Top Law News Illegal Drug Trials: SC pulls up Centre, MP govt July 16, 2012 / July 16, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment On the issue of illegal drug trial the Supreme Court has expressed its concern by saying that its “unfortunate” that humans were being treated as “guinea pigs“. A bench headed by Justice R M Lodha pulled up the Centre and the Madhya Pradesh government for not filing their response on PILs alleging large-scale illegal drug […] Read more » guinea pigs illegal and unethical clinical trials Illegal Drug Trials Illegal Drug Trials case Illegal Drug Trials case in supreme court Justice R.M. Lodha Madhya Pradesh government Madhya Pradesh govt MCI Medical Council of India MP govt Supreme Court the All India Drug Action Network
Top Law News SC: Minor variations in prosecution’s story irrelevant July 15, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Holding that minor variations in prosecution’s story cannot entitle the accused to acquittal, the Supreme Court(SC) has upheld the life term awarded to eight West Bengal natives for strangulating a man and chopping his body into pieces for not meeting their extortion demand. A bench of SC comprises of Justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar […] Read more » apex court identification parade Justice Swatanter Kumar Justices A K Patnaik SC SC decision on variations in prosecution's story Supreme Court
Top Law News Conference on e-courts to be held by Delhi HC tomorrow July 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment To cultivate and spread the idea of e-courts, a conference will be organised here tomorrow by the Delhi High Court. The conference on ‘e-Court: Present and Future’ has been organised jointly by the high court and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), a government body, to take stock of the developments in the existing […] Read more » CDAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing courts in Delhi Delhi Delhi High Court e-courts India Habitat Centre news of Delhi paperless e-courts Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Altamas Kabir
Top Law News Centre: Govt duty-bound to auction 2G telecom spectrum July 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was bound by its ruling on allocation of 2G telecom spectrum through auction and the Presidential reference was only pertaining to adoption of the process for allocation of other natural resources. “There is no question of overturning the result in the judegment of the 2G telecom […] Read more » 2G case 2G telecom spectrum 2G telecom spectrum case 2G telecom spectrum verdict allocation of 2G allocation of 2G telecom Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati auction of 2G telecom spectrum Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia FDI Foreign Direct Investment SC Supreme Court
Top Law News Ban on tint films in vehicles: Next hearing on July 19 July 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Ban on tint films in vehicles: Next hearing on July 19 A division bench of Supreme Court has directed that all review and impleading petitions pertaining to the ban on use of tint films on four wheelers be posted for hearing on July 19. The Car Owners and Consumers’ Association (COCA) here had filed a review and impleading application in the first week of July. The […] Read more » Ban on tint films in vehicles Car Owners and Consumers' Association Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia COCA Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Motor Vehicles Act Motor Vehicles Act 1988 MV Act SC Supreme Court tint films
Top Law News No disclosure under RTI at pre-detention stage: SC July 12, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on No disclosure under RTI at pre-detention stage: SC The state is not under an obligation to disclose under the Right to Information Act(RTI) the grounds of detention of a person under a preventive detention law before his arrest, the Supreme Court has ruled. A three-judge bench of justices Altamas Kabir, Gyan Sudha Misra and J Chelameshwar said a detune under the preventive detention […] Read more » Article 22 of the Constitution Article 22(5) clauses (1) and (2) of Article 22 COFEPOSA Justice Altamas Kabir NSA preventive detention laws preventive detention laws like NSA Right to Information Act RTI RTI Act. RTI at pre-detention stage SC Section 3 of the RTI Act Section 3 of the RTI Act 2005 section 8(1) of the RTI Act sub section (1) of Section 8 of the RTI Act Supreme Court
Top Law News Anti-Sikh riot: Sajjan Kumar gets relief July 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed the trial court proceedings against senior Congress leader Mr Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case. A Bench of Mr Justice P Sathasivam and Mr Justice BS Chauhan directed the lower court not to proceed with the case till 27 July when Delhi High Court is likely to take […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riot 1984 riot 1984 riot cases in India anti-Sikh riot anti-Sikh riot case Congress leader Mr Sajjan Kumar G T Nanavati Justice P. Sathasivam Mr Justice BS Chauhan Ranganath Mishra Commissions riots in India Sajjan Kumar SC judges Supreme Court supreme court judges Supreme Court ruling on anti sikh riot case
Top Law News Consumer Forum: Private Hospital to pay for Charging Poor July 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A private hospital affiliated with Fortis Healthcare has been ordered by a city district consumer forum to pay Rs 2.34 lakh to a poor woman for charging her for her son’s treatment despite a Delhi government’s order to provide free treatment to economically weaker section (EWS) patients. The Central District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered […] Read more » Central District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum consumer court Consumer forum consumer forum decision on private hospital delhi government programme for economically weaker section people district consumer forum Economically Weaker Section EWS Fortis Healthcare free tretment to economically weaker section Jessa Ram Hospital Supreme Court
Top Law News DM murder case: SC upholds conviction of Bihar MP July 10, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has upheld the conviction and life term of former Bihar MP Anand Mohan Singh in the murder of Gopalganj district magistrate in DM murder case. Anand Mohan, former MP from Sheohar, was awarded life term under Sections 302 (murder) and 109 (abetment of offence), of inciting a mob to lynch Gopalganj district magistrate […] Read more » BIHAR Bihar MP conviction in DM murder case conviction of MP in DM murder case DM murder case Gopalganj Gopalganj district murder of district magistrate SC Supreme Court
Top Law News SC restrains NIA to question Sadhvi Pragya Singh July 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court onMonday restrained the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from interrogating Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in a 2007 murder case of former RSS worker Sunil Joshi. A Bench of Justices H L Dattu and C K Prasad stayed the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s May 17 order by which the NIA was granted conditional permission […] Read more » Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.L. Dattu Madhya Pradesh High Court Malegaon case National Investigation Agency NIA pragya sigh thakur an accused in Malegaon case RSS RSS worker RSS worker Sunil Joshi Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur Sunil Joshi murder case Supreme Court
Top Law News SC seeks govt’s reply on ‘killings’ by BSF July 9, 2012 / July 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court(SC) today sought the Centre’s reply on a plea for probe into the alleged torture and extra-judicial killings by the Border Security Force(BSF) personnel in the border area of West Bengal. A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar asked the government to file its response within three weeks. The court’s […] Read more » 'killings' by BSF 'West Bengal border area of West Bengal Border Security Force BSF Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Kolkata SC Supreme Court torture and extra-judicial killings by Border Security Force torture and extra-judicial killings by BSF West Bengal Police
Top Law News SC seeks details of sites damaged in Gujarat riots July 9, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Gujarat government to file a survey report of the religious sites which were damaged and destroyed during the 2002 Gujarat riots in the state. A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra also asked the state government to quantify the amount needed for building and repairing […] Read more » 1984 anti-Sikh riots 2002 post-Godhra riots Godhra riots Gujarat Gujarat government Gujarat High Court Gujarat riots Gujarat riots victims Justice Dipak Misra Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan National Human Rights Commission NHRC post-Godhra riots Supreme Court supreme court on gujarat riots