Top Law News Army launches full fledged Bench of AFT in Jammu November 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Army today launched a full fledged Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) at a Military Station in Jammu, winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir. Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar, Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, inaugurated the full fledged Bench of the AFT here at the Sunjuwan Military Station. The ceremony was […] Read more » Army launches full fledged Bench of AFT Court featured Jammu Law Legal News
Top Law News Order reserved on P Abdullah’s plea for govt house November 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on a plea of Payal Abdullah, estranged wife of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, for government accommodation for her and her sons on the ground that they enjoyed ‘Z’ and ‘Z plus’ security status. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice V […] Read more » Court featured government house Law Legal News P Abdullah plea
Top Law News Delhi HC not to go into correctness of demonetisation policy November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today said that it will not go into the correctness of the Centre’s policy on demonetisation as the Supreme Court is already seized of the issue. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice V K Rao also refused to issue any direction to the Centre to remove the cap […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court demonetisation policy featured Law Legal News
Top Law News SC refuses to go into plea seeking SIT probe November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to go into a plea seeking probe by an SIT into alleged recovery of documents by the IT department in connection with raids on two business houses here in 2013-14 which purportedly showed computerised inventories containing designations of top people having received money. “You take this back. You come when […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News plea SIT Supreme Court
High Profile Cases SC to hear petitions challenging demonetisation on Dec 2 November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today fixed on December 2 the hearing on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the decision to demonetise currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 and the inconvenience faced by the common man due to it. A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice D Y […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News petitions challenging demonetisation Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Top Law News Woman sent to judicial custody for killing mother-in-law November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A Muzaffarnagar court here today remanded a woman, arrested for allegedly killing her mother-in-law, to 14 days judicial custody. “The chief judicial magistrate has sent Shama to 14 days judicial custody,” the prosecution said. Sabra (45) was beaten to death allegedly by her daughter-in-law Shama (21) over some family dispute in Shamli district yesterday. The victim […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News murder case Muzaffarnagar Woman sent to judicial custody
High Profile Cases PIL filed in Madras HC seeking to declare demonetisation notification November 25, 2016 / November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today posted a PIL, seeking a direction to the Union Government to declare as illegal the notification issued on demonetisation, for further hearing to December 15. When the PIL filed by Suchitra Vijayan, a Barrister-at-Law, came up, the first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice R.Mahadevan, said counsel […] Read more » Court Demonetisation featured Law Legal News Madras High Court PIL
Top Law News Child’s passport can carry stepfather’s name: Punjab and Haryana HC November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that a child’s passport can carry the stepfather’s name without a declaration by a court appointing him as a legal guardian. The ruling came on Wednesday on a petition filed by Mohit (26). The authorities had refused to issue him a passport bearing his stepfather’s name. The […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News passport Punjab and Haryana High Court
Top Law News Demonetisation: Agencies to ensure no harassment, says court November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The implementing agencies should ensure that even the “smallest person” of the country does not face any harassment due to demonetisation move, a Delhi court has observed while taking strong exception to SBI’s refusal to accept old currency notes from a litigant for depositing cost. The court observed that government’s move to demonetise Rs 1,000 […] Read more » Court Demonetisation featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Demonetisation to eradicate black money, to benefit all: Govt to SC November 25, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Modi government today asserted in the Supreme Court that the “bold move” of demonetisation would eradicate black money and slush funds operating since Independence which cast a “parallel economy” hitting the poor and the middle class. The Centre, which filed an affidavit on demonetisation, said the decision on which a total secrecy was maintained, […] Read more » black money Centre government Court Demonetisation featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Stringent punishment needed for reckless drivers: Court November 24, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Stringent punishment needed for reckless drivers: Court Stringent punishment is needed for reckless drivers on road causing several deaths every day, a Delhi court has observed while refusing to set aside the two- year jail term awarded to a driver of an IAF bus for killing a man 16 years ago by driving negligently. “Rash and negligent drivers are causing havoc on […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Stringent punishment needed for reckless drivers
High Profile Cases Can’t hear pleas of cooperative banks or grant relief, says Bombay HC November 24, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today said it cannot hear the petitions filed by district co-operative banks on demonetisation issue or grant any relief to them, and asked the banks to get clarification from the Supreme Court on whether the high court can hear the pleas. The Mumbai, Solapur, Nashik and Pune District Central Co-operative Banks […] Read more » Bombay High Court cooperative banks Court featured grant relief Law Legal News plea