court in Karnal to five years’ imprisonment in a case of fraud, an official of the state vigilance bureau said Tuesday. Additional District and Sessions Judge Ravi Kumar sentenced Haryana Civil Services officer Deveshwar Dayal to five years’ imprisonment and imposed a penalty of Rs.45,000 on him. […] Read more »
Top Law News Apex court wants better work conditions in national tribunals November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the central government why one standard notification providing for uniform working conditions of all national tribunals was not being issued. The national tribunals are headed by former apex court judges. The court made this observation in the course of a hearing on a petition which said that the National Green […] Read more » apex court better conditions national tribunals work
Top Law News 2G spectrum probe: CBI tells apex court charge-sheet in March November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday told the Supreme Court that it would complete its investigation into the second-generation (2G) spectrum allocation scandal and file a charge-sheet by March next year. There was a transcript of taped telephone conversations running into 5,800 pages, out of which 3,500 pages had been analyzed. There were 6,000 […] Read more » 2G spectrum CBI probe
Top Law News Integrity rule also for judicial posts, government tells court November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Monday told the Supreme Court that if its criterion of central vigilance commissioner (CVC) being an outstanding civil servant of impeccable honesty and integrity was to be followed in all postings then every judicial appointment would come under scrutiny. “Impeccable honesty and integrity is a criterion for all the appointments under the constitution,” […] Read more » Court Government integrity judicial posts rule
Top Law News UN campaign to protect Delhi women from violence November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) Monday launched a programme here with the aim of checking violence against women and adolescent girls in public space. Delhi is one of the five cities across the world selected for the ‘Safe Cities’ programme. The other four cities where the programme, ‘Global Safe Cities Free of […] Read more » campaign Delhi UN violence women
Top Law News Can Thomas be an effective CVC, asks Supreme Court November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the central government if Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas could function effectively in view of various charges hurled against him. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia wondered if a person who is an accused and facing a chargesheet could head a watchdog body. The court asked […] Read more » Central Vigilance Commissioner CVC P.J. Thomas Supreme Court
Top Law News Protestors try to stop Arundhati at meet November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Eleven activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) were arrested Sunday for trying to prevent writer-activist Arundhati Roy from attending a meeting here, police said. Roy was invited to the event organised by human rights groups and tribal organisations. ‘We arrested 11 ABVP protestors,’ Deputy Commissioner of Police H.K. Lal told IANS. He said […] Read more » Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad Arundhati Roy Protestors
Top Law News Remove India, Pakistan border restrictions: Sikh pilgrims November 21, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The border restrictions between Pakistan and India should be abolished for peace and prosperity in the region, said a group of Sikh pilgrims from India. Over 4,000 Sikh pilgrims reached Pakistan by special trains through the Wagah border Friday to attend the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the first guru of Sikhism. Sikh pilgrims […] Read more » border India Pakistan restrictions Sikh pilgrims