High Profile Cases SC seeks EC’s response on plea alleging tampering with EVMs March 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Election Commission on a PIL seeking investigation by software experts into allegations that Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were tampered with in the recent Assembly polls. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul issued notice to the […] Read more » Court Election Commission electronic voting machines EVM featured Law Legal News PIL Supreme Court
Top Law News PIL opposes ‘commercialisation’ of cemetery in Valsad March 23, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court today issued notices to the state government and others on a PIL against alleged commercialisation of a Christian cemetery in Valsad. A division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi issued notices to the government, Valsad Collector and First District Church of the Brethren (FDCB). FDCB […] Read more » commercialisation of cemetery in Valsad Court featured Gujarat High Court Law Legal News PIL
Top Law News EC favours barring convicts from contesting polls for lifetime March 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Election Commission of India (ECI) today told the Supreme Court that it was in favour of barring convicted persons from contesting polls for life and stopping their entry into judiciary and the executive. The commission also said it was in favour of setting up special courts to decide criminal cases related to people’s representatives, […] Read more » Court Election Commission featured Law Legal News PIL polls for lifetime
Top Law News Govt opposes PIL on LS poll losers getting into RS March 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government today opposed the maintainability of a PIL in the Delhi High Court seeking to restrain candidates defeated in a Lok Sabha election from contesting the Rajya Sabha polls. “Such kind of petitions are not maintainable. There are Supreme Court order also in this regard,” the government told a bench of justices G S […] Read more » Court featured Government Law Legal News Lok Sabha poll PIL
Top Law News Delhi HC to hear PIL for strict enforcement of ‘gutka’ ban February 9, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking strict implementation of the ban on ‘gutka’ and other chewable tobacco products in the national capital. A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, which initially declined to entertain the plea, said that it would take up the matter on […] Read more » 'gutka' ban Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News PIL
Top Law News PIL in SC to stall swearing-in of Sasikala as TN CM February 7, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A PIL was today moved in the Supreme Court seeking to restrain AIADMK leader V K Sasikala from being sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister tomorrow on the ground that the apex court was likely to pronounce within a week the judgement in a corruption case in which she and late CM J Jayalalithaa […] Read more » Court featured Law Legal News PIL Sasikala Supreme Court Tamilnadu
Top Law News ‘Police should be proactive in tackling cyber crime’ January 30, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court today said cyber crime and websites indulging in objectionable services are a problem for the society at large, and police should be proactive in addressing the issues and initiating action. A division bench of Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and G S Kulkarni was hearing a PIL filed by city resident Ali […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court cyber crime featured Law Legal News PIL police
Criminal Law News Top Law News Madras HC dismisses PIL seeking CBI probe into gutka scam January 27, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court today dismissed a PIL seeking CBI probe into the multi-crore “gutka hoarding scam” that came to light following an IT raid, which found tax evasion to the tune of Rs 250 crore by dealers and stockists. The matter relates to a PIL filed by Advocate Vincent, seeking a CBI probe into […] Read more » CBI Court featured gutka scam Law Legal News Madras High Court PIL
High Profile Cases PIL on ’84 anti-Sikh riot: SC asks Centre to file report January 17, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to file a “comprehensive report” on the status of investigation conducted by a special investigation team (SIT) into the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, on a plea seeking a court-supervised probe. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and R Banumathi fixed the issue for further hearing on February 20 […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riot Centre government Court featured Law Legal News PIL Supreme Court
Top Law News PIL in Bombay HC challenges govt ordinance on demonetisation January 9, 2017 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A PIL in Bombay High Court has challenged an ordinance issued by the Union government restricting members of the public from depositing the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in Reserve Bank of India branches. The petition, filed recently by Congress leader Sachin Sawant, has sought quashing of the ordinance issued by the government […] Read more » Bombay High Court Court featured government ordinance on demonetisation Law Legal News PIL
Top Law News PIL in Delhi HC on Indian passports issued to foreigners December 19, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment A PIL has been moved in Delhi High Court alleging that Indian passports are being “illegally” issued across the country on a “mass scale” to foreigners, especially to Afghans, Nepalese and Bangladeshis, on the basis of “bogus” police reports. The plea, alleging that “false police verification reports have been issued by Special Branch of Delhi […] Read more » Court Delhi High Court featured Indian passports issued to foreigners Law Legal News PIL
Top Law News SC raps advocate for filing multiple PILs December 17, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today came down heavily on an advocate affliated to ruling BJP for filing multiple PILs asking him whether the party was financing him to indulge in “political activism” in the court. Advocate Ashwini Upadhyay, a Delhi BJP spokesperson, faced the ire of the bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur as […] Read more » BJP Court featured Law Legal News PIL Supreme Court
