High Profile Cases Baba Ramdev played rabble-rouser, police tell supreme court November 29, 2011 / November 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Baba Ramdev played rabble-rouser, police tell supreme court Delhi police Monday told the Supreme Court that yoga guru Baba Ramdev played rabble-rouser and was responsible for the events culminating in the police operation to evict him and his anti-graft supporters from Ramlila ground here past midnight June 4. It was Baba Ramdev who transformed a crowd of 30,000 people into a “belligerent angry […] Read more » Baba Ramdev played rabble-rouser Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Supreme Court stays SAT order to 2 Sahara firms to refund investors November 28, 2011 / November 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a relief to Sahara group, the Supreme Court today stayed the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) order directing its two companies to refund around Rs 17,400 crore to their investors and asked for the details of their assets and liabilities. A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia directed the two companies to file […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Sahara India Real Estate Corporation Supreme Court
Top Law News ‘Rajya Sabha proceedings on Soumitra Sen impeachment won’t be overturned’ November 25, 2011 / November 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday refused to hear a petition seeking to overturn Rajya Sabha proceedings impeaching Justice Soumitra Sen, then a judge of the Calcutta High Court judge, on corruption charges. An apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, while dismissing the petition, told Sen’s counsel Sivan Madathil: “You are […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai Justice Soumitra Sen Rajya Sabha proceedings on Soumitra Sen Supreme Court
Top Law News Hear land owner before acquisition: Supreme court November 25, 2011 / November 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said that before any individual is deprived of his land by way of compulsory acquisition by a government or its instrumentalities he must get an opportunity to oppose the decision. An apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya said Wednesday that in the recent past various state […] Read more » Hear land owner before acquisition Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadha Supreme Court
Top Law News Sohrabuddin case: Shah opposes supreme court’s CBI probe order November 25, 2011 / November 25, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Sohrabuddin case: Shah opposes supreme court’s CBI probe order The Supreme Court was told Thursday that its 2010 order directing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the 2005 Sohrabuddin Sheikh staged shootout killing in Gujarat suffered from an “apparent bias” and there was a “motivation to please the CBI”. Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, appearing for accused and former Gujarat minister Amit Shah, […] Read more » Justice Aftab Alam Justice R.P. Desai Justice Tarun Chatterjee Sohrabuddin case Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court declines to interfere in order against Naidu November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday declined to interfere in an Andhra Pradesh high court order directing the CBI and ED to probe allegations of financial irregularities against former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and three others. An apex court bench headed by justice Dalveer Bhandari asked the three petitioners — Rithwick Projects Ltd chairman cum managing director […] Read more » Andhra Pradesh high court order former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu Justice Dalveer Bhandari Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Jayalalitha again deposes in illegal assets case November 23, 2011 / November 23, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Jayalalitha again deposes in illegal assets case Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha on Tuesday appeared in the special court on the city’s outskirts amid tight security and deposed for the third time in the Rs.66 crore disproportionate assets case against her. As the deposition was inconclusive, special judge BM Mallikarjunaiah directed Jayalalitha to appear in the court again on Wednesday to answer […] Read more » special judge BM Mallikarjunaiah Supreme Court Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha
Top Law News Kissing episode: Cases against Shilpa Shetty shifted to Mumbai November 22, 2011 / November 22, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Three cases filed in 2007 in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty for publicly kissing Hollywood star and AIDS awareness campaigner Richard Gere were Monday transferred by the Supreme Court to a Mumbai court. An apex court bench of Justice A.K. Ganguly and Justice J.S. Khehar transferred the cases to the court […] Read more » Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice J.S. Khehar Supreme Court
Top Law News Order banning SPOs only for Chhatisgarh : Supreme court November 19, 2011 / November 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said its earlier order directing the central and state governments to “cease and desist” from recruiting and deploying the Special Police Officers (SPOs) in operations against Maoists or against internal terror was restricted to Chhattisgarh only. A bench of Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice S.S. Nijjar said the order of July […] Read more » Justice Altamas Kabir Justice S.S.Nijjar Order banning SPOs only for Chhatisgarh Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court not to meddle in fuel pricing November 18, 2011 / November 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday declined to entertain a plea challenging the deregulation of prices of petroleum products, saying fixing of petroleum prices was a matter of government policy and the court could not interfere in it. The plea challenging the fixing of prices by the public sector oil marketing companies (OMCs) was heard by an […] Read more » Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar Supreme Court Supreme Court not to meddle in fuel pricing
Criminal Law News Sadhvi Pragya files fresh bail plea November 18, 2011 / November 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two months after the Supreme Court rejected her bail plea, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the prime accused in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, has once again sought bail on “grounds of parity”, her lawyer said in Mumbai on Friday. Three other co-accused in the same case – Shivnarayan Kalsangra, Shyam Sahu and […] Read more » Malegaon blast case Sadhvi Pragya files fresh bail plea Special Judge YD Shinde Supreme Court
Top Law News States ignoring PM’s anti-graft missive: Supreme court November 17, 2011 / November 17, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday expressed concern over states ignoring the prime minister’s missive asking them to provide infrastructure and set up special CBI courts for speedy trial of graft cases. The court told the states to do so within eight weeks. The apex court bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya said the […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya States ignoring PM’s anti-graft missive Supreme Court