Top Law News PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol April 6, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed today in the Patna High Court challenging the Bihar governments decision to clamp total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol in the state. An ex-serviceman A N Singh filed the PIL in the Patna High Court, a day after the Nitish Kumar ministry declared Bihar a total […] Read more » ban on alcohol BIHAR Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol
Top Law News Two Delhi HC judges transferred April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Two judges of the Delhi High Court — Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Rajiv Shakder — were today transferred to the High Courts of Andhra Pradesh-Telangana and the Madras respectively. A Law Ministry statement said here that Justice Kait has been transferred to the High Court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and directed to […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Two Delhi HC judges transferred
Top Law News Delhi HC refuses to grant interim protection to Virbhadra’s children April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today refused to grant any interim protection to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s two children, who have challenged the Enforcement Directorates provisional attachment of some of their assets in a money laundering case. “We will give them (ED, Ministry of Finance) an opportunity to file response and then we will […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Himachal Pradesh Law Legal News Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Free legal aid counsel for Sharmila April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Free legal aid counsel for Sharmila A local court today appointed a free legal aid counsel for rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu. Sharmila had submitted an affidavit at the chief judifical magistrate court, Imphal West, stating that she wanted to fight her case against the state government without a counsel. The hunger striker, who was present in the court, talking to […] Read more » Court featured Free legal aid counsel Law Legal News Manipur Sharmila chanu
Top Law News Government lab submits report on Maggi in SC April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A government laboratory today submitted its test report on Maggi noodles in a sealed cover in the Supreme Court which directed that copies of it be given to the Centre and Nestle India. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh directed the registry to give the report of the Mysore-based institute to […] Read more » Centre government Consumer news featured Legal News Maggi noodle Nestle India Supreme Court
Top Law News SC slams BCCI for not checking how hefty sums are being spent April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today came down heavily on cash-rich BCCI, saying the cricket body was running like a “mutually beneficial society” and “practically corrupting” its members by not seeking any explanation on how crores of rupees allotted to them were being spent. While scrutinising the fund allocation and expenses of the Board of Control for […] Read more » BCCI Court featured Law Legal News SC slams BCCI for not checking how hefty sums are being spent Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Madras HC suspends life term of 6 in PMK cadre murder case April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today suspended the life sentence awarded to six men by a lower court in a case related to the murder of a PMK worker during clashes in Marakkanam town in Villupuram district in 2013. A bench comprising justices M Jaichandren and S Nagamuthu suspended the sentence when appeals filed by the […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Madras High Court murder case PMK
Criminal Law News Insurance agent gets 2 yrs RI in cheating case April 5, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A court in Coimbatore today sentenced an insurance agent of a public sector firm to two years rigorous imprisonment in a cheating case. CBI’s anti-corruption wing registered the case against New India Assurance Company’s agent K Srinivasan on allegations that between January and March 2006, he misappropriated funds collected from various customers and issued fake and […] Read more » cheating case Court Criminal news featured Insurance agent Law Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC asks Virbhadra why he was not joining DA probe April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, an accused in a disproportionate assets case along with others, today said he had no problem in joining the CBI’s investigation in the matter after the Delhi High Court asked him why he was not doing so. “Your (Singh) name is there in the FIR. Why don’t you join the […] Read more » Court DA probe Delhi High Court featured himachal padesh Law Legal News Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Madras HC moved against cyber pornography April 5, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A PIL has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to police to take steps to check cyber pornography, saying such content had an extremely bad effect on the youth and was leading to various types of social problems and perpetration of crime. When the petition came up for hearing, a bench […] Read more » Court cyber pornography featured Law Legal News Madras HC moved against cyber pornography Madras High Court
Criminal Law News Youth gets 3-yr jail for assaulting 6-yr-old girl April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Well being of children has a direct bearing on growth of society as they are a “supremely important asset”, a Delhi court has observed while sending a youth to three years in jail for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl. Additional Sessions Judge Gautam Manan handed down the jail term to 23-year-old Jitender, a flour mill […] Read more » Criminal news Delhi court featured Legal News sexually assaulting case Youth gets 3-yr jail for assaulting 6-yr-old girl
Top Law News Milk company convicted for selling substandard products April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A local milk processing company has been been found guilty and convicted for selling misbranded, substandard and unsafe milk products by a court in central Kashmirs Budgam district. The court also imposed a fine of Rs nine lakh on it. In his order yesterday, Sub Judge Imtiaz Ahmad Lone said, “Accused company M/S Khyber Agro […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News M/S Khyber Agro Farms Pvt Ltd Milk company convicted for selling substandard products