Top Law News Panel to check banned pesticides set up : Court March 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union agriculture ministry Tuesday informed the Delhi High Court that a committee has been constituted for framing a policy for periodic checks to detect pesticide residues in vegetables and fruits. In a joint affidavit filed by the ministry, the Food Safety and Standard Authority (FSSI), and Delhi government, it was stated that a six […] Read more » Delhi High Court Food Safety and Standard Authority (FSSI) Justice Rajiv Shakdhar Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Top Law News Notice to government on smoking scenes in films March 17, 2012 / March 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday issued notice to the health and family welfare ministry on film director Mahesh Bhatt’s plea seeking quashing of a notification prohibiting smoking scenes in movies. Bhatt said that the government’s notification of Sep 27, 2011 was “illegal and arbitrary” and violated his fundamental rights. A division bench of Justice Sanjay […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Mahesh Bhatt's plea smoking scenes in movies
High Profile Cases High Court slams Delhi government for land acquisition March 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has slammed the Delhi government for failing to respond to a plea by 172 farmers over takeover of their land using the urgency clause of the Land Acquisition Act. A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakedhar also fined the government Rs.5,000. In a hearing March 6, […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakedhar Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Land Acquisition Act.
Top Law News High Court rejects petitions against reservation for Scheduled Caste in MCD polls February 29, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today dismissed a batch of petitions seeking quashing of a state EC notification by which seats for Scheduled Caste candidates were reserved in the upcoming polls of trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). “We do not find any merit in the petitions, they are dismissed,” a bench of justices Sanjay Kishan […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Municipal Corporation of Delhi Scheduled Caste
Top Law News Court seeks Jamia Millia reply on students’ union poll ban February 22, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought Jamia Millia Islamia’s response by March 18 on a petition for quashing a 2006 decision of the central university to ban elections to the students’ union. The division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher sought the university’s response while hearing a petition by Hamidur Rahman, […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jamia Millia Islamia Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Top Law News Court reserves order on MCD polls February 17, 2012 / February 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its order on petitions by a group of councillors seeking quashing of the state election commission’s decision to reserve seats for candidates of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections to be held in April. The councillors of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress moved […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul MCD polls
Top Law News Delhi poll panel gets notice on MCD elections February 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday sought the state election commission’s response to a plea that has challenged the earmarking of seats as reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) in the April 2012 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). A bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher Friday issued a notice […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Rajiv Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul MCD elections
Top Law News Plea on Jamia Milia students union poll withdrawn January 10, 2012 / January 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A former student of Jamia Milia Islamia Monday withdrew from the Delhi High Court a petition seeking quashing of a 2006 decision of the central university to ban elections to the students union. Ikrar Khan withdrew the petition as the court declined to hear it. He was one of the petitioners who had moved court […] Read more » Delhi High Court Jamia Milia Islamia Justice Rajeev Shakdher Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul
Top Law News Khan Market parking woes: Court questions civic agency July 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Friday directed New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to submit a site plan to sort out parking problems in the upscale Khan Market in central Delhi. A division bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said: “You (NDMC) submit your site plan demarcating the area for paid parking and for free parking.” […] Read more » Delhi High Court Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul Khan Market New Delhi Municipal Council parking woes