Top Law News ‘Barbaric’ murder of wife deserves noose: Apex court November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Crimes against women are ‘social crimes’ and ‘disrupt the entire social fabric’, the Supreme Court Friday noted and asked a man convicted of murdering his wife why his life imprisonment should not be enhanced to death sentence. The ‘brutal and barbaric’ murder of a wife that ‘outrages the modern conscience’ belongs to the rarest of […] Read more » apex court Barbaric deserves murder noose wife
Top Law News Sacking of Haryana Public Service Commission chief upheld November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday upheld the Haryana government’s decision to sack former Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) chairman Mehar Singh Saini as well as members Santosh Singh and Ram Kumar Kashyap and declared them ‘guilty of misbehaviour’ on various counts. They ‘failed to maintain the required standards of integrity and rectitude in performance of their […] Read more » chief Haryana Mehar Singh Saini Om Prakash Chautala's Public Service Commission Ram Kumar Kashyap sacking Santosh Singh upheld
Top Law News Ishrat Jahan case: apex court upholds special probe team November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by the Gujarat government challenging the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the killings of Ishrat Jahan and three others’ in a suspected fake shootout by the state police. The Gujarat government had moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court order […] Read more » apex court Ishrat Jahan case upholds
Top Law News Family size can be basis for subsidised food quota: Court November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday asked the central government to consider if the distribution of food grains under the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) for below poverty line (BPL) people could be based on the number of members in a family holding a ration card. ‘You can’t give 35 kg of food grains to a family […] Read more » Family food quota size subsidised
Top Law News Eliminate beggary in humane manner, states told November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All states have been asked to develop a data base on the extent of beggary and to eliminate it rapidly, but in a ‘humane’ manner, Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment D. Napolean said Thursday. In a written reply, Napolean told the Rajya Sabha that union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul […] Read more » beggary Eliminate humane manner states
Top Law News 2G spectrum allocation flawless, government tells apex court November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Thursday told the Supreme Court that the department of telecommunication (DoT) acted in public interest and in pursuance of its policy decision while allocating 2G spectrum licences to telecom operators in 2008. In an affidavit filed Thursday, the government opposed a plea of petitioner Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) that either the […] Read more » allocation apex court flawless Government spectrum
Top Law News Four convicted in Aman Kachru ragged-to-death case November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here Thursday held four medical students guilty of ragging to death their junior Aman Kachru in March last year. Ajay Verma, Naveen Verma, Abhinav Verma and Mukul Sharma from the Rajendra Prasad Medical College and Hospital in Tanda in Kangra district were found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder by Additional […] Read more » Aman Kachru case convicted death four ragged
Top Law News Apex court rejects Raju’s plea on surrender November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected an application by former chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd B . Ramalinga Raju seeking four weeks to surrender before the trial court. The Supreme Court had Oct 26 cancelled Raju’s bail and had directed him to surrender before the authorities on or before Nov 10. Raju sought four weeks […] Read more » apex court plea Raju rejects Satyam Computer Services Ltd surrender
Top Law News Monica Bedi’s conviction upheld, sentence reduced November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of actress Monika Bedi, girlfriend of underworld don Abu Salem, in the fake passport case but reduced her sentence to period of jail term she had already undergone. A bench of justices B Sudershan Reddy and S S Nijjar rejected Monika’s plea that she could not be […] Read more » Abu Salem conviction Monica Bedi reduced sentence upheld
Top Law News Delhi to host gay parade this month November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi is all set to host the third edition of the Gay Pride parade Nov 28, an organiser said Monday. A celebration by gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders, the parade is expected to see around 2,000 people march from the Barakhamba Road to Jantar Mantar in central Delhi. ‘The venue for the march is actually […] Read more » Delhi gay host parade
Top Law News Bengal plots for distinguished people under apex court scanner November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday directed the West Bengal government to file an affidavit stating the number of residential plots under the chief minister’s discretionary quota which have not been allotted so far. ‘File a short affidavit stating as of date the number of plots under the chief minister’s discretionary quota that have not been allotted […] Read more » apex court Bengal distinguished plot's scanner
Top Law News Won’t give directions which may be questioned: Apex court November 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would refrain from issuing a direction which may be questioned on the grounds on its (apex court) authority or jurisdiction. “Once we issue an order, we will take it to its logical conclusion. We don’t want to be confronted with grey areas,” said the apex court bench […] Read more » apex court directions questioned