Top Law News MACT here has awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh March 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the parents of a class 3 student who was mowed down by a speeding truck in 2016. MACT member and district judge K D Vadane ordered the truck owner and the vehicle’s insurer to jointly and severally make the […] Read more » Compensation district judge K D Vadane featured MACT Motor Accident Claims Tribunal New India Assurance Company Limited
High Profile Cases CS Anshu Prakash assault case: Delhi High Court questions law and order in capital March 7, 2018 / March 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today questioned the law and order situation in the capital while hearing the bail plea of one of the two AAP MLAs, arrested for allegedly assaulting Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash. The court said it was concerned that if “a person” can be assaulted in the presence of the Delhi chief minister […] Read more » CS Anshu Prakash assault case Dayan Krishnan Delhi High Court Deoli MLA Prakash Jarwal featured Rebecca John
Top Law News Karti Chidambaram’s custodial interrogation needed in view of new revelations and facts: CBI March 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today produced Karti Chidambaram before a Delhi court and sought extension of his custody to quiz him in the INX Media corruption case saying “new revelations” have come up and his custodial interrogation was necessary to confront him with the “new facts”. The agency, which produced Karti on expiry of his five-day police […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta custodial interrogation featured Karti Chidambaram
High Profile Cases BMC Manholes would be covered : Bombay High Court March 7, 2018 / March 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) today told the Bombay High Court that around 1,500 manholes in the city would be covered to prevent accidents. BMC lawyer Anil Sakhre said the corporation has already floated tenders for covering some 1,500 potentially-dangerous manholes with iron mesh or grill. BMC’s submission was made before a bench of justices […] Read more » BMC BMC lawyer Anil Sakhre Bombay High Court featured Justice M S Karnik Justice Shantanu Kemkar Manholes
Top Law News INX Media case: Supreme Court to hear Karti’s fresh plea tomorrow March 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a fresh plea from Karti Chidambaram, son of former Union minister P. Chidambaram, seeking quashing of the Enforcement Directorate’s summons against him in the INX Media case. In his fresh writ petition, Karti Chidambaram has challenged the summons on the ground that the ED has no jurisdiction to […] Read more » CBI's appeal against Karti custodial interrogation of Karti featured INX Media case Karti Chidambaram son of former Union minister P. Chidambaram
High Profile Cases PNB scam : 4 accused sent to CBI custody till March 17 March 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here today remanded four people, arrested in the alleged Rs 12,636-crore Punjab National Bank fraud case, in the CBI custody till March 17. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested them yesterday in connection with the alleged fraud perpetrated by billionaire jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi. They were produced […] Read more » CBI custody CFO featured Gitanjali group Kapil Khandelwal Nakshatra group Niten Shahi PNB scam
High Profile Cases No coercive action against CS Anshu Prakash : Delhi assembly March 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A committee of the Delhi Assembly today assured the Delhi High Court that it would not take any coercive action against the Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash for skipping meetings called by the panel. The assurance from the privilege committee came after the High Court made it clear that the matter before it should not be […] Read more » chief executive officer DUSIB CS Anshu Prakash Delhi CS Anshu Prakash assault case featured J B Singh Registrar of Cooperative Societies Shurbir Singh
High Profile Cases Senior citizens unaware about protection under Act: HC March 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today observed that some senior citizens were not aware of the protection of life and property available to them under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The court was hearing a plea by three persons convicted by a lower court for murdering an elderly person. A […] Read more » featured Justice T Krishnavalli Justices S Vimala Madras High Court Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 Senior citizens
Top Law News Supreme Court asks Rajasthan to file affidavit in a matter pertaining pollution from buses. March 6, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the Rajasthan government to file an affidavit within three weeks in a matter pertaining to pollution from buses operating to the state from Bikaner House near the India Gate here. The apex court ordered that if the state does not file an affidavit in three weeks, all the buses originating […] Read more » Bikaner House environmentalist M C Mehta featured Justice Deepak Gupta justices Madan B Lokur pollution Rajasthan Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court grants bail to fugitive US citizen March 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has granted bail to a US citizen, wanted in Indonesia for allegedly causing death of a person due to medical negligence last year. Justice Indermeet Kaur released 56-year-old Randall John Cafferty on bail but directed him not to leave Delhi and appear before the trial court here for extradition proceedings. “Cafferty […] Read more » Delhi High Court featured fugitive fugitive US Citizen Justice Indermeet Kaur Randall John Cafferty
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court agrees to hear today plea of Delhi CS Anshu Prakash challenging breach of privilege notice March 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today agreed to hear Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash’s plea challenging a breach of privilege notice issued to him for allegedly skipping a meeting called by the panel. The matter was mentioned before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar which directed that it be listed […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal breach of privilege notice Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash featured Justice C Hari Shankar
Top Law News UP Directorate of Prosecution to pay retired employee Rs 6.5L gratuity March 5, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The apex consumer commission has dismissed the plea of Directorate of Prosecution of Uttar Pradesh against a state commission order directing it to pay its physically disabled retired employee a gratuity of Rs 6.50 lakh, saying there was an inordinate delay of 700 days in filing the revision petition. The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission […] Read more » featured NCDRC The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission UP Directorate of Prosecution
