Category: LEGAL NEWS

A family’s tireless wait of 39 years for a DDA flat seems to be ending soon, with the Delhi High Court directing the landowning agency to hand over its possession to the allottee while pulling it up for its “non-caring attitude”. The court held cancellation of the allotment of the residential flat to the family as illegal and contrary to law and said the case revealed a “sordid state of affairs” as the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has failed to maintain records.A Delhi resident had applied for the flat in…

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A local court today sentenced former deputy mayor of Lucknow and three others to life imprisonment for their involvement in a fake police encounter in Aliganj area here around 24 years rpt 24 years ago, in which a person was killed. Ex-deputy mayor of Lucknow Abhay Seth, then general secretary of Aliganj traders’ union, Ashok Mishra and two constables–Ram Chander Singh Chandel and Shivbhushan Tiwari–were convicted by the court. The then station officer of Aliganj, D D S Rathore and constable Munshilal were also charge sheeted in the case, but they died…

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A special PMLA court here today summoned beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya to appear before it on August 27 on the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking action against him under the fugitive economic offenders ordinance in the over Rs 9,000 crore bank fraud case.Special judge M S Azmi, dealing with the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cases, issued the notice to Mallya after taking cognisance of the second ED charge sheet filed against him recently and a subsequent application by it on June 22 seeking a fugitive economic offenders tag.This…

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The Bombay High Court today sought to know from the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) what safeguards it has in place to ensure citizens’ constitutional right to a pollution-free environment, including noise pollution, is protected.A division bench of Justices A S Oka and Riyaz Chagla was hearing an application filed by the MMRCL seeking modification of an earlier high court order which prohibited the firm from carrying out construction work at Cuffe Parade in south Mumbai during the night.In its application, the MMRCL said it had to carry out…

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The Jharkhand High Court today extended the provisional bail of RJD leader Lalu Prasad for another six weeks on medical grounds in fodder scam cases. Prasad, whose provisional bail was extended till July 3 last Friday, would now remain on bail till August 17 as per today’s order.The extension of the bail duration by Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh of the Jharkhand High Court was granted in three cases of multi-crore fodder scam related to fraudulent withdrawal of money from Chaibasa, Deogarh and Dumka treasuries by the Animal Husbandry department in…

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New Delhi, Jun 28 (DIN NEWS) The Centre has moved the Delhi High Court against its single judge order quashing suspension of the State Trading Corporation’s CMD against whom the CBI has lodged a case of cheating for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 2,112 crore to the government-run entity. A vacation bench of justices Vinod Goel and Rekha Palli, before whom the petition was listed, said it would be heard by the appropriate bench on July 4. The plea, filed through Central government standing counsel Arun Bhardwaj, has contended…

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Mumbai, Jun 28 (DIN NEWS) A special CBI court here convicted an additional commissioner of Income Tax and an assistant I-T commissioner in a Rs 1.7 crore graft case of 2010 and sentenced them to five years’ imprisonment. The additional commissioner’s husband was also convicted and awarded four years in jail. Special CBI judge Vivek Khathare yesterday sentenced additional commissioner Sumitra Banerjee, 49, a 1992 batch Indian Revenue Service officer, and assistant commissioner Anjali Bambole, 50, to five years’ imprisonment for allegedly demanding Rs 1.7 crore bribe from a Thane-based…

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 A plea was today filed in the Delhi High Court seeking contempt action against the NBCC for allegedly violating its undertaking not to cut trees till July 4 for housing projects here.The contempt petition was mentioned before a vacation bench of justices Vinod Goel and Rekha Palli who said it would be heard on July 4 along with the main plea which has sought setting aside of the terms of reference (ToR) and Environmental Clearance (EC) granted to the project by the Environment Ministry, claiming it would lead to felling…

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The Bombay High Court today rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of a corporator in Pune district in a case of alleged abetment of suicide of a real estate broker over a property dispute.NCP leader and corporator Deepak Mankar had approached the high court after a sessions court in Pune rejected his anticipatory bail application on June 6.Earlier this month, the Pune Police had lodged a case against Mankar and six others for allegedly abetting the suicide of real estate broker Jitendra Jagtap, who took the extreme step earlier this month.…

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New Delhi, Jun 25 (DIN NEWS) How can the national capital afford the felling of over 16,500 trees for a housing project, the Delhi High Court asked today. Taking note of the views expressed by the court which appeared inclined to order an interim stay of the tree chopping process, the National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC), tasked with redeveloping half a dozen south Delhi colonies, agreed not to cut any tree till July 4. The NBCC made the statement after a vacation bench of Justices Vinod Goel and Rekha Palli…

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