Corporate Law News Anil Ambani to move Supreme Court July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The legal battle over the KG Basin gas intensified on Wednesday, with the Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Natural Resources Limited declaring its intention to approach the Supreme Court to seek a final hearing on September 1. Reliance Natural Resources Limited served notice on Reliance Industries Limited and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry, conveying its intention […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Anand guilty of contempt in BMW case July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court upheld the Delhi High Court judgment convicting senior advocate R.K. Anand of contempt for attempting to influence the trial in the BMW hit-and-run case. A Bench consisting of Justices B.N. Agrawal, G.S. Singhvi and Aftab Alam, however, acquitted the then special public prosecutor, I.U. Khan. The High Court barred both lawyers from […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News HC stays GHMC poll process July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The prospects of holding elections in the immediate future to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation virtually disappeared on Wednesday when the High Court stayed the issuance of the poll notification on the ground that the basis for determination of backward class voters was faulty and illegal. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Criminal Law News Rita Bahuguna gets bail July 30, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pradesh Congress president (UP) Rita Bahuguna Joshi was granted bail by a Moradabad court in a case against her for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati. Joshi has been granted bail by the district court on two sureties of Rs.20,000 each. Read more » Law News Legal News
Criminal Law News Bail for Muthalik July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik, who was arrested in connection with the communal violence that took place here on July 2, was granted bail by the second Judicial Magistrate First Class court here on Tuesday. Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Supreme Court convicts lawyer R.K.Anand for contempt July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court convicts lawyer R.K.Anand for contempt The Supreme Court upheld a Delhi High Court ruling convicting lawyer R.K. Anand for contempt to court in trying to forge a nexus with defence counsel I.U. Khan to shield main culprit Sanjeev Nanda in the BMW hit-and-run case. Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Allahabad HC stays petition challenging reservation in private engg colleges July 29, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3. The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others. The state government had also […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Criminal Law News Three convicted of 2003 Mumbai blasts July 28, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special POTA court convicted three persons of carrying out bomb blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai on August 25, 2003, killing 52 people and injuring 184. Judge M.R. Puranik announced that Haneef Sayyed and his wife Fahmeeda from Marol and Ashrat Ansari from Juhu Galli would be sentenced on […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Action Against 353 Forest Mafia During 2009-10 in UP July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is taking strict steps by effective laws to stop cutting of trees in forest areas and to curb forest mafia.Strict enforcement of the Indian Forests Act, 1927, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 enables prevention of cutting of trees and forest areas. In addition, the State Government of […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Admission to BPL Students in Private and Public Schools July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Bill, 2009, inter alia, contains provisions that an unaided school, not receiving any kind of aid or grants to meet its expenses from the appropriate Government or the local authority, shall admit in class I, to the extent of at least twenty-five per cent of the […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Increase in strength of Supreme Court Judges July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dr. M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008 on 22nd December, 2008 and it received the assent of the President on 5th February, 2009. The Supreme Court Registry has informed that “the Judges […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Use of Hindi in Supreme Court July 27, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin Read more » Law News Legal News