Top Law News Year after Najeeb went missing from JNU, CBI still clueless October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Exactly a year after JNU student Najeeb Ahmed went missing from the campus following a scuffle with some other students, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had taken over the probe into the case from the city police, remains clueless. The high court had first gone after the Delhi Police to solve the mysterious […] Read more » CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Court featured JNU Law Legal News Najeeb Ahmed
High Profile Cases Every writer has fundamental right to speak: SC October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has refused to ban the controversial book–Samajika Smugglurlu Komatollu (Vysyas are social smugglers) penned by prominent Dalit writer and intellectual Kancha Ilaiah, saying every author has a fundamental right to voice ideas freely. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud junked a PIL […] Read more » Court Every writer has fundamental right to speak featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Aarushi case: HC castigates CBI on theory on Hemraj’s murder October 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has castigated the CBI for its theory on the murder of domestic help Hemraj in the Aarushi murder case, saying it is an “impossible hypothesis” and “patently absurd”. In its 273-page verdict acquitting dentists Nupur and Rajesh Talwar in the murder of their daughter Aarushi and Hemraj, it also said the […] Read more » Aarushi case Allahabad High Court CBI Court Criminal news featured Hemraj's murder Law Legal News
Top Law News Mere lodging of FIR cannot be reason to expel student: Bombay HC October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court quashed an order passed by a college expelling a computer engineering student, observing that an FIR cannot be treated as “gospel truth” and cannot be a reason for expulsion. A division bench of Justices B R Gavai and S K Shinde quashed and set aside an August 5 order passed by […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News Mere lodging of FIR cannot be reason to expel student
Top Law News Delhi HC stays proceedings against DCW chief Maliwal October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today stayed the proceedings against Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal in a case of allegedly disclosing the identity of a 14-year-old Dalit rape victim who had succumbed to injuries. Justice Ashutosh Kumar granted the interim relief to Maliwal who was summoned by the trial court to appear before […] Read more » Court DCW chief Maliwal Delhi Commission for Women Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Swati Maliwal
Criminal Law News Top Law News 7 days police custody for Hindu Munnani functionary murder accused October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today sent Subair, a key accused in the murder of Hindu Munnani functionary C Sasikumar, to seven days police custody. Subair, who was arrested by the CB-CID on Wednesday from the Mullapadi Railway Gate near Pollachiand, is lodged in the Central Jail. Sasikumar (36), district spokesperson of the Munnani, was murdered with […] Read more » C Sasikumar Court featured Law Legal News murder case police custody
Top Law News SC seeks govt’s reply on plea for common electoral rolls October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought a response from the government on a plea seeking a direction to the Centre and the Election Commission for common electoral rolls for Parliament, assembly and local body polls to save public money and manpower. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y […] Read more » Centre government Court Election Commission featured Law Legal News plea for common electoral rolls Supreme Court
Top Law News Man awarded life imprisonment for murdering wife October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court here today sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering his wife and sent his brother to jail for two years for helping him dispose of the body of the victim. Aizawl district Additional Sessions Judge-II Vanlalenmawia passed the order and instructed the member secretary of the Mizoram State Legal Service Authority to […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News murder case
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Presence of outsider in Talwars’ flat cannot be ruled out: HC on Aarushi case October 14, 2017 / October 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has said that the possibility of presence of outsiders and persons other than domestic help Hemraj in the Noida residence of the Talwars could not be ruled on the fateful night in the Aarushi murder case. On the basis of the record and statements of witnesses, justices B K Narayana and […] Read more » Aarushi case Allahabad High Court Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Presence of outsider in Talwars' flat cannot be ruled out
Top Law News Patna HC quashes lower court order against Taslima Nasreen October 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court has quashed a six-year-old order of a lower court which took cognizance of a complaint against controversial Bangladeshi write Taslima Nasreen for allegedly hurting religious sentiments with a tweet. The writer’s tweet was neither malicious nor was it made to intentionally disturb any public order, Justice Arun Kumar said in his […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court Taslima Nasreen
Top Law News Bombay HC denies permission to 16-yr-old rape survivor to undergo October 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today denied permission to a 16-year-old rape survivor, who was in her 27th week of pregnancy, to undergo an abortion, citing the report of a panel of doctors which examined her. A bench headed by Justice Ranjit More turned down the plea filed by the girl’s father on her behalf seeking […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured HC denies permission to 16-yr-old rape survivor to undergo Law Legal News
High Profile Cases SC refers ban on women’s entry at Sabarimala to consti bench October 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today referred to its constitution bench the matter pertaining to a ban on the entry of women at Kerala’s historic Sabarimala temple. A three-judge bench headed by Chief justice Dipak Misra framed several questions to be dealt with by the constitution bench, including whether the temple can restrict women’s entry. The apex […] Read more » constitution bench Court featured Kerala Law Legal News Sabarimala temple Supreme Court
