EVENING COURTS WILL BE A REALITY SOON: CJ18 Jan 2009, 1747 hrs IST MYSORE:Karnataka high court Chief Justice P D Dinakaran on Sunday revealed that the process for constitution of evening courts is in progress and they will soon be a reality. He told ..
SC Cautions Power Corp. Not To Burden Ordinary Consumer1/18/2009The Supreme Court has cautioned power corporations to discourage formation of cartels so that electricity charges do not go up unnecessarily burdening the ordinary consumer.A bench compr ..
NCDRC: Awarding Of Compensation To Hijacked IC 814 Passengers Stayed1/18/2009The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has stayed an order of Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission directing the Indian Airlines to pay a compensa ..
J & K SHRC Seeks Report On Student's Death1/18/2009Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has directed police to submit a report in a case involving the mysterious death of a management student of Kupwara district in Jammu last year.T ..
Gauhati HC Admits PIL On Restriction Of Vehicles On Governor's Road1/18/2009A division bench of Gauhati High Court has directed the Manipur government advocate to take necessary instructions from the government in connection with a PIL filed against ..
3,000 VILLAGE COURTS TO BE FUNCTIONAL IN MARCH:LAW MINISTER1/18/2009As many as 3,000 Gram Nyayalayas (village courts) will start functioning across the country to de-centralise and speed up delivery of justice, Law and Justice Minister H R Bhardwaj s ..
10,000 more courts needed to clear backlog: CJI New Delhi (PTI): Warning that the law and order situation would be seriously impacted if criminal courts continued to be flooded with cases, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has proposed that 10, ..
Barak Probe: CBI Seeks Israel's Co-operation18 Jan 2009, 1203 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Three years after initiating probe into the alleged irregularities during purchase of Barak missiles in a Rs 1,150-crore deal, the CBI has approached the Israel gov ..
Missing children's data lacks accuracy: NHRC18 Jan 2009, 1051 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: The National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) data on missing children "lack accuracy" despite it being the national repository of crime data, the National Human Rights C ..
Pak Law Allows Fugitives To Be Handed Over To India:Press Trust Of IndiaNew Delhi, January 18, 2009Pakistan, which is claiming it has no legal arrangement with India for handing over terror suspects following the Mumbai attacks, is forgetting one of ..