Top Law News Throw out corrupt subordinate court judges: Apex court May 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Subordinate court judges who indulge in corruption should be “thrown out”, an irate Supreme Court said Tuesday while criticising a woman additional district judge who superseded an apex court order directing a tenant to vacate premises. It also directed the Delhi High Court to take disciplinary action against her. The apex court bench of […] Read more » Additional District Judge apex court Archana Sinha Corrupt court judges Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju subordinate Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court slams judge for superseding its order May 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Apex court slams judge for superseding its order The Supreme Court Tuesday slammed Additional District Judge Archana Sinha for superseding its order in an eviction decree and asked the chief justice of the Delhi High Court to enquire into the matter. Judges Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra took offence to Sinha passing a detailed order which frustrated the apex court order directing […] Read more » Additional District Judge apex court Archana Sinha judge Judge Gyan Sudha Misra Judge Markandey Katju superseding
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
Top Law News CP shootout case: apex court confirms cop’s life sentence May 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed the appeal by former Delhi assistant commissioner of police (ACP) S.S. Rathi and others, undergoing life imprisonment for the killing of two people in a shootout in the capital’s Connaught Place area in 1997. Two people, Jagjit Singh and Pardeep Goel, were killed and another was injured in a shootout […] Read more » apex court confirms cops CP shootout case Delhi High Court Life sentence
Top Law News Khap leaders to seek review of apex court direction April 25, 2011 / April 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Within a week of the Supreme Court’s direction to state governments to rein in khap panchayats (caste councils) from issuing illegal diktats, khap leaders from across Haryana held a meeting here on Sunday and decided to seek a review of the order. During the ‘Sarva Khap Mahapanchayat’, khap leaders decided to file a review plea […] Read more » 'Sarva Khap Mahapanchayat' apex court direction Gyan Sudha Mishra justices Markandeya Katju Khap leaders review
Top Law News Khap panchayats’ diktats must be ruthlessly stamped out: Apex court April 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday held that diktats by ‘khap panchayats’ (caste councils) — aimed at coercing or committing atrocities on young boys and girls who wish to marry inter-caste/religion — were wholly illegal and should be ruthlessly stamped out. ‘We have, in recent years, heard of ‘Khap Panchayats’ (katta panchayats in Tamil Nadu) which often […] Read more » apex court diktats Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju khap panchayats ruthlessly stamped out
Top Law News Prohibit children’s employment in circuses: apex court April 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today banned the employment of children in circuses and directed the government to rescue children employed in the sector and formulate a rehabilitation programme for them. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari said that in order to protect the fundamental rights of children, it is imperative that the government issues notification […] Read more » apex court children's employment circuses Justice Dalveer Bhandari Prohibit Supreme Court
Top Law News CD controversy rages, Bhushans to move apex court April 17, 2011 / April 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CD controversy involving Lokpal Bill drafting committee co-chair Shanti Bhushan continued to rage Sunday with his son and panel member Prashant Bhushan terming the CD fake and announcing he would file a contempt case in the Supreme Court in a day or two. The Bhushans were backed by social reformer Anna Hazare, who said […] Read more » apex court Arvind Kejriwal Bhushans CD controversy Gujarat Chief Minister move Narendra Modi rages Shanti Bhushan
High Profile Cases NGO moves apex court over probe into cash-for-votes scam April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on NGO moves apex court over probe into cash-for-votes scam Referring to the US diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks on what has come to be known as the cash-for-votes scam, an NGO Monday approached the Supreme Court for a direction for constituting a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the case. The WikiLeaks expose hinted that the Congress allegedly bought MPs to win the 2008 […] Read more » apex court cash-for-votes scam Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.M. Lodha NGO probe SIT
Top Law News Don’t politicise black money case: Apex court April 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked all the contending parties in the black money case to refrain from politicizing the issue which was of larger national interest. An apex court bench of Justice B Sudarshan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar said this after senior counsel Ram Jethmalani told the court that the conversation between Maharashtra […] Read more » apex court black money Hasan Ali Khan Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy Justice SS Nijjar politicise Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Revisit system of judges appointment, apex court told April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The central government Monday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider the system of appointment of judges to higher judiciary as the existing collegium procedure has not delivered on expectations. The apex court bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan referred the matter to Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia to place the central government’s plea […] Read more » apex court Appointment Attorney General G. Vahanvati Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia judges Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Deepak Verma Revisit Supreme Court system
Top Law News Not enough being done to trace money trail abroad: Apex court March 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday rapped the central government for not doing enough to trace the sources of money stashed by multi-billion tax evader Hasan Ali Khan and others in foreign banks based in tax havens. An apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and Justice S.S, Nijjar said: “No consistent efforts have been made […] Read more » abroad apex court Enforcement Directorate Hasan Ali Khan Justice B.Sudarshan Reddy Justice S.S Nijjar officer Ashok Deshbhratar trace money trail