Source: asianews.it The Andhra Pradesh High Court sets compensation at more than US$ 28,000 for two men from Odisha who wanted to improve their lot. The “informal” nature of migrant labour favours exploitation and employers. New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Two workers had their right hand chopped off after they refused to work at a brick
Source: indiatvnews.com The Centre has finally paid Rs 25,000 as compensation to IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi in compliance with the Uttarakhand High Court order issued in August 2018, after contempt notices were issued by the court in June this year. Chaturvedi had filed a case before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in a matter pertaining
Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court has rejected a plea by farmers for ‘fair compensation’ for land acquired from them. It said the villagers came to court 21 years too late. A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and M.R. Shah applied the Doctrine of Acquiescence on the farmers. Thus, once the agriculturists acquiesce to certain terms,
Source: livemint.com Mumbai: Forty years after an eight-year-old city boy was left maimed for life in a car accident, the Bombay High Court on Thursday held that income tax should not have been deducted from the interest on the compensation awarded by the court. The ruling was given by a bench of justices Akil Kureshi and
Source: livemint.com New Delhi: The Delhi High Court will begin hearing final arguments to decide on the quantum of compensation that patients should receive from multinational pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson (J&J) Pvt Ltd today, in what could end uncertainty for patients in the J&J’s faulty hip implant case. The court had on 30 May directed
Source: tribuneindia.com Taking suo motu cognisance of a report carried in these columns on two pet pit bull dogs seriously injuring a 23-year-old boy in Mohali district, Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today put the states of Punjab and Haryana, along with the UT, Chandigarh, on notice before asking
sorce: tribuneindia.com A man who suffered permanent disability in an accident while driving the car of the then leader and Punjab Cabinet minister Kanwaljit Singh in 2009 was on Monday awarded Rs 49.9 lakh compensation by the Supreme Court. Singh, who was Punjab Cooperation Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal’s general secretary, had died on March
Source: business-standard.com A man who suffered permanently disability in an accident while driving the car of the thenD leader and Punjab cabinet minister Kanwaljit Singh in 2009 was on Monday awarded Rs 49.9 lakh compensation by the Supreme Court. Singh, who was Punjab Cooperation Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal’s General Secretary, had died on March
Source – moneycontrol.com The Supreme Court yesterday said that compensation amount of Rs 25,000 which is paid to a victim of hit-and-run accident in case of death is “low” and a bill that proposes to raise this to Rs two lakh is “pending” before the Parliament. The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016, was passed by the
Source – financialexpress.com Live-in relationships, considered to be a taboo till a few years back, have now become an acceptable norm in various parts of the country, with even the Supreme Court according to it due to recognition. However, a new question now troubles the apex court – does a man need to pay compensation to
