Top Law News Delhi HC to continue hearing marital rape issue, appoints amicus September 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today said there was no obstruction before it to hear petitions seeking to make marital rape an offence, as the issue raised before the Supreme Court was different. The court appointed senior advocate Raju Ramachandran as amicus curaie to assist it in the matter, considering its importance. A bench of Acting […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News marital rape issue
Top Law News Delhi HC seeks Centre, Delhi govt replies on plea to bring schools under state September 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The high court today sought responses from the Centre and the Delhi government on a plea seeking implementation of an NCERT-panel recommendation to bring all public-funded schools under the city government for betterment of education. The court also asked local bodies like the municipal corporations, the Delhi Cantonment Board and the NDMC to examine the […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News NCERT plea
High Profile Cases SC sets aside Allahabad HC orders summoning UP chief secretary September 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today set aside three orders of Allahabad High Court summoning the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary of the state in a matter in which the state’s Advocate General Raghvendra Singh was rebuked for not appearing before it. The apex court observed that the three High Court orders summoning the Chief Secretary was “unnecessary” […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court UP Chief Secretary
High Profile Cases Ensure no agitation takes place over NEET: SC to TN govt September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Tamil Nadu government to ensure that no agitation takes place in the state over the NEET examination issue. The apex court directed that anybody involved in any kind of activity that stalls normal life of citizens in the state should be booked under the appropriate law. A bench headed […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News NEET Supreme Court Tamil Nadu government
Criminal Law News High Profile Cases Special TADA court disallows marriage application of Salem September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The special Tada court today disallowed the marriage application of gangster Abu Salem, terming it infructuous and disposed off the issue. “The application is disposed off as its infructuous,” the special court said. In 2015, a photograph of Salem with a girl had surfaced after which the Tada court had asked Thane police to conduct […] Read more » Court court disallows marriage application of Abu Salem featured Law Legal News TADA
Criminal Law News Top Law News ED opposes bail of hawala dealer, alleges he brought Pak money September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enforcement Directorate today opposed the bail plea of alleged hawala dealer Mohammad Aslam Wani in a city court, saying that he had a key role in bringing money from Pakistan for terror activities in Kashmir. The probe agency, in its written response to Wani’s bail plea, said the investigation in a decade-old money laundering […] Read more » Court Criminal news ED opposes bail of hawala dealer featured Law Legal News Mohammad Aslam Wani Pak money
Criminal Law News Top Law News Aarushi murder case: Allahabad HC verdict on Oct 12 on Talwars’ appeal September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court will deliver on October 12 its verdict on an appeal filed by Rajesh and Nupur Talwar challenging the CBI court order convicting them for the murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. A division bench comprising Justices B K Narayana and A K Mishra today reserved its judgement on […] Read more » Aarushi murder case Allahabad High Court CBI court Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Nupur Talwar Rajesh Talwar
Top Law News Madras HC stays indefinite strike by TN govt employees, teachers September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today stayed an indefinite strike by government employees and teachers in Tamil Nadu, after a PIL was filed seeking ban on the stir. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by T Sekaran, Justices K K Sasidharan and G R Swaminathan of the High Court’s Madurai bench passed an interim order […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court strike by government employees and teachers in Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu government
Criminal Law News Top Law News NTR’s son gets 6 months in jail in cheque bounce case September 8, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A local court has sentenced former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao’s son Nandamuri Jayakrishna to six months’ simple imprisonment in connection with a 2015 cheque bounce case. The tenth Special Magistrate court yesterday found Jayakrishna, proprietor of Rama Krishna theatre at Abids here, guilty under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh Court featured Law Legal News N T Rama Rao Nandamuri Jayakrishna NTR's son gets 6 months in jail in cheque bounce case
Top Law News SC grants 6 weeks’ time to Punjab, Haryana on SYL canal row September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today granted six weeks’ time to the Centre to explore the possibility of an amicable solution to the Satluj-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal row between Punjab and Haryana. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was informed by Attorney General K K Venugopal that efforts were on to resolve the dispute between […] Read more » Court featured Haryana Law Legal News Punjab Satluj-Yamuna Link Supreme Court SYL canal row
High Profile Cases SC to hear AAP leader’s plea in Jaitley’s defamation case September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday a plea of AAP leader Raghav Chadha alleging that he has been made to face a criminal defamation case only for retweeting Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s tweet against Union minister Arun Jaitley. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M […] Read more » AAP Arun Jaitley's defamation case Court featured Law Legal News Raghav Chadha Supreme Court
High Profile Cases ‘Sanjiv Chaturvedi using PIL for personal dispute’ September 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today alleged in Delhi High Court that an NGO was being “used as a proxy litigant” by IFoS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi to raise the agenda of alleged corruption in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare alleged in the court that the Centre for Public Interest […] Read more » All India Institute of Medical Sciences corruption in AIIMS Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Sanjiv Chaturvedi using PIL for personal dispute
