Top Law News Apex court reserves verdict in Ghaziabad courts’ scam October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a petition by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for transfer of the trial in the Ghaziabad district courts provident fund scam from Ghaziabad to Delhi. The apex court’s special bench headed by Justice D.K. Jain discharged District Judge V.C. Gupta from the charge that he was […] Read more » apex court Court Ghaziabad reserves scam verdict
Top Law News Former Kerala cop gets life term for Maoist’s murder October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A 40-year-old case came back to haunt a retired Kerala police officer Thursday when he was sentenced to life imprisonment by a CBI Special Court for killing a Maoist leader in cold blood and passing it off as a shootout. Retired Inspector General of Police K. Lakshmana, now 74, was found guilty of murdering the […] Read more » cop Former Kerala life Maoist murder term
Top Law News India, US can learn from constitutional experience: Moily October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Indian constitution is flexible and vulnerable to Supreme Court action, union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said, adding that India and the US can learn from each other’s experiences. He was speaking at a panel discussion on ‘Indian Constitution and the United States Bill of Rights’ here Wednesday. ‘This vulnerability of the (Indian) constitution […] Read more » constitutional experience India Moily US
Top Law News Two cases filed over MCD’s ghost staff, court told October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Police Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that two criminal cases had been registered on the issue of ghost employees in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The two first information reports (FIRs) were registered under penal provisions related to cheating, forgery and harbouring offenders. Police counsel Najmi Waziri informed the division bench of […] Read more » cases filed MCD staff two
Top Law News Man gets death sentence for raping, killing child October 28, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district Wednesday sentenced a man to death for the rape and murder of a minor girl, police said. Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Singh handed down the death sentence to Guddu alias Jitendra Kumar, a native of Gajnera village in Bareilly, some 250 km from here. Kumar had raped the […] Read more » child death killing raping sentence
Top Law News Apex court may take up Rathore’s bail plea October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday indicated that it might take up the bail application of former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, who is undergoing sentence in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The apex court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to indicate the conditionalities it would like to impose on the disgraced Indian Police Service officer […] Read more » apex court bail plea Rathore
Top Law News Apex court adjourns Lalit Modi case till Nov 11 October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday adjourned till Nov 11 the hearing on former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi’s petition challenging the composition of the Disciplinary Committee probing charges of financial irregularities against him. A bench of Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice H.L. Gokhale adjourned the hearing after senior counsel Ram Jethmalani appearing for Lalit […] Read more » adjourns apex court case Lalit Modi
Top Law News Gujarat High Court seeks details of EVM, e-voters October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court, hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) against introduction of online voting in local self-government bodies polls, has sought details of voters who cast ballot through the electronic voting machines (EVMs) and e-voting. In details available Wednesday, a bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Anant Dave, allowing the state government […] Read more » details e-voters EVM Gujarat High Court
Top Law News Over 60 or transgender? Get free legal aid in Haryana October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment All senior citizens and transgenders in Haryana will now be eligible to get free legal services, an official said here Wednesday. Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA) member-secretary H.S. Bhangoo said the state government has amended the Haryana State Legal Services Rules, 1966, to include senior citizens and transgenders in the list of people eligible […] Read more » aid free Haryana Legal transgender
Top Law News Jharkhand lawyers boycott courts October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jharkhand High Court lawyers Wednesday boycotted courts to protest against the ‘unparliamentarily remarks’ by some judges. The advocates Tuesday decided to boycott the courts of all the 11 judges from Wednesday to protest against the unparliamentarily remarks made by some of them, Jharkhand High Court Advocates Association leader Mantu Gope told. ‘Lawyers should be […] Read more » boycott courts Jharkhand lawyers
Top Law News Compensate Nandigram firing victims: Supreme Court October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the West Bengal government to pay compensation to all the victims of Nandigram police firing in 2007. The state government told the apex court that it had paid compensation only to those who were not involved in violence against the police. The apex court bench, headed by Justice RV […] Read more » Compensate firing Nandigram Supreme Court victims
Top Law News No patch up between Modi and BCCI, apex court told October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was on Wednesday informed that efforts for a patch up between former Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have failed. Modi’s counsel Ram Jethmalani told the apex court that attempts for a settlement, despite the best efforts, did not succeed. The […] Read more » apex court BCCI Modi patch up