Top Law News Consider all aspects before issuing summons, court tells judges September 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday held that the metropolitan magistrates should apply their mind and should consider the entire material and evidence placed on record before issuing summons against someone. Justice S.N. Dhingra passed the direction on a summoning order passed by a metropolitan magistrate entirely on the basis of the complaint of one party. […] Read more » aspects before Consider Court issuing judges summons
Top Law News Kashmir native named chief justice of state high court September 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a departure from its more than two decades old practice, the Supreme Court has recommended the appointment of Justice Nissar Ahmed Kakru, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, as the chief justice of the state’s high court. The apex court move comes even as the government has yet to take a final call on […] Read more » chief justice High Court Kashmir
Top Law News Court calls for amicable settlement of Ayodhya dispute September 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court calls for amicable settlement of Ayodhya dispute The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday called upon the rival parties to explore the possibility of a last-minute amicable settlement of the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The order was passed on an application moved by senior advocate Prashant Chandra on the 125-year old litigation over claims by Hindus and Muslims to the […] Read more » amicable Ayodhya Court dispute settlement
Top Law News Supreme Court issues notice to Raja on 2G allocation September 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to Communications and IT Minister A. Raja in connection with the 2G spectrum scam. The apex court also slammed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for filing a case against unnamed officials, and said that the investigating agency should have named them. The petitioner wants the apex […] Read more » 2G allocation issues notice Raja Supreme Court
Top Law News Good news for couples, Delhi relaxes marriage rules September 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Haryana’s khap panchayats, infamous for driving people to death or out of their clans and villages, be damned. Delhi is offering itself as the haven to run-away couples. Providing a helping hand to couples, the Delhi government Monday declared that a couple can marry in the capital and register their marriage within hours even if […] Read more » couples Delhi Good marriage relaxes Rules
Top Law News Pacheco questioned in illegal immigration case September 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Goa’s former tourism minister Francisco Pacheco alias Mickky was Friday questioned by Central Bureau of Investigation sleuths for immigration fraud. Pacheco, a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator, was questioned at the CBI office near Panaji on for nearly three hours. In a complaint registered Wednesday, the CBI had accused Pacheco and two others – Pedro […] Read more » case illegal immigration Pacheco questioned
Top Law News Apex court refuses to give relief to don Abu Salem September 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday rejected the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts accused and don Abu Salem’s plea that he could only be tried for the offences for which he was extradited from Portugal in 2005 and allowed his trial for other lesser offences. “Abu Salem can be tried for the offences for which he has been […] Read more » apex court don Abu Salem refuses Relief
Top Law News Court issues notice to defence secretary, IAF September 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday issued notices to the defence secretary and the Indian Air Force (IAF) over a plea seeking contempt proceedings against them for not granting permanent commission (PC) to nine serving women officers. Justice G.S. Sistani issued show cause notices to Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar and Air Marshal K.J. Mathews, air officer-in-charge […] Read more » Court defence secretary IAF issues notice
Top Law News Apex court sore over neglect of building workers’ welfare September 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday slammed the central government and states for their failure to implement two almost 15-year-old laws on the regulation of working conditions and welfare of construction industry labourers. The court expressed its displeasure at the total indifference of the central and state governments in implementing the Building and other Construction Workers (Regulation […] Read more » apex court building neglect workers welfare
Top Law News Court questions DDA on closure of sports complex for Games September 11, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday questioned the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna over the Siri Fort Sports Complex being closed to its members due to the Commonwealth Games Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mool Chand Garg issued notice and asked the DDA to submit before it the files containing details of […] Read more » closure Court DDA Games on questions Sports complex
Top Law News Crime against women rising in India: NCW member September 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Crime against women rising in India: NCW member A case of violence against a woman is registered in India every three minutes and every 29 minutes a woman is raped, National Commission for Women (NCW) member Wansuk Syiem said here Friday. Citing National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, Syiem said: “Over 7,600 women are killed each year because their in-laws consider the dowry […] Read more » against Crime India NCW member rising women
Top Law News Abu Salem can be tried for all crimes in India: Apex court September 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts accused and underworld don Abu Salem can be tried for all the crimes he had committed in the country. The court dismissed his plea that he could only be tried for the cases for which the Portugal court permitted his extradition. Justice P […] Read more » Abu Salem apex court crimes India