Advocate Mahesh Sonak who is appearing for Raj Bhavan was directed by the division bench of Bombay High Court at Goa, comprising of Justice S A Bobde and FM Reis, to advice and instruct the Public Information Officer (PIO) to not to deny information to other applications under the Right to Information Act on the reason that a matter was pending in the High Court.
After a tragic year, Ahmad Sheikh wants to move on, but waits faithfully on the Indian judicial system hoping for a miracle. More than a year ago, his son, Zahid Farooq, 16, was shot dead by a Border Security Force (BSF) patrol party on the February, 5. His teenage son was playing cricket near Nishat Garden, a tourist hub on the outskirts of Srinagar when he was shot dead.
According to the Drug Controller General of India’s (DCIG), twenty-five people died in clinical trials carried out by nine pharmaceutical companies in 2010 out of which families of five received compensation amount ranging from Rs. 1.5 lakh to 3 lakh. Dr. Surinder Singh, DCIG, has summoned these nine pharmaceutical companies namely, Weyth, Quintiles, Lilly, Amgen, Bayer, Bristol Mayer, Sanofi, PPD and Pfizer on June 6, 2011 to question them on the amount of compensation they have decided to pay to the victims and also threatened that if they failed to pay the compensation, all the trials and present and the ones yet to start will not be allowed.
The Supreme Court will hear today a public interest litigation seeking a directive to the Centre and the Delhi Police to issue a White paper on the alleged police action in the ‘Baba Ramdev eviction incident’ on the night of June4/5 and also the sequence of events.
A 16-year old American student in Cost Rica is suspected to have been killed by the security guard who has been charged with simple homicide for the same.
ISLAMABAD: The list of legal questions which will be included in the judicial murder of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto reference case has been approved b the Federal cabinet. It has been reported by the Information Minister Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan while speaking to media after the cabinet meeting that, five legal questions will be included in the reference, which includes whether the court had the right to sentence the former Prime Minister to death and if he was victimised by the court.
The police was directed by the local court to register an FIR against the IPS officer Jawahar Singh, who was suspended for allegedly outraging the modesty of a women police officer in 2002. The direction was made to the Maharashtra Director General of police in response to a report of the National Human Rights Commission.
The Sessions court granted bail to the former Co-operative Minister and BJP MLA Ramadhar Singh for allegedly making inflammatory speech disturbing communal harmony in the area in 1995, on 3rd of June 2011.