High Profile Cases VVIP chopper case: HC denies bail to woman director September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today denied bail to a woman director of two Dubai-based firms, arrested in connection with the probe into the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper money laundering case. “The application is dismissed,” Justice A K Pathak said while upholding a trial court’s July 29 order dismissing Shivani Saxena’s bail plea. Saxena is […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court denies bail to woman director in VVIP chopper case featured Law Legal News VVIP chopper case
Top Law News SC notice to Centre, states on plea over safety of students September 15, 2017 / September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea seeking framing of “non- negotiable” child safety conditions and implementation of guidelines to protect school children from sexual abuse and murder today prompted the Supreme Court to seek responses from the Centre and all state governments. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud issued […] Read more » Centre government Court featured Law Legal News plea over safety of students state government Supreme Court
High Profile Cases SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea for banning Blue Whale game September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought response from the Centre on a plea of a 73-year-old man from Tamil Nadu seeking a ban on the Blue Whale challenge game linked to deaths of several children worldwide. The apex court also sought assistance of Attorney General K K Venugopal in the matter. A bench of Chief Justice […] Read more » Blue Whale game Centre government Court featured Law Legal News plea Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Tirupur man gets life imprisonment for murdering brother September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A court in nearby Tirupur today sentenced a 40-year-old man to life imprisonment for murdering his younger brother over a property dispute and concocting a story that he was killed in an accident there in 2015. Judge M K Jamuna awarded the life sentence to convict Manoharan for murdering his brother Madan Kumar. The prosecution […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News man gets life imprisonment for murdering brother Tirupur
Top Law News Delhi HC clears way for exiled Indian couple to return September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Not granting citizenship rights is the “worst possible kind” of deprivation, the Delhi High Court has said, paving the way for an Indian couple, living in exile for 23 years as they were denied passports, to return home. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar directed the Centre to […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court clears way for exiled Indian couple to return featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Hauz Khas Village is ticking time bomb: Delhi HC September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Hauz Khas Village in south Delhi is “a ticking time bomb”, the Delhi High Court has said. It also observed that neither the government agencies, nor the restaurant owners of the area have responded to its queries on safety and other issues. A bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal warned the associations […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Hauz Khas Village is ticking time bomb Law Legal News
Top Law News 33,487 teachers are on strike: TN govt tells Madras HC September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Tamil Nadu government today informed the Madras High Court that a total of 33,487 government teachers, affiliated to six unions, were abstaining from work across the state. Additional Advocate General Venkatramani representing the state government informed this to the court in an affidavit containing replies to various other queries raised yesterday by Justice N […] Read more » 33487 teachers are on strike in Tamil Nadu Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court Tamil Nadu government
High Profile Cases Promotee IPS can’t claim seniority on length of service: SC September 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A promotee Indian Police Service (IPS) officer cannot claim seniority based on the length of his service and it will depend on the day of his induction in the All India Police Service, the Supreme Court has held. The apex court said that a promotee officer getting a higher pay and grade pay on account […] Read more » Court featured Indian Police Service Law Legal News Promotee IPS can't claim seniority on length of service Supreme Court
Top Law News Delhi HC asks Centre to expedite process of filling vacancy in NGT September 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today asked the Centre to expedite the process of appointing judicial and expert members in the National Green Tribunal (NGT). A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar was informed by the Centre’s counsel that steps have been taken to fill the vacant posts of judicial […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News vacancy in NGT
High Profile Cases SC agrees to hear plea for CBI probe in boy’s death in school September 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday the plea of a man, whose 9-year-old son died last month allegedly under mysterious circumstances in a private school in Ghaziabad, seeking a CBI probe in the case. The plea has been filed amid an ongoing uproar over the death of a 7-year-old boy in the […] Read more » CBI Court featured Ghaziabad Goenka Public School Law Legal News student death case in schoool Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News MP official gets five year jail for accepting Rs 5,000 bribe September 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Madhya Pradesh Panchayat department official was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a special court here in a 2015 bribery case. Special court judge Ramesh Srivastava found Employment Assistant Vinod Dhakar guilty under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act for accepting Rs 5,000 from the complainant. The court also imposed a fine […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News MP official gets five year jail in bribe case
Environment Law News High Profile Cases NGT refuses to lift ban on 10-yr-old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR September 14, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal today dismissed the Centre’s plea seeking modification of its order banning ten-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR. The Tribunal noted that emissions from diesel vehicles is carcinogenic in nature and one diesel vehicle causes pollution equivalent to 24 petrol vehicles or otherwise 40 CNG vehicles. A bench headed by Justice Swatanter Kumar […] Read more » Environment Law News featured Legal News National Green Tribunal NGT dismissed the Centre's plea seeking modification of its order banning ten-year-old diesel vehicles in Delhi-NCR
