Tag: todays news

Top Law News

Court decision on lax Tripura cop Thursday

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A Tripura court is expected to deliver its verdict Thursday against a police official accused of breach of trust and negligence in duty, a charge for which the prosecution has demanded life imprisonment for him, a lawyer said here. Special Public Prosecutor Lutfur Rahman Khadim said West Tripura district’s Additional Sessions Judge Kripankar Chakraborty was […]

Read more »

Top Law News

India, US to remove hurdles in business, investments

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

US Secretary of State John Kerry Monday called for removing  “impediments” to doing business with India and noted that India-US economic cooperation had grown five-fold in the past five years to surpass $100 billion. Addressing a joint media interaction with his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid at the Hyderabad House, Kerry said both sides in their […]

Read more »

Top Law News

We treat minister and ordinary person alike: say SC judges

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

On issues related to right to life and personal liberty, a minister and an ordinary person are treated alike in the Supreme Court, a bench of two judges said on Monday. The apex court bench of Justice A.K. Patnaik and Justice Ranjan Gogoi said “before the Supreme Court a minister and an ordinary person under […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Court declares Bengal Entry Tax Act unconstitutional

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

In another setback to the Trinamool Congress government, the Calcutta High Court Monday struck down a law levying tax on entry of certain goods into the state, calling it unconstitutional. “Justice Indira Banerjee in an order today (Monday) struck down the legislation and described it as ultra vires the constitution. The court has given a […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Lalu seeks transfer of fodder case

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The counsel for RJD chief Lalu Prasad today informed the court of Special CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh that arguments on behalf of his client be stopped till the high court, before which transfer of a fodder case has been sought to some other special court, gave an order. A petition has been filed by […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Musharraf to be tried for treason: Nawaz Sharif

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said former military dictator Pervez Musharraf will be tried for high treason for subverting the Constitution twice, setting the stage for a possible showdown with the country’s powerful army.  However, the apex court gave the Attorney General only three days to decide on a course of action and […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Delhi gang-rape victim, protests figure in Kerry’s speech

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

The Delhi gangrape victim and the massive protests against the brutal crime against her came up for mention by visiting US secretary of state John Kerry in his speech in New Delhi on Sunday. Addressing a gathering at the India Habitat Centre on US-India Strategic Partnership, Kerry said women and men should strive as equals. And when […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Reform India’s drug controller, urges public suit in Supreme Court

/ by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

India’s drug regulator, it would seem, needs to be itself regulated, to go by a public suit the Supreme Court will hear on Monday. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), the suit says, suffers from inadequate infrastructure and shortage of staff, while new drugs are being approved for marketing by short-circuiting the clinical trials and in […]

Read more »

Top Law News

AAP workers get bail

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A Delhi court Saturday granted bail to 12 Aam Aadmi Party workers arrested from outside a police station here for protesting against alleged lax probe into a woman’s gang-rape. The accused were arrested June 19 night while agitating outside Gokulpuri police station in east Delhi over alleged inaction by investigators over the gang-rape of a woman from Bihar. Metropolitan Magistrate […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Himachal’s hydro project again taken to court

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL) has again come under the purview of the state high court, with international hydropower equipment company Andritz Hydro Private Ltd alleging flawed evaluation of bids. A division bench of Chief Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice R.B. Misra directed HPPCL to reconstitute the evaluation committee and to once again look […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Pay passport fees online

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

Starting Friday, you can pay your passport processing fees online and book an appointment with the passport office. Making passport services a timely, transparent, more accessible and reliable, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) had implemented Passport Seva Project (PSP) as part of its e-Governance initiatives, said an MEA statement. The review of the operations […]

Read more »

Top Law News

Court verdict on fodder scam on July 15

by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment

A special CBI court on Thursday directed 44 fodder scam accused, including former Bihar chief ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagannath Mishra, to complete their arguments by July 1 as it fixed July 15 to deliver the judgement in a fodder scam case. CBI judge Pravas Kumar Singh will deliver the judgement on the RC […]

Read more »