Criminal Law News Four sentenced for life for murdering Dalit April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Four persons have been sentenced for life by a local court in connection with a Dalit’s murder 17 years ago. Special Judge Harinath Pandey of the SC\ST court yesterday held Raja Ram, Ram Chandra, Munna and Narain Das guilty and awarded life sentence to them. The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 on each […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Four sentenced for life for murdering Dalit Law Legal News
Top Law News SC refuses early hearing to Swamy’s plea for facilities at Ayodhya April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to give an early hearing to BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea seeking facilities for the devotees visiting the disputed site in Ayodhya. “You (Swamy) are just an intervener and your plea will be heard along with that of other aggrieved parties,” a bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur […] Read more » Ayodhya Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court Swamy's plea for facilities at Ayodhya
Top Law News Allahabad HC contempt notice to UP govt official April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court today issued contempt notice to the Principal Secretary (Home) of Uttar Pradesh, Debashish Panda, for allegedly not complying with the directions of the court to provide documents to suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur about departmental inquiry against the latter. Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya gave this order on a contempt petition filed […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Contempt notice Court featured Law Legal News UP
High Profile Cases 14 yrs on, 31 acquitted in 2 post-Godhra riots cases April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Thirty-one people accused of looting and arson at Thara village in North Gujarat in two cases related to the 2002 post-Godhra riots were today acquitted by a court at Deesa in the district. Sessions judge N M Parmar pronounced the verdict, saying there wasn’t enough evidence. On February 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra […] Read more » 14 yrs on 31 acquitted in 2 post-Godhra riots cases Criminal news featured Godhra riots cases Gujarat Law Legal News
High Profile Cases Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Congress leaders today challenged in Delhi High Court the trial courts decision summoning the 2010-11 balance sheet of Indian National Congress (INC) in connection with the National Herald case, saying such an order was not “desirable” in the present matter. “Neither notice was issued to us, nor we were summoned to contest the present application […] Read more » Congress Court featured Herald case Herald case: Cong leaders challenge trial court order Law Legal News
Top Law News Centre not to support AMU for its minority status April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Centre not to support AMU for its minority statusThe NDA government today told the Supreme Court that it would withdraw the appeal filed by the erstwhile UPA government challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the Aligarh Muslim University as non-minority institution. “I changed my mind two months ago,” Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a […] Read more » AMU Centre government Court featured Law Legal News minority status
Criminal Law News Pilibhit encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops April 4, 2016 / April 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A special CBI court today sentenced 47 policemen to life imprisonment for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in a fake encounter in Pilibhit in Uttar Pradesh 25 years ago. Special judge Lallu Singh had on April 1 held the policemen guilty of a “fake encounter”. On July 12, 1991, the policemen stopped a luxury bus filled […] Read more » CBI Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News Pilibhit encounter Pilibhit encounter: CBI court awards life sentence to 47 cops
High Profile Cases SC grants bail to DU Prof Saibaba, jailed for Maoist links. April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Delhi University professor G N Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. The apex court bench, headed by Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, granted bail to Saibaba noting that all the material witnesses in the case have already been examined and […] Read more » DU Prof Saibaba featured Maoist links.bail to Prof Saibaba SC
Criminal Law News Top Law News HC dismisses ISIS recruit’s appeal against denial of bail April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today dismissed an appeal filed by alleged ISIS recruit Areeb Majeed challenging a special NIA court order that had denied him bail in May last year. “We find no merits in the appeal and the application seeking bail. Hence both stand dismissed,” a division bench of justices R V More and […] Read more » denial of bail featured HC ISIS recruit Areeb Majeed ISIS recruit's appeal ISIS recruit's appeal against denial of bail
High Profile Cases Pooja Mishra slaps Rs 100 cr defamation case against Sunny Leone April 4, 2016 / April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Former Big Boss contestant and model Pooja Misrra has slapped a case against film star Sunny Leone in the Bombay High Court demanding Rs 100 crore compensation for allegedly “defaming her”. “Adjourned…beyond vacation,” said Justice Naresh Patil, who was sitting in a division bench, when the matter was called out before the court. The petitioner […] Read more » defamation case against Sunny Leone featured Pooja Mishra Rs 100 cr defamation case Sunny Leone
Top Law News Art of Living event: NGT notice to Delhi government on review plea April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “We have gone through the review plea. The whole emphasis in your petition is on the delay and laches. See, we have only passed an interim order and the matter is yet to be heard finally on merits. All rights and contentions are kept open and no direction is required at this stage…Issue notice,” the […] Read more » Advocate Sanjay Parikh Art of Living event Delhi government featured NGT
Top Law News PIL seeks HC order to protect women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple April 4, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A criminal public interest litigation filed in the Bombay High Court on Monday sought a direction to Maharashtra government and Director General of Police to protect women who enter the Shani temple at Shingnapur in Ahmednagar district to worship the deity. The petition also urged the court to direct the Shaneshwar Devasthan Trust, which manages […] Read more » activist Hemant Patil Bombay High Court entrance of women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple featured HC Maharashtra’s Shani temple PIL protect women at Maharashtra’s Shani temple
