Top Law News Court allows TERI DG R K Pachauri to travel abroad January 13, 2016 / January 14, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has allowed TERI Director General R K Pachauri, facing sexual harassment allegations from a former woman colleague, to travel later this week to the United States and Guyana to attend meetings. Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan allowed Pachauris plea seeking permission to attend conferences in California till January 16 and then in Guyana […] Read more » Court Court allows TERI DG R K Pachauri to travel abroad featured Law Legal News Teri
Top Law News Hardik Patel remanded to police custody till Jan 15 January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A local court in Visnagar town of Mehsana district today sent quota leader Hardik Patel in police custody till January 15 in a case of rioting and assault registered against him here six months back. Hardik was produced before the judicial magistrate A N Patel at his residence in Visnagar midnight last night by Mehsana […] Read more » Court featured Hardik Patel remanded to police custody till Jan 15 hardik patel.legal news Law
Top Law News SC seeks clarification from Mysore lab on Maggi samples January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the government laboratory in Mysore to further clarify whether test reports relating to lead and glutamic acid in Maggi noodles are within permissible parameters under the law. The apex court passed the order after perusing two communications received from the Mysore laboratory which had carried out the test about the […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News maggi SC seeks clarification from Mysore lab on Maggi samples Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Jaitley’s defamation suit is pol vendetta: Kejriwal January 12, 2016 / January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal today claimed that the civil defamation suit filed against him and five other AAP leaders by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the DDCA row was “a classic instance of political vendetta” with a view to “harassing” them and curbing their right to free speech. “The present suit is a classic instance […] Read more » Arun Jaitley Arvind Kejriwal Court DDCA featured Jaitley's defamation suit is pol vendetta: Kejriwal Law Legal News
Top Law News Don’t release funds without our nod: NGT to Centre January 12, 2016 / January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Government’s ambitious ‘Clean Ganga’ project got a jolt today with the National Green Tribunal directing the Centre not to release funds for cleaning the river from Gomukh toKanpur without its nod, chiding Uttar Pradesh andUttarakhand for failing to identify the serious polluting locations. Irked at the lackadaisical approach of officials of the two states for […] Read more » Court Don't release funds without our nod: NGT to Centre featured Law Legal News NGT nirmal ganga NMCG
Top Law News A PIL filing NGO comes under strict SC scrutiny January 12, 2016 / January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The functioning of the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) today came under severe scrutiny by the Supreme Court, which asked a series of searching questions to its counsel Prashant Bhushan by voicing concern that rival commercial litigants could be using the NGO as an instrument to settle scores. The apex court noted that 50 […] Read more » A PIL filing NGO comes under strict SC scrutiny Court featured Law Legal News NGO Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Bombay HC gives Salman two more weeks to furnish sureties January 12, 2016 / January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today granted two weeks additional time to actor Salman Khan to furnish sureties as directed by it while acquitting him in the 2002 hit-and-run case. On December 10, Justice A R Joshi of the high court had acquitted Salman and quashed and set aside the trial court’s order convicting the actor […] Read more » Bombay HC gives Salman two more weeks to furnish sureties Bombay High Court Court featured Hit-and-run case Law Legal News Salman Khan
Top Law News SC stays govt notification allowing Jallikattu January 12, 2016 / January 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Jallikattu, one of the oldest bull-taming sports in the world, will not be played this year during Pongal in Tamil Nadu, with the Supreme Court today staying the Centre’s notification lifting ban on the controversial game as an interim measure. The court rejected the plea of Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and Tamil Nadu […] Read more » Court featured Jallikattu Law Legal News SC stays govt notification allowing Jallikattu Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Telangana Police not allowed to take Kobad to state January 12, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has dismissed a plea by Telangana Police seeking its nod to take Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy, facing trial here for allegedly trying to set up a base for the banned CPI (Maoist), to produce him before courts in that state in some other cases. Additional Sessions Judge Reetesh Singh said the request […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Kobad Ghandy Law police Telangana Telangana Police not allowed to take Kobad to state
Criminal Law News Court refuses to discharge man of sexual harassment January 12, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A court here has refused to discharge a man, accused of sexually harassing three working women by passing lewd comments, saying the statement of the complainant before police is a substantial piece of evidence. The court dismissed the revision petition of the accused, who had contended that the complainant had made different statements before the […] Read more » Court Court refuses to discharge man of sexual harassment Criminal news featured Law Legal News sexual harassment
Environment Law News NGT disposes plea against taxi aggregators January 12, 2016 / January 12, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal today disposed of petitions which alleged that diesel powered inter-state taxis operating in the national capital were violating Supreme Court directive. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi disposed of the pleas filed by an apex body of radio taxi operators and a Delhi resident seeking prohibition on running of […] Read more » Court Environment news featured Law Legal News NGT NGT disposes plea against taxi aggregators
Consumer Law News Top Law News Firm told to compensate travellers for Dubai tour January 12, 2016 / January 12, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A group of ten people, who could not undertake a tour to Dubai following lapses in services by a travel agency, have been awarded a compensation of Rs 8,000 each besides refund of the tour fare along with 8 per cent interest by the District Consumer Forum here. Forum President Sneha Mhatre and members Madhuri Vishwarupe and […] Read more » Consumer forum Court featured Firm told to compensate travellers for Dubai tour Law Legal News
