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SC: NUMBER OF DEATHS CANNOT DETERMINE QUANTUM OF PUNISHMENT:The Supreme Court has ruled that number of deaths in a criminal case is not a relevant factor for awarding death sentence to the accused.A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma while upholding the judgement of Allahabad High Court commuting death sentence to life imprisonment in a Double Murder cas..

JUSTICE A S ANAND APPOINTED AS ARBITRATOR IN BAUXITE MINING CASE:21-12-2008The Supreme Court has appointed former Chief Justice of India Justice A S Anand as the sole arbitrator in the bauxite mining case between the VISA International Limited and the Continental Resources Limited (USA). VISA is engaged in the business of providing services in international trading of miner..

PUNJAB : MEGA LOK ADALAT SETTLE OVER 2 LAKH CASES21-12-2008In a remarkable endeavour in the history of Judiciary, around 2.84 lakh cases were disposed of in Punjab during the two-day Mega Lok Adalats known as Samadhan-2008. Besides Punjab, the Mega lok Adalats were also held in adjoining Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. These were organised through the State L..

CJI: MORE EVENING COURTS TO BE OPENEDChief Justice of India (CJI) K G Balakrishnan said more evening courts would be opened across the country to reduce the pendency of cases in various courts.Inaugurating the training of judicial officers and lawyers on the techniques of mediation and conciliation, Justice Balakrishnan said, ‘Evening courts had been started in Gujarat and Delhi, a..

NHRC's Human Rights Day Function 10TH DEC, 2008 The Lok Sabha Speaker, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee today released a commemorative postal stamp in observance of 60 years of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights at a special function organized by the National Human Rights Commission to mark Human Rights Day in New Delhi today. He also launched an online registration of complaints mechanism wit..

ALLAHABAD HC EXPRESS ANGUISH OVER SECURIT PROVIDING SYSTEM 12/18/2008 The Allahabad High Court expressed its dissatisfaction and anguish on the system of providing gunners/security personnel to individuals in the matter it has been implemented, at the time when entire state is feeling under a difficult law and order situation and high risk due to large scale terrorist and other activities. ..

LAWYERS TURN TO FACEBOOK TO SERVE LEGAL PAPERS (Reuters) – Lawyers in Australia expect the internet social network site Facebook to become a new way of tracking down defendants after a landmark court ruling. The Supreme Court in Australia's capital Canberra has ruled that Facebook is a sufficient way of serving legal documents to defendants who cannot be found. The case surrounded..

Of all the provisions in India's draft safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the termination clause in Paragraph 29 has occasioned considerable debate. One of India's lead negotiators, Dr R B Grover of the Department of Atomic Energy, claimed in a press conference on Saturday that this paragraph, read together with others in the agreement, gave India all the legal prote..

India's woefully underfunded court system, with its shortfall of judges but excess of corrupt lawyers, is also saddled with a gargantuan backlog of 29.2 million cases pending across hundreds of subordinate state-level courts, 21 high courts and the Supreme Court. According to figures released recently by the Indian Supreme Court - the country's highest judicial authority - out of this mind-bog..

India became one of the few developing countries to launch the ‘e-passports scheme’ with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee presenting the first copy to President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Wednesday. The e-passports will be launched in a phased manner. They will first be issued to diplomats and then government officials. The scheme is scheduled to open for the pu..