High Profile Cases Court accepts Class 12 ‘topper’ as minor in cheating July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A district court here today accepted that the controversial Humanities ‘topper’ in the Bihar Intermediate Examination, who has been arrested in connection with an examination cheating racket, is a minor. Special Vigilance court judge Raghvendra Kumar Singh accepted that the girl is a minor on the basis of her matriculation certificate which mentioned her date […] Read more » Bihar Intermediate Examination Bihar School Examination Board BSEB Class 12 'topper' as minor in cheating Court Criminal news featured Legal News Special Investigation Team
Top Law News Akshardham case: Guj govt opposes plea in SC July 3, 2016 / July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Gujarat government has opposed in the Supreme Court a plea by six persons, acquitted by the apex court in the 2002 Akshardham terror attack case, seeking compensation for their ‘wrongful’ arrest, saying it would have a “serious demoralising effect” on the investigating agencies. It said that since the trial court as well as the […] Read more » Akshardham case Court featured Gujarat government Law Legal News plea Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Two given life imprisonment for killing 5-yr-old boy July 3, 2016 / July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A local court has handed down life imprisonment to two men in a murder case of a five- year-old boy two years ago. Additional District Judge Ratnesh Mani Tripathi yesterday awarded life imprisonment to Santosh Pandey and Neetu Singh for killing Roshan (5) on Jan 16, 2014 in Joplinganj locality in the city. The incident […] Read more » Court criminalnews featured Law life imprisonment murder case
Criminal Law News Delhi HC stays rustication of JNU student July 3, 2016 / July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has put on hold the rustication of a JNU student who had accused a hostel warden of sexual harassment, saying the university did not follow the prescribed procedure while taking the decision. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva stayed the May 30 decision of Jawaharlal Nehru University to rusticate the female student for one […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi High Court featured JNU students Law sexual harassment
Environment Law News NGT notice to UP government on green cover loss July 3, 2016 / July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has sought the Uttar Pradesh government’s response on a plea alleging loss of green cover in Mathura’s Jawahar Bagh, where clashes between encroachers and security personnel left 29 people, including two policemen, dead recently. A bench headed by Justice M S Nambiar issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Principal Secretary, Principal […] Read more » Court Environment Law News featured green cover loss Law Legal News NGT UP government
Consumer Law News Rs 19.57l compensation for kin of road mishap vic July 3, 2016 / July 4, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Family members of a 44-year-old woman, who died in a road accident involving a rashly-driven vehicle, have been awarded Rs 19.57 lakh compensation by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here. MACT Presiding Officer Raj Paul Singh Teji directed National Insurance Company Ltd, insurer of the offending tractor, to pay a compensation of Rs 19,57,958 […] Read more » Compensation Court featured insurance Law Legal News road mishap case
Criminal Law News Merc hit-and-run case: Accused youth seeks documents July 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A teenager, who allegedly ran over a 32-year-old marketing executive while driving his father’s Mercedes here in April, today sought in a Delhi court proper copies of some “deficient and illegible” documents supplied to him with the charge sheet. Additional Sessions Judge Vimal Kumar Yadav directed the Delhi Police investigating officer to supply the required […] Read more » Accused youth seeks documents Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Merc-hit-and-run-case
Top Law News Hrithik’s ex-wife moves HC seeking quashing of cheating case July 1, 2016 / July 2, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Actor Hrithik Roshan’s former wife Sussanne Khan today filed a petition before the Goa Bench of Bombay High Court, seeking quashing of the FIR filed against her, in which she was accused of cheating a real estate firm by posing as an architect. In the petition, Sussanne has also sought the court’s directions to the […] Read more » Bombay High Court cheating case Court featured Hrithik's ex-wife Law Legal News
Criminal Law News Sheena Bora case: Driver claims Indrani planted a gun on him July 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Key accused Indrani Mukerjea’s former driver Shyamvar Rai, who has turned approver in the Sheena Bora murder case, has submitted that his 43-year-old employer ‘implicated’ him in an arms case by planting a gun on him soon after allegedly killing her daughter. He has made this claim in his confessional statement, which was unsealed by […] Read more » Court Criminal news Driver claims Indrani planted a gun on him featured Law Legal News Sheena Bora case
Criminal Law News Court extends IM key operative’s judicial custody by 1 month July 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special court today extended by a month the judicial custody of Indian Mujahideen’s alleged key operative Abdul Wahid Siddibapa. 32-year-old Siddibapa, a resident of Bhatkal in Karnataka, was produced before Special Judge Rakesh Pandit who allowed the plea moved by National Investigating Agency (NIA) seeking extension of the custody. Siddibapa, cousin of Indian Mujahideen […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured IM key operative's judicial custody Law Legal News
High Profile Cases SC dismisses plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief in rape case July 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court dismissed a plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh seeking more handwriting samples of an alleged rape victim in a 14-year-old case, asking whether a woman is available, just because she writes “Babaji, I love you”. A bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra and C Nagappan said the tenor and […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law plea of Dera Sacha Sauda chief rape case Supreme Court
Top Law News Govt affidavit sought over shelter homes July 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today directed Maharashtra government to file an affidavit stating by when it would implement the recommendations submitted by a HC appointed committee on improving the conditions of children shelter homes in Mumbai. The committee was formed in April this year by the high court while hearing a suo moto (on its […] Read more » affidavit Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News maharashtra Govt shelter homes