Top Law News Supreme Court asks Vodafone to deposit Rs.2,500 crore November 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday directed telecom major Vodafone to deposit Rs.2,500 crore ($550 million) as part of a tax liability in the takeover of Hutch Essar group’s India operations. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia also said Vodafone has to provide a bank guarantee of Rs.8,500 crore to the government. The […] Read more » deposit Hutch Essar group’s Supreme Court Vodafone
Top Law News Apex court grants interim relief to Amar Singh, Jaya Prada November 15, 2010 / November 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday granted interim relief to former Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh and actor-turned politician Jaya Prada from being expelled as MPs even if they defy their party’s whip in the house. The apex court bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice Cyriac Joseph granted the relief while referring their matter […] Read more » Amar Singh apex court interim Jaya Prada Relief Samajwadi Party
Top Law News No rape by cops, girls tell Chhattisgarh court November 15, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two days after accusing four policemen of gang raping them in a police station complex in Chhattisgarhs Raigarh district, the two victims Friday retracted their earlier statements in a court Saturday. The girls told a local court at Gharghora town Friday that they were not raped by policemen. The girls, one of them a minor, […] Read more » Chhattisgarh cops Court girls No rape
Top Law News CBI files first charge sheet against Koda in graft case November 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed the first charge sheet against jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and his two associates in a graft case, a source in the federal agency said Saturday. The charge sheet against Koda, Vinod Sinha and Sanjay Chaudhary was filed in a Ranchi vacation CBI court Friday. […] Read more » CBI charge graft case Madhu Koda sheet
Top Law News Colors dragged to court for vulgarity, ‘fake’ wedding on ‘Bigg Boss’ November 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A civil court here has served notice to the chief executive officer (CEO) of Colors TV channel for showing vulgar content on reality show “Big Boss” and cheating the audience by organising the wedding of an already married couple. “The court of class two judge Suresh Srivastava served notice to the CEO of Colors TV […] Read more » Ali Merchant Bigg Boss Colors Court dragged fake Sara Khan vulgarity wedding
Top Law News Plan to settle all pending cases within three years: Moily November 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government has taken initiatives to dispose of all pending cases in various courts across the country within three years, union Law and Justice Minister M. Veerappa Moily said here Saturday. “The union government, besides taking steps for judicial reforms, is also modernising court administration across the country with the latest information technology,” Moily […] Read more » cases Moily pending plan Settle three within years
Top Law News Judges appointed without transparency: Delhi high court ex-chief justice November 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Appointment of judges in India is bereft of transparency and judicial benches need to be more diverse, former Delhi high court chief justice Ajit Prakash Shah said Saturday. ‘Our current appointments system is out of step with democratic culture, primarily because it lacks transparency, and provides for no oversight,’ Shah said. Known for his outspoken […] Read more » appointed ex-chief justice High Court judges transparency
Top Law News Pro-industry tribal groups move court for Vedanta project November 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment At least eight pro-industry tribal groups Friday moved the Orissa High Court against the central environment ministry’s order disapproving the London-listed Vedanta’s refinery expansion in the state citing violations, a lawyer said. The public suits were filed by residents of Kalahandi and Rayagada districts on behalf of their groups, lawyer Partha Mukherji told. ‘Most of […] Read more » groups Pro-industry tribal Vedanta project
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