High Profile Cases Need to introspect on effectiveness of POCSO Act: Justice Madan B Lokur February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Justice Madan B Lokur today said time has come to “introspect” on the “effectiveness” of the law to protect children from sexual abuse and what has been achieved in the nearly six years since the enactment of the POCSO Act. He said there is a need to carry out an “assessment of the impact” the […] Read more » featured Justice Madan B. Lokur POCSO POCSO Act
Top Law News Supreme Court asks Centre to consider suggestions on safety and emission standards of small four-wheeler vehicles and Quadricycles February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the Centre to give “due consideration” to suggestions made on the issue of safety and emission standards of small four-wheeler vehicles and quadricycles. Quadricycles are a new category of cycle-like four-wheelers which are now allowed to ply on the roads. The issue before the apex court also related to the […] Read more » featured Justice A.K.Goel Justice U U Lalit quadricycles safety and emission standards of small four-wheeler Supreme Court
Top Law News UP government’s attempts to curb noise pollution is feeble and weak : Allahabad High Court February 25, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has questioned the intention of the Uttar Pradesh government to curb noise pollution, saying its attempts have been feeble and nothing much appeared to have been done to control the menace. The court said if the state government was not able to control noise pollution why does it not imposes a […] Read more » Allahabad High Court ban on unauthorised use of loudspeakers at religious places curb noise pollution featured Uttar Pradesh government to curb noise pollution
Top Law News Madras High Court issues notice to Tamil Nadu Assembly employee on post appointment February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today issued notice to the state government on a petition challenging the appointment of a Tamil Nadu Assembly employee to a top post in the House. Justice T Raja, before whom the petition from L S Vasanthimalar, Additional Secretary, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and B Subramaniyam, Joint Secretary, came up for […] Read more » featured Justice T Raja Madras High Court Tamil Nadu Assembly employee
High Profile Cases Delhi High Court upholds order granting anticipatory bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in two anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today upheld a trial court order granting anticipatory bail to Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in two anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. Justice Anu Malhotra dismissed the plea by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, seeking to cancel the anticipatory bail of Kumar, saying that as per the […] Read more » anti-Sikh riot cases of 1984. assassination of Indira Gandhi Congress leader featured Justice Anu Malhotra Sajjan Kumar
Top Law News Bombay High Court fed up with state government over delay in giving land for law University February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Training its guns on the recently-held event ‘Magnetic Maharashtra’ business summit, the Bombay High Court today said the state government had time to hold such mega events but had still not decided on the allotment of land to set up the Mumbai campus of the Maharashtra National Law University. A division bench of Justices S […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured Justice Bharati Dangre Justice S.C. Dharmadhikari Maharashtra National Law University MNLU National Law Universities Act 2014 state government
High Profile Cases Media & Entertainment News Delhi High Court rejects plea alleging glorification of Sati in Padmaavat February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea seeking penal action against the producers and the director of Bollywood movie ‘Padmaavat’ for alleged glorification of the practice of ‘sati’. ‘Sati’ is an obsolete funeral custom where a widow immolates herself on her husband’s pyre and the law prohibits it. A bench of Acting Chief Justice […] Read more » Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal advocate Mehmood Pracha CBFC Central Board of Film Certification featured glorification of Sati Justice C Hari Shankar obsolete funeral custom Padmaavat Sati
Criminal Law News Top Law News Life term awarded to three in murder case of 2014 in the Kidwai Nagar. February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three brothers have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a local court in connection with a murder case of 2014. Additional District Sessions judge Ram Sudh Singh yesterday held Anees, Pappu and Muzammil guilty of killing Nazakat under section 302 of the IPC. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on the each […] Read more » 2014 Additional District Sessions judge Ram Sudh Singh featured Kidwai Nagar l life term murder case
High Profile Cases HC dismisses petition in 2007 Gorakhpur riot case February 23, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea seeking an independent probe into an FIR related to the 2007 Gorakhpur riot case in which the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and the then Gorakhpur MP, Yogi Adityanath, was one of the accused. A bench of Justices Krishna Murari and Akhilesh Chandra Sharma dismissed the petition filed […] Read more » 2007 Gorakhpur riot case Allahabad High Court Anju Chaudhri chief minister featured Gorakhpur MP Justice Akhilesh Chandra Sharma Justice Krishna Murari the then MLA Radha Mohan Agarwal then mayor of the city Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath
Top Law News Bombay High Court sets aside Maharashtra government resolution on teaching staff’s bank accounts February 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today set aside a Maharashtra government resolution asking the teaching and non-teaching staff of the government schools in Thane to shift their salary accounts to a particular cooperative bank. A bench of justices BR Gavai and BP Colabawalla termed the resolution arbitrary and questioned the rationale behind the government’s decision to […] Read more » featured govt resolution HC Justice BP Colabawalla Justices BR Gavai Maharashtra government resolution teaching staff's bank accounts Thane District Central Cooperative Bank Thane Janata Sahakari Bank.
Top Law News PNB fraud : Vipul Ambani and 5 others in CBI custody till Mar 5 February 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here today remanded Vipul Ambani, the president (finance) of Nirav Modi’s Fire Star Diamond, and five others in CBI custody till March 5 in connection with the Rs 11,400 crore alleged fraud in Punjab National Bank (PNB). The six were arrested yesterday in connection with two FIRs registered by the CBI involving […] Read more » CFO Kapil Khandelwal featured Gitanjali group Kavita Mankikar Nakshatra group Nirav Modi PNB PNB fraud PNB fraud PMLA case Punjab National Bank Special Court Judge S R Tamboli Vipul Ambani
Top Law News Supreme Court allows Centre to withdraw CAPF force from Darjeeling hills February 22, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today allowed the Centre to withdraw the remaining four companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) from West Bengal’s violence hit Darjeeling area after March 8. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered Attorney General K K Venugopal’s submission that the deployment of the central armed forces fell under the Central […] Read more » Attorney General K K Venugopal Calcutta High Court CAPF Central Armed Police Forces Chief Justice Dipak Misra Darjeeling Hills featured
