Top Law News Balance freedom of press with rights of accused : Supreme Court March 28, 2012 / March 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday said it has to frame guidelines to balance the freedom of press with that of the right of an accused under trial in a criminal case, but was told that it could not enforce them in the absence of law backing it. “Anything that has not been enacted could not be […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Justice D.K. Jain Justice J.S. Khehar Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Justice S.S.Nijjar Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Tamil Nadu on film ban January 14, 2012 / January 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday slammed the Tamil Nadu government for banning the screening of film ‘Dam 999’, saying that “when the whole country has one constitution, your state can`t have a separate constitution”. A bench of Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly and Justice J.S. Khehar asked the state`s Additional Advocate General Guru Krishna Kumar how the […] Read more » film ‘Dam 999’ Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Top Law News Three year jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict: Supreme Court January 13, 2012 / January 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over five years after Alistair Pereira, driving under the influence of alcohol, ran over 15 labourers sleeping on a Mumbai pavement killing seven of them, the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Bombay High Court verdict awarding him a three-year jail sentence. The apex court bench of Justice R.M. Lodha and Justice J.S. Khehar cancelled […] Read more » jail for Mumbai hit-and-run convict Justice J.S. Khehar Justice R.M. Lodha Supreme Court
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
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 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