Top Law News ‘Personal details collected for Aadhaar scheme liable to be misused’ February 5, 2014 / February 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Aadhaar scheme Tuesday came under attack in the Supreme Court for exploiting people’s ignorance and collecting their personal details which can not only be exploited commercially and encroach upon their privacy but were liable to misuse by government agencies. “The government will know each and every dimension of a Aadhaar card holder – be […] Read more » Justice B.S. Chauhan Justice J. Chelameswar justice M Y Eqbal news Personal details collected for Aadhaar scheme liable to be misused todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Exercise contempt powers with caution, SC tells high courts February 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday said the power to punish for contempt, vested in it and the high courts both under the constitution as well as a law, is a “special and rare power” which should be exercised with “greatest of care and caution”. “It (contempt of court) is a drastic power which, if misdirected, […] Read more » Chief Justice P Sathasivam Exercise contempt powers with caution Justice Ranjan Gogoi Justice Shiva Kirti Singh news ONGC chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Hospital to blame for missing eyeball, HC told February 5, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court was Tuesday informed by a magistrate that poor conditions at a government hospital here was responsible for an eyeball that went missing from the body of a prisoner from the hospital mortuary. The magistrate submitted before the court his inquiry report into the missing body parts of a dead convict from […] Read more » Justice J.R. Midha Justice P.K. Bhasin news Rajan Babu Institute of Pulmonary Medicine and Tuberculosis RBIPMT todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC notice on telecom operators’ plea against CAG audit February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central government and the Comptroller and Auditor General on a plea by the telecom companies challenging the auditing of their account books by the official auditor. Issuing notice to the government and the CAG, a bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Vikramajit Sen declined to put […] Read more » CAG Comptroller and Auditor General Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan Justice Vikramajit Sen news SC notice on telecom operators' plea against CAG audit todays news todays top news_ Top news
Top Law News Violence against women needs immediate attention: Panel February 4, 2014 / February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Violence against women, declining sex ratio and economic disempowerment of the fairer sex are some key issues which need immediate attention, a committee on the status of women said Monday. The committee, set up by the union government, presented its preliminary report to Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath Monday. It recommended for immediate […] Read more » Economic disempowerment news sex ratio todays news todays top news Top news Violence Against women
Top Law News SC to hear pleas against formation of Telangana February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will Friday hear two petitions seeking the quashing of the draft Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Bill for carving out Telangana on grounds that it was violative of the principles of federalism and the basic structure of the constitution. The petitions are filed by K. Raghu Ramakrishnan Raju and advocate Satish Gala and another […] Read more » advocate Satish Gala awyer M.L. Sharma K. Raghu Ramakrishnan Raju news SC to hear pleas against formation of Telangana todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Jailed Himachal lawmaker’s plea to attend assembly refused February 4, 2014 / February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Punjab and Haryana High Court Monday turned down the plea of Himachal Pradesh Congress legislator Ram Kumar Chaudhary, who is behind bars for murder charges, to attend the ongoing state assembly session. Dismissing his plea, the court observed: “It will be inappropriate to exercise the discretion under constitutional provisions to grant permission to an […] Read more » Congress legislator Lajja Ram Himachal Pradesh Congress legislator Ram Kumar Chaudhary Jailed Himachal lawmaker's plea to attend assembly refused news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Plea filed in Delhi HC against power tariff increase February 4, 2014 / February 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Aam Aadmi Party founding member Madhuresh Lakhaiyar Monday filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking direction to the three discoms in the capital to not increase power tariff. The public interest litigation (PIL) filed by Lakhaiyar sought the court’s direction to ascertain the reason for increasing the power tariff as per the recent […] Read more » Aam Aadmi Party founding member Madhuresh Lakhaiyar Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission DERC news Plea filed in Delhi HC against power tariff increase power purchase cost adjustment changes PPAC todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News If our momos can be accepted, why not us? A northeasterner’s lament February 3, 2014 / February 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Four years in the national capital, apart from all other things I have developed immunity against the word “chinky” though I consider it extremely offensive and derogatory. I have ignored it while walking past people, thinking they were naïve when they have called me “chinky” right to my face. But now, with Nido Tania, the […] Read more » news Nido Tania’s news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Disabled to protest demanding passage of rights bill February 3, 2014 / February 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Disabled people from across India will Monday stage a protest here demanding the government to pass the Disability Rights bill after incorporating the amendments demanded by rights groups. “The bill in the current form is not just a negation of already-won rights and the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the matter of jobs […] Read more » diconvenor of the Disabled Rights Group Javed Abi Disabled to protest demanding passage of rights bill news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Buddhadeb summoned by commission probing 1993 police firing February 3, 2014 / February 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Enquiry Commission set up by the Trinamool Congress government to probe the police firing on the Youth Congress supporters on July 21, 1993 has summoned the former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. “To record his views he has been requested to appear before the Commission on February 26. An order asking him to […] Read more » former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee news retd Justice Sushanta Chatterjee todays news todays top news Top news Trinamool Congress
Top Law News Political,legal fraternity spar over stage for disqualifying legislators February 3, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment There was unanimity on decriminalization of politics at a day-long session on electoral reforms here Saturday but sharp disagreement between politicians and legal luminaries on enlarging the scope of disqualification of sitting legislators or those aspiring to contest. While the political participants batted for the status quo – that is disqualification only upon conviction, the […] Read more » eminent jurist Fali Nariman legal fraternity spar over stage for disqualifying legislators National Consultation on Electoral Reforms news Political fraternity spar over stage for disqualifying legislators present chief Justice A.P.Shah retd. Justice B.P. Jeevan Reddy todays news todays top news Top news
