property law

The e-Passport is a part of e-governance and a means to achieve a certain percentage of digital Bangladesh. Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Planning Ministry recommended e-Passport over Machine Readable Passport (MRP) on October 28, 2009 and yet we are to see coordination between the home ministry and the foreign ministry for serious action on paying heed to..

In cri.Appeal no.2309 of 2009 the division bench(justice. Deepak Varma & Justice B Sudarshan Reddy) SC allowed the appeal of Shahabano .SC held that the Divorcee muslim woman is entitled for maintanance after iddat period till her remarry u/s 125 of cr.p.c(Judgement dt.04/12/2009)..

The Supreme Court has ruled that court cannot dictate to the landlord which portion of his property he should use for commercial or residential purposes.  Allowing the appeal of the landlord Udai Shankar Upadhyaya against the order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, a bench comprising Justices Markandey Katju a..

Madras High Court reserved orders on a batch of writ petitions, challenging the ownership of lands by Karnataka Chief Justice P D Dinakaran at Kaverirajapuram in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu.  The petitions were filed by Kaverirajapuram villagers, claiming ownership of Anadheenam lands, allegedly owned by..

The Supreme Court has ruled that right to file objection by the land owners against the acquisition of their land by the state cannot be taken away as this right has the flavour of Fundamental Rights under the Constitution.  The ruling was seen to have far-reaching consequences for the ..

SESSIONS JUDGE HH D U MULLA OF THE BOMBAY SESSIONS COURT DIRECTED ISSUANCE OF PROCESS AGAINST GODREJ & BOYCE MFG CO. LTD AND ITS CHAIRMAN ADI GODREJ FOR CONTRAVENTION OF THE PROVISIONS OF MAHARASHTRA OWNERSHIP FLAT ACT AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THE SALE OF PARKING SPACE TO A FLAT PURCHASER. ADVOCATE S B SHETTY HAD INSTITUTED A COMPLAINT AGAINST THE PROMOTER GODREJ IN THE METROPOLITON MA..

Be it buses or buildings, schools and governments continue to breach the Supreme Court guidelines on safety of children often resulting in the death of innocent, like the incident that happened in a government school in Delhi on Thursday.  Five girls died of suffocation and head injuries as the..

Monday, Mar 02, 2009 at 0000 hrs IST New Delhi: In recovering debts or enforcing security interests, the state’s right to sales tax dues will have priority over claims of banks, financial institutions and secured creditors, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench comprising Justices B N Agarwal, G S Singhvi and Aftab Alam, while upholding the Bombay and Kerala High Courts&rsq..

 The Supreme Court on Tuesday drew the curtain over a 25-year-old case by ordering vacation of a large patch of prime land in posh Vasant Kunj, which was encroached upon and illegally converted into a sports club.  In a 67-page judgment, a bench comprising Justices B N Agrawal and G S Sing..

The Allahabad High Court has directed that henceforth no allotment of gaon sabha land under the UPZA and LR Act and the rules framed thereunder shall be made unless the date of allotment is advertised in a daily newspaper having wide circulations in the area in question at least two weeks in advance. The court passed th..

In a major decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court stayed the allotment of residential plots or flats to the MPs and MLAs of Haryana till further orders.  However, the counsel Gunjan Mehta of the petitioner Herald Co-operative Group Housing Society, Panchkula intervened to say that the Haryana government and Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) held the draw ..

 The Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has hailed the release of the details of property tax levied for buildings in Madurai on the Internet by the Madurai Corporation. In a release to the press, the Chamber Senior President, Mr S. Rethinavelu, said that the release with door numbers and stre..

 Kerala government decided to amend the Ecologically Fragile Land (Vesting and Management) Act to give protection to small and medium farmers in areas near forests.  The Cabinet decided to ask Governor to promulgate an ordinance to exempt five acres of land from the purview of the provisio..

The Kerala High Court today held that the sale of HMT land to Bluestar Realtors is valid.  However, the Bench comprising by Chief Justice S R Bennurmath and Justice Kurian Joseph had made it clear that the above land shall be used only for industrial purposes. The HMT was granted exemption for 100 acres of land to use it for industrial purpose. It ..

 Suspense continued over the contents of Gayatri Devi's will with her close associate saying that nothing of the legal document was discussed today when her family observed the 12th day of the mourning rituals for the late Jaipur royal.  Emerging from the palace after the rituals at the Ci..