Top Law News City court grants bail to suspended ED officer Manoj Kumar June 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court today granted bail to suspended Enforcement Directorate officer Manoj Kumar, who had been arrested for his alleged role in a case of extortion. Debabrata Sinha, the fifth judge at Bankshall Court, granted bail to Kumar on two sureties of Rs 20,000 each. He was directed to submit his passport to the court […] Read more » City court grants bail Court ED Enforcement Directorate featured Law Legal News Manoj Kumar
Criminal Law News Top Law News Court convicts five person for acid attack on girl June 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An Aurangabad court today held five persons guilty of killing a girl last year by throwing acid at her. Additional District and Sessions Judge Anil Kumar Mishra convicted prime accused Mohammad Azhar and four others under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and POSCO for the acid attack on the girl on June 23, […] Read more » Court Court convicts five person for acid attack on girl Criminal news featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Cash for vote: HC questions non-inclusion of names in FIR June 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today asked the Tamil Nadu government to explain as to why names figuring in the Election Commission and IT Department reports on the alleged bribing of RK Nagar assembly segment voters were not mentioned in the relevant FIR. The FIR against unnamed persons had been registered on a complaint by the […] Read more » Cash-for-vote Court featured FIR Law Legal News Madras High Court
Top Law News PG degree/diploma medical course merit list: Madras HC adjourns plea June 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today adjourned to June 28 a petition filed by the state government seeking two weeks time to redo the merit list of the post graduate degree/diploma medical courses published on May 7. On June 16, the court had quashed a state government order, enabling the state to grant weightage marks to […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Madras HC adjourns plea PG degree/diploma medical course merit list
Environment Law News Top Law News NGT asks Himachal govt to ensure ban on illegal mining June 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Himachal Pradesh government to ensure there is no illegal mining in the state “under any circumstances”. Responding to a plea alleging unauthorised excavation on government land in Kangra, a circuit bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar asked the state government to submit a restoration plan […] Read more » Court Environment Law News featured Himachal government illegal mining lagal news Law National Green Tribunal NGT
High Profile Cases Woman’s plea for abortion: SC forms 7-doctor medical board June 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today constituted a medical board of seven doctors of the SSKM Hospital in Kolkata to ascertain health of a 24-week pregnant woman wanting to undergo abortion on the grounds of foetus abnormality. A vacation bench of justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul directed the medical board to submit the report […] Read more » 'West Bengal Court featured Law Legal News SC forms 7-doctor medical board Supreme Court Woman's plea for abortion
Top Law News Calcutta High Court stays sale of Bengal Chemicals excess land June 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Calcutta High Court today stayed the proposed sale of excess land of Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Limited, a Union government undertaking. Justice Debangshu Basak stayed the proposed sale of the land, slated for auction next week, on a petition by the company’s workers’ union opposing the proposed sale. Petitioner’s counsel Bikash Bhattacharya submitted to […] Read more » Calcutta High Court Court featured HC stays sale of Bengal Chemicals excess land Law Legal News
High Profile Cases Keeping check on pvt nursing homes violating norms:Maha to Bombay HC June 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Maharashtra government today assured the Bombay High Court that it was taking adequate steps to keep a check on private nursing homes and hospitals being operated without proper licenses across the state. The government made this submission in its affidavit, filed today in response to a public interest lawsuit filed by Pune resident Atul […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Keeping check on pvt nursing homes violating norms Law Legal News Maharashtra
Criminal Law News Top Law News Delhi HC allows 40-year-old rape convict to walk free June 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Taking a lenient view towards a 40-year-old man undergoing 10-year-jail term in a rape case, the Delhi High Court has set him free by reducing his sentence to seven years already spent by him behind bars. The court ordered his immediate release considering that the conduct of the convict, who has a wife and two […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi High Court featured HC allows 40-year-old rape convict to walk free Law Legal News rape case
Top Law News Adarsh case: Guv can’t be made party to lawsuits, Chavan told June 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today sought Congress leader Ashok Chavan’s stand to the CBI’s submission that the governor cannot be made respondent to his plea against the sanction to try him in the Adarsh housing society scam. A division bench headed by Justice R V More gave this direction to Congress MP Chavan while hearing […] Read more » Adarsh case Ashok Chavan Bombay High Court Congress Court featured Law Legal News
Top Law News 11 new judges for 3 HCs June 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Eleven judges to three high courts have been appointed. The fresh appointments — six in the Madras High Court and two each in the high courts of Chhattisgarh and Punjab and Haryana– come at a time when the government and the judiciary continue to have differences over a key document which guides nomination of judges […] Read more » 11 new judges for 3 HCs Chhattisgarh High Court Court featured Law Legal News Madras High Court Punjab and Haryana High Court
High Profile Cases Why do away with re-evaluation, Delhi HC asks CBSE June 22, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “Why should you do away with re- evaluation?” This was a query put to the CBSE by the Delhi High Court after being shown answer sheets where correct responses to questions had been awarded zero marks. A bench of justices Sanjeev Sachdeva and A K Chawla asked the CBSE to explain such “apparent errors” in […] Read more » CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News