Top Law News ‘Breach of timelines by govt hurts ‘judicial conscience” May 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Tax-payers’ money is “going down the drain” as the authorities are squandering it by delaying development projects, the Delhi High Court has said, terming it as “a very sorry state of affairs”. The sharp observations came when a high court bench was informed that the BJP-run Municipal Corporation of Delhi was yet to complete the […] Read more » BJP Court Delhi High Court featured judicial conscience Law Legal News MCD Municipal Corporation of Delh
Top Law News Update father about son gone missing in Malaysia: Delhi HC to govt May 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Desperate attempts of a father, searching for his son who had gone missing in 2011 off the Malaysian coast while on-board a vessel, has led him to move the Delhi High Court. The court has now asked the government to update him either about his son’s whereabouts or his fate. His son had gone missing […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Update father about son gone missing in Malaysia
Criminal Law News Top Law News False rape case harms reputation, wastes judicial time: Court May 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A false rape charge humiliates a person and harms his reputation and a woman cannot escape criminal proceedings for the offence of perjury, a Delhi court has said. It said such cases also lead to wasting of precious judicial time by making a mockery of the system in which the police authority is also used […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi court False rape case harms reputation featured Law Legal News
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases How has Rs 20k cr meant for workers’ welfare been spent: SC May 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Where has a whopping amount of Rs 20,000 crore, meant for workers’ welfare, gone? Spent on tea parties or vacation of officials? Even the Comptroller and Auditor General doesn’t know, wondered the Supreme Court. These posers were put to the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) by the Supreme Court which was left wondering as to […] Read more » CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Court featured Law Legal News Spent on tea parties or vacation of officials Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Bharti’s domestic violence case in trial court on May 20 May 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A trial court here will take up the proceedings against controversial AAP leader Somnath Bharti in a domestic violence case on May 20, over a year after the charge sheet was filed in the matter. The proceedings will assume importance as the police today filed a report in the Delhi High Court claiming that Bharti’s […] Read more » AAP Court Criminal news Delhi High Court domestic violence case featured Law Legal News Somnath Bharti
Top Law News Election a democratic process, can’t be interfered with: SC May 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today rejected a plea alleging duplication in the voters’ list for the upcoming Bhiwandi municipal polls in Maharashtra, saying election is a democratic process which cannot be interfered with. The apex court made the observation while hearing a plea challenging the Bombay High Court order dismissing a petition which alleged that there […] Read more » Bhiwandi municipal polls in Maharashtra Bombay High Court Court Election a democratic process featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Cong moves Bombay HC to stop ex-MLA Rane from running bypoll May 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Congress today moved the Bombay High Court seeking to stop its former MLA and Goa’s current Health Minister Vishwajit Rane from contesting the future by- elections till the existing state assembly term ends in 2022. The party moved the Goa bench of the high court. “The petition has been filed jointly by the Indian […] Read more » Bombay High Court Congress Court featured Goa Goa Pradesh Congress Committee Law Legal News Vishwajit Rane
High Profile Cases NCW chief miffed over absence of woman judge in SC bench hearing triple talaq May 13, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam today questioned the absence of a woman in the Supreme Court bench hearing the triple talaq issue. “Watching the hoo-haa over the bench hearing the triple talaq matter and considering the different religions of the judges, it struck me that the issue is not about religion but […] Read more » Court featured Lalitha Kumaramangalam Law Legal News National Commission for Women NCW chief Supreme Court triple talaq
Criminal Law News Top Law News Court acquits BJP MLA, two others in rape case May 12, 2017 / May 12, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A BJP MLA from Haryana and another man have been acquitted by a Delhi court of the charges of raping a woman in a hotel after giving her sedative-laced drink. The court absolved BJP legislator Umesh Aggarwal and Sandeep Luthra for alleged offences of rape, causing hurt by means of poison and criminal intimidation under […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi Court acquits BJP MLA in rape case featured Haryana Law Legal News Sandeep Luthra Umesh Aggarwal
High Profile Cases National Herald case: Delhi HC declines any relief to Young Indian May 12, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today declined to stay the income tax proceedings against Young Indian Pvt Ltd in the National Herald case, which involves, Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and asked them to approach the tax authorities. “We are not inclined to entertain your writ petition. It is better you withdraw it and […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court declines any relief to Young Indian featured Law Legal News National Herald case Rahul Gandhi Sonia Gandhi Young Indian Pvt Ltd
High Profile Cases Triple talaq is worst form of marriage dissolution, says SC May 12, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said the practice of triple talaq was the “worst” and “not desirable” form of dissolution of marriages among Muslims, even though there were schools of thought which termed it as “legal”. There are “school of thoughts (which) say that triple talaq is legal, but it is the worst and not desirable […] Read more » \ J S Khehar Court featured Law Legal News nikah halala Supreme Court triple talaq
High Profile Cases SC to hear plea against making Aadhaar mandatory for schemes May 12, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on May 17 a plea challenging various notifications of the Centre to make Aadhaar card mandatory for availing benefits of government schemes. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar, which is currently hearing a batch of petitions challenging the practice of triple talaq, agreed […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News plea against making Aadhaar mandatory for schemes Supreme Court
