Category: LEGAL NEWS

New Delhi, Jun 4 (DIN NEWS) Delhi Police today filed a charge sheet in a court here against Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, former AAP leader Yogendra Yadav and others in a 2014 protest case. The final report filed before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal accused the 59 persons, including some AAP lawmakers and workers, of joining or continuing in unlawful assembly, knowing that it has been commanded to disperse and disobedience to the order duly promulgated by a public servant. The court has posted the matter for taking consideration…

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New Delhi, Jun 4 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today restrained finalisation of sale of assets of Binani Cement Ltd without its prior approval but allowed the debt resolution process to go on. The top court also said that further proceedings will be subject to its orders. A vacation bench of Justices Adarsh Goel and Ashok Bhushan issued notice on a petition filed by Rajputana Properties Ltd and restrained the Committee of Creditors from taking any final decision. “Issue notice returnable on July 2, 2018. In the meantime, no final order…

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New Delhi, Jun 3 (DIN NEWS) Removal of speed breakers from roads often leaves behind potholes and sharp objects hazardous to vehicle tyres, the Delhi High Court has noted and directed the AAP government and the local bodies to coordinate and ensure necessary repairs are carried out. The directions by a bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and A.K Chawla came during the hearing of two PILs claiming existence of unauthorised speed breakers on Delhi roads and seeking their removal. The Delhi government was also directed to display on its…

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New Delhi, Jun 3 (DIN NEWS) More home buyers have dragged the owner and builder of a housing project in Dwarka to the Delhi High Court which restrained realtors from cancelling their allotment as they have not taken possession of flats which allegedly lack even basic amenities. Justice V Kameswar Rao restrained Uppal Housing Pvt Ltd, on whose land the complex is built, and Umang Realtech Pvt Ltd, the developer, till July 6 from cancelling the allotment of these 12 home buyers. “Till the next date of hearing in the…

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Kochi, June 2 (DIN NEWS) A man was arrested on Saturday for abandoning his newborn baby in a church in Edappally here, police said. The two-day old’s parents were traced from Wadakancherry in Thrissur this morning, they said. The father of the baby will be charged under various sections of IPC and Juvenile Justice Act, police said. CCTV footage aired by television channels and circulated on social media showed a couple leaving the child in the premises of St George Forane Church late evening on Friday. The security staff of…

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CHENNAI ,2ND June (DIN NEWS): In a significant first, the Madras high court has recognised a religious organisation as the legal heir of a deceased person, and declared it eligible to receive compensation in a motor accident claim. Justice A M Basheer Ahamed permitted St Maria Auxilum Sisters’s Congress, represented by its mother general, Sister Animariya, to claim compensation for the death of Sister Alangara Mary. On March 1, 2002, Mary died in a road accident involving a state transport corporation bus, while she was riding a twowheeler on the…

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New Delhi, Jun 1 (DIN NEWS) The Supreme Court today set aside a Bombay High Court order directing the Medical Council of India (MCI) to inspect a medical college, where “large-scale deficiencies” were found during an inspection last year, for granting renewal for admission in academic year 2018-2019. A bench comprising justices L Nageswara Rao and M M Shantanagoudar allowed the appeal filed by the MCI, which had challenged the high court’s order asking it to carry out the inspection and submit a report to the Centre before April 30. The…

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New Delhi, May 31 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court today directed the Centre to extend till 2030 its production sharing contract with Vedanta Limited and ONGC to produce oil from a Rajasthan block. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said that Vedanta, formerly Cairn India, was entitled to the extension of its contract, set to expire in 2020, for a further period of 10 years on the same terms and agreements when it was first entered into in 1995. The direction by the court came on Vedanta’s plea for extension of the production…

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New Delhi, May 31 (DIN NEWS) The Delhi High Court today reserved its order on a PIL seeking “detailed investigation” into alleged lapses of the Centre in saving 39 Indians, who were killed by terror outfit ISIS after their abduction from Mosul in Iraq in 2014. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar heard the arguments of the petitioner advocate and the counsel for the Centre, who raised questions over the maintainability of the plea, and said it would pass an order later. The petitioner…

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