Weekly Legal Updates March Week 3

1. India wins the International Mens Cricket Asia Cup T20 format defeating Bangladesh.
2. Sri Lankan movie Muttrupulliya came under criticism for glorifying the post era of
ethnic cleansing of ethnic minority in Sri Lanka.
3. The committee formed to look into the Muzaffarngar riots that led over 60 dead and
over 60K homeless is headed by Justice Vishu Sahai submits its report blaming police
laxity and intelligence failure.
4. Babak Zanjani, Irans noted billionaire gets death sentence for corruption charges over
oil deals.
5. Well known Malayalam actor Kalabhavan passes away.
6. SC is hearing a case as to whether political parties should come within the purview of
Right to Information Act, 2005 for being public authorities.
7. The Supreme Court asked Bennet Castelino, an advocate and the petitioner-in-person,
to approach the high court of Allahabad to order a CBI probe into the mysterious
disappearance of Rahul Sachan. Sachan is a key prosecution witness in the Asaram
Bapu case.
8. The Enforcement Director (ED) registered a money-laundering case against founder of
now defunct Kingfisher Airlines and liquor baron Vijay Mallya.
9. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) declined to prohibit the holding of multi-crore World
Culture Festival (WCF) organized by the Art of Living Foundation on the flood plains of
the river Yamuna.
10.The Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking to quash a criminal case against
Gujarat Police personnel involved in the Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case in view of Lashkar-eTaiba operative David Headleys statement regarding the matter.