Source:- indiatimes.com JAIPUR: A court here on Thursday deferred to Saturday the sentencing in the Ajmer Sharif Dargah blast of 2007 which left three people dead. On March 8, the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court convicted Bhavesh Patel, Devendra Gupta and Sunil Joshi (now dead) and had fixed March 16 for the sentencing. The
Source:- hindustantimes.com To check fleecing of customers by charging value added tax (VAT) on discounted items, the district consumer disputes forum has ruled that “Charging of VAT on the discounted price by the shops is unfair trade practice and a deficiency in service.” Over the past week, the forum has directed three shops and manufacturers
Source:- news18.com Parliament recently passed The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016 which says successors of those who migrated to Pakistan during Partition will have no claim over the properties left behind in India. There are some who argue that it vilfies anyone who was unfortunate enough to have had an ancestor who migrated
Source:- ndtv.com CHENNAI: A 32-year-old man, claiming to be late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s son, has been ordered by the Madras High Court to appear before the Chennai Police commissioner on Saturday. The man, identified as J Krishnamurthy, has also been warned that he would face arrest should the documents he presented are found
Source:- indiatimes.com KOLKATA: Financial behemoth State Bank of India will have to alter its recruitment procedure after a transgender person took it to court for not providing the third gender category in its application and won the case. The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed SBI to not only accept Atri Kar’s application for the
Source:- thehindu.com The Supreme Court Collegium has handed over the finalised Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges to the government. While maintaining the government’s proposal for a national security clause in the MoP, the Collegium has reserved to itself the right to reiterate a name rejected by the government. In the final draft
Source:- intoday.in A Haryana court on Saturday sentenced 13 former workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) to life imprisonment, in connection with the 2012 Maruti factory violence and rioting case. The court also sentenced four other accused to five years’ imprisonment, and said the sentence already served by the remaining 14 accused was sufficient.
Source:- bbc.com Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine. Nearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly gang-raped by her high-caste neighbours in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, she refuses to give up her fight for justice. It was her case that resulted in the Indian Supreme Court formulating guidelines
Source:- india.com Agartala, March 18 (IANS) The lack of resources and geographical isolation sometimes hamper the delivery of justice, Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi said here on Saturday. “Because of lack of economic solvency, geographical isolation and remoteness sometimes justice might not reach to the people at the right time,” Justice Gogoi said after laying
Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has asked lower courts to use video-conferencing facility in divorce, custody and other matrimonial cases when the estranged couple live in different cities, an order aimed at speedy disposal of such disputes. Disagreement between a husband and a wife over the place of hearing is one of the biggest reasons
