civil law

The Centre has directed all the States/Union Territories to enforce the Supreme Court directive, under the Motor Vehicle Act, of fixing High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) for all vehicles forthwith to check their theft by criminals. In a letter to the chief secretaries/administrators, the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry’s Secretary Brahm Dutt said vio..

  IMPORTANT JUDGMENT ON CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT RELATING TO TELEPHONE DISPUTES.   If you are a telephone subscriber and have a dispute with the service provider over an inflated bill or disconnection, then you can no longer rush to the neighbourhood consumer court for quick and cheap redress of your grievance. For, the Supreme Court on..

  Delhi High Court dismissed the petition of real estate major DLF Ltd which challenged the Land and Development Officer’s(L&DO) decision refusing a No Objection Certificate(NOC) for prime land situated at Chanakya Puri. Justice Sanjive Khanna dismissed the petition on the grounds that it held no merit. L&DO h..

The Tribal Research and Cultural Foundation (TRCF) has moved to consumer court against 8 leading cellular mobile companies, accusing them of poor service and not including ringtones tune and other service in Gojri language. Dr Javid Rahi, National Secretary of the TRCF..

  National Consumer Commission has directed a hospital to pay Rs 17 lakh compensation to kin of a patient who lost her life during an operation due to medical negligence.  div class="Normal" style="font-size: 13.5px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-botto..

Rising air pollution has already damaged the edifice in white marble with the black fairy perched on it. And Calcutta High Court won't allow any more damage to Victoria Memorial, arguably the best recognised structure of the city. It has turned down a plea by the memorial authorities to start a new construction within t..

The Punjab and Haryana High Court declined to stay the main examination for selection of candidates for the Haryana Civil Service (HCS), executive branch, scheduled to be held on Saturday. However, after the preliminary hearing on the petition filed in this regard by Sunit Goyat of Meham district Rohtak, justice Ranjit Singh issued notice for September 2 to the Haryana Publ..

Ganesh mandals will have to abide by the city's noise pollution rules this year-those exceeding the sound limits and loudspeaker timings will be penalised.  Last month, the civic body wrote to the home department requesting it to appeal to the court for a relaxation of the noise rules during Ga..

Upholding the judgment of the Divisional Forum, Jammu and Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), has directed the government to pay Rs 50,000 to a consumer for disconnecting his water connection. Rejecting the appeal of the public health engineer..

The Delhi High Court has set aside a monetary award granted to a Delhi Development Authority contractor by an arbitrator, saying that “the arbitrator took upon himself the job of rewarding a corrupt contractor and thereby rewarding corrupt DDA officials”. The DDA had given a contract to Messrs K. C. Chibber & Company to build 936 Janata flats at Pitampura, to be later al..

uspense continued over the contents of Gayatri Devi's will with her close associate saying that nothing of the legal document was discussed today when her family observed the 12th day of the mourning rituals for the late Jaipur royal. Emerging from the palace after the rituals at the City Palace tonight, senior Rajput leader Lokendra Singh Kalvi told reporters, "Nothing on the will was..

Government has worked on concrete plan to ban polythene bags. The manufacture and use of polyethene bags and recycling of plastic wastes are regulated under the Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999 (as amended in 2003). As per these rules, manufac..

Next time you flash your credit or debit card to make any payment, be ready to carry along a photo identity card, as banks have asked    th..

 The Petition is posted at Care2.com to collect signatures from Lawyers under the category Human Rights/ Civil Rights by me. The legal fraternity is requested to visit the same and sign the Petition so that it can be forwarded to the P..

 An 89-year-old man has filed a petition in the Family Court, Chennai seeking to divorce his wife aged 80. He submitted that he got married in 1949 and had two daughters and four sons. He had been deserted and subjected to cruelty and hence was filing the petition for divorce. The court posted the matter for August 17...