Top Law News Jaya Prada, Amar Singh’s plea on anti-defection law adjourned October 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday adjourned hearing on a petition by senior star-cum-politician Jaya Prada and Amar Singh challenging the provisions of the anti-defection law that binds even a person expelled from a political party to follow its whip in the legislature. The court asked senior counsel Hari Salve appearing for Jaya Prada to serve the […] Read more » adjourned Amar Singh anti-defection law Jaya Prada plea
Top Law News Supreme Court adjourns Vodafone plea on income tax order October 25, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday adjourned the hearing on a petition by Vodafone challenging an income tax department order asking the telecom giant to pay Rs.11,218 crore ($2.5 billion) tax. The matter will come up for hearing Nov 15. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia said they needed to read the income […] Read more » adjourns income tax order plea Supreme Court Vodafone
Top Law News Plea for sacking Kalmadi to come up in court Wednesday October 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday will hear a petition seeking removal of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi over alleged irregularities in preparations for the just concluded sporting event. The petition filed by lawyer Ajay Aggarwal Sep 29 demanded an independent audit of the works and sealing of records pertaining to tenders, work measurements […] Read more » Court Kalmadi plea sacking Wednesday
Top Law News Plea questioning reliability of voting machines dismissed October 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the reliability of electronic voting machines (EVMs). A bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice Anant Dave dismissed the petition as it was not filed as per the new rules for filing PILs. Petitioner Girish Das, an advocate, told the court that […] Read more » dismissed machines plea questioning reliability voting
Top Law News Plea on right to property dismissed October 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition seeking restoration of right to own property as a fundamental right. An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Swatanter Kumar said that such a right was inconsistent with the principle of socialism enshrined in the preamble of constitution. Chief Justice Kapadia, […] Read more » dismissed plea right to property
Top Law News Gulberg society massacre witnesses’ plea rejected October 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Thursday rejected a petition by witnesses of Gulberg society massacre in Ahmedabad during the 2002 Gujarat riots, seeking to summon some government officials as witnesses and cross-examine them. Pleading that former MP Ehsan Jafri had talked with some top officials and highly-placed people to seek their help before he was killed […] Read more » Gulberg massacre plea rejected society witnesses
Top Law News Court to hear plea on Doordarshan appointments October 8, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court Thursday agreed to hear a petition filed by Prasar Bharati challenging an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) quashing the appointment of 25 TV news anchors and reporters in Doordarshan News. A bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog fixed Oct 26 for the next hearing. The bench also asked Harikesh Bahadur […] Read more » Appointments Court Doordarshan hear plea
Top Law News Natwar Singh’s plea dismissed in oil-for-food scam October 5, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The petition filed by former Union Minister, Natwar Singh and his son regarding Iraq’s oil-for-food scam, has been rejected by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct 5. Buzz up!when Delhi High Court dismissed their plea, Singh again appealed before the Supreme Court by seeking documents of Volcker and R S Pathak Committees which had investigated […] Read more » dismissed Natwar Singh oil-for-food plea scam
Top Law News Apex court dismisses plea seeking Kalmadi’s removal September 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a petition seeking the removal of Suresh Kalmadi as chairman of the Commonwealth Games organising committee. The petitioner had demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the alleged irregularities in the multi-million rupee deals that were struck for the Games preparations. Read more » apex court dismisses Kalmadi plea removal seeking
Top Law News Court defers Virbhadra Singh’s plea in graft case September 24, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court deferred till Monday the hearing of Union Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh’s plea seeking that a corruption case against him be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The high court saw intense arguments for over four hours Friday as Virbhadra Singh’s counsel said his client was being falsely implicated. […] Read more » Court defers graft case plea Virbhadra Singh
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects Sajjan Kumar’s plea September 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday rejected Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s appeal seeking the quashing of the framing of charges against him in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apex court bench of Justices P. Sathasivam and Anil R. Dave, however, said the trial court would remain uninfluenced by the adverse observation made by […] Read more » plea rejects Sajjan Kumar Supreme Court
Top Law News High court adjourns hearing on Sajjan Kumar’s plea September 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Thursday adjourned the hearing on a revision petition filed by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar challenging the framing of murder charge against him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case filed in west Delhi’s Sultanpuri. However, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed its reply in the matter. The case has been listed […] Read more » adjourns hearing High Court plea Sajjan Kumar