Top Law News HC extends deadline to apply for Delhi Judicial Service Exam till Dec 24 December 25, 2018 / December 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has extended the deadline to apply for the Delhi Judicial Service Examination 2018 till December 24. A bench of Justice Vipin Sanghi and A K Chawla said once the schedule for filling the online application form and last date had been declared as December 22, the same could not have been brought to […] Read more » featured Justice Vipin Sanghi justices A K Chawla
Top Law News PIL in SC against govt’s move to authorise 10 agencies to intercept, monitor any computer December 25, 2018 / December 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: A PIL was filed in the Supreme Court challenging the recent Ministry of Home Affairs order authorising 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, decrypt “any information” on computers. The petition filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma seeks quashing of the government’s December 20 notification. The petition filed by advocate Manohar Lal Sharma seeks to […] Read more » featured SC
Top Law News Man gets life term for killing former village head December 21, 2018 / December 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUZAFFARNAGAR: A court here has awarded life sentence to a man for killing a former village head in a 12-year-old case.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 5,00,000 on the convict directing him to pay 90 per cent of the amount to the family of the deceased. In the judgment announced Thursday, district sessions […] Read more » featured
Top Law News Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter: All 22 accused acquitted due to Lack of evidence December 21, 2018 / December 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment MUMBAI: A special CBI court in Mumbai on Friday acquitted all 22 accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case today. The court acquitted all 22 accused in the case, citing lack of evidence. Special CBI Judge SJ Sharma ruled the prosecution has failed to put forth any “documentary and substantive evidence” to suggest or establish the […] Read more » featured Judge SJ Sharma Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter
Top Law News Delhi HC rejects Sajjan Kumar’s plea for extension of time to surrender in 1984 case December 21, 2018 / December 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s plea which sought more time for him to surrender in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.The former Congress leader was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in a case pertaining to killing five members of a famil in the Delhi Cantonment area […] Read more » 1984 case featured
Top Law News Delhi High Court orders National Herald publisher AJL to Vacate Delhi office in 2 weeks December 21, 2018 / December 21, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: In a major set back to the Gandhi-family owned Associated Journals Limited, the Delhi High Court on Friday ordered to vacate its headquarters in the capital. Associate Journals has to vacate the building in the ITO area of downtown Delhi in two weeks. The government reportedly inspected the premises a few months ago and […] Read more » featured National Herald
Top Law News Case filed against Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath Over his UP-Bihar Migrant Remark December 20, 2018 / December 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment PATNA: Newly elected Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has invited trouble for himself and the party with his remarks linking job deprivation to influx of workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Now, a case has been filed against him at a court in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. On Wednesday a case was filled against the […] Read more » featured Kamal Nath
Top Law News 1984 anti-Sikh riots: Sajjan Kumar asks for more 30 days to surrender December 20, 2018 / December 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, convicted in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on December 17 has asked Delhi High Court seeking time till January 31 to surrender. The court is likely to hear his application tomorrow. Senior lawyer HS Phoolka, who is representing many of the families of the riot victims, said Sajjan Kumar has filed an application in Delhi High Court […] Read more » featured
Top Law News Delhi HC quashes summons against Smriti Irani in defamation case filed by Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam December 20, 2018 / December 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court Wednesday quashed the criminal defamation proceedings against Union Minister Smriti Irani in a defamation case filed by Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam. The court, however, dismissed a similar plea by Nirupam’s seeking to set aside the summons issued against him in a cross-defamation complaint filed by Irani. The court said the case against Nirupam will […] Read more » featured Smriti Irani
Top Law News IRCTC Scam: Delhi court grants interim bail to RJD Chief Lalu Prasad December 20, 2018 / December 20, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: Former Bihar chief minister and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav gets interim bail till January 19 by Delhi’s Patiala court in two Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam cases filed by the CBI and the ED. The court directed both the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to […] Read more » featured IRCTC scam
Top Law News Delhi HC sets aside govt decision banning private firms from making, selling Oxytocin December 15, 2018 / December 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday set aside the government decision to ban private firms from producing and selling oxytocin, a drug used for inducing labour contractions and controlling bleeding. A bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and A K Chawla said the government’s decision was arbitrary and unreasonable. The bench also said that there was no […] Read more » featured justices A K Chawla justices S Ravindra Bhat
Top Law News Dissolution of Sri Lankan Parliament invalid says Sri Lankan Supreme Court December 14, 2018 / December 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court in Colombo on Thursday ruled as “unconstitutional” the move of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to dissolve parliament ahead of its term. A seven-member apex court bench said that the President cannot dissolve Parliament till Parliament completes a 4 1/2 year term. Sirisena sacked the Parliament when it appeared that Rajapaksa would […] Read more » featured Supreme Court
