Top Law News SC to examine whether ‘netas’ need to declare every offence August 29, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed a Patna High Court order setting aside the election of BJP MP Chhedi Paswan and said it would examine whether politicians need to mandatorily declare every offence or only the heinous crimes registered against them at the time of nomination. The court made the observation as it stayed the High […] Read more » BJP MP Chhedi Paswan Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court Supreme Court
Top Law News Patna HC sets aside BJP MP’s election July 29, 2016 / July 29, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court today set aside the election of Chhedi Paswan, the BJP Lok Sabha MP from Sasaram (reserved) parliamentary constituency, for “suppressing” details of criminal cases pending against him. A bench of Justice Kishore Kumar Mandal held Paswan’s election as “null and void” on a petition filed by Ganga Mishra, a voter, challenging […] Read more » BJP Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court
Top Law News Patna HC orders interim stay on inspection of B.Ed colleges June 16, 2016 / June 17, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court today ordered interim stay on the inspection of private B.Ed colleges carried out by the state government. Justice V Nath ordered that inspection should be kept in abeyance till the next date of hearing on June 21. The stay came on a petition of B R Ambedkar college, a private B.Ed […] Read more » bihar government Court featured interim stay on inspection of B.Ed colleges Law Legal News Patna High Court
Top Law News Patna HC upholds Narendra Singh’s disqualification April 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court today upheld the Bihar Legislative Council chairmans decision to disqualify Narendra Singh from the membership of the Upper House. “There is no reason to interfere with the order passed by the Chairman of Bihar Legislative Council and hence the petition is dismissed,” a bench of Justice K K Mandal said. The […] Read more » Court featured JDU Law Legal News MLC Narendra Singh Patna High Court
Top Law News PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol April 6, 2016 / April 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed today in the Patna High Court challenging the Bihar governments decision to clamp total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol in the state. An ex-serviceman A N Singh filed the PIL in the Patna High Court, a day after the Nitish Kumar ministry declared Bihar a total […] Read more » ban on alcohol BIHAR Court featured Law Legal News Patna High Court PIL filed in Patna High Court challenging total ban on alcohol
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News PM raises pendency issue asks courts to highlight oldest cases March 14, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday mooted a novel idea of courts coming out with an annual bulletin to highlight the oldest cases being tried by them to help create sensitivity on pendency of cases in the country. Speaking at the closing ceremony of centenary celebrations of Patna High Court, he also sought suggestions on […] Read more » Patna High Court pendency of case Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Criminal Law News M Shahbuddin gets bail from HC in twin murder case March 2, 2016 / March 3, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court today granted bail to former MP and RJD strongman Mohammad Shabuddin in a case relating to the killing of two brothers by drenching them in acid 12 years ago. A division bench of Justice Anjana Mishra and Justice R K Mishra granted bail to Shahbuddin in the case for want of […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News M Shahbuddin gets bail from HC in twin murder case Mohammad Shahbuddin murder case Patna High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System HC bars CM from announcing decisions with financial implications February 17, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Patna High Court restrained from taking any policy decisions which have financial and major administrative implications A division bench of the court comprising Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari and Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh passed the order while hearing a petition filed by JDU MLC Neeraj Kumar, a Nitish Kumar loyalist. On February 13, Neeraj filed […] Read more » Bihar chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi decisions with financial implications Justice Iqbal Ahmed Ansari Justice Samarendra Pratap Singh Patna High Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Court breather for 4 disqualified JD(U) MLAs January 7, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Patna High Court on Tuesday reinstated membership of four rebel Janata Dal-United MLAs, who were earlier disqualified by the Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhury for their alleged “anti-party activities”.“The activities of the disqualified MLAs were not an act of defection but dissension,” the court in the judgment said. In November 2014, the Speaker […] Read more » Bihar Assembly Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhury JD(U) MLA Gyanendra Singh Gyanu JD(U) MLA Neeraj Kumar Babloo JD(U) MLA Rahul Sharma JD(U) MLA Ravindra Rai Patna High Court
Top Law News Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar files writ in HC April 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A writ petition in Patna High Court has been filed by the Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar seeking the closure of a road constructed on her land at Chandwa village in Bihar’s Bhojpur district without consent here in Patna on Monday Hearing the petition, a single bench of Justice Jaynandan Singh directed Principal Secretaries of Panchayati […] Read more » Babu Jagjivan Ram Bihar’s Bhojpur district Chandwa village closure of road constructed on her land filed writ petition former Deputy Prime Minister Lok Sabha Speaker Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Meira Kumar Patna High Court Principal Secretaries of Panchayati Raj Rural Works Departments writ petition in Patna High Court
Top Law News Thousands of lawyers abstain from judicial work in Bihar March 13, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thousands of lawyers in civil courts across the state and also in Patna High Court abstained from their judicial work on a call from the Bar Council of India (BCI) to protest lathi charge on lawyers in Jaipur and Chandigarh recently. Judicial work in civil courts and Patna High Court remained paralysed as lawyers abstained […] Read more » Bar Council of India Danapur Civil Court Jaipur and Chandigarh lawyers in civil courts Mr Prashant Pratap Patna City Civil Court Patna High Court Patna High Court Yogesh Chandra Verma
Top Law News LJP leader Surajbhan acquitted of murder March 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Stay has been taken by the Patna High court on the arrest of LJP leader Surajbhan Singh in connection with the murder of an additional public prosecutor. Justice DK Singh passed the order after hearing the bail application filed by Singh, a former MP, in the case. Ordering that no coercive step be taken against Singh […] Read more » Chief Judicial Magistrate in Begusarai LJP leader Surajbhan Singh murder in Begusarai Patna High Court public prosecutor Ramnaresh Singh Surajbhan Singh
