Legal Moksha

23/02/2015

http://www.business-standard.com/article/politics/bjp-concedes-on-article-370-bjp-pdp-govt-by-next-week-115022100601_1.html

New Delhi, February 21The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has conceded ground on its demand for abrogation of Article 370 to pave way for a BJP - People's Democratic Party (PDP) government in Jammu and Kashmir by next week, nearly two months after the

23/02/2015

http://www.mondaq.com/india/x/371456/Crime/Section+309+Quashed

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has quashed section 309 of India's colonial-era penal code which said a su***de survivor could be sentenced to a year in prison, a fine, or both. India Criminal Law Singh & Associates 5 Feb 2015

26/06/2014

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Delhi-court-summons-Sonia-Gandhi-Rahul-Gandhi-in-National-Herald-case/articleshow/37248579.cms

A court issued summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for 'misappropriating the funds' of the National Herald newspaper that was shut down in 2008.

26/06/2014

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court to restrain the government from going ahead with arbitration proceedings with UK-based mobile major Vodafone. http://profit.ndtv.com/news/corporates/article-vodafone-tax-row-pil-filed-in-supreme-court-against-arbitration-573702

Vodafone Group has already begun an international arbitration against the Indian government in the more than Rs 20,000 crore tax case. From its side, the Indian government has appointed former Chief Justice of India RC Lahoti as arbitrator in the tax dispute.

25/06/2014

Senior counsel and Supreme Court judge candidate Gopal Subramanium has sent a letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) withdrawing his candidature, according to CNN-IBN.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gopal-subramanium-withdraws-candidature-for-appointment-as-sc-judge/481699-3.html

A copy of full nine page letter to CJI can be found here.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/231253235/Gopal-Subramanium-s-heartbreakingly-candid-letter-to-CJI

Former Solicitor General of India and senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium has withdrawn his candidature for appointment as a Supreme Court judge. In a letter written by the senior lawyer to Cheif Justice of India, Gopal Subramaniam wrote, 'I am fully conscious that my independence as a lawyer is causing…

27/01/2013

The Allahabad high court has refused to entertain a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to rigorously enforce 2-child norm for every couple with suitable incentives to tackle the alarming increase of population in the last three decades.
TOI - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Government-and-law-cannot-eradicate-all-evils-HC/articleshow/18201255.cms

The Allahabad high court has refused to entertain a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to rigorously enforce two-child norm for every couple.

11/09/2012

We have recruited our teams from IIT-Mumbai and Gujrat National Law University and they will be doing surveys on Right to Information and Right to Education very soon.

19/07/2012

This is a real story of an Indian wife's suffering from last 4 years. I don't know how are we going to prevent our society with such people.

A 22 year old mechanic Sohan Lal from Indore has pierced the ge****ls of his wife and inserted a lock there in order to prevent her from having an affair. This incident came to light when the women consumed poison and was admitted to MY Hospital for treatment by her sister's son on this Monday.
In her statement the victim said that Sohan locked her in a room at night in 2008 and pierced her ge****ls with a spiky instrument when she was sleeping. She took poison when her husband Sohan got her drunk so that he could r**e his elder daughter.
Police arrested the accused and registered an offence under Sections 326 and 498 A of the IPC.

21/06/2012

Apple has been ordered to pay damages to rival Samsung Electronics by a court in the Netherlands.
The court said that Apple had infringed a patent held by Samsung relating to the way phones and tablet PCs connect to the internet.
The court did not specify any amount, but the damages will be calculated based on sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad in the Netherlands.
The two firms are involved in a legal battle in various countries.

19/06/2012

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was today disqualified as an MP by the Supreme Court two months after he was convicted for contempt.
Capping nearly 30 months of bitter feud between the judiciary and the government, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry held that Gilani, 60, "ceased" to be the Prime Minister from April 26 this year.
Gilani was then convicted and sentenced for not obeying court orders to reopen graft charges in Switzerland against President Asif Ali Zardari.

18/06/2012

Rwanda's community courts, known as gacaca, have finished their work, after 10 years of trying those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide.
The courts were set up to speed up the prosecution of hundreds of thousands of genocide suspects awaiting trial.
About 65% of the close to two million people tried have been found guilty, according to latest government figures.

18/06/2012

Facebook is to pay $10m (£6m) to charity to settle a lawsuit over the way it used "social" ads.
Known as a "sponsored story", the ads popped up on a user's friends' pages after the user clicked to "like" a firm's advert.
The lawsuit was brought by five members of Facebook who said the ads violated Facebook members' rights to control the use of their activity on the site.