Family Law News Top Law News Widow Can Claim Absolute Right on ‘Maintenance’ Property: SC November 14, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The right to maintenance of a Hindu widow is not a “mere formality” but a spiritual and moral right that can be judicially enforced upon by claiming “absolute right” on the property given to her for sustaining herself, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench, headed by Justice M Y Eqbal, while upholding a Andhra […] Read more » Absolute Right on 'Maintenance' Property featured Justice C Nagappan justice M Y Eqbal Widow Can Claim Absolute Right Widow Can Claim Absolute Right on 'Maintenance'
Top Law News SC stays tribunal order re-instating sailor in Indian Navy June 23, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed the order of the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) that had modified the order of the Chief of Naval Staff to sack a sailor for slapping his senior, that too while on duty. The tribunal, though upholding the summary trial of the Navy that had held R Karthik “guilty”, had also […] Read more » AFT Armed Forces Tribunal Chief of Naval Staff featured Justice Arun Mishra justice M Y Eqbal Law Legal News Navy news SC SC stays tribunal order re-instating sailor in Indian Navy Supreme Court
Criminal Law News SC notice to centre, UP over journalist’s killing June 22, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Central Government and the UP government on a PIL seeking CBI probe into the killing of journalist Jagendra Singh allegedly at the behest of UP minister Ram Murti Verma. The apex court vacation Bench headed by Justice M.Y. Eqbal issued notice on a PIL after senior […] Read more » Central Government Criminal news featured journalist Jagendra Singh justice M Y Eqbal Law Legal News news SC notice to Centre Supreme Court UP government UP over journalist's killing
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Dowry demand can be made any time: SC February 15, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Demand for dowry can be made at any time and not necessarily before marriage, the Supreme Court has said while upholding the life term awarded to a man for poisoning and burning his wife to death in 1997. A bench of justices M Y Eqbal and Pinaki Chandra Ghose rejected the plea that the accused […] Read more » dowry demand justice M Y Eqbal Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose
Bar, Bench & Firm News Judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals: SC November 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals: SC The Supreme Court has held that judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals while awarding sentence, saying it would do more harm to the justice system and would undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law. “Undue sympathy by means of imposing inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system to […] Read more » justice M Y Eqbal
Top Law News SC commutes death sentence, jails rapist for 35 years February 27, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has commuted the death sentence of a man convicted for raping a minor girl who later died of her injuries, but sentenced him to a minimum of 35 years’ imprisonment without remission. “We are of the view that in spite of the fact that the appellant had committed a heinous crime and […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan justice M Y Eqbal news SC commutes death sentence todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News ‘Personal details collected for Aadhaar scheme liable to be misused’ February 5, 2014 / February 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Aadhaar scheme Tuesday came under attack in the Supreme Court for exploiting people’s ignorance and collecting their personal details which can not only be exploited commercially and encroach upon their privacy but were liable to misuse by government agencies. “The government will know each and every dimension of a Aadhaar card holder – be […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice J. Chelameswar justice M Y Eqbal news Personal details collected for Aadhaar scheme liable to be misused todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC to hear Bhullar’s plea for commuting death sentence January 25, 2014 / January 25, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said it would hear on January 28 the curative petition by 1993 Delhi blast terror convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar for commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. A bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice M.Y. Eqbal slated the matter for hearing Jan 28 as senior counsel […] Read more » 1993 Delhi blast terror convict Devinderpal Singh Bhullar Chief Justice P Sathasivam justice M Y Eqbal Justice Ranjan Gogoi news senior counsel K.T.S. Tulsi todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC tells government to decide on post reservation in AIIMS January 17, 2014 / January 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday said it was for the central government to decide whether there should be reservation for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in super speciality posts in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) as the court declined to revisit its July 2013 judgment. “We clarify (that) it is for the central […] Read more » Additional Solicitor General L. Nageshwar Rao Justice H.L. Dattu justice M Y Eqbal Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice S.S.Nijjar Justice Vikaramajit Sen news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC issues notice on PIL against pollution of Ganga January 11, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday issued notice to the central government on a PIL seeking direction to halt discharge of sewerage and waste of leather and other industries into the Ganga in the course of its journey from Gangotri in Uttrakhand to Ganga Sagar in West Bengal. A bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justice Ranjan […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam justice M Y Eqbal Justice Ranjan Gogoi news SC issues notice on PIL against pollution of Ganga Special Investigation Team todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Income tax assessee may not be holding property in his name, says SC January 8, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that merely because a person is an income tax assessee is not sufficient to hold that a property in his name actually belongs to him. “The property in the name of an income tax assessee itself cannot be a ground to hold that it actually belongs to such an assessee,” […] Read more » former DMK ministers in Tamil Nadu K.Ponmudi former DMK ministers in Tamil Nadu N.Suresh Rajan Income tax assessee may not be holding property in his name Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad justice M Y Eqbal news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC seeks details on NGOs, their accounts September 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday asked the CBI to file an affidavit stating whether NGOs receiving financial assistance from the government and other aid agencies were filing the statement of their accounts on the funds received by them and how these were spent. A bench of Justice H.L.Dattu and Justice M.Y. Eqbal also asked the Central […] Read more » advocate M L Sharma Justice H.L. Dattu justice M Y Eqbal national news news Ralegan Siddhi village todays news todays top news Top news
