High Profile Cases SC to hear Jallikattu matters on Jan 31 January 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today said that it will hear all Jallikattu matters on January 31 after the Centre filed a plea seeking to withdraw the January 6 notification, allowing the bull taming sport in Tamil Nadu. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra allowed all the applications related to Jallikattu to be filed and said […] Read more » Court featured Jallikattu Law legalnews plea Supreme Court Tamilnadu
Criminal Law News Top Law News Businessman, aide arrested in murder case December 27, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Prominent businessman Mahimananda Mishra and his aide, arrested in a murder case, were sent on a four-day police remand by a court in Jagatsinghpur district today, a day after they were brought to Odisha from Thailand. Mishra, Managing Director of Odisha Stevedores Ltd, and his aide Basant Bal were produced before the court of judicial […] Read more » Businessman arrested in murder case Court Criminal news featured Jagatsinghpur Law legalnews Mahimananda Mishra Odisha
High Profile Cases Madras HC dismisses yet another PIL on Jaya’s health status October 22, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today dismissed yet another PIL in connection with the health of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, terming it as ‘one more publicity interest litigation’. The PIL, filed by Dr G Pravina, sought setting up of an “expert life saving committee”, headed by the Chief Secretary. The petitioner said the panel should comprise specialist […] Read more » Court featured HC dismisses yet another PIL on Jaya's health status Law legalnews Madras High Court
Top Law News Delhi HC refuses urgent hearing to IABF plea ag’st BFI polls September 24, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today declined to give an urgent hearing to a plea by Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) seeking stay of the upcoming elections to consitute the Boxing Federation of India (BFI). The application seeking ex-parte stay of the September 25 election to the BFI executive committee was mentioned before a bench of justices […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured IABF plea ag'st BFI polls Law legalnews
Top Law News Justice Alok Aradhe takes oath as judge of J&K court September 21, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Justice Alok Aradhe, a senior judge of Madhya Pradesh High Court, today took oath as judge of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, taking its working strength to 10, including Chief Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar. Chief Justice Vasanthakumar administered the oath of office to Justice Aradhe at a ceremony held at High Court here, an official […] Read more » Court featured J&K high court Justice Alok Aradhe Law legalnews
Criminal Law News Two CAG office employees get 5 yrs jail in corruption August 1, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Two officials in the office of Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) have been sent to five years in jail by a special court for trying to get promotion by indulging in corruption and changing their answer sheets of departmental examination. “Corruption not only devalues human rights but it also undermines justice and equality which are […] Read more » CAG CBI corruption case Court featured IPC jail in corruption Law legalnews Rajesh Kumar
High Profile Cases CBI chargesheets ex-IT Dy Commissioner in graft case July 21, 2016 / July 22, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment CBI has chargesheeted former Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax Yogendra Mittal for allegedly taking illegal gratification from StockGuru scam accused Ullas Prabhakar Khaire in exchange of an assurance that he would settle his case. In its charge sheet filed before Special CBI Judge Anju Bajaj Chandna, the agency claimed that Mittal had led an inspection […] Read more » CBI chargesheets ex-IT Dy Commissioner Court featured graft case Law legalnews StockGuru scam Yogendra Mittal
High Profile Cases Coal scam: SC panel indicts ex-CBI chief Ranjit Sinha July 12, 2016 / July 13, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Former CBI Director Ranjit Sinha has been indicted by a Supreme Court-appointed panel which has held that prima facie there was an attempt to influence investigation into the coal block allocation scam. The court also pulled up CBI for its sluggish probe in the coal scam that had taken place during the UPA government’s tenure […] Read more » coal scam Criminal news featured legalnews Ranjit Sinha Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Maran brothers appear before special court, move bail pleas July 11, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanithi Maran and four others today appeared before a special court in pursuance of the summons issued to them in a Aircel-Maxis deal-related money laundering case and moved their bail pleas. Besides Maran brothers, Kalanithi’s wife Kavery Kalanithi and K Shanmugam, Managing Director of South Asia FM Ltd […] Read more » Aircel-Maxis deal Court Dayanidhi Maran featured Law legalnews money laundering case move bail pleas Special court
Criminal Law News Court acquits 27 in arson case of 2004 July 8, 2016 / July 9, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A court in Odisha’s Jajpur district has acquitted all 27 people who had been arrested for alleged violence and torching of police vehicles here 12 years ago. Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bikram Kumar Pradhan, while pronouncing the verdict yesterday, acquitted all the accused due to lack of evidence. Though 29 persons had been named in […] Read more » arson case Court Criminal news featured Law legalnews Odisha violence case
Top Law News Kejriwal gets bail in defamation case by BJP MP July 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was summoned as an accused in a criminal defamation complaint filed by BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri, was granted bail by a court in Delhi on Friday. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh granted the relief to Kejriwal on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 10,000 after he appeared before the court. […] Read more » Arvind Kejriwal gets bail BJP MP Court defamation case by featured Law legalnews Ramesh Bidhuri
Top Law News Goa Police seek to close case against UP MLA July 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Goa Police has sought permission from the state’s children’s court to close a case involving UP’s Samajwadi Party MLA Mahendra Kumar Singh who was booked under Immoral Trafficking Act in 2013. “We have recently filed report before Goa Children’s Court seeking to close the case due to lack of evidence,” Panaji Police inspector Siddhanth Shirodkar […] Read more » children's court Court featured Goa police Law legalnews Mahendra Kumar Singh Samajwadi Party Trafficking Act UP MLA
