The embattled Sahara Group has withdrawn a defamation case in the Calcutta high court, which had granted a stay order, against Mint journalist Tamal Bandhyopadhyay’s book Sahara: The Untold Story . As part of the settlement, the book will now include a disclaimer by Sahara stating: “The book at best...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow to make way for Justice RM Lodha as CJI, said that a constitution bench will look into whether the commuted death sentence of the seven conspiring assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, should m...

The Supreme Court has finally avenged social media’s June 2013 furore over Madras high court justice CS Karnan’s “ sex equals marriage” judgment , by holding that that judgment was only applicable one-off to the facts of the case it decided. Advocate Uday Gupta, through senior advocate MR Calla, had...

The Delhi high court has agreed to wait for a three-judge Supreme Court committee’s decision on review of its policy of selection of judicial clerks.

The founder director of NLSIU Bangalore, NR Madhavan Menon, ex Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan and senior counsel Ranjit Kumar have been appointed by the Supreme Court to form a committee regulating government departments advertising with an “obvious political message”. Chief Justice of ...

The advocate who has been banned from the Supreme Court premises for six months by the court’s new sexual harassment committee and the CJI, said he would seek a review of the order.

The Supreme Court sexual harassment committee has banned an advocate from the Supreme Court premises for six months for an incident of sexual harassment.

A Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu, and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya has agreed to orally hear the Naz Foundation’s curative petition to re-examine the apex court’s earlier re-criminalisation of homosexual and other sexual “intercou...

A detailed report in the Eco Times on the long-running legal scuffle between McDonald’s and its local JV partner Vikram Bakshi. McDonald’s has accused Bakshi in the Delhi high court of forum shopping by launching Company Law Board (CLB) and Delhi high court challenges to a London Court of Internatio...

Sahara, which is on a money-collecting drive from employees to gather Rs 5,000 crore to pay for its boss’ bail, has sent a defamation notice to milk maker Amul’s owner, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation. The famous Amul girl marketing campaign regularly makes fun of current affairs ...

Advocate and Christian nun Sister Jasmine, who has been enrolled since 2000 with the Delhi bar council and is currently working with the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), said she would file a complaint about other lawyers having objected to her wearing her nun’s habit with with the advocates’ band. ...

The police had fired the policewoman after compelling her to take medical exams several years ago that determined she was transgender.

The Madras high court, relying on this week’s Supreme Court judgment, told the police to reinstate her in service [TOI]

A woman has allegedly been molested inside a Delhi high court room while she was accompanied by her father and lawyer. An unnamed man allegedly first stared at her in the court’s lobby, later stood beside her and put his hand on her shoulder, and then touched her inappropriately on 5 March. CCTV foo...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramjit Sen modified a Delhi high court order giving the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) power to do a statutory or special audit of private telecom companies accounts. Instead, the bench decided that the CAG should have the right to scr...

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has alleged that Hyderabad-based firm Manshi Systems has been selling customers access to a subscription-only NSE service. The stock exchange has now started proceedings in the Bombay high court against the firm and, significantly, also against the Indian subsidiary...

The Supreme Court has ruled that all government departments must recognise a third gender, and not discriminate against transgender people in the provision of services.

Rajasthan bar council member Biri Singh Sinsinwar, is likely to be appointed as Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman following the expiry of the term of Manan Kumar Mishra on 17 April.

The Delhi high court has disposed of a writ petition seeking to get deities’ portraits removed from a building walls because men were urinating against them.

A few days ago the Financial Express did a long interview with senior advocate and former parliamentarian Fali Nariman. The chat covers a dozen topics, including Nariman’s fear of modern Hinduism’s intolerance, how a Narendra Modi prime minister would affect the courts and constitution, judicial ref...

They used to be one of the last resorts in law students’ career ambitions. But SC judicial clerkships have become fashionable.