Environment Law News Apex court to hear plea to hike Bhopal gas victims’ relief February 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it would hear a petition of the central government seeking enhancement of compensation for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy to the tune of Rs.7,500 crore. The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Altmas Kabir, Justice R.V. Raveendran, Justice B. Sudershan Reddy and Justice Aftab […] Read more » apex court Bhopal gas tragedy Bhopal gas victims hike Justice Aftab Alam Justice Altmas Kabir Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice R.V. Raveendran methyl isocyanate gas of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia plea Relief Union Carbide
Top Law News Private schools are money spinning enterprises: Apex court February 24, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said private schools were money- spinning enterprises and asked them to wake up to their corporate-social responsibility by educating poor children.The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said this on a petition by the Society for Unaided Private Schools of Rajasthan. […] Read more » apex court Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia economically weaker section (EWS) enterprises Justice K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan Justice Swatanter Kumar money Private schools spinning
Media & Entertainment News Kolkata cops guilty, Rizwanur’s mother tells apex court February 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday was told that the right to love and marriage was a part of the fundamental right to live and Kolkata policemen who allegedly acted in its violation in the Rizwanur Rahman-Priyanka Todi inter-religious marriage case should be punished. Computer graphic teacher Rizwanur, who married businessman Ashok Todi’s daughter Priyanka in August […] Read more » apex court Ashok Todi CBI Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR (first information report) guilty Kishwar Jahan Kolkata cops Rizwanur's mother
Top Law News Apex court seeks status report on K.G. Balakrishnan February 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court Friday asked Attorney General G. Vahanvati to submit the status report on the home ministry’s investigation into a complaint alleging former chief justice K.G. Balakrishnan possessed wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatantra Kumar gave the attorney […] Read more » apex court Attorney General G. Vahanvati Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Swatantra K.G. Balakrishnan National Human Rights Commission President Pratibha Patil Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court questions Thomas’ appointment procedure January 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it wanted to know if correct procedure was followed in the selection of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) P.J. Thomas. The court asked if withholding information from a high-powered committee for the CVC’s selection about a pending charge sheet against Thomas and the sanction granted by the Kerala government to prosecute […] Read more » apex court Appointment Thomas
Top Law News Black money: Apex court seeks details on government steps January 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After being criticized by the Supreme Court and the Opposition for its handling of black money deposited by industrialists and others in foreign bank accounts, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government has nothing to hide, and added that India cannot violate secrecy laws to reveal names in the Swiss trail. “No information […] Read more » apex court black money Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
Banking & Finance Law News Cabinet discusses black money issue after apex court rap January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh raised the issue of black money during a cabinet meeting here Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court queried why the government cannot name those involved in this $1.5-trillion “national plunder”. The discussion came against the backdrop of the apex court coming down heavily on the government’s reluctance to provide full […] Read more » apex court black money Manmohan Singh Nitin Gadkari
Top Law News Indian money stashed abroad a national plunder: Apex court January 19, 2011 / January 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme court Wednesday said the stashing away of ill-gotten money outside the country in foreign banks was a “national plunder” and asked the government to give it all the information it had on Indians who had siphoned off their illicit money to tax havens. Describing as “mind boggling” the amount of money that […] Read more » apex court Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) national plunder Ram Jethmalani
Top Law News Why hide names of foreign account holders, asks apex court January 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday asked the central government what was its difficulty in disclosing the names of people who have stashed away huge amounts of money in Swiss and German banks in Liechtenstein principality in Europe.”What is the privilege” in not disclosing their names, asked the apex court bench of Justice B. Sudarshan Reddy and […] Read more » account apex court CBDT foreign holders The Central Board of Direct Taxes
Top Law News Why was TRAI silent for two years: Apex court on 2G December 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday asked why the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was silent for two years on 85 ineligible firms bagging 2G spectrum and the remaining companies that got the airwaves failing to rollout services in varying degrees. “Apart from the issues being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) why was […] Read more » 2G apex court TRAI
Top Law News Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court November 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Spectrum case is mother of all scams: Apex court This scam puts all other scams put together to shame, remarked the Supreme Court on Wednesday during the hearing of the case, filed by the Centre for Public Interest Litigation on the 2G spectrum allocation. A Bench, comprising Justice G S Singhvi and Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, made its displeasure known at so many things […] Read more » apex court mother scams spectrum case
Top Law News Apex court wants better work conditions in national tribunals November 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the central government why one standard notification providing for uniform working conditions of all national tribunals was not being issued. The national tribunals are headed by former apex court judges. The court made this observation in the course of a hearing on a petition which said that the National Green […] Read more » apex court better conditions national tribunals work