Top Law News Achuthanandan moves Kerala High Court in Palmolein case July 31, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court has admitted a petition by CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan challenging a vigilance court order giving clean chit to Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, who was a member of K Karunakaran cabinet in 1991-92 when the Palmolein case rocked the state. Admitting the petition, Justice S S Satishchandran issued notice to the […] Read more » Kerala High Court Palmolein case
Top Law News SC issued notice on Italian govt’s plea July 19, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Centre and the Kerala government on Italian government’s plea to quash the ongoing trial of two of its marines for allegedly gunning down two Indian fishermen off the southern state’s coast in February this year. A bench of justices Altamas Kabir and J Chelameswar also issued […] Read more » Italian Italian government's plea Italian govt's plea Italian Naval officer Chief Sargeant Massimilano Lattore Italian Naval officer Sargeant Salvatore Girone Italian Naval officers Justice J. Chelameswar justices Altamas Kabir Kerala High Court NATO Supreme Court ted Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas UNCLOS
Top Law News Italian marine case: Next hearing on July 25 July 17, 2012 / July 17, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Italian marine case, in which two Indian fishermen were killed, is posted for July 25 by a local court of Kerala. The involved marine is ‘Enrica Lexie’. Judge P D Rajan of the district and sessions court adjourned the trial to July 25 and rejected the defence plea for the translated version of the […] Read more » criminal act of foriegn vessel in indian territorial water death of two indian fisherman by Italian marine death of two indians by Italian marine Italian Italian marine case Italian vessel case Kerala Kerala High Court Madras High Court news of Kerala
Top Law News Italian marine case: Italy moves Supreme Court July 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Italian government has moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings against its two marines charged with the murder of two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast this February in Italian marine case . The petition filed by the Italian government and its two marines has challenged the May 29 order of the […] Read more » criminal proceedings against italian marines Italian government Italian marine case Italian marine case happened in Indian territorial water Italian marine case in supreme court jurisdiction of Indian courts in cases where accidents happen in indian territorial water Kerala Kerala coast Kerala High Court Kerala Police Kollam court news of Kerala senior advocate Harish Salve Supreme Court Titus & Co
Top Law News Court refuses to quash FIR against CPI-M leader June 28, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court on Thursday refused to quash a FIR registered against a CPI-M leader for a speech justifying murders, and asked police to go ahead with its investigation. Dismissing M.M. Mani’s petition, Justice S.S. Sateeshachandran condemned his speech and said his comments had shocked the society. He observed that speeches like these could […] Read more » CPI-M CPI-M in Kerala CPI-M leader CPI-M leader in court FIR against CPI-M leader Kerala Kerala High Court
High Profile Cases BJP seeks answers as Singhvi resigns amid CD row April 24, 2012 / April 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi should explain in Parliament why he has quit as chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice. “It is a serious matter and the party has not given any statement on the standing committee, we hope he will make […] Read more » amid CD row Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Arun Jaitley BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar Congress chief Sonia Gandhi Congress media cell chief Janardhan Dwivedi Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi controversial CD allegedly Delhi Bar Association Rajiv Khosla Kerala High Court Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee cultural cell vice chief Guru S Nair Party spokesperson Rashid Alvi Singhvi resigns amid CD row
Criminal Law News Lok Adalat asked to settle compensation for killed fishermen April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A vacation bench of the Kerala High Court Friday referred the compensation claim, filed by families of the two Indian fishermen killed by two Italian Marines in February, to the Lok Adalat. The court did this after Italian authorities and the two fishermen’s families agreed to reach an out-of-court settlement. The case will now come […] Read more » Kerala High Court Lok Adalat two Indian fishermen
Top Law News Kerala High Court orders probe into fake stamp papers April 21, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court Manjula Chellur on Friday gave directions to all the courts in the state for an immediate inquiry into the use of stamp papers, after a massive fraud of fake stamp papers was detected at a lower court here. A media report earlier this week showed the use […] Read more » fake stamp papers Judge B Sudheendra Kumar Kerala High Court
Top Law News Nurses’ strike: Court orders police protection for hospital February 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court Wednesday directed police to provide protection to a private hospital which recruited 100 new nurses after failure of talks over the last three days to end a strike by the staff seeking better wages. Nurses at the Lakeshore hospital here are on a strike seeking better working conditions, forcing the management […] Read more » Kerala High Court Lakeshore hospital United Nurses Association
Criminal Law News Kerala sex scandal case: Police get a month to finish probe December 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Kerala High Court Thursday asked police to complete within a month the investigation into the two-decade-old Kozhikode sex scandal case involving state minister and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leader P.K. Kunhalikutty. Appearing for the state government, Advocate General K.P. Dandapani requested the court to grant police another six weeks to complete recording of […] Read more » Advocate General K.P. Dandapani Indian Union Muslim League Kerala High Court Kerala sex scandal case
Top Law News Why no vigilance case against Achuthanandan’s son, asks court December 15, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Kerala High Court Thursday asked the state government to explain why a case has not been registered by the vigilance department against V.A. Arun Kumar, son of former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan, in an alleged land deal case. The bench has asked the advocate general to report on Dec 22. […] Read more » former chief minister V.S. Achuthanandan Kerala High Court
High Profile Cases High Court Strikes Down Observations Against Chandy December 2, 2011 / December 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A division bench of the Kerala High Court Friday declared as null and void the observation made by a vigilance court against Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and asked it to complete re-investigation into the palm oil import case in six weeks. The high court bench asked for the removal of the observation made by Vigilance […] Read more » Judge P.K. Haneefa Kerala High Court palm oil import case