Top Law News Apex court relief to death row convicts welcomed January 22, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Human rights group People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s judgment commuting the death sentence of 15 convicts to life imprisonment. The PUCL said it was a historic judgment as it has held that – apart from delay – the mental health condition of the convict, including schizophrenia and mental illness, […] Read more » death row death row convicts People's Union for Civil Liberties PUCL PUCL president Prabhakar Sinha Rajiv Gandhi assassins Supreme Court
Top Law News Judges cannot fix poverty line: Supreme Court September 3, 2012 / September 3, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a pronouncement of considerable significance that could check the judiciary’s overstepping into legislative and governmental functioning, the Supreme Courthas said the question of fixing the poverty line was in the domain of expert bodies like the Planning Commisionand the judiciary could not engage itself in setting the nation’s economic policies. “This should be left […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Gonsalves pleaded the government Judges cannot fix poverty line: Supreme Court Justice Bhandari Justice Dipak Verma Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla Justice T.S. Thakur People's Union for Civil Liberties Planning Commision and the judiciary Reviewing the poverty line senior counsel Colin Gonsalves shrink its monitoring of welfare schemes Shrugging off Gonsalves's plea
Top Law News Allahabad HC grants bail to rights activist couple in Sedition case August 6, 2012 / August 6, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Allahabad HC grants bail to rights activist couple in Sedition case The Allahabad High Court Monday granted bail to human rights activists Seema Azad and her husband Vishwavijay who were recently awarded life imprisonment by a local court here after being charged with sedition and having links with Maoist insurgents. A Division Bench comprising Justice Dharnidhar Jha and Justice Ashok Pal Singh passed the order on […] Read more » arrests in Sedition case bail in Sedition case charges in Sedition case People's Union for Civil Liberties PUCL Sedition Sedition case trial in Sedition case
Top Law News Probe disappearances, mass graves: activists October 27, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Human rights activists have called for investigations into enforced disappearances and unidentified graves in Jammu and Kashmir. Taking part in a meeting organised by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) here over the weekend, the speakers also sought punishment to the guilty. Other demands made on the […] Read more » Justice Rajender Sachar Justice Vrinda Grover People's Union for Civil Liberties PUCL