Top Law News Punjab law on Panchayati Raj is perverse:Supreme Court May 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said the Punjab law doing away with the provision of no-confidence motion against the sarpanch by others in a panchayat was ‘perverse’. Calling it a violation of the basic structure of the constitution, the court said that it was dangerous as well as dictatorial.Coming down heavily on the amendment deleting the […] Read more » judge Chandramauli Kumar Prasad judge G.S. Singhvi Panchayati Raj perverse Punjab law R.S. Khosla Supreme Court
Top Law News A judge’s conduct should be exemplary: Supreme Court May 28, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday said a judge has a certain personality in the court and it should find extension in his conduct in public life. “The judge in the court has certain personality and his conduct must be exemplary in all respect and aberration (in the personality) would make him liable for being proceeded against,” […] Read more » Chief Justice J.S. Khehar conduct exemplary JIC judge judges inquiry committee Justice Aftab Alam Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi Karnataka High Court senior counsel Basava Prabhu Patil senior counsel P.P. Rao senior counsel U.U. Lalit Supreme Court
Media & Entertainment News Supreme Court quashes land allotment to Sourav Ganguly May 26, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the decision of the West Bengal government to allot land in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area to former cricket captain Sourav Ganguly. The apex court bench of justice GS Singhvi and justice AK Ganguly directed the state government to refund the Rs 20 lakh paid by the cricketer for […] Read more » justice AK Ganguly Justice GS Singhvi land allotment Sourav Ganguly Supreme Court
Top Law News Supreme Court pulls up Maharashtra’s training institutions May 20, 2011 / May 20, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has rejected the plea by a number of teachers training institutions in Maharashtra to recognise the admissions given to their students, saying that the institutes misrepresented facts about their recognition by the National Council of Teacher Education (NCTE). The court directed these institutions to pay Rs.1 lakh each to their students as […] Read more » Justice G.S. Singhvi Justice K.S. Panickar Radhakrishnan Maharashtra's training institutions National Council of Teacher Education NCTE Supreme Court
Top Law News Jharkhand top cop sentenced for assault on judge May 19, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A tribunal here Thursday sentenced Jharkhand’s Inspector General of Police Nirmala Chaudhary to 15 days of rigorous imprisonment for ordering her bodyguards to beat up a judge in 2008. The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) also slapped a fine of Rs.2,000 each on the eight policemen involved in the case. Chaudhary had allegedly misbehaved with CAT […] Read more » assault Central Administrative Tribunal Indian Police Service Jharkhand judge Nirmala Chaudhary sentenced Supreme Court
Top Law News Liberalisation hasn’t led to education for deprived sections: Apex court May 18, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has said the notion that liberalization and free-market economy in India would generate wealth which the government would use for providing higher education to deprived sections of the society has turned out to be “false and a mirage”. “For the past two decades, this country has been in the throes of early […] Read more » apex court deprived sections education Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Justice S.S.Nijjar Liberalisation Supreme Court
Top Law News Apex court issues notice on Dinakaran’s petition May 16, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the judges enquiry committee on a petition by Sikkim High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran, saying that charges framed against him were beyond the scope of the notice of motion seeking his impeachment for alleged misconduct. The bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice C.K. Prasad issued the […] Read more » apex court Chief Justice J.S. Kehar Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran Dinakaran's petition judge Aftab Alam Justice C.K. Prasad Justice G.S. Singhvi Karnataka High Court P.P. Rao senior counsel Sikkim High Court Supreme Court
Top Law News Award death penalty in staged shootout cases: Supreme Court May 14, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court said Friday that staged shootouts involving contract killings by policemen should be counted in the category of rarest of rare cases and those found guilty should be sentenced to death. “We are of the view that in cases where a fake encounter is proved against policemen in a trial, they must be […] Read more » Award death penalty Justice Gyan Sudha Misra Justice Markandey Katju staged shootout cases Supreme Court
Environment Law News Supreme Court bans endosulfan May 13, 2011 / May 13, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s Supreme Court has ordered a temporary ban on the production, sale and use of controversial pesticide Endosulfan. Admitting a petition filed by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), seeking country-wide ban on sale and production of Endosulfan in its present form or any other […] Read more » bans endosulfan Supreme Court
Top Law News Contempt notice to Rajnigandha maker for using plastic pouches May 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday issued a contempt notice to the Dharampal Satyapal Group of Companies — manufacturers of chewing tobaco Rajnigandha and Tulsi — for marketing their product in plastic pouches in violation of court orders of December 2010. An apex court bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly issued notice to the […] Read more » Asok Kumar Ganguly Contempt notice Dharampal Satyapal Group of Companies Justices G.S Singhvi plastic pouches Rajnigandha Supreme Court Tulsi
Top Law News Supreme Court rejects CBI appeal on Bhopal gas case May 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will give its decision today on whether to reopen the Bhopal Gas tragedy case for enhancing the sentence given to the accused. The court will decide on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) plea asking for a retrial and seeking a review of its 1996 judgement that had diluted charges against […] Read more » Bhopal gas case CBI appeal rejects Supreme Court
Top Law News Media termed me guilty, Thomas tells Supreme Court May 11, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Controversial former central vigilance commissioner (CVC) P.J. Thomas Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking a CBI probe into the “distorted reporting” by the media of the court proceedings against him. Thomas, whose appointment as the head of the Central Vigilance Commission was set aside by the apex court, said that “distorted” reporting and telecasting […] Read more » Central Vigilance Commissioner P.J. Thomas Supreme Court