Consumer Law News Rash driving: 37-yr-old woman gets Rs 5 lakh October 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A 37-year-old woman, who suffered grievous injuries after being hit by a rashly and negligently driven motorcycle, has been awarded compensation of over Rs. 5 lakh by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in New Delhi. The tribunal directed the National Insurance Company Ltd, insurer of the offending motorcycle, to pay Rs. 5,36,127 to Laxmi […] Read more » Court featured insurance Law Legal News Rash driving Rash driving: 37-yr-old woman gets Rs 5 lakh
Environment Law News NGT slams Odisha govt over shops on Puri beach October 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has slammed Odisha government and the state pollution control board for permitting shops to operate on Puri beach. “You have 1,000 shops on the beach and all of them generate waste. I have seen them myself. Why don’t you shift them? Tell us the logic in having them (shops) on the […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News NGT NGT slams Odisha govt over shops on Puri beach
Criminal Law News Drug abuse and trafficking menace to society: court October 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Drug abuse and trafficking is a menace to society, a Delhi court has said while awarding 10 years’ imprisonment to a woman for being in possession of commercial quantity of contraband psychotropic substances. Additional Sessions Judge Rajiv Mehra also imposed a fine of Rs. 1 lakh on convict Shahnaz, a resident of Badarpur in New […] Read more » Court Drug abuse and trafficking menace to society: court featured Law Legal News
Environment Law News ‘Polluted lake near Tughlaqabad Fort unacceptable’ October 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court has termed as “unacceptable” the presence of a polluted artificial lake in the space behind the 14th century Tughlaqabad Fort and sought a definite plan from the city government on how it intends to clean up its waters. A bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva left it to the […] Read more » 'Polluted lake near Tughlaqabad Fort unacceptable' Court Delhi environmentment news featured Law polution
Top Law News I went by Coal Secretary’s advice: Manmohan Singh to CBI October 4, 2015 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on I went by Coal Secretary’s advice: Manmohan Singh to CBI Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s request for allocation of Talabira-II coal block to Hindalco was approved by him on the advice of then Coal Secretary PC Parakh and examined by PMO officials, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told the CBI. He said Patnaik’s letter requesting a review of refusal to allocate the coal block […] Read more » CBI featured I went by Coal Secretary's advice: Manmohan Singh to CBI Law Legal News Manmohan Singh
Criminal Law News Sheena case: Indrani’s lawyer seeks court nod to meet her October 3, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Indrani Mukerjea’s lawyer today moved a local courtseeking permission to meet her in J J hospital, where she is undergoing treatment for alleged drug overdose, after she wasn’t allowed to see her. The court sought a report on health condition of Indrani, the prime accused in the murder of her daughter Sheena Bora (24) in […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Indrani Law Sheena case Sheena case: Indrani's lawyer seeks court nod to meet her
Consumer Law News Top Law News Family of mishap victim awarded Rs 55.84 lakh October 3, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The family of a 32-year-old bank manager, who died in a road accident in 2009, has been awarded a compensation of Rs 55.84 lakhs by the Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal here. District Judge and Additional Member of MACT AS Jadhav ordered opponents Rahat Asmat Khot, (owner of the offending vehicle) and the Oriental Insurance […] Read more » Family of mishap victim awarded Rs 55.84 lakh featured insurance Law Legal News MACT Motor Accident Claims Tribunal
Criminal Law News Midnight raid: Police files supple chargesheet against Bharti October 3, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi Police today filed a supplementary charge sheet in a city court against AAP leader Somnath Bharti in a case of alleged molestation of African women during his purported midnight raid last year when he was the Delhi Law Minister. In a supplementary final report filed before Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Ankita Lal, the police informed […] Read more » AAP featured Law Legal News Midnight raid Midnight raid: Police files supple chargesheet against Bharti Somnath Bharti
High Profile Cases Top Law News Did not influence anyone to give coal block to Birla: Manmohan October 2, 2015 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Did not influence anyone to give coal block to Birla: Manmohan Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told CBI that he did not try to “influence” anybody, nor was there “any undue haste” in awarding the Talabira-II coal block toHINDALCO which was initially refused. He also told CBI, investigating the case, that he had neither promised, nor gave any assurance to industrialistKumar Mangalam Birla about allocation […] Read more » coal scam Did not influence anyone to give coal block to Birla: Manmohan featured Hindalco Kumar Manglam Birla Law Legal News Manmohan Singh
Top Law News HC restrains CBI from arresting Virbhadra, wife October 2, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment In an interim relief to Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his wife Pratibha Singh, Himachal High Court today restrained the CBI from arresting them in disproportionate assets case even though it allowed the probe to proceed. A division bench, comprising Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Sureshwar Thakur, also told CBI not to question or […] Read more » CBI Court featured HC restrains CBI from arresting Virbhadra and wife High Court Law Legal News
Criminal Law News 65-yr-old gets 7 yrs jail for trying to rape minor October 1, 2015 by Legal India News | 2 Comments on 65-yr-old gets 7 yrs jail for trying to rape minor A 65-year-old man was sentenced to seven years in jail for trying to rape a minor girl by a Delhi court, which observed that the crime has affected the mind and soul of the victim for which no amount of compensation was sufficient. “The crime of the convict has gone deep into the mind and […] Read more » 65-yr-old gets 7 yrs jail for trying to rape minor Court Criminal news Delhi featured jail Law Legal News rape
High Profile Cases Tel exchange case: SC grants CBI time to reply to Maran’s docs October 1, 2015 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on Tel exchange case: SC grants CBI time to reply to Maran’s docs The Supreme Court on Thursday granted two weeks to CBI to respond to some additional documents filed by former Telecom Minister and DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran in the alleged telephone exchange case. Mr. Maran, who has been granted protection against arrest by the apex court after the Madras High Court cancelled his bail, had filed […] Read more » Dayanidhi Maran featured Law Legal News Sun TV Tel exchange case Tel exchange case: SC grants CBI time to reply to Maran's docs telephone exchange case
