Top Law News Court stays arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders November 25, 2011 / November 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court stays arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders Four Congress leaders, including two union junior ministers, got a breather after the Allahabad High Court Thursday stayed their arrest in a case of allegedly assaulting Samajwadi Party (SP) activists during Congress general secretary’s Rahul Gandhi rally in Phulpur, a lawyer said. A division bench of the high court stayed the arrest following a petition […] Read more » Allahabad High Court counsel Samit Gopal Court stays arrest of Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders
Top Law News CBI to probe rural health scheme in Uttar Pradesh November 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court Tuesday ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe alleged financial lapses in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) across Uttar Pradesh, a lawyer said. The Lucknow bench of the high court comprising Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi passed the order on a public suit filed by […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice Pradeep Kant Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi rural health scheme in Uttar Pradesh
Top Law News Rita Bahuguna’s plea sent to high court chief justice November 9, 2011 / November 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court to place before an appropriate bench Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s plea seeking a CBI probe into the 2009 attack on her Lucknow house by suspected Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers. An apex court bench of Justice A.K. Ganguly and […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Rita Bahuguna's plea sent to high court chief justice
High Profile Cases Greater Noida land row: Land acquisition of 3 villages cancelled October 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A full bench of the Allahabad High Court today ordered cancellation of land acquisition of three villages – Asadullapur, Shaberi and Devla village – in Noida extension while ordered hiked compensation in 64 villages besides raising the developed areas to be given to the farmers by the developers. The court also ordered a high-level probe […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Greater Noida land row Justice Ashok Bhushan Justice S U Khan Justice V K Shukla Land acquisition of 3 villages cancelled
Top Law News Three vacancies for judges in Supreme court August 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There are three vacancies for judges in the Supreme Court and 284 in various high courts, the Rajya Sabha was informed Monday. Minister of Law and Justice Salman Khurshid said in a written reply ‘…the main reason for the large number of vacant posts is that the government has not received sufficient proposals to fill up […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice Salman Khurshid Three vacancies for judges in Supreme court
Top Law News Supreme court admits plea against Ayodhya verdict August 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday admitted a petition by the Akhil Bhartiya Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Punarudhar Samiti challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict in the Babri Masjid case. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.M. Lodha, while admitting the petition, tagged it with the main case. The Sunni Waqf Board, which opposed […] Read more » Akhil Bhartiya Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Punarudhar Samiti Allahabad High Court Babri Masjid case Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha Sunni Waqf board Supreme Court Supreme court admits plea against Ayodhya verdict
Top Law News Greater Noida farmers now want Rs.11,500 per square metre August 1, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Farmers from Greater Noida Sunday demanded a compensation at the rate of Rs.10,000-11,500 per square metre for their acquired lands, a village headman said. The demand is a part of a charter to be given to the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority and filed in the Allahabad High Court, which is hearing the farmers’ petitions […] Read more » Allahabad High Court GPM Gramin Panchayat Morcha Greater Noida farmers Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority land acquisition in Greater Noida
Top Law News Now spotlight on land acquisition in Ghaziabad July 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Fingers are now being pointed at the acquisition of 8,700 acres of land spanning 18 villages in Ghaziabad for a “hi-tech city” even as the Uttar Pradesh government faces flak for acquiring agricultural land for private builders in Greater Noida . This time the land being acquired is for Hi-Tech City, a modern township, the […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Ghaziabad Ghaziabad Development Authority Land acquisition Land Acquisition Act. Sun City Supreme Court Uppal Chadha group
Criminal Law News Court questions Uttar Pradesh on police station death July 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on Court questions Uttar Pradesh on police station death Raising questions over the Uttar Pradesh police report on the murder and alleged rape of a teenaged girl in a police station, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court Monday sought more details on the case from the state government by July 8, a lawyer said. While hearing a petition seeking a Central Bureau […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Central Bureau of Investigation Court police station death questions Uttar Pradesh
Top Law News Apex court stays ‘strange, surprising’ Babri verdict May 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court stays ‘strange, surprising’ Babri verdict Calling it ‘a strange and surprising order’ as none of the parties had sought a partition, the Supreme Court Monday stayed last year’s Allahabad High Court verdict dividing the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmbhoomi disputed site into three parts. While Muslim groups welcomed the ruling, the BJP and RSS hoped that all legal impediments to a Ram temple […] Read more » Allahabad High Court apex court Babri verdict Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha strange surprising
Media & Entertainment News Court tells railways to pay Rs.5 lakh relief to Arunima April 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the Indian Railways to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha whose left leg had to be amputated after she was pushed off a running train last week, a lawyer said. Arunima was pushed out of the general compartment of the […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Arunima Court railways Relief Rs.5 lakh
Top Law News Court notice to airlines, DGCA on high fares April 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Allahabad High Court Monday issued notices to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the management of Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Go Air, IndiGo and other private airlines for fleecing passengers by suddenly hiking air fares. The petitioners, comprising some local activists and advocates, had sought the court’s intervention to restrain the private airlines from indiscriminately […] Read more » airlines Allahabad High Court Chief Justice F.I. Rebello Court DGCA Go Air high fares IndiGo Jet Airways Kingfisher notice