Top Law News SC notice to Sahara firms on SEBI’s contempt plea July 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notice to Sahara Group’s two real estate companies on a petition by the Securities and Exchange Board of India seeking contempt proceedings against them for their failure to comply with Dec 5, 2012, order of the apex court. The apex court order of Dec 5, 2012, asked the market regulator […] Read more » Justice JS Khehar Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan national news news Sahara Group Sahara Housing Investment Corporation Sahara India Real Estate Corporation SC notice to Sahara firms on SEBI's contempt plea SEBI Securities and Exchange Board of India todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Court verdict Thursday in Batla House shootout July 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court Thursday will pronounce its verdict in the 2008 Batla House shootout in which a lone suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Shahzad Ahmad is facing trial. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri will pass the order. The prosecution, in its final arguments, had contended that it had “sufficient circumstantial evidence” and phone records to […] Read more » Batla House shootout Court verdict Thursday in Batla House shootout Indian Mujahideen Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri national news news Shahzad Ahmad todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Verdict Thursday in juvenile Dec 16 gang rape accused July 25, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A juvenile justice board (JJB), trying the minor accused in the December 16 brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old girl here, would pronounce its judgement today. The board presided by principal magistrate Geetanjali Goel had reserved its verdict on July 11 after counsel for the accused and the prosecution submitted their clarifications. The juvenile accused in the […] Read more » Akshay Thakur December 16 brutal gang rape December 16 Gang rape JJB Juvenile Justice Board magistrate Geetanjali Goel Mukesh national news news Pawan Gupta todays news todays top news Top news Verdict Thursday in juvenile Dec 16 gang rape accused Vinay Sharma
Top Law News Sanjay Dutt’s hope of leaving jail dashed July 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s last hope of leaving the jail were dashed Tuesday as the Supreme Court refused to revisit its March 21 verdict upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and the five-year jail sentence. The actor who surrendered May 16 to serve a three and a half years’ jail term, remaining out of […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice G.S. Singhvi national news news Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Dutt's hope of leaving jail dashed todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Sushma Swaraj meets Biden; discusses H1B issue July 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday met US Vice President Joe Biden, and discussed the issue of H1B visas given to professionals. “I had a very good meeting with Mr Joe Biden, Vice President, United States of America this afternoon,” Swaraj said on her Twitter account. “Amongst other issues, I […] Read more » H1B Visa to Indian professionals national news news Sushma Swaraj Sushma Swaraj meets Biden; discusses H1B issue todays news todays top news Top news Totalization agreement US Vice President Joe Biden
Top Law News SC hears plea on juvenile’s age July 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on July 31 the plea of Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy for a fresh interpretation of the term ‘juvenile’ which he raised in the wake of the December 16 gang-rape incident here. Swamy told the apex court that his petition asking to consider the “mental and intellectual […] Read more » Care and Protection of Children Chief Justice P Sathasivam December 16 Gang rape Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy Justice Ranjan Gogoi national news news SC hears plea on juvenile's age todays news todays top news Top news UNCRC United Nations Convention for the Rights of the Child
Top Law News SC gives a week to CBI in fodder scam July 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday gave the CBI a week’s time to spell out its stand on Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad’s plea for transfer of trial in a fodder scam case against him to another court. The scam is linked to alleged financial lapses in the Bihar animal husbandry department in the 1990s. An apex court bench of Chief Justice P. […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Justice Ranjan Gogoi Lallan Kumar Singh national news news Rajiv Ranjan Singh Ranjit Kumar Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad SC gives a week to CBI in fodder scam todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News 30 mn girls in danger of genital mutilation: UN July 24, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment As many as 30 million girls around the globe still face the risk of genital mutilation in the next decade, the Unicef said following a study of 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East. A total of 125 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation, Xinhua cited the […] Read more » 30 mn girls in danger of genital mutilation: UN female genital mutilation national news news todays news todays top news Top news Unicef Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta
Top Law News Arrest warrant issued against Bihar school principal July 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Bihar court Monday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against the absconding principal of the government primary school in Saran district where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last week, an official said. Saran District Magistrate Abhijit Sinha said Chapra district civil court issued the warrant against Meena Devi, the headmistress of the school […] Read more » Arrest warrant issued against Bihar school principal Meena Devi national news news Saran District Magistrate Abhijit Sinha todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC restores rules restricting cigarette and tobacco ads July 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday set aside the seven-year-old Bombay high court order putting on hold the rules that restricted the scale of advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products at the point of their warehouse or retail outlets. The apex court also asked the central and the state governments to vigorously implement the rules. Describing […] Read more » Justice GS Singhvi Justice V. Gopala Gowda national news news Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce Production-Supply and Distribution restricted the scale of advertisement of cigarettes and tobacco products SC restores rules restricting cigarette and tobacco ads todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Match-fixing case: Police file charge sheet after 13 years July 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Thirteen years after the match fixing scandal involving former South African captain Hansie Cronje, Delhi Police Monday filed the charge sheet in a court here. In the charge sheet, Delhi Police named Cronje, who was killed in a plane crash in 2002, and five others, including Kishan Kumar, the brother of murdered T-Series founder Gulshan […] Read more » bookie Manmohan Khattar bookie Sanjeev Chawla chief metropolitan magistrate Amit Bansal Delhi-based bookie Rajesh Kalra former South African captain Hansie Cronje Kishan Kumar magistrate Akash Jain Match-fixing case: Police file charge sheet after 13 years national news news Sunil Dara alias Bittoo todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Apex court expert panel says no to GM crops July 23, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Supreme Court-appointed technical expert committee Monday recommended an indefinite moratorium on field trials of Genetically Modified (GM) crops till the time the government comes out with a proper regulatory and safety mechanism. The expert committee in its report said there should be a moratorium on field trials for Genetically Modified food crops intended for commercialization […] Read more » Apex court expert panel says no to GM crops environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh Genetically Modified crops national news news todays news todays top news Top news