Top Law News Rs.1,500 for three kids? Court hikes maintenance May 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Is Rs.1,500 per month enough as maintenance for three children? No, said the Delhi High Court, which has pulled up a man for giving this paltry amount to his divorced wife for bringing up their three children. He has now been ordered to cough up a monthly maintenance of Rs.7,500 – or Rs.2,500 for each […] Read more » Court hikes Justice A.K. Pathak maintenance'
Top Law News Court paves way for fresh power tariff in Delhi May 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi high court on Monday gave the go-ahead to the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to fix the power tariff for 2010-11, lifting curbs imposed on the process by the state government. Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna held the Delhi government and private electricity distribution companies responsible for delay in the […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court Delhi Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission DERC fresh power tariff Justice Sanjiv Khanna paves
Top Law News Give five mn tonnes food grains in 150 poor districts: Court May 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Saturday directed the central government to release five million tonnes of food grains more for distribution among the vulnerable section of the population in 150 poorest districts of the country. In a special sitting, a bench of Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Deepak Verma said that additional food grains for below […] Read more » 150 poor districts Court five mn tonnes food grains
Top Law News What is being done to decriminalise suicide: Court May 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the central government to list the steps it had taken on a 2008 Law Commission report calling for suicide to be decriminalised. As per the present provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a person attempting suicide can be punished with a maximum jail sentence of one year. Expressing […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Court decriminalise decriminalise suicide Delhi High Court Justice Sanjiv Khanna suicide
Media & Entertainment News 2G case: Court allows exemption plea of Karim Morani May 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Tuesday allowed Cineyug Film’s Karim Morani, accused in the 2G spectrum case, exemption from personal appearance in court. Judge O.P. Saini said: ‘Accused Morani’s exemption plea from personal appearance is allowed. However, he will have to appear before the court on May 12.’ On May 6, Morani […] Read more » 2G case CBI Central Bureau of Investigation Court DMK MP Kanimozhi exemption plea Karim Morani Kusegaon Realty director Rajiv Aggarwal Shahid Balwa Sharad Kumar Swan Telecom promoter
Media & Entertainment News Court tells railways to pay Rs.5 lakh relief to Arunima April 21, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the Indian Railways to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to national level volleyball player Arunima Sinha whose left leg had to be amputated after she was pushed off a running train last week, a lawyer said. Arunima was pushed out of the general compartment of the […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Arunima Court railways Relief Rs.5 lakh
Top Law News Court tells government to reinstate CISF official April 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court tells government to reinstate CISF official Delhi High Court has directed the government to reinstate an Assistant Commandant of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) who was sacked from his job in 2009. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.25,000. A division bench of Justice Gitta Mittal and J.R. Midha said: ‘The respondents (Union Of India) do not even advert […] Read more » CISF official Court Government reinstate
Top Law News Court notice to airlines, DGCA on high fares April 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Allahabad High Court Monday issued notices to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the management of Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Go Air, IndiGo and other private airlines for fleecing passengers by suddenly hiking air fares. The petitioners, comprising some local activists and advocates, had sought the court’s intervention to restrain the private airlines from indiscriminately […] Read more » airlines Allahabad High Court Chief Justice F.I. Rebello Court DGCA Go Air high fares IndiGo Jet Airways Kingfisher notice
Top Law News Caste doesn’t work in court, petitioner told April 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Monday refused to entertain a plea of a man who wrote his caste in the title of his petition. Bhapadiya (Brahmin) Navinbhai Mayaram filed the petition before the first bench of the court and sought implementation of a central government welfare scheme in his village Bhapdi in Tharad taluka (sub-district) of […] Read more » Caste Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court doesn't Gujarat High Court Justice J.B. Pardiwala Petitioner work
Top Law News Court reserves order on plea of five former ad-hoc judges April 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday reserved its order on the petitions of five former ad-hoc fast track court judges whose services were terminated. The petitioners approached the high court seeking direction to the state government to retain them as ad-hoc additional district judges. A bench comprising Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice J.B. Pardiwala, after […] Read more » Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Court former ad-hoc judges Justice J.B. Pardiwala order plea reserves
Top Law News Court sets aside divorce granted to man April 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside the divorce granted to a man on the ground that his wife filed a criminal case to harass him and his family members following a matrimonial dispute. Justice Kailash Gambhir was hearing an appeal filed by Ruchi (name changed) challenging the 2009 decision of a trial court to […] Read more » aside Court divorce
Top Law News Court cancels freedom fighter’s pension of octogenarian April 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Court cancels freedom fighter’s pension of octogenarian The Gauhati High Court has barred an octogenarian from getting the freedom fighter’s pension due to lack of documents to prove his imprisonment during the independence struggle, an official said here Saturday. The court found that octogenarian Anil Krishna Sarkar did not have certificates to prove that he was a freedom fighter and cancelled the […] Read more » cancels Court freedom fighter Gauhati High Court octogenarian pension