SC Asks Govt To Respond To Guidelines For Speedy Investigations1/9/2009The Supreme Court directed the Union Government to file its response to the suggestions for guidelines to ensure speedy investigations and trials in cases involving important publ ..
SC To Hear PIL On Scrapping Licences Of Striking Truckers1/9/2009The Supreme Court will hear on January 12, a PIL seeking directions to cancel the permits and licences of striking transporters if they do not call off their strike immediately. A bench ..
Amendments to the National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions Act 20041/10/2009The National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions was established through the promulgation of an Ordinance dated 11th November, 2004. The Ordin ..
Maharashtra Govt on Friday challenged in the Supreme Court an order of the Bombay High Court constituting an interim committee headed by retired apex court judge B N Srikrishna to recommend steps for preventing terror strikes like the 26th November M ..
A police officer charged with criminal offences cannot enjoy immunity from prosecution on the ground that he or she is a government employee, the Supreme Court has ruled.A bench of Justices Altams Kabir and Markandeya Katju has held that the immunity ..
The Supreme Court on Friday said that no distinction can be made among accused persons for the purpose of putting the trial in criminal cases involving influential persons on the fast track."We cannot define who is an influential person. We cannot sa ..
Get Real Info Of HC Cases On Mobile9 Jan 2009, 0359 hrs IST, TNN NAGPUR: The High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Nagpur, has gone online. It has not only started its own user-friendly website (www.hcbanagpur.com) that provides case positions in all 13 ..
SC Judge Witness To Cash-At-Door?9 Jan 2009, 0423 hrs IST, TNN NEW DELHI: A judicial inquiry has conceded that a Supreme Court judge might have been present in the house of Punjab and Haryana High Court judge Nirmaljit Kaur on the fateful evening wh ..
Legal Hurdles May Prevent Sanjay Dutt From Contesting8 Jan 2009, 2103 hrs IST, TNN Mumbai: Sanjay Dutt's joy at the Samajwadi Party nomination may be shortlived. A quick double-check with his legal counsel would have told that his current position d ..
HC Rejects Utsav Bhasin's Bail Plea In Delhi Hit-And-Run Case9 Jan 2009, 1505 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI:The Delhi High Court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Utsav Bhasin, teenaged son of a Haryana industrialist, accused of mowing down a man with his ..