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Writ to prevent slaughter of temple cows

   06 December 2008 at 20:36

Chennai: A public interest writ petition, seeking to prevent donated temple cows from being sold to slaughter houses, has been filed in the Madras high court. The first bench comprising CJ A K Ganguly and justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla ordered notice ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   237 Views


SC refuses CBI probe into Nanded, Malegaon blasts

   06 December 2008 at 20:36

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL filed by Jamiat-Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Arshad Madani seeking a CBI probe into the alleged involvement of Hindu fundamentalists in the 2006 Nanded blasts and the one in Malegaon ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   214 Views


Court cancels Roche’s patent for anti-viral

   06 December 2008 at 20:36

New Delhi: In a first-ever instance of a patent being revoked after being granted, the Madras High Court has set aside pharma major Roche’s patent on key drug, valganciclovir on procedural grounds. A patent on valganciclovir was granted to the compan ..



TN govt vows to curb illegal constructions in hill stations

   05 December 2008 at 11:09

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has told the Madras high court that it would enforce relevant rules and regulations to ensure that unauthorised construction activities, including digging trenches and road works, did not take place in hill stations ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   379 Views


PILs in SC seek federal probe agency

   05 December 2008 at 11:09

New Delhi: Two PILs have been filed in the Supreme Court for setting up of a federal investigating agency (FIA) notwithstanding the Centre’s post-Mumbai terror attack promise to examine the feasibility of such a force. The UPA government’s public st ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   191 Views


Indian to be tried for murder of wife today

   05 December 2008 at 11:09

New York, Dec. 4: Indian national Jo-seph Palli-purath, who drove all across the US from California to New Jersey to kill his 24-year-old wife, has been brought to Georgia to face trial. Palliparuth, a native of Kerala, who was shackled as he was tak ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   260 Views


SC lets off woman in hubby’s suicide case

   02 December 2008 at 21:48

New Delhi: Harassed by a husband’s ‘ugly’ taunts, if a wife commits suicide within seven years of marriage, the man is sure to be booked under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code for harassing her in the matrimonial home. The reverse has happened. ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   183 Views


Court tells GH to pay Rs 5 lakh

   02 December 2008 at 21:48

Chennai Dec. 1: A consumer court on Monday ordered the Government General Hospital and the state health secretary to pay a compensation of Rs 5 lakh for medical negligence at the hospital, which caused the death of a 14-year-old boy in 2001. Accordi ..

Posted in Civil Law |   508 Views


Officials get jail for letting sewage flow into Yamuna

   26 November 2008 at 10:54

New Delhi: The Yamuna will finally get cleaner. In a stunning instance of judicial activism, the Delhi high court on Tuesday ordered a two-week jail term for former Delhi Jal Board CEO Arun Mathur and two other top officials of the Board for their fa ..

Posted in Others |   318 Views


REFORMING LEGAL EDUCATION

   26 November 2008 at 10:54

PILs seek CET for admissions to law collegesReintroducing a common entrance test for law admissions, barring entry of nonstudents on the premises of law colleges and an external disciplinary committee to monitor student activities were some of the su ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   349 Views