Top Law News BJP asks EC for speedy work on right to reject October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict providing voters the right to reject all candidates in a poll, the BJP Tuesday urged the Election Commission to take immediate cognizance of the matter and call an all-party meet. “The verdict should be seen in the context of compulsory electoral reforms, and the EC should immediately take cognizance and […] Read more » BJP asks EC for speedy work Election Commission national news news NOTA Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Allahabad HC to hear contempt plea against PM on ordinance October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The contempt petition filed by social activist Nutan Thakur accuses Singh of “having openly defied the orders of the Supreme Court”. The bench of Justice Ajai Lamba would hear the petition in which the petitioner cites the case of Lily Thomas vs Union of India & Others, wherein the Apex Court had struck down section […] Read more » Contempt of Courts Act 1971 Justice Ajai Lamba national news news social activist Nutan Thakur todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News MP Rasheed Masood gets four years’ jail October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader, Rasheed Masood, was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court in a corruption case, becoming the first MP to lose his seat after a recent Supreme Court judgement had removed the immunity for convicted lawmakers. 67-year-old Masood, who attains the dubious distinction of being […] Read more » Health Minister Kashi Ram Reang Judge J P S Malik national news news Rajya Sabha member and Congress leader Rasheed Masood Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news Tripura Chief Minister Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar
Top Law News Minor’s rapist gets 10 years jail October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Monday sentenced a waiter to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a two-year-old neighbour after taking away the girl from her father on the pretext of playing with her. Additional Sessions Judge M.C. Gupta awarded the jail term to Bablu, 26, after holding him guilty of kidnapping, wrongfully confining and […] Read more » national news news Section 376 IPC Sessions Judge M.C. Gupta todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Lalu Prasad held guilty in fodder scam, sentencing Oct 3 October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bringing to end one of India’s longest-running corruption cases, a court in the Jharkhand capital Monday convicted RJD chief Lalu Prasad and 44 others for illegal withdrawal of millions of rupees from the then undivided Bihar’s animal husbandry department in the early 1990s, in what is popularly known as the fodder scam. The BJP Monday […] Read more » BJP leader Rajiv Pratap Rudy fodder scam former chief minister Jagannath Mishra Janata Dal-United MP Jagdish Sharma Lalu Prasad national news news RJD chief Lalu Prasad Special Judge Pravas Kumar Singh todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News NRI student’s death: Six accused sent to judicial custody October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Six accused arrested in connection with the death of NRI student Anmol Sarna and drug abuse were denied bail by a Delhi court today and sent to judicial custody till October 14. The court denied the accused bail saying the probe was at an initial stage and the allegations against them were serious in nature. […] Read more » Madhav Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak Wason national news news NRI student Anmol Sarna Pranil Shah Rythm Girhotra security guard Naresh Mishra security guard Surender Bali Shivang Gambhir todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC takes cognizance of contempt by army chief October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday took suo motu cognizance of the former Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh finding fault with its verdict on his age row last year. A special bench of Justice R.M.Lodha and Justice H.L.Gokhale will Tuesday take up for hearing a suo motu contempt petition by the court’s own motion taking note […] Read more » Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati former Indian Army chief Gen. V.K. Singh Justice H.L. Gokhale Justice R.M. Lodha national news news Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News 2 lawmakers, 15 others charge sheeted in Bharatpur violence October 1, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI on Monday filed a chargesheet against 17 people including two legislators in the case of the 2011 communal violence in Bharatpur district that left 10 people dead, said a lawyer. AK Jain, the lawyer of some of the accused, said that the chargesheet was filed in the court of additional chief judicial magistrate […] Read more » AK Jain Bharatpur violence BJP legislator Anita Singh chief judicial magistrate Mahendra Kumar Mehta Congress legislator Zahida Khan national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Will appeal in higher court, says Lalu’s son September 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Soon after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad was convicted in afodder scam case by the Special CBI courthere Monday, his son Tejaswi Yadav told reporters that the conviction will be challenged in a higher court. “We will appeal in higher courts, we have faith in the legal system,” Tejaswi Yadav said. “We will also go to the court of […] Read more » appeal in higher court Lalu Prasad national news news Raghuvansh Prasad Rashtriya Janata Dal RJD says Tejaswi Yadav Tejaswi Yadav todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC restraint order on BCCI chief Srinivasan to continue September 30, 2013 / September 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment N Srinivasan, though re-elected BCCI president on Sunday, would remain unable to function as the board chief since the Supreme Court on Monday declined to revoke its orders restraining him. The apex court bench headed by Justice AK Patnaik asked the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to furnish its proposal under which […] Read more » BCCI president CAB Cricket Association of Bihar Gurunath Meiyappan Justice AK Patnaik N. Srinivasan national news news SC restraint order on BCCI chief Srinivasan to continue todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Politicians’ credibility in crisis, says Rajnath September 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad’s conviction in a fodder scam case, the BJP said Monday there was now a crisis of credibility about politicians in the country. The RJD chief was Monday convicted by a Special CBI court in Ranchi in one of the five fodder scam cases in which he stands accused. “We […] Read more » Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh Lalu Prasad Merchants Chamber of Commerce national news news Politicians' credibility in crisis Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Mayawati demands President’s rule in UP September 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee and urged him to impose President’s rule in Uttar Pradesh following the Muzaffarnagar communal violence that claimed 48 lives. “We requested the president to impose Article 356 of the constitution in Uttar Pradesh as the law and order situation in the state has gone out […] Read more » Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati Mayawati demands President's rule national news news President Pranab Mukherjee todays news todays top news Top news