Criminal Law News Aarushi murder: Supreme Court orders trial of slain teenager’s parents January 6, 2012 / January 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major setback to dentist couple Nupur and Rajesh Talwar, the Supreme Court today cleared the decks for their trial in their daughter Aarushi’s murder case. A bench of justices A K Ganguly and J S Khehar dismissed the couple’s plea to quash criminal proceedings against them in the sensational 2008 case involving the […] Read more » Aarushi murder Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme court spared neither holy cows, nor corrupt in 2011 December 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment It was a year of judicial activism as the Supreme Court was in 2011 called on to adjudicate on a wide swathe of issues ranging from governance, to graft, to police high-handedness. In the process it was as harsh on the corrupt as on holy cows — and even cautioned judges to stay within the […] Read more » holy cows Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Supreme court questions JNU on students’ union poll November 29, 2011 / November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the Jawaharlal Nehru University, its students union and the organisation Youth for Equality to file affidavits stating their respective positions on holding elections to the varsity’s student body. The court said that “this is a matter of holding JNUSU (Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union) elections. The elections to JNUSU could […] Read more » Jawaharlal Nehru University JNUSU elections Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Top Law News Kissing episode: Cases against Shilpa Shetty shifted to Mumbai November 22, 2011 / November 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three cases filed in 2007 in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty for publicly kissing Hollywood star and AIDS awareness campaigner Richard Gere were Monday transferred by the Supreme Court to a Mumbai court. An apex court bench of Justice A.K. Ganguly and Justice J.S. Khehar transferred the cases to the court […] Read more » Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Top Law News Use affinity test, documents to assess caste claim: Supreme court November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Use affinity test, documents to assess caste claim: Supreme court The Supreme Court has said that the genuineness of a caste claim has to be considered not only on the strength of documentary evidence but also on affinity test involving anthropological and ethnological traits of the applicant. The “genuineness of a caste claim has to be considered not only on a thorough examination of the […] Read more » Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice D.K. Jain Supreme Court
Top Law News Rita Bahuguna’s plea sent to high court chief justice November 9, 2011 / November 9, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court to place before an appropriate bench Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi’s plea seeking a CBI probe into the 2009 attack on her Lucknow house by suspected Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) workers. An apex court bench of Justice A.K. Ganguly and […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Rita Bahuguna's plea sent to high court chief justice
Top Law News Use discretion to further ends of justice: Supreme court November 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Use discretion to further ends of justice: Supreme court The Supreme Court has said that when a court exercises its discretion in either condoning or refusing to condone delay in initiating a proceeding, it should be to further the ends of justice. “The discretion of this court under Article 136 of the constitution is meant to further the ends of the justice and this […] Read more » Article 136 Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Probe Chidambaram plea: Supreme court reserves order in 2G case October 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its judgement on a plea by Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a probe into Home Minister P. Chidambaram’s role as the then finance minister in deciding the second generation (2G) spectrum pricing. Swamy said, “Counsels representing Union of India pleaded before the court that Chidambaram was being targeted, […] Read more » 2G spectrum allocation case Criminal breach of public trust DMK MP Kanimozhi former Telecom Minister A. Raja Home Minister P. Chidambaram Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court
Top Law News CBI shielding Chidambaram, petitioner tells Supreme court September 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court was Wednesday told that the probe into the 2G scam by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was ‘less than honest’ as it failed to examine the role of the then finance minister and present Home Minister P. Chidambaram over the fixing of spectrum price. The Centre for Public Interest Litigation […] Read more » Attorney General G. Vahanvati CBI CBI shielding Chidambaram Chidambaram counsel Prashant Bhushan CPIL Deputy Director P.G.S. Rao Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Supreme Court
Top Law News Lawyer complains of political, media reactions September 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Lawyer complains of political, media reactions Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) senior counsel in Supreme Court K.K. Venugopal Tuesday termed as “affront” the remarks of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha that his arguments on behalf of the probe agency, which included the defence of Home Minister P. Chidambaram, were “laughable”. Venugopal told the apex court bench of Justice G.S. […] Read more » Home Minister P. Chidambaram Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi K.K. Venugopal P.J. Thomas
Top Law News State biggest land grabber: Supreme Court of India July 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on State biggest land grabber: Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the state was the biggest land grabber, depriving farmers of their livelihood for generations. The apex court bench of Justice G S Singhvi and Justice A K Ganguly said that farmers’ lands were being acquired in the name of public interest and being given to builders to construct […] Read more » biggest land grabber Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi Land Acquisition Act. State Supreme Court of India
Top Law News Government asked to notify CBI probe into Batcha’s death April 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government to issue within three days a notification for handing to the CBI the probe into the mysterious death of Sadiq Batcha, a close aide of former Telecom Minister A. Raja. “In the facts and circumstances of the case, we direct the government to issue notification within three […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising Batcha's death CBI Centre for Public Interest Litigation former Telecom Minister A. Raja Government Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice G.S. Singhvi notify probe Sadiq Batcha Supreme Court