High Profile Cases SC for relook into 349 FDC medicines by drug advisory board December 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pharmaceutical firms have suffered a setback as the Supreme Court has favoured re- examination of 349 fixed dose combination (FDC) medicines, a ban on which was set aside by the Delhi High Court. The FDC medicines, including well-known brands such as Corex cough syrup and Vicks Action 500 Extra and several anti-diabetes drugs, were banned […] Read more » Court drug advisory board FDC medicines featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Pained by undertrials languishing in jail despite bail: Delhi HC December 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has said it is “pained” by undertrials languishing in Tihar Jail despite getting bail as they could not furnish a bond or surety due to poverty and issued a slew of directions to be followed by trial courts to ensure that such people get relief. A bench of Acting Chief Justice […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Pained by undertrials languishing in jail despite bail
Top Law News Wazirabad bridge traffic woes: Delhi HC pulls up Delhi govt December 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has pulled up the AAP government for not taking any steps to ease the massive traffic congestion on the single-lane Wazirabad bridge, which is used for commuting between north and northeast area of the city. It asked the Delhi chief secretary to ensure that the authorities examine the problem of commuters […] Read more » Court Delhi government Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Wazirabad bridge traffic woes
Criminal Law News Top Law News Man convicted for molestation; spared jail by judge December 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Thane court has convicted a 28-year-old man for outraging the modesty of a minor girl in 2010, but did not send him to jail and only imposed a fine. First Class Judicial Magistrate R T Ingle, in his order yesterday, said he was not in favour of sending the convict, Mandar Jagtap, to jail […] Read more » Court Criminal news featured Law Legal News
Top Law News Bombay HC rejects bail plea of driver in bus accident that killed 37 December 18, 2017 / December 18, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has rejected the bail plea of the driver of a luxury bus that plunged into a river off the Mumbai-Goa highway four years ago, killing 37 passengers and injuring 15 others. The driver, Santaji Kirdat, was convicted on charges of rash driving, negligence, and culpable homicide not amounting to murder and […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured Law Legal News plea
Top Law News PIL in HC alleges collusion between north MCD, builders December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has sought response of the municipal corporation of north Delhi on a PIL alleging that its officials were “colluding and conniving” with private builders by permitting illegal constructions. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar directed the civic body to indicate on affidavit what action […] Read more » Builders Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News MCD PIL
Top Law News Aircel-Maxis case: SC seeks status reports on probe December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today asked the CBI, the ED and the special public prosecutor appointed by it in the 2G spectrum scam case to file a status report on the probe carried out by ED officer Rajeshwar Singh in the Aircel-Maxis deal case. It said that it wanted to know against whom what investigation was […] Read more » Aircel-Maxis case CBI Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News SC deprecates lawyer for saying her client will be raped December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today deprecated a lawyer for saying that her client, a fugitive businesswoman residing in London, is getting threats from lenders that she will be molested and raped on arrival in India. The top court asked the woman’s counsel to “behave responsibly” or it will refer her to Bar Council of India for […] Read more » Bar Council of India Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News SC refuses Cong plea for counting of VVPAT slips in Guj December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of the Gujarat Congress seeking counting of at least 20 per cent of the paper trail slips manually along with votes cast in the EVMs in each constituency of the state. It said that the court cannot interfere unless the Election Commission of India’s decision to […] Read more » Congress Court featured Gujarat Law Legal News plea Supreme Court VVPAT
Top Law News Jaitley accuses Kejriwal of seeking roving probe in DDCA case December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Union Minister Arun Jaitley today alleged before a court here that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Raghav Chadha were seeking a “roving and fishing enquiry” in his criminal defamation complaint against them in the DDCA row. The counsel for Jaitley told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Sherawat that Kejriwal and Chadha were trying […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal Aun Jaitley Court DDCA case featured Law Legal News
High Profile Cases Disabled people have right to get higher education: SC December 16, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment People with disablility have a right to get higher education and not making adequate provisions to facilitate their proper education would amount to “discrimination”, the Supreme Court said today. Ir directed the government institutions of higher education and other such institutions, which were receiving aid from the government, to comply with the provisions of the […] Read more » Court Disabled people have right to get higher education featured Law Legal News Supreme Court UGC University Grants Commission
Consumer Law News Top Law News Consumer Forum rejects complaints against SBI December 15, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The District Consumer Redressal Forum here has rejected four complaints against the State Bank of India (SBI) pertaining to interest rate on personal loans. Forum’s president Sneha Mhatre and member Madhuri Vishwarupe recently held that SBI’s Thane main branch was right in recovering the difference in the interest rate on the personal loan as the […] Read more » Consumer forum Court featured Law Legal News SBI State Bank of India