Top Law News HC asks govt to set up compensation commission in a week May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to set up a compensation commission within one week to decide the claims of victims of large scale violence witnessed in some parts of the state in 2009, in the wake of the death of a particular community leader, Sant Ramanand, in Vienna […] Read more » Chief Justice M.M. Kumar Justice Alok Singh Punjab and Haryana High Court set up compensation commission
Top Law News No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus: High court May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a first, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has reinterpreted provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act to hold that public servants, who can be removed by the subordinate authorities other than the government, are not entitled to protection of sanction. It means that they can be proceeded against even without the grant of […] Read more » Justice Mehinder Singh Sullar No sanction needed to remove corrupt babus Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 Punjab and Haryana High Court to remove corrupt babus
Top Law News Mobile phone towers in Chandigarh homes to stay, for now May 24, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Mobile phone towers in Chandigarh homes to stay, for now In a relief to the telecom service providers and mobile phone users, the Supreme Court Thursday ordered status quo thereby red-flagging the removal of 180 phone towers in residential areas of Chandigarh. The apex court bench of Justice Deepak Verma and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya directed the status quo on a petition by Vodafone South Ltd […] Read more » Justice Deepak Verma Mobile phone towers in Chandigarh Punjab and Haryana High Court removal of all mobile phone towers ustice S.J. Mukhopadhaya
Criminal Law News Supreme court quashes order for CBI probe against Punjab officer December 7, 2011 / December 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday quashed a Punjab and Haryana High Court order directing a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of senior IPS officer of Punjab in the killing of Balwant Singh Bhullar and Balwant Singh Multani during the period of Sikh insurgency in the state. An apex court bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and […] Read more » Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice B.S. Chauhan Punjab and Haryana High Court Supreme Court
Top Law News High court dismisses ex-judge’s plea against prosecution November 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday dismissed a petition by one of its former judges challenging the president’s grant of sanction to the CBI to prosecute her. The petition of former judge Nirmal Yadav, who served in the same high court till 2008, was dismissed by Justice Permod Kohli. Yadav was booked by the […] Read more » Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia judge Nirmal Yadav Justice Permod Kohli Punjab and Haryana High Court
Top Law News Now Chandigarh VVIPs to ‘secure’ their securitymen November 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chandigarh’s grandees may now have to ‘secure’ their security personnel within their sprawling government and private bungalows, with the court cracking down on the public nuisance caused by their bodyguards. With the Punjab and Haryana High Court setting a 15-day deadline for the Chandigarh administration to come up with a concrete plan to ensure that […] Read more » Chief Justice M.M. Kumar Justice R.N. Raina Punjab and Haryana High Court
Top Law News Can’t breach recruitment rules:Supreme court August 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that parameters of appointment are like a ‘Lakshman Rekha’ which cannot not be breached and both the selection committee and the appointing authority have to follow them strictly. “Somewhere a line has to be drawn and that line has to be strictly observed which is like ‘Lakshman Rekha’ and no […] Read more » breach recruitment rules Punjab and Haryana High Court recruitment rules Supreme Court
Top Law News CBI files charges against tainted judge March 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The CBI today filed a chargesheet against Justice Nirmal Yadav and four others in the 2008 cash-at-judge’s-door scam, on a day when she is to demit office as a High Court judge. The chargesheet was filed in the court of Special CBI Judge Ritu Tagore here under various sections, including 120B of the IPC relating […] Read more » against CBI charges files Justice Nirmal Yadav Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Punjab and Haryana High Court Special CBI Judge Ritu Tagore tainted judge