Top Law News High Court: Watching certain videos can’t be reason to implicate a person as terrorist May 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court has observed that merely watching certain videos and speeches will not be a reason to implicate a person as a terrorist. A division bench of justices A M Shaffique and P Somarajan made the observation while considering an appeal filed by one Muhammed Riyas, challenging an NIA court order denying bail […] Read more » A M Shaffique featured ISIS terror group Kerala High Court Muhammed Riyas NIA court P Somarajan
Top Law News Delhi: Family of 73-yr-old road accident victim gets Rs 23 lakh compensation May 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The family of a 73-year-old man, who died in a road accident involving a rashly-driven mini bus, has been awarded a compensation of over Rs 23 lakh by a claims tribunal here. Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) presiding officer Hemani Malhotra directed National Insurance Company Ltd, insurer of the vehicle, to pay Rs 23,13,000 to […] Read more » featured MACT Motor Accident Claims Tribunal road accident
Top Law News Man moves High Court in search of ‘wife’, woman denies wedlock May 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A man knocked the doors of the Delhi High Court in search of a woman whom he claimed to be his wife but she refused to go with him telling the court that she never married him. The woman also denied the man’s claim that she was detained illegally by her brother and maintained that […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured High Court wedlock
Top Law News Supreme Court: Woman can file complaint against ex-husband for cruelty even after divorce May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman can lodge a complaint under the domestic violence law against the excesses committed by her ex-husband even after the dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with the order of the Rajasthan High Court which held that the absence of subsisting domestic relationship in no manner […] Read more » ex-husband featured Navin Sinha R Banumathi Rajasthan High Court Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News High Court to Maha: Find out vacancies in government-run hospitals May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to conduct a survey to determine the number of vacancies for doctors and other medical staff across all government and civic-run hospitals. In an order passed last week, a bench of Justices Naresh Patil and G S Kulkarni asked the state to conduct, on a priority […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured G S Kulkarni Maharashtra Public ServiceCommission MPSC Naresh Patil
Top Law News Bhima Koregaon victim challenges Ekbote’s bail in Bombay High Court May 12, 2018 / May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A victim of the January 1 Bhima Koregaon violence in Pune has filed an application in the Bombay High Court challenging the bail granted by a local court to Milind Ekbote, the prime accused in the case. Ekbote, who heads a right-wing organisation called the Samast Hindu Aghadi, was booked by the Pune Police in […] Read more » Bhima Koregaon violence Bombay High Court Ekbote's bail featured Samast Hindu Aghadi
High Profile Cases Top Law News Two get life sentence in Bollywood starlet’s murder in 2012 May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A sessions court here awarded life imprisonment to two persons today in the 2012 murder case of budding actor Meenakshi Thapa. Additional Sessions Judge S G Shette awarded the sentence to Amit Jaiswal (36) and his girlfriend Preeti Surin (26). The court had convicted them on Wednesday under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 364-A (kidnapping […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge S G Shette featured Madhur Bhandarkar Meenakshi Thapa Preeti Surin S G Shette Ujjwal Nikam
Top Law News Collegium meet on Justice K M Joseph’s elevation to Supreme Court concludes May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A crucial meeting of the Supreme Court Collegium was held today to discuss the issue of reconsidering the name of Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph for elevation to the apex court, after it was returned by the Centre. Official sources said the members of the Collegium deliberated on the issue for nearly an hour. […] Read more » featured justices J Chelameswar K M Joseph's elevation Kurian Joseph M B Lokur Ranjan Gogoi Supreme Court collegium
High Profile Cases Top Law News Court issues production warrant for Kejriwal’s arrested kin May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court today issued production warrant for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s relative Vinay Bansal, arrested in connection with an alleged scam in the Public Works Department (PWD), after the Tihar jail authorities failed to produce him. The court took a stern view and directed the jail authorities to explain the absence of Bansal, a […] Read more » Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal featured Public Works Department PWD scam Supreme Court Vinay Bansal
Top Law News Supreme Court asks HCs to form anti-sexual harassment panels in all courts within 2 months May 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked chief justices or acting chief justices of all high courts to set up anti-sexual harassment committees in courts across the country within two months in accordance with a 2013 law. It also requested Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal of the Delhi High Court to constitute the panel in the high […] Read more » anti-sexual anti-sexual harassment panels Chief Justice Gita Mittal featured High Court panel's Supreme Court
Top Law News 10 people sentenced to life imprisonment for murder May 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ten persons were today sentenced to life imprisonment for killing of a father-son duo by a group of 32 people over a land dispute in 2014.District and Session Judge Hemant Deshpande sentenced 10 persons in jail for life while acquitting 22 others giving benefit of doubt. Those sentenced include Mahadev Gahininath Bahir, Sukhadev, Shahaji Raghunath […] Read more » featured imprisonment Mahadev Gahininath Bahir Session Judge Session Judge Hemant Deshpande
Top Law News Supreme Court refuses to pass any order on promotion of ED official May 11, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to pass an order regarding the promotion of an Enforcement Directorate officer probing the Aircel-Maxis deal case, who has claimed that frivolous complaints filed against him was deterring the department to promote him. The official, Rajeshwar Singh, has alleged that due to such false allegations being levelled against him, including […] Read more » A.K. Sikri Aircel-Maxis deal case CBI ED featured Rajeshwar Singh Upendra Rai
