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The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the principal and registrar of a Himachal Pradesh medical college as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for the death of student Aman Kachroo allegedly due to ragging. A bench of justices Arijit Pasayat and Asok Kumar Ganguly also sought a detailed report from the Andhra Pradesh government on the incident in which ..

New Delhi: Taking serious view of two ragging incidents, including the death of a medical student Aman Kachroo in Himachal Pradesh, the Supreme Court on Monday warned that time has come to cut off government aid to institutions that have failed to curb the menace. UGC to issue stringent rules to prevent ragging The Supreme Court, while issuing "show cause notice" for contempt proceedings a..

Chennai (PTI): In a new turn to the ongoing Advocates' stir, the Madras High Court on Saturday notified that its Judges would take up matters listed before them and decide them on merit from March 16 but lawyers said they would continue boycott of courts insisting on action against police officials responsible for the Feb 19 'attacks' against them. As the lawyers' indefinite stir continued..

Alerting Indians to misuse of their traditional knowledge, Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan has called for a national registry to comprehensively list what needs protecting."India des not even possess a complete catalogue or a full knowledge of the many different expressions of traditional knowledge it possess," Justice Balakrishnan noted at a seminar on Safeguarding Indian Traditional Know..

Lawyer moves court seeking action against Karunanidhi Chennai (PTI): An advocate on Thursday filed a petition in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the CBI to lodge a case holding Chief Minister Karunanidhi responsible for the alleged beating up of advocates in the Court premises on February 19. The advocate S Doraisamy alleged that state Home Secretary Malathi, on Karunanidhi's ..

Malaysian Indian lawyer wins US award Thursday, 12 March , 2009, 11:33 Last Updated: Thursday, 12 March , 2009, 12:05 Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Bar Council President Ambiga Sreenevasan, an ethnic Indian, is one of the eight women who received the prestigious "women of courage" award from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in US. Sreenevasan, who has been at the forefron..

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has asked the Government of Delhi to give adequate publicity to a scheme under which students from poor families can get admission into schools for free. The court was hearing a public interest petition filed by Social Jurist, an NGO, seeking direction from the court to 384 unaided recognised private schools in Delhi, reports IANS. These schools were allotted..

Chennai, Mar 11 (UNI) After a gap of nearly three weeks, the Madras High Court and other courts of Tamil Nadu have started functioning, even as a section of lawyers continued their boycott of courts, demanding action against police officials, responsible for lathicharge on lawyers on February 19. Besides the High Court, City civil court, Mahila Court and Family Courts inside the High Court comp..

Tamil Nadu In a package policy or a comprehensive policy of motor insurance, gratuitous passengers travelling in private car or pillion riders carried on two-wheelers are automatically covered, the Madras HC has ruled. ..

BANGALORE: The Federation of Bar Associations in Karnataka on Tuesday urged the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court to take expeditious steps to shift the family courts from Nyayadegula on Siddaiah Road to the District and Sessions Court Complex (City Civil Court) immediately. Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, federation president K.N. Subba Reddy said lawyers and litigants were find..

The risks of the occupants carried in the vehicle are automatically covered Insurance companies will consider publishing instructions in the language of the State: court Under a package policy or a comprehensive policy of motor insurance, gratuitous passengers travelling in a private car or pillion riders carried on two-wheelers are automatically covered, the Madras High Court has ruled. ..

It has for long been argued and suggested that policing the police in India was a long pending need. However, the unprecedented acts of hooliganism and vandalism by a group of lawyers in the premises of Madras High Court has raised another relevant issue as well—how to bring the lawyers under the ambit of law? And, this surely is going to prove an arduous task, not less than that of policing th..

Failure to pay property tax on time is a conduct most unbecoming of an officer of the Indian Air Force, ruled the Supreme Court New Delhi: In a judgement that gives the government wide discretion to include various acts of forbidden character as misconduct by a public servant, the Supreme Court of India has upheld the dismissal of an Indian Air Force (IAF) officer who failed to pay his property t..

Madras HC CJ recommends transfer of Mukhopadhaya to save HC decorum 3/10/2009 Newly appointed Madras High Court Chief Justice H L Gokhale recommended to the Supreme Court that former acting Chief Justice S J Mukhopadhaya, who came under attack by the Srikrishna Commission, who probed the police- lawyers clash on February 19, be transferred to some other High court with promotion. Chief Just..

Justice Hemant Laxman Gokhale was on Monday sworn-in as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. The Tamil Nadu Governor Surjit Singh Barnala administered the oath of office to Mr. Justice Gokhale at the Raj Bhavan here. Mr. Justice Gokhale, who was Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, had been transferred to the Madras High Court in place of Chief Justice A K Ganguly who was elevat..