Top Law News Bhopal gas survivors hold candlelight vigil, vow to fight on June 8, 2010 / June 9, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Activists and survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on Tuesday held a candlelight vigil in Bhopal to protest the two-year jail term to the Union Carbide officials found guilty for the disaster, and resolved to continue their fight for justice. Hundreds of people gathered in front of the now defunct Union Carbide Corporation’s pesticide […] Read more » Bhopal gas survivors
Top Law News Eight held guilty for Bhopal gas tragedy, get two years in jail June 7, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Twenty-six years after the world’s worst industrial disaster that had left over 15,000 people dead, a local court today convicted all the eight accused including former Union Carbide Chairman Keshub Mahindra in the Bhopal Gas tragedy case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Mohan P Tiwari pronounced the verdict in a packed court room convicting 85-year-old Mahindra, and […] Read more » Bhopal gas tragedy
Top Law News Did Shivraj Patil ask Dikshit to delay Afzal Guru’s hanging? June 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Sunday stopped short of denying that former home minister Shivraj Patil had asked her government to delay a decision on parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s hanging. ‘May be what you are thinking is true,’ Dikshit told a news channel when asked if Patil had asked her to keep the matter […] Read more » Afzal Guru's hanging Dikshit Shivraj Patil
Top Law News High courts’ bid to curb litigation worries government June 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment High courts may be referring inter-governmental disputes to central panels for resolution in order to reduce litigation, but this is giving rise to constitutional problems, says the union law ministry. “Instances have come to the notice of the cabinet secretariat where some of the high courts have given instructions to its Committee on Disputes (CoD) […] Read more » curb litigation
Top Law News Compensation for two women who delivered on the streets June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking serious note of the fact that reproductive rights of women were still not guaranteed in spite of various schemes being in place, the Delhi High Court has awarded compensation to two women who gave birth on the streets because of the government’s negligence. Justice S. Muralidhar Friday awarded compensation of Rs.240,000 to the family […] Read more » Compensation delivered streets
Top Law News Court stays panel on Delhi’s mobile phone towers June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court stays panel on Delhi’s mobile phone towers Keeping at abeyance the sealing of illegal mobile phone towers in the city, the Delhi High Court on Monday ordered the central government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to form a panel and file a report by Sep 15 on regulation of towers. Justice Kailash Gambhir said the department of telecommunications and the […] Read more » Delhi's mobile phone towers
Top Law News Bail plea of former MCI chief rejected June 4, 2010 / June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday rejected the bail plea of former Medical Council of India (MCI) chief Ketan Desai, arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in April for allegedly accepting a bribe. Rejecting Desai’s application, Justice Mukta Gupta said: ‘Desai is the main accused and now being in custody, people are coming forward […] Read more » former MCI chief Ketan Desai
Top Law News Women too can be booked for domestic violence, rules court June 4, 2010 / June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday ruled that mother-in-law too can be charged under the Domestic Violence Act. A division bench of Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice Ajit Bharihoke said, “It is common knowledge that in case a wife is harassed by husband, other family members may also join him in treating her cruelly. And […] Read more » domestic violence
Top Law News All demoted women cops now promoted: Haryana to apex court June 4, 2010 / June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Haryana government Friday told the Supreme Court that all the women police personnel who were demoted after being promoted as assistant sub-inspectors, sub-inspectors and inspectors in 2005 have been re-promoted. Counsel for the Haryana government Manjit Singh Dalal told the vacation bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan that except in one […] Read more » demoted women cops
Top Law News Hooda backs khap panchayats on same-gotra marriages June 3, 2010 / June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Thursday indirectly extended his support to khap panchayats (kangaroo courts) which are demanding a complete ban on the marriages within the same gotra or ancestral lineage. While expressing his views on same-gotra marriages, Hooda said: ‘In my view, marriages in the same gotra are not appropriate.’ ‘Khap panchayats work […] Read more » Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda khap panchayats
Top Law News Lawyers ordered to give free legal aid for assaulting judge June 3, 2010 / June 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday asked nine lawyers allegedly involved in the manhandling of a judge in Rohini District Courts to provide free legal aid to the poor for two years and quashed all the proceedings against them. A special three-judge bench comprising Justice Vikramjit Sen, Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice A.K. Sikri quashed […] Read more » free legal aid
Top Law News Apologies can help resolve legal disputes June 3, 2010 / June 4, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Apologies can potentially help resolve legal disputes ranging from injury cases to wrongful firings, according to new research. Jennifer Robbennolt, professor of law and psychology, University of Illinois, says apologies can give wounded parties a sense of justice and satisfaction that promotes settlements and trims demands for damages. “Conventional wisdom has been to avoid apologies […] Read more » Apologies legal disputes resolve