Transfer RTI Application to Concerned Department or Furnish Information: CIC

In a recent decision, the CIC has held that if the public authority has not transferred the RTI application to another public authority capable of providing the information, then they themselves are responsible to collect such information from the said department and furnish the same under section 6(3) of the RTI Act.It was ruled that the respondent authority claimed that the questions Nos. 6...

Income Tax sends out Letter Rogatory to gain evidence to book high profile tax evader

The Income Tax department probing ex CBI Director, AP Singh and Delhi-based meat exporter Moin Akhtar Qureshi for alleged tax evasion has sent requests for cooperation to certain countries in the Gulf and Europe.Sources in the Finance Ministry have confirmed with Live Law that Letter Rogatory have been sent as there is material evidence which can be used to nail Moin and they are not available...

Judge Sri Srinivasan Honored as Indian Abroad Person of the Year-2013

Judge Sri Srinivasan, the first South Asian origin Federal Judge in the United States, is the India Abroad Person of the Year, 2013. President Barack Obama calls him one of his “favorite people”. The first female Supreme Court Justice in the U.S. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor says America is “lucky as a nation to have him now serving as a federal judge.” Former US Solicitor General...

Retaining Original Certificates Is Illegal and Improper: Madras High Court

Ruling that withholding of original certificates by the authorities on any ground is not legal and proper, Madras High Court reportedly urged a private engineering college to return the certificates, without affecting their rights to proceed against the petitioner for damages.The writ petition was filed by C. Shanthi against Vel Tech High Tech Dr Rangarajan Dr Sakunthala Engineering...

Capital Markets Regulator tweaks ESOP Regulations

The Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) recently has introduced a slew of reforms including finalizing an easier set of regulations for employee stock option schemes that among other things would classify Employee Stock Options (ESOP) Trusts as a separate category of shareholding entities.This move has allowed companies to have employee stock option programs where they can buy their...

Big Relief for GMR: Arbitration award in favour of GMR

Indian Infrastructure Giant GMR Group has won the arbitration award against Maldivian government for wrongful termination of Airport project contract after a ruling by a Maldivian tribunal that ," the concession agreement (between GMR and Maldives) was valid and binding and was not void for any mistake of law or discharged by frustration."GMR Group is an infrastructural company headquartered...

CBI out, German Federal Police in: India's candidate Ranjit Sinha’s loses out in the race for Interpol Top Job

India is now officially out of the race for the Secretary General of the international police organization, INTERPOL with CBI Director, Ranjit Sinha losing to Jurgen Stock, a German police official.  The Secretary General heads the INTERPOL headquartered in Lyon, France, and is effectively the Organization’s chief full-time official. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day work...

Madras High Court directs Lower courts to take Affidavit of Secrecy from Videographers

Madras High Court on Wednesday directed lower courts to obtain affidavits of secrecy from videographers who record the statements of witnesses who cannot hear or speak. Justice P.N. Prakash reportedly emphasized on Section 119 of the Evidence Act, which makes it mandatory for the evidence of such people to be recorded through interpreters or special educators.The criminal appeal concerned...

Gujarat High Court orders Nanavati Mehta Commission to let the Intelligence Reports of the 2002 riots be examined

A division bench of the High Court of Gujarat has directed the Nanavati Mehta Commission, probing the 2002 riots, to grant permission to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt to inspect certain intelligence reports generated during the 2002 Godhra riots.The bench consisting of the Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala, petitioned by NGO, People’s Union of Civil Liberties...

New Syllabus for AIBE-VII Notified

The new syllabus for All India Bar Examination- VII has been notified by the Bar Council of India.It makes provision for topics such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Law, Public International Law and Cyber laws, unlike the past 3 years. The number of prescribed questions for Constitutional Law and CPC have been reduced from 10 to 5, making provision for the 4 new...

Notices Issued to the Government to Probe Deaths after Police Recruitment Drive

Bombay High Court Bench comprising of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice M S Sonak,  has converted a letter by All Maharashtra Human Rights Welfare Association, seeking directions for the State to stay the recruitment drive for cops and issue guidelines to monitor it. This letter came after four candidates died during the recruitment drive. Besides, several candidates were also...

Manali Tragedy: Hyderabad High Court rejects PIL to pass order against the Centre

Hyderabad High Court displayed its reluctance to pass an order against the operations being undertaken by the Centre, in order to recover the dead bodies of the 24 engineering students of VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad. The PIL filed by P.V. Krishnaiah, a practicing advocate of the High Court, contended that the non-deployment of defense forces,...