18 years on, HC frees lifer, says he committed murder as juvenile, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Eighteen years after a man was convicted of murder and awarded life imprisonment, the Delhi high court has now found he was a juvenile at the time of committing the offence and set aside his life imprisonment. However, it held him guilty of the crime.The court noted the accused had...

Cji: DY Chandrachud: Need to have more women & marginalised in judiciary – Legal Firms

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Saturday said the numerous reforms initiated in the judiciary is to give universal access to the justice system with an aim to "bend the arc of the moral universe towards justice", as was said by Martin Luther King Jr.Speaking at the Constitution Day...

HC asks Delhi government to ensure compliance with anti-manual scavenging law, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The Delhi high court Friday directed the Delhi government to ensure strict compliance wit the statutory provisions of the Employment As Manual Scavengers And Their Rehabilitation Act and the rules framed under it. The high court noted the affidavits filed on record make it clear that the Delhi Commission for...

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A fortnight after the Supreme Court judicially sought the law secretary's response on stalling the appointment of collegium-approved names to constitutional courts, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud on Friday struck a conciliatory note. He said the "soft culture" of constitutional statesmanship was needed to strike harmony between the SC and...

ED files chargesheet against BRD Group, its chairman and 5 others, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday said it has filed a Prosecution Complaint (chargesheet) before a special PMLA court in Ernakulam against William Verghese, Chairman of BRD Group of Companies and five others.The ED initiated a money laundering investigation on the basis of the FIRs registered by the Kerala police...

Maha govt withdraws plea from SC against HC order on FIRs on Arnab Goswami, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Maharashtra government to withdraw its appeal - filed during Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's tenure - challenging a 2020 Bombay High Court order suspending the probe in two FIRs filed against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami for allegedly making inflammatory comments.The Maharashtra government counsel...

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NEW DELHI: In a big relief to MBBS students studying in private colleges, the Supreme Court on Friday said the private medical colleges cannot force the students to sign bonds for serving the alma mater as resident doctors after graduation and extract huge amounts from them for breaching the imposed...

Amid free electricity debate, Delhi’s generation companies enlist AG to fight BSES in SC, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing debate over free or subsidised power and their ill effect on the finances of distribution companies, Delhi government’s generation companies have enlisted the country’s top law officer to represent them in the Supreme Court in an eight-year-old payment dispute with BSES distribution companies.Sources said Indraprastha...

Ed Seeks Court Permission To Take Anubrata To Delhi For Questioning, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate moved the Rouse Avenue Court in New Delhi on Friday seeking permission to take Trinamool leader Anubrata Mandal, now in Asansol Correctional Home, in transit remand and produce Mandal at the Delhi court, reports Rohit Khanna.The court fixed the hearing of the ED plea on November...