The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) asked solicitor general Mohan Parasaran if National Green Tribunal (NGT) chairperson Swatanter Kumar can face removal proceedings based on treating the SC sexual harassment petition against him as “written complaint”, reported the Indian Express . An ex...

In settlement of a civil and two criminal suits brought by a religious group against Penguin Books India, the publisher has agreed to withdraw and destroy all copies of a history book on Hinduism.

Delhi high court chief justice NV Ramana was elevated to the Supreme Court on Saturday and will assume office from Thursday, reported the New Indian Express . Ramana served as chief at the Andhra Pradesh high court from 10 March to 20 May last year, and was elevated as Delhi HC’s chief on 20 Septemb...

The Patna high court’s full court has recommended the dismissal of three district judges to the Bihar government for, allegedly, being “found with some women during a police raid” at a Nepal hotel on Republic Day, reported the Express . Nawada court sub-judge Komal Ram, Ara sessions judge Jitendra N...

Supreme Court justices CK Prasad and Kurien Joseph dismissed, with costs of Rs 5 lakh, the review petition of ex-MLA Kishore Samrite in which Samrite had alleged impropriety against Prasad, reported the Times of India . Samrite had asserted that Prasad should have recused from the case in which Samr...

Amit Sibal, Cambridge University graduate, Dayan Krishnan, public prosecutor and 1993 NLSIU Bangalore graduate, and Anup Bhambhani, have been designated senior counsel in the Delhi high court.

Hunger strike for permanent Western Orissa HC bench : Orissa high court lawyers launched an indefinite hunger strike today on the third day of their court boycott, to protest against the lack of a permanent bench of the HC in western Orissa. The lawyers have also asked all banks and financial establ...

An SC bench came down heavily on an advocate-on-record who did not turn up for a hearing and instead sent a nameless lawyer holding himself out as “proxy counsel”.

After the Supreme Court’s second-most senior judge and next Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said he would be the last person to accept appointment to the Lokpal selection panel, Chief justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam reportedly nominated the SC’s third-most senior judge HL Dattu to the pane...

The Supreme Court Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) has received two complaints of sexual harassment since it was set up on 26 November 2013, reported the PTI , citing the GSICC Annual Report (PDF): In the First Meeting of the GSICC held on 9/12/2013, an Internal Sub-Com...

Six Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) examinees from 2011 have lost the case for their instatement in the city’s lower judiciary, due to a lack of courtrooms and infrastructure, reported the PTI . The petitioners, who had secured a little over the cut-off ranks for appointment to the DJS, had argued that...

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam ordered the Birbhum district judge to submit a detailed report about action taken by police in the West Bengal village ‘kangaroo court’-ordered gang rape case. The Supreme Court has appointed additional solicitor general Sidharth Luthra to ...

NLSIU Bangalore alumnus Akshay Bhan, who is practising in the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in Chandigarh, has been designated as a senior counsel.

The Supreme Court has ordered prosecution of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha for not filing income tax (IT) returns between 1991 and 1994 for the company which she co-owned at the time. Jayalalitha and the company’s other co-owner had appealed to the apex court for discharge from the crimina...

The Supreme Court today asked all high court chief justices to nominate a retired district judge each, to serve for two years on State Committees overseeing the implementation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules 2000. The serving judges will be paid Rs 20,000 per month for their work on th...

The names of senior advocates Fali S Nariman, K K Venugopal, Harish Salve and attorney general Goolam Vahanvati have been forwarded in the category of “eminent jurist” to the Lokpal selection panel, alongside former attorney generals Soli Sorabjee and K Parasaran. They will be discussed in a meeting...

Supreme Court justices HL Dattu and Sidhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya have rejected a number of review petitions of its late 2013 judgment that effectively re-criminalised homosexual intercourse. The bench said in its order: “We have gone through the Review Petitions and the connected papers. We see no re...

Former Himachal Pradesh high court chief justice, Delhi high court justice and law commission member Leila Seth, who is also mother to a son who is homosexual, writes condemning the Supreme Court judgement re-criminalising homosexual intercourse in the Times of India . The original Delhi high court ...

After sending a takedown request for a photograph last Thursday, Karanjawala & Co, representing ex-SC judge Swatanter Kumar in a defamation case, declined to specify which parts of Legally India’s coverage relating to the case should be removed.

Madras high court (HC) senior advocate R Gandhi has asked to withdraw his petition to recall the controversial 12 names recommended for judgeships at the HC, reported the Times of India . Advocates who had been boycotting work intermittently at the HC since December to protest against the judgeship ...