Top Law News Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Russian authorities have dropped criminal cases against 30 Greenpeace activists from the ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental group’s lawyer said Wednesday. “All activists have arrived in front of the investigative committee of St. Petersburg to be familiarised with the decision,” Xinhua quoted Andrei Suchkov as telling the Interfax news agency. By Wednesday afternoon, 16 activists […] Read more » Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace activists news Russia todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Did Bharara’s office goof up in Khobragade case December 28, 2013 / December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Did the office of Manhattan’s India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara goof up in the paperwork for the arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade to spark a major India-US diplomatic row? Khobragade’s lawyer Daniel Arschack claims so, suggesting that India’s then deputy consul general in New York was only arrested because a federal agent “erroneously and disastrously” […] Read more » Khobragade's lawyer Daniel Arschack Manhattan's India-born prosecutor Preet Bharara news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Modi verdict brings no change in US visa policy December 28, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Ahmedabad court’s rejection of a petition seeking the prosecution of Narendra Modi for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots has brought no change in US visa policy for BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. The Gujarat chief minister, who was denied a diplomatic visa to the US in 2005 over the riots, was welcome to […] Read more » Modi verdict brings no change in US visa policy Narendra Modi news todays news todays top news Top news Wall Street Journal
Top Law News Himachal court bans polythene-packed chips and candy December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Himachal Pradesh High Court Thursday vacated the stay on the state government’s notification banning 25 junk food items in plastic packaging and directed it to implement the ban in the state from Jan 26 next year. However, the ban excludes drinking water, both packed and mineral. A division bench of Justice Rajiv Sharma and […] Read more » Food Safety and Standards (Packaging and Labelling) Regulation of 2011 Food Safety and Standards Act of 2006 Himachal Pradesh High Court Justice Rajiv Sharma Justice V.K. Sharma news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Rights panel notice to UP over children’s deaths in camps December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and the District Magistrates of Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts, seeking reports within four weeks, on the death of 40 children, all below five years of age, in the relief camps for the riot victims. The Commission was acting suo motu, […] Read more » Children death Cold wave news NHRC Riot victims todays news todays top news Top news Uttar Pradesh
Top Law News Mulayam’s remark on riot camps taken to minorities panel December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Commission for Minorities on Thursday admitted a petition seeking action against Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh for saying that not one of the Muzaffarnagar riot victims now lives in any relief camp. The petitioner cited remarks made by Mulayam Singh while addressing a party gathering in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow on December 23, […] Read more » Mulayam riot camp remark Mulayam Singh Yadav Muzaffarnagar riots news Samajwadi Party todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Relief for Modi as court upholds SIT closure report December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a major relief for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a local court Thursday dismissed a petition by a killed Congress leader’s widow, challenging the SIT’s closure report giving a clean chit to him and 58 others in a case relating to the 2002 communal riots. Expressing disappointment over the ruling by Metropolitan Magistrate B.J. […] Read more » Activist Teesta Setalvad former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Metropolitan Magistrate B J Ganatra news todays news todays top news Top news Zakia Jafri
Top Law News Cabinet nod to judicial appointments panel December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Amid demands by jurists and BJP, government on Thursday gave the go ahead to grant constitutional status to a proposed commission for appointment and transfer of judges to the higher judiciary to ensure that its composition cannot be altered through an ordinary legislation. A parliamentary standing committee which examined the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) Bill, […] Read more » JAC Bill Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) Bill Law Minister Kapil Sibal news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Cabinet okays disbursement of pensionary benefit to MTNL employees December 27, 2013 / December 27, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The union cabinet on Thursday put an end to the long-pending pension issue of the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) by approving that all categories of erstwhile government employees who were absorbed in MTNL will be given pensionary benefits. “This would help to resolve the long-pending MTNL pension issue. The proposal entails a recurring expenditure […] Read more » Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited MTNL news Rule 37-A of CCS (Pension) Rules todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News China aims for judicial transparency December 26, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has issued a judicial interpretation which clarifies procedures of cross-examining cases of state compensation. The move aims to boost the country’s judicial transparency and ensure that the compensation claimants and those liable for compensation have equal rights of information, participation and expression, reported Xinhua. Cross-examination should be made public except […] Read more » China aims for judicial transparency China's Supreme People's Court news SPC todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists December 26, 2013 / December 26, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Russian authorities have dropped criminal cases against 30 Greenpeace activists from the ship Arctic Sunrise, the environmental group’s lawyer said Wednesday. “All activists have arrived in front of the investigative committee of St. Petersburg to be familiarised with the decision,” Xinhua quoted Andrei Suchkov as telling the Interfax news agency. By Wednesday afternoon, 16 activists […] Read more » Arctic Sunrise Greenpeace activists news Russia todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Calcutta HC acquits second lifer in weeks December 26, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In the second such case this month, the Calcutta High Court Tuesday acquitted a lifer jailed in a murder case. A division bench of the court set free Jagat Sarkar, a labourer, for want of evidence. Justice Aniruddha Basu and Justice Shibshankar Sadhu ruled that there was no evidence to back up the charges for […] Read more » Calcutta HC acquits second lifer in weeks Calcutta High Court Justice Aniruddha Basu Justice Shibshankar Sadhu news todays news todays top news Top news
