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Religious leaders oppose Delhi HC verdict on Section 377

   19 July 2009 at 11:00

The religious heads of various communities came together on Saturday to oppose the recent judgement of the Delhi High Court decriminalising homosexuality and to urge the government to take a stand against it.Representatives of Jamait Ulama-i-Karnatak ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   282 Views


Advocates can’t be implicated for discharging duty: Court

   19 July 2009 at 10:54

The legal profession would be in peril if professionals were implicated in criminal cases for discharging their duty, the Madras High Court said on Thursday.Justice M. Jeyapaul was allowing petitions by M.V. Chandran and E. Kumar, both advocates, who ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   145 Views


Padamsinh’s bail plea rejected

   19 July 2009 at 10:50

A Sessions Court in Alibaug, Raigad district, on Saturday rejected the plea for grant of bail to Nationalist Congress Party MP Padamsinh Patil. The Osmanabad MP was accused of ordering the killing of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar in a case of ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   90 Views


Bureaucrats send RTI petition for a jaunt

   19 July 2009 at 10:49

Should you seek information from the Centre through a Right to Information (RTI) petition, you better be conversant in all Indian languages.Even so, chances are you may still not get what you have asked for. M.K. Haridas of The Proper Channel petiti ..

Posted in Others |   298 Views


HC acquits man facing FERA charges after 17 years

   19 July 2009 at 10:46

A Delhi High Court has acquitted a man facing Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation charge for illegally possessing foreign currencies, nearly two decades after he was booked. Allowing Prabhat Kumar Srivastava's petition, which challenged ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   267 Views


Gay issue: Govt undecided, may seek more time in SC

   19 July 2009 at 10:45

The Delhi High Court verdict legalising gay sex has put the government in a fix as it remains undecided about its stand in the Supreme Court, 10 days after a response was sought from it on the vexed issue. "No affidavit has been filed in the co ..

Posted in Constitutional Law  1 comments |   219 Views


Political murders: apex court rejects State plea

   18 July 2009 at 18:20

The Supreme Court on Friday put a lid on the controversy triggered by the Kerala High Court’s adverse observation on the law and order situation and the police investigations vis-a-vis political murders in the State, saying it was only ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   247 Views


Application in SC against UP govt decision to shift Lucknow

   18 July 2009 at 10:55

An application will be filed tomorrow in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order of the apex court permitting Mayawati government to shift inmates from the old jail in Lucknow to a new one.An advocate, Sangam Lal Pandey has already served ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   276 Views


Delhi: Client seeks cancellation of lawyer's bail

   18 July 2009 at 10:53

A lawyer bailed out two weeks ago after 57 months in jail under trial for swindling a client faced cancellation of the bail.B N Singhvi was granted bail by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A K Pandey after having been denied it repeatedly ov ..

Posted in Criminal Law |   422 Views


Allahabad HC issues notices to UP Bar Council, BCI & UP Govt

   18 July 2009 at 10:52

The Allahabad High Court issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council, Allahabad, Bar Council of India, New Delhi and the state government to show cause as to why the resolution passed by the Bar council of UP, asking the lawyers of the state to a ..

Posted in Constitutional Law |   431 Views