Top Law News Family size can be basis for subsidised food quota: Court November 12, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday asked the central government to consider if the distribution of food grains under the targeted public distribution system (TPDS) for below poverty line (BPL) people could be based on the number of members in a family holding a ration card. ‘You can’t give 35 kg of food grains to a family […] Read more » Family food quota size subsidised
Top Law News Badal, family acquitted in disproportionate assets case October 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The district court in this Punjab town Friday acquitted Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his wife Surinder Kaur Badal and their son Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in a disproportionate assets case against them. The acquittal by the court in Mohali, 10 km from Chandigarh, is likely to come as a big relief […] Read more » acquitted assets case disproportionate Family
Top Law News Family has to decide whether to report rape: Court August 6, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that while there should be prompt lodging of a First Information Report (FIR) in criminal cases, there could be no straight-jacketed formula in registration of rape cases. Normally, a delay in lodging an FIR not only introduces exaggeration and concoction that colours the facts of the incident but it also […] Read more » decide Family report rape