Top Law News Apex court gives bail to Kolkata businessman September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court gives bail to Kolkata businessman The Supreme Court Monday granted bail to businessman Prabhu Shankar Agarwal, owner of the Haldiram Bhujiawala shop in Kolkota, who was awarded life sentence for attempting to kill the owner of a tea stall adjacent to his outlet. Agarwal was convicted for criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder tea stall owner Promod Sharma alias Thakur, […] Read more » apex court bail businessman Kolkata
Top Law News Ayodhya: Judge issues dissenting note, favours conciliation September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a surprise move, one of the three judges of the Allahabad High Court’s special Ayodhya bench Monday issued a dissenting note on the order issued by his two co-judges and allowed postponement of the verdict on the long-pending Babri Masjid/Ramjanmabhoomi row. Justice Dharma Veer Sharma also disagreed with his co-judges of the Lucknow bench […] Read more » Ayodhya conciliation dissenting favours issues judge note
Top Law News Apex court dismisses Gawli petition for bail September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition by Mumbai’s underworld don Arun Gulab Gawli seeking bail in a case under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act. The apex court bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma, dismissing Gawli’s petition, directed the trial court to expedite the trial. The court said that […] Read more » apex court bail dismisses Gawli petition
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects Sajjan Kumar’s plea September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday rejected Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s appeal seeking the quashing of the framing of charges against him in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and Anil R. Dave, however, said the trial court would remain uninfluenced by the adverse observation made by […] Read more » plea rejects Sajjan Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News Stalemate over Telangana lawyers’ agitation continues September 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The stalemate over the agitation of Telangana lawyers who are seeking 42 percent share in the appointment of judicial officers continued on Saturday as the hunger strike by three lawyers went on for the sixth day. The three lawyers, whom the police forcibly shifted from the high court premises to the Gandhi Hospital early Friday, […] Read more » agitation continues lawyers Stalemate Telangana
Top Law News Extend regular police system to Uttarakhand hills: Court September 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Upholding a death sentence, the Supreme Court has said that villagers in the hilly districts of Uttarakhand should have the ‘protection and services of the regular police’ instead of prevailing system of village police under a ‘patwari’ (revenue official). ‘It is really strange that the four districts which are in the plains have the advantage […] Read more » Court Extend police regular system Uttarakhand hills
Top Law News No amicable solution or delaying Ayodhya verdict: Court September 18, 2010 / September 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A week before it is scheduled to announce its verdict in the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid row, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Friday turned down a plea for directing an out-of-court amicable settlement of the dispute, noting several such attempts in the past had gone in vain. The court also slapped costs of Rs.2 […] Read more » amicable Ayodhya Court delaying No solution verdict
Top Law News Court reserves order in judge’s termination case September 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday reserved its order on a petition filed by a trial court judge challenging his termination by the Delhi government on charges of corruption. Metropolitan Magistrate Gautam Kant Nimaan of the Rohini district court challanged the lieutenant governor’s order on the grounds that he was removed arbitrarily, which was against the […] Read more » case Court judge order reserves Termination
Top Law News Rules for common test to medical courses finalised September 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Friday informed the Supreme Court that it had finalised the rules and regulations for all India common entrance test (CET) for post-graduate medical courses. The government also told the apex court that it had finalised the rules and regulations for undergraduate medical course. Solicitor General Gopal Subramanium told Justice R.V. Raveendran and […] Read more » common courses finalised medical Rules test
Top Law News Telangana lawyers clash with police at high court September 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fresh trouble broke out at the Andhra Pradesh High Court Friday as a group of agitating lawyers tried to break into the court complex and clashed with police. Some lawyers, a police officer and a mediaperson were injured in the clash that broke out after a large number of lawyers from city, civil and criminal […] Read more » clash High Court lawyers police Telangana
Top Law News Allahabad High Court refuses to defer Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid verdict September 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An effort for deferring the judgement in the 60-year-old title suit in the Ram Janmabhoomi -Babri Masjid dispute was Friday rebuffed by the Allahabad High Court, which will now pronounce its verdict on Sept 24. Delivering its judgement on a petition filed by one Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, the three-judge special bench of the court opined […] Read more » Allahabad High Court defer Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid refuses verdict
Top Law News Two more judges recuse themselves from Virbhadra case September 17, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two more judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court Friday recused themselves from hearing Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh’s plea to transfer the alleged corruption case against him to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a day after another judge refused to hear the case. A division bench of Justice R.B. Misra and Justice V.K. […] Read more » judges recuse Virbhadra case