Top Law News SC rejects plea on restraining jailbirds from contesting poll December 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea challenging an amendment in Representation of People’s Act allowing jailbirds, except convicts, to contest elections, which was earlier barred by it. “If there is conviction and sentence, we can understand but the registration of an FIR and confinement is not sufficient to bar a person from contesting election,” […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu vendetta politics
Environment Law News Has any State shown sympathy to animals : Chief Justice November 19, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Has any State shown sympathy to animals : Chief Justice Shown photographs of plastic garbage surgically removed from urban cows, a visibly angry Chief Justice of India on Tuesday slammed the lack of implementation of environmental laws in the country, saying he would ask the officials to put them up in their drawing rooms as a reminder of their duties. The observations came on a […] Read more » ban plastic bags Chief Justice H.L. Dattu disposal of plastic bags Environment Pollution Act Karnataka Government NGO Karuna Society of Animals Senior advocate Shyam Divan Swachh Bharat Abhiyan sympathy to animals
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Migrants’ deportation to B’desh; SC issues notice to Centre November 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today issued notices to the Centre and the states on a plea seeking its direction to them not to deport back to Bangladesh the migrants who had come to India from there between 1947 and 1971. Agreeing to hear the PIL, a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu sought responses […] Read more » Advocate Dhirendra Kumar Mishra Chief Justice H.L. Dattu Migrants' deportation to B'desh PIL filed by NGO 'Joint Action Committee for Bengali Refugee'
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Can’t restrict companies from extracting coal: SC October 16, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said that it cannot restrict the companies whose mining licences have been cancelled by it from extracting coal as they have been asked to continue with their operations for six months till alternate arrangements are made. The apex court bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice […] Read more » Can't restrict companies from extracting coal Chief Justice H.L. Dattu extracting coal Justice A.K. Sikri Justice Madan B. Lokur SC
Court, Judiciary & Legal System SC gives precedence to sugarcane farmers over banks October 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday said that the sugarcane farmers will have precedence over banks for the recovery of their dues from mills as they are in the state of financial distress and are prone to commit suicide. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, while dismissing appeals by the State Bank of […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu SC gives precedence to sugarcane farmers over banks sugarcane farmers
Bar, Bench & Firm News Gallows only for meticulously executed diabolic murders: SC October 12, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that when an accused executes a meticulously planned diabolic murder, without provocation or acting on the spur of the moment, and becomes a menace to society, then the crime falls in the category of rarest of rare cases warranting the death sentence. “In our considered view, the “rarest of the […] Read more » Chief Justice H.L. Dattu diabolic murders Jharkhand High Court Justice Arun Mishra Justice R.K. Agrawal
Top Law News SC refuses to lift ban on animal sacrifice in Kulu Dussehra October 9, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment he Supreme Court onWednesday refused to vacate or suspend an order banning animal sacrifice during Kulu Dussehra and in other religious rituals of the Kulu region of Himachal Pradesh. The apex court bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice S.A. Bobde and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre declined to order an interim suspension of the Himachal […] Read more » animal sacrifice during Kulu Dussehra ban on animal sacrifice Chief Justice H.L. Dattu Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre Justice S.A. Bobde Kulu Dussehra senior counsel Kiran Suri
