Top Law News Subrata Roy gets 4 weeks parole for mother”s last rites May 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed release of jailed Sahara chief Subrata Roy on parole for four weeks to attend rituals following the death of his mother early this morning. A bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur, Justices A R Dave and A K Sikri allowed the plea of Roy seeking permission to attend cremation […] Read more » featured Law Legal News mother''s last rites Subrata Roy gets 4 weeks parole Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Lalu, Mishra appear in court in fodder scam case May 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment RJD President Lalu Prasad Yadav and former Bihar Chief Minister Jagannath Mishra today appeared in a special CBI court here following its direction in connection with a multi-crore rupee fodder scam case. In pursuance of the order of Special CBI court judge Devraj Tripathi for personal appearance of all the 31 accused, Lalu Prasad, Jagannath […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured fodder scam case Lalu Law Legal News
Top Law News Bombay HC decriminalises possession of beef with a caveat May 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Upholding the ban on slaughter of bulls and bullocks imposed by BJP-led Government in Maharashtra, Bombay High Court today decriminalised possession of beef where animals are slaughtered outside the state. It struck down as “unconstitutional” provisions which held mere posession of beef as crime, saying only “conscious possession” of the meat of animals slaughtered in […] Read more » beef case Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News
Top Law News SC to hear Subrata Roy’s parole plea at 2pm May 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday agreed to hear the plea of Sahara Chief Subrata Roy seeking parole to perform cremation rites of his mother who passed away in the wee hours this morning. Roy has been in Tihar jail since March 4, 2014 on the orders of the apex court in relation with a long running […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News Subrata Roy's parole plea Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Illegal confinement:CJM orders kotwali inspector to lodge case May 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A chief judicial magistrate here has ordered inspector of the kotwali to register a case against eight police personnel and a homeguard after an advocate alleged that he was kept in “illegal confinement” and “looted” by them last month. Complainant Anil Kumar Tewari alleged he was kept in a lock-up of Mathura Refinery Police Station […] Read more » CJM Court criminal case featured illegal confinement Law Legal News Mathura
Criminal Law News Man gets 10 yrs in jail for rape, court terms barbaric May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A 45-year-old man has been sent to jail for 10 years for raping and trying to strangulate a woman with a Delhi court terming his act as “barbaric, diabolic and disturbing”. The court described as “vile” the act of the convict, a Delhi resident, while observing that the woman was subjected in 2014 to one […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News rape case
Criminal Law News Court restrains in-laws from throwing out daughter-in-law May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A man’s parents and other family members have been restrained from throwing out his wife from her shared matrimonial house by a Delhi court. The court dismissed an appeal filed by the man’s parents, brother and sister-in-law and said that the woman was entitled to peaceful possession of a room in the matrimonial home here. […] Read more » Court Criminal news Delhi court featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Ban on diesel-run taxis to affect BPOs, Centre tells SC May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Central Government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court for relaxation on ban on diesel taxis in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR). The Centre told the apex court that the current ban on diesel cabs is affecting BPOs as they use large number of taxis, including the diesel ones to ferry their employees. It further […] Read more » Ban on diesel-run taxis BPOs Centre government Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Petition against acquisition of house by Metro firm May 4, 2016 / May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court today issued notices to the Metro-Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad Company Ltd (MEGA) and the city civic body over a petition against land acquisition in Vastral area here for the Metro project. The petitioner Rajubhai Patel, resident of Vastral, alleges that MEGA (which is constructing the Metro) is acquring houses […] Read more » Court featured Gujarat High Court Law Legal News Metro firm petition
Top Law News Speculation rife over transfer of Uttarakhand HC CJ May 4, 2016 / May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Speculation was rife today that Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice K M Joseph, who was recently in the news following the quashing of the President’s rule in the state, was being shifted to the High Court of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Law Ministry sources declined to comment on the issue while sources in the two high courts […] Read more » Chief Justice K M Joseph Court featured Law Legal News Speculation rife Uttarakhand High Court
Top Law News High %age of acquittals reveal shoddy probe: Delhi HC May 4, 2016 / May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Taking note of the high percentage of acquittals in criminal cases, including crimes against women, children and senior citizens, Delhi High Court today said it either reveals “shoddy or botched-up investigation” or that the wrong person was accused of committing the offence. Referring to the “revealing statistics”, a bench of justices Badar Durrez Ahmed and […] Read more » Centre government Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News shoddy or botched-up investigation
High Profile Cases SC favours 2005 Jharkhand for floor test in U”khand May 4, 2016 / May 5, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today suggested that it may order a ‘composite floor test’ for Uttarakhand Assembly as was directed by the apex court in 2005 in Jharkhand when BJP leader Arjun Munda had challenged the government formation by JMM supremo Shibu Soren. “The floor test (in Uttarakhand Assembly) can be on Jharkhand Model,” a bench […] Read more » Court featured floor test in U''khand Jharkhand Law Legal News Supreme Court Uttarakhand
