Top Law News Gujarat cop gets life term September 10, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Gujarat court sentenced a policeman to life imprisonment for burning alive a man who admonished the cop for extorting money from a bootlegger. Additional sessions judge D.T. Soni sentenced constable Haribhai Patel to life imprisonment and also ordered him to pay Rs.15,000 to the wife of the victim. The court also directed the public […] Read more » cop gets Gujarat life term
Top Law News Gujarat minister again fails to turn up before CBI July 23, 2010 / July 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gujarat’s Minister of State for Home Amit Shah, summoned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over the 2005 killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake shootout, Friday again failed to turn up before the agency. He send his lawyer Mitesh Amin instead who asked for the questionnaire. But the agency refused to give it. Read more » CBI Gujarat minister
Top Law News Gujarat judges favour time limit for disposing cases July 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Almost 90 percent of the judges in Gujarat’s subordinate judiciary support a fixed time limit for completion of each stage of a case, a survey by a law university says. The subordinate judiciary in the state has more than 23.5 lakh pending cases due to lack of specialized wings and lack of case management, said […] Read more » cases disposing Gujarat
Top Law News Court seeks report on Gujarat prisoner June 24, 2010 / June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Thursday asked the authorities to furnish a report on the condition of a convict who is suffering from gangrene allegedly due to lack of care and treatment by the jail authorities. The court also sought from the authorities a report on whether state hospitals are equipped to treat prisoners. The petitioner, […] Read more » Gujarat prisoner report
Top Law News Gujarat tribunal chief appointed June 24, 2010 / June 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on Gujarat tribunal chief appointed A tribunal for taking up disputes related to public works contracts will soon become functional as its chairman has been appointed, the Gujarat High Court was informed by the state government Thursday. The state government submitted that Judicial Officer K.M. Vin has been appointed chairman of the Gujarat Public Works Contract Arbitration Tribunal. The submission […] Read more » Gujarat tribunal
Top Law News Court grills Gujarat on civic polls June 23, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Wednesday directed the state government to tell under which provisions of the constitution it was empowered to notify seats for municipal corporation wards. The division bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Akil Kureshi sought answers from the state government and the state election commission in this regard over a […] Read more » civic polls Gujarat
Top Law News Gujarat gets time to file report in court on riots case June 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government on Thursday got a week’s time from the Gujarat High Court to find out the status of the process for summoning Chief Minister Narendra Modi initiated by a panel probing the 2002 post-Godhra riots case. This is the third adjournment after the state earlier sought time to file a status report on the […] Read more » file report Gujarat riots case