Top Law News Pune-based company fired employee for being HIV positive back job after 3 years December 5, 2018 / December 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment PUNE: A Pune-based woman was reportedly terminated by her company, after she was diagnosed with HIV+ finally got her job back and got justice from the Labour Court which ruled in the complainant’s favour and ordered the company to reinstate her in the same post she was in. The court ordered the company to restore her in the same […] Read more » featured
Top Law News Petition in HC challenging Maharastra govt’s Maratha quota move December 4, 2018 / December 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: A petition was filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday seeking to strike down the reservation to Marathas as it is unconstitutional. According to the petitioner, advocate Gunaratna Sadavarte, the 16 per cent quotas for the Marathas recently announced by the state government was violative of the Constitution. On Nov 29, the Maharashtra legislature passed […] Read more » featured Maratha quota
Top Law News Supreme Court takes up plea for SIT probe on encounter killings in Gujrat December 4, 2018 / December 4, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on December 3 gave the Gujarat government a week to file an affidavit giving reasons why an apex court-appointed committee’s report on 22 ‘fake’ police encounters between 2002 and 2006 on which a report has been filed by an apex court appointed committee. A Bench, led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi […] Read more » featured
Top Law News SC wasn’t going in right direction under CJI Dipak Misra says Justice Kurien Joseph December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Justice Kurian Joseph, said that the Apex Court was not functioning in the right direction under Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra who was being controlled from outside and was allocating cases to judges with political bias. It had become a question of the independence of the judiciary, protection of democracy and the institution of the Supreme Court, […] Read more » featured former cji dipak misra Justice Kurian Joseph
Top Law News SC defers Zakia Jafri’s plea plea challenging clean chit to PM Modi in Gujarat riots till January December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the plea of Zakia Jafri challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the 2002 Gujarat riots till January third week. Zakia Jafri is the widow of slain Congress leader Ehsan Jafri who was killed in one of the worst incidents during the riots in […] Read more » 2002 gujrat riots featured
Top Law News Supreme Court directs Maharashtra government to submit charge sheet by December 8 in Koregaon-Bhima violence case December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to submit before it the chargesheet filed against arrested rights activists before a Pune court in connection with the Koregaon-Bhima violence case. The charge sheet in the case was earlier filed before a Pune court. A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it wanted to see the […] Read more » Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi featured justices km joseph Justices S.K. Kaul Koregaon-Bhima violence
Top Law News Madras HC grants two weeks’ parole to life convict to make conjugal visit December 3, 2018 / December 3, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment CHENNAI: A division bench of justices CT Selvam and P Ramathilagam Friday permitted Perumal, arrested in connection with a murder in 2008 lodged in the central prison in Cuddalore to exercise his conjugal rights. The Additional Public Prosecutor had pointed out that since the petitioner’s husband is an undertrial prisoner in two cases, the jail authorities are precluded […] Read more » featured justices CT Selvam justices P Ramathilagam Madras HC
Top Law News Delhi HC allows Alok Verma to inspect case file relating to Rakesh Asthana November 29, 2018 / November 29, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed Central Bureau of Investigation Director Alok Verma to inspect in the CVC’s office the case file relating to FIR against the agency’s Special Director Rakesh Asthana. Justice Najmi Waziri asked Verma to go to the commission’s office on Thursday and inspect the file. The High Court also extended […] Read more » Central Bureau of Investigation Director Alok Verma Justice Najmi Waziri
Top Law News Yogi Adityanath gets legal notice for calling Lord Hanuman Dalit November 29, 2018 / November 29, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment JAIPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath found himself in legal trouble as a right-wing group in Rajasthan has sent a legal notice to Adityanath after calling Lord Hanuman a Dalit. During a poll rally in Malakheda of Alwar district on Tuesday, Adityanath had said, “Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. Bajrang Bali worked […] Read more » featured Yogi Adityanath
Top Law News 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: HC upholds conviction of 80 people November 28, 2018 / November 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: In doing so, Justice R K Gauba upheld the jail terms of more than 80 people for their involvement in burning houses and violation of curfew during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The convicts had challenged the August 27, 1996 judgement of a Sessions Court which had convicted 88 out of the 107 people arrested on November 2, […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riots Justice R K Gauba
Top Law News SC transfers Muzaffarpur shelter home rape case to CBI November 28, 2018 / November 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the CBI to investigate the allegations of physical and sexual abuse of inmates at 16 shelter homes in Bihar. A bench headed by Justice Madan B Lokur transferred the investigation being conducted by Bihar Police to the CBI, and dismissed the state government’s request not to do so. The CBI is […] Read more » featured Justice Madan B. Lokur
Top Law News “Don’t Lay Your Liberties At The Feet Of Even A Great Man”: Chief Justice November 28, 2018 / November 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi on the occasion of ‘Constitution Day’ on Monday hosted a Dinner Which was beinf attended by the Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, judges of Supreme Court and judges from several neighbouring countries. Before the dinner, Justice Gogoi delivered a speech in which he […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Justice Ranjan Gogoi
