Articles tagged with: Land Acquisition

Legally Explained: Why the SC struck down the Singur land acquisition (and what it means) [via Mint]

Land acquisition: More than just a Nano problem
Land acquisition: More than just a Nano problem
On 31 August, a two-judge Supreme Court bench comprising justices Gopal Gowda andArun Mishra delivered two separate judgments on the Singur land dispute, with split reasoning, but reached similar results.

SC notice to Gov't on land acquisition ordinance challenge

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition challenging the second re-promulgation of the land ordinance to amend the 2013 land acquisition law to ease the process of land acquisition. The bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel iss...

Independence of judges begins after they're chosen: Law min Gowda goes on anti-collegium PR offensive

Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said today that the independence of the judiciary was not undermined because it did not have primacy in the membership of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). In an interview to India Today Television, the minister said the independence of the j...