Top Law News Use affinity test, documents to assess caste claim: Supreme court November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Use affinity test, documents to assess caste claim: Supreme court The Supreme Court has said that the genuineness of a caste claim has to be considered not only on the strength of documentary evidence but also on affinity test involving anthropological and ethnological traits of the applicant. The “genuineness of a caste claim has to be considered not only on a thorough examination of the […] Read more » Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice D.K. Jain Supreme Court
High Profile Cases 2G scam: Trial against Raja, Kanimozhi to start Friday November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The much-awaited trial in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case, involving high-profile accused including former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, top corporate honchos and telecom firms, is likely to commence from tomorrow before a Delhi Court. Top corporate executives of Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) are likely to be first among the […] Read more » 2G scam CBI judge O.P. Saini Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Mentally ill can’t be hanged, Bhullar tells supreme court November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The death sentence can not be carried out in respect of a person who is mentally ill, the Supreme Court was Wednesday told by Devender Pal Singh Bhullar who was given capital punishment for a 1993 blast here which killed nine people. He has sought commutation of his execution to life term on this ground. […] Read more » Devender Pal Singh Bhullar Justice G.S. Singhvi justice P.N. Bhagwati Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Life terms for 31 in Gujarat’s 2002 Sardarpura massacre November 10, 2011 / November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special trial court in Mehsana Wednesday convicted and sentenced to life 31 of the 73 people accused in the Sardarpura riot case in Gujarat in which 33 people were burnt alive on March 1, 2002, during the communal riots. The court, which conducted the trial in last two years, acquitted 42 of accused. The […] Read more » Gujarat's 2002 Sardarpura massacre Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme court to hear Sanjiv Bhatt’s plea Nov 18 November 10, 2011 / November 10, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Nov 18 hear a petition by suspended Indian Police Service officer Sanjiv Bhatt challenging the Gujarat government’s stand in a trial court which may adversely impact him in a 1990 case linked to a suspect’s death in Jamnagar district. An apex court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan […] Read more » Gujarat High Court Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice P. Sathasivam Sanjiv Bhatt's plea Nov 18 Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Agnivesh should weigh his words: Supreme Court November 8, 2011 / November 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday pulled up social activist Swami Agnivesh for hurting the religious sentiments of people by describing as “pakhand”, or hypocrisy, the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine. The apex court bench of Justice H.L. Dattu and Justice C.K. Prasad told Agnivesh that he should weigh his words “many a time before uttering […] Read more » Agnivesh Justice C.K. Prasad Justice H.L. Dattu Supreme Court
High Profile Cases 2G scam: Swamy’s plea against Chidambaram posted for Dec 3 November 8, 2011 / November 8, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special CBI court on Tuesday deferred its hearing on Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy’s plea to make Home Minister P. Chidambaram a co-accused in the 2G case. But it asked the agency to make available to the complainant a file apparently containing a conversation between Chidambaram and 2G accused former communications minister A. Raja. […] Read more » 2G scam CBI judge O.P. Saini Supreme Court Swamy's plea against Chidambaram
Top Law News Use discretion to further ends of justice: Supreme court November 7, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Use discretion to further ends of justice: Supreme court The Supreme Court has said that when a court exercises its discretion in either condoning or refusing to condone delay in initiating a proceeding, it should be to further the ends of justice. “The discretion of this court under Article 136 of the constitution is meant to further the ends of the justice and this […] Read more » Article 136 Justice A.K. Ganguly Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Supreme Court
Top Law News Satyam Ramalinga Raju released on bail November 5, 2011 / November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment After spending nearly 32 months in jail, erstwhile Satyam Computers Services Ltd founder chairman B. Ramalinga Raju, his brother B. Rama Raju and former chief financial officer V. Srinivas were Saturday released, a day after they were granted bail by the Supreme Court in the multi-crore accounting fraud. The trio came out of Chanchalguda Central […] Read more » former chief financial officer V. Srinivas Satyam Ramalinga Raju Supreme Court
Criminal Law News Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities November 5, 2011 / November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court wants zero tolerance for police atrocities The Supreme Court has said that police atrocities are violative of the constitutional mandate of protection of life and liberty and not resisting them amounts to erosion of the rule of law. “Tolerance of police atrocities… would amount to acceptance of systemic subversion and the erosion of the rule of law,” said the apex court […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice P. Sathasivam police atrocities Supreme Court
Criminal Law News ‘Killers’ of man, who turns out to be alive, set free November 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday released, on bail, four members of a family who were sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering a person who later surfaced to tell the court that he was alive. But the release came only after they had spent a decade in jail. Granting the bail, a bench of Justice RM […] Read more » Justice HL Gokhale Justice RM Lodha Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court dismisses plea by retired judge November 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition by Justice Dharamveer Sharma (retired) seeking to be appointed to the National Green Tribunal. Justice Sharma, a retired judge of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, is well known for his dissenting Ayodhya judgment wherein he ruled that the disputed site was the birthplace of Lord […] Read more » Ayodhya judgment Justice Altamas Kabir Justice Dharamveer Sharma Justice S.S.Nijjar Supreme Court