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The Madras High Court has held that the government order (G.O.)issued nullifying all the co-operative elections conducted in 2008 as invalid for the reason that election once conducted cannot be quashed by adminstrative powers unless there is mass improper activities evident. SO the G.O. cancelling the entire elections were declared as invalid under law. ..

Dear All, Please find append herewith a link of Cyber Law Update September 2008 - Issue No. 9 http://cyberlawupdate.blogspot.com/2008/09/cyber-law-update-september-2008-issue_29.html Feel free to forward this email to as many groups/persons as you like! With regards, Dipak G. Parmar dipak@lawyer.com ..

Four new foot-overbridges will be constructed and provided with escalators and lifts in the city. Chennai Corporation has identified the places with the help of the city police and will soon construct the bridges. “We have planned to install two lifts on either side of the bridge, so that people who don’t like escalators can use the lifts,” says Chennai Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhon..

When it comes to granting clearances to medical colleges, the health ministry under Anbumani Ramadoss is a law unto itself. Not only can it ignore a negative rating by the Medical Council of India but also openly defy the Supreme Court. In a breathtaking display of its brazen disregard for the SC, the MCI and even the opinion of a top law officer representing the Centre, the health ministr..

It was a mixed bag for former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh in the Supreme Court on Friday. Though he failed to get any immediate relief on his petition challenging the legality of his expulsion from the Assembly, he was successful in impressing the court about the importance of the question raised by him. “Keeping in view the importance of the question raised by the petitioner, let ..

Sensing a spate of litigation in high courts challenging its decision to completely ban smoking in public places from October 2, the Centre on Friday rushed to the Supreme Court seeking transfer of all such petitions from the HCs to the apex court for a uniform adjudication. The first of such apprehended litigation has already been filed in the Delhi High Court by ITC, one of the largest cig..

Gay sex is immmoral and a reflection of a pervasive mind and its decriminalisation would lead to moral degradation of society, the Centre told the Delhi High Court on Friday . Appearing before a bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah, Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra said, “Homosexuality is a social vice and the state has the power to contain it. If it (decriminalising homosexuality..

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stop circulation of copies of the Justice Nanavati Commission inquiry report, an order that is sure to prod the Narendra Modi government to go to every nook and corner of Gujarat with details of the probe panel findings giving it a clean chit as well as pointing towards a well-planned conspiracy behind the Godhra train burning incident. Joint petitioner..

The Supreme Court on 26-09-08 refused to stay the circulation of Justice Nanavati report relating to the Godhra carnage in Gujarat...

The Jharkhand High Court will soon be declared a high security zone with a notification of the state govt. The state police have submitted a report to High Court to this effect...

This is the text of the letter written by Chief Justice of India, K.G.Balakrishnan to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recommending removal of Mr. Justice Soumitra Sen, Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Chief Justice Letter to PM Dear Prime Minister, I write this to recommend that the proceedings contemplated by Article 217(1) read with Article 124(4) of the Constitution be initiated for remov..

Thursday,25 September 2008 0:2 hrs IST Security tightened in High Court - Kochi: Security in Kerala High Court has been stepped up in the light of the general heightened alert in the country, official sources said today. As per a decision taken at a meeting of Chief Justice H L Dattu, DGP Ramon Srivastava and Home Secretary K J Mathew yesterday, the police personnel deployed in the c..

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured a lawyer’s delegation of Tripura last week to consider the demand of setting up a separate High Court in the state to speed up the disposal of pending cases, as well as to reduce the expenditure burden of the state government.Addressing media persons, senior lawyer and Bar Association president Apangshu Mohan Lodh said that more than 6000 cases of seri..

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay a Delhi high court order which had convicted noted criminal lawyers R K Anand and I U Khan for bribing a key witness in the BMW hit and run case. The senior advocates were debarred from appearing in the high court and its subordinate courts for four months for obstructing fair administration of the criminal justice system. A bench comprising Just..

MADURAI: D. Navaneethakrishnan, 31, a lawyer practising in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, suffered a massive heart attack on the court premises and died in a private hospital on Tuesday evening. A native of Surlipatti in Theni district, Navaneethakrishnan is survived by his mother and a brother. Fuel shortage? His lawyer friends complained that he could have been sav..