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Saturday, May 11, 2013

LEGAL INDIA : Legal Update

LEGAL INDIA : Legal Update

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HC upholds action against officer for hiring casual workers

Posted: 10 May 2013 02:02 AM PDT

A petition filed by an electrical engineer of Western Railway challenging a CAT order which upheld departmental action to stop his increments for two years for engaging 65 casual labourers without permission has rejected by the Bombay High Court. “Taking a note of the fact that the petitioner himself has admitted that he had engaged  [ Read More ]

HC upholds life sentence on man guilty of murder

Posted: 10 May 2013 01:52 AM PDT

The Bombay High Court has upheld the life sentence imposed on a resident of Sangli in a double murder case, after accepting the testimony of an eye witness. Hearing an appeal filed by Janardhan Mali against his conviction, Mr Justice PD Kode and Mr Justice VK Tahilramani upheld his life sentence, saying that evidence adduced in the trial court corroborated  [ Read More ]

Man sentenced to life for molesting grand daughter

Posted: 10 May 2013 02:18 AM PDT

Life imprisonment to a man has awarded by a local court to a man who have molest his seven year old grand daughter. According to prosecution, on June 4, 2008, Shivkumar molested his grand daughter. On the basis of the evidences, District Judge Rakesh Kumar held Shiv kumar guilty yesterday and awarded life imprisonment to  [ Read More ]

SPES SUCCESSIONIS AS AN EXCEPTION TO TRANSFERABILITY

Posted: 10 May 2013 08:01 AM PDT

  SWASIT MAHAPATRO ABSTRACT Clause (a) of section 6 of the Transfer Of Property Act excludes mere chance of an heir apparent of succeeding to an estate from the category of transferable property. The technical expression for such a chance is 'Spes Successionis'. During the lifetime of a person,the chance of his heir apparent succeeding  [ Read More ]

Life term for three, 2 escape with 3-year jailterm in ’84 riots case

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:27 PM PDT

Three persons were today awarded life imprisonment in a 29-year-old 1984 anti-Sikh riots case by a Delhi court which said the offences were grave as the victims of a particular community had been targeted and the acts of the convicts were most gruesome in nature. District Judge J R Aryan gave life term to ex-councillor  [ Read More ]

UP seeks SC nod for beautification of Taj Mahal

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:23 PM PDT

A notice to the Centre and Archaeological Survey of India has issued by the Supreme Court of India seeking their responses to Uttar Pradesh government's plea for its permission for beautification of areas near the Taj Mahal. A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir also sought a response from central pollution control board on the state  [ Read More ]

SC sets aside Orissa HC order on iron ore licence to Posco

Posted: 10 May 2013 02:31 AM PDT

Orissa high court order has set aside by the Supreme Court which had quashed state government’s petition to allot iron ore licence to South Korean steel major Posco in Khandadhar hills in Sundergarh district for a multi-crore steel plant. A bench headed by Justice RM Lodha asked the Centre to consider all the objections raised by various  [ Read More ]

SC to consider Sanjay Dutt’s review plea tomorrow

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:19 PM PDT

The review plea of Sanjay Dutt will taken by the Supreme Court of India for seeking of its March 21 judgement upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. A bench of P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan, which had delivered March 21  [ Read More ]

CAG report is not the final word on any issue:SC

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:15 PM PDT

CAG report commands respect and cannot be brushed aside but it cannot be the final word on an issue, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while noting that the auditor’s findings cannot be gospel truth as it is subject to scrutiny by Parliament. A bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra said that CAG’s  [ Read More ]

SC denies bail to Jaganmohan Reddy’s conduit

Posted: 09 May 2013 10:12 PM PDT

The bail plea of one of the alleged conduits of YSR Congress chief Jaganmohan Reddy has dismissed by the Supreme Court of India, arrested for their alleged role in a corruption case, saying “white collar crimes” are rising in India and such economic offences poses a “serious threat”. The plea Nimmagadda Prasad has rejected by the apex court who has  [ Read More ]

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