Top Law News Computer knowledge must for budding judges: Apex court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that the new judges being appointed in lower courts must have the basic knowledge of computer operations. ‘It will be unfair to overlook basic knowledge of computer operation for being a judge’ when the steps were being taken for the computerization of the courts for their efficient management, said a […] Read more » apex court Budding Computer judges knowledge must
Top Law News Hang bride burners: Supreme Court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Unless all those who burn their wives are hanged, the barbaric crime would not stop, the Supreme Court has said. “This (bride burning) is barbaric and wild animal like behaviour and only when the perpetrators of such a crime are sent to the gallows the people will realise that bride burning is a crime,” said […] Read more » bride burners Hang Supreme Court
Top Law News Few isolated incidents in marriage not cruelty: Apex court October 10, 2010 / October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said married life should be assessed as a whole and few isolated incidents over a period of time would not amount to cruelty. “Sustained unjustifiable and reprehensible conduct affecting physical and mental health of the other spouse may lead to mental cruelty,” said a bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice […] Read more » apex court cruelty Few incidents isolated marriage not
Top Law News Second appeal under Hindu Marriage Act allowed, rules court October 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A second appeal under the Hindu Marriage Act is maintainable, the Gujarat High Court has ruled. Deciding the case of Varshaben Suthar vs Jayshankar Mistri, Justice K.A. Puj ruled, in a judgment made available Friday, that the second appeal against the judgment and decree of the first appellate court under the 1955 act would be […] Read more » allowed appeal Hindu Marriage Act rules court Second
Top Law News CBI seeks more time for 2G scam probe October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation Friday told the Supreme Court that it would require six more months to complete the probe in the 2G spectrum scam. It said it needed more time as a lot of investigation has to be done within the country and possibly outside also. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told the court […] Read more » CBI probe scam
Top Law News Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Bangalore cabbie gets life term for Pratibha murder Bangalore taxi driver Shiva Kumar was Friday sentenced to “life imprisonment till death” for the 2005 rape and murder of Hewlett Packard (HP) India employee Pratibha Murthy, prompting her mother to say tearfully that her daughter’s soul would now rest in peace. Judge B.V Guddali of the 11th fast track court pronounced the judgment in […] Read more » Bangalore cabbie life murder Pratibha term
Top Law News Test could have confirmed child’s paternity, court tells killer father October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gone are the days when it was said that maternity is a fact but paternity is a matter of opinion, the Supreme Court has said pointing out that with DNA test, the fact of both paternity and maternity can be established. The court said this while dismissing a man’s plea that he killed his infant […] Read more » child's confirmed Court father killer paternity test
Top Law News Kasab death penalty: Arguments in high court begin Oct 18 October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The decks were finally cleared Thursday in the Bombay High Court for the commencement from Oct 18 of the second phase of the legal case against Pakistani terrorist Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab. The Maharashtra government’s counsel Ujjwal Nikam, who appeared in the trial in the special court which awarded Kasab the death sentence May 6, […] Read more » Arguments begin death High Court Kasab Oct 18 penalty
Top Law News Court to hear plea on Doordarshan appointments October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court Thursday agreed to hear a petition filed by Prasar Bharati challenging an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) quashing the appointment of 25 TV news anchors and reporters in Doordarshan News. A bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog fixed Oct 26 for the next hearing. The bench also asked Harikesh Bahadur […] Read more » Appointments Court Doordarshan hear plea
Top Law News Shia leaders reject VHP’s Ayodhya proposal October 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prominent representatives of the Shia sect of Muslims here Wednesday rejected Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Ashok Singhal’s offer to hold talks on the Ayodhya issue. In a statement issued earlier during the day in Mumbai, Singhal had said that since the high court had dismissed the Sunni Waqf Board’s suit staking a claim to […] Read more » Ayodhya leaders proposal reject Shia VHP
Top Law News Rights of women in live-in relations under court lens October 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday reserved its verdict on the question whether a woman in a live-in relationship or under the mistaken belief of being the wife of an already married man was entitled to maintenance. The court will also interpret the provision of the Protection of Woman from Domestic Violence law which talks about live-in […] Read more » Court lens live-in relations rights under women
Top Law News Life sentence means freedom in India: Neelam Katara October 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Reacting to the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Priyadarshini Mattoo murder case, Neelam Katara, mother of another murder victim Nitish Katara, on Wednesday said life sentence in India “means freedom for the culprits”. “I know how it feels to lose one’s child. Life sentence in our country means freedom for the culprits, soon they are […] Read more » freedom India Life sentence Neelam Katara