Top Law News Rape, murder charges can’t be quashed despite settlement: SC July 30, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Criminal proceedings in grave offences like rape and murder cannot be quashed despite the victim and the accused reaching a compromise and coming to an amicable settlement, the Supreme court has ruled saying it will have harmful effect on society. A bench of justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and N V Ramana, however, said that proceedings […] Read more » Justice N.V. Ramana Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai murder charges can't be quashed despite settlement news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Delhi gang rape: SC extends stay on death sentence of two convicts April 1, 2014 / April 1, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday extended till April 7 the stay on the execution of the death sentence of Mukesh and Pawan Gupta, two of the four convicts in the Dec 16, 2012 gang rape, as it sought a copy of the trial court judgment. The death sentence of the four convicts was upheld by the […] Read more » Counsel M.L. Sharma Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Justice Shiva Kirti Singh miscarriage of justice news Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC to hear black money case Feb 19 January 18, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said it would hear Feb 19 a plea by counsel Ram Jethmalani seeking enforcement of the court’s July 4, 2011, order that had directed the setting up of a special investigating team headed by two former judges to monitor a probe into stashing away of black money in tax havens. A […] Read more » counsel Ram Jethmalani Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice H.L. Dattu Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Justice S.S.Nijjar news SC to hear black money case Feb 19 todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Courts should carefully scrutinise rape victims’ evidence, says SC January 6, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that courts must carefully examine the evidence of a rape victim to ascertain its trustworthiness as it alone was sufficient to convict a rape accused and sentence him to life imprisonment. Holding that the rape victim’s evidence is placed on such a high pedestal that it alone was sufficient to […] Read more » Courts should carefully scrutinise rape victims' evidence Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC notice on pilgrims’ safety at religious places November 20, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the centre and state governments on a PIL seeking directions to put in place “appropriate statutory” provisions and rules for crowd control and disaster management in the country. The apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Ranjan Gogoi issued notice on […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai pilgrims' safety at religious places
Top Law News Law graduate appears before inquiry committee in sexual harassment case November 19, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A law graduate of the Kolkata-based National University of Judicial Sciences (NUJS), who had alleged sexual harassment by a now retired apex court judge while she was interning with him in December last year, Monday deposed before the three-judge inquiry committee looking into the allegation. The law graduate appeared before the committee of Justice R.M. […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice H.L. Dattu Justice R.M. Lodha Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Law graduate appears before inquiry committee Law graduate sexual harassment case National University of Judicial Sciences NUJS) sexual harassment case
Top Law News SC wants speedy criminal justice system November 15, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has expressed anguish over the delays in the criminal justice system. The court said this after a convict in a dowry death case had to wait nearly 13 years before his appeal was decided by the Punjab and Haryana High Court while the apex court took another nine years before giving a […] Read more » \speedy criminal justice system Justice Madan B. Lokur Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai SC wants speedy criminal justice system
Top Law News SC panel to probe sexual harassment November 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday set up a committee of judges to go into a newspaper report in which a law graduate from Kolkata has alleged sexual harassment by a now retired Supreme court judge while she interned with him in December last year. Soon after lunch break, Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, heading the three-member bench, […] Read more » Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati Chief Justice P Sathasivam judges R.M. Lodha Justice H.L. Dattu Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai SC panel to probe sexual harassment sexual harassment
Top Law News Quota for disabled not within 50 percent ceiling, says SC October 9, 2013 / October 9, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that the “reservation for persons with disabilities has nothing to do with the ceiling of 50 percent” and hence the ceiling imposed by the apex court by its earlier judgment was not applicable with respect to the disabled. The court rapped the governments in the country for not ensuring that […] Read more » empowerment and inclusion of people with disabilities Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Persons with Disabilities Protection of Rights and Full Participation quota for diabled not within 50 percent ceiling Quota for disabled
Top Law News SC notice on PIL seeking shelter for homeless September 14, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday asked the central and Maharashtra governments to respond to a PIL seeking shelter for people, without a roof of their own, living on footpaths and other open public places. NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch, in its PIL, urged the court to direct the Maharashtra government restore to the […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai national news news NGO Nav Jivan Sahara Samajik Vichar Manch PIL seeking shelter for homeless todays news todays top news Top news Yatish Mohan
Top Law News SC notice on integrated action plan to counter Maoists September 10, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central and nine state governments on a PIL seeking the effective implementation of the integrated action plan to tackle the Maoist menace. A bench of Chief Justice P.Sathasivam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai issued notice on a PIL by Kishore Samrite, who contended that even four years […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai national news news PIL by Kishore Samrite todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC takes up PIL against pentavalent vaccine September 3, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday sought the central government’s response on the plea seeking a stop to manufacture, use and sale of the 5-in-1 Pentavalent vaccine – that inoculates for hepatitis-B, and haemophilus influenzae Type b besides diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus. Besides the central government, the notice has also been issued to the Drug Controller of […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam haemophilus influenzae Hepatitis-B Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai national news news Pentavalent vaccine PIL against pentavalent vaccine todays news todays top news Top news UIP Universal Immunisation Programmes
