The Supreme Court registry has checked the records of interns assigned to judges, on the directions of the Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam, allowing the court to identify the alleged former judge accused of sexual harassment, according to The Calcutta Telegraph yesterday . The paper reported tha...

An ex-law faculty dean of Delhi University, Prof SN Singh, filed a complaint with Tilak Marg police station on Thursday in respect of the alleged sexual harassment of an intern with a former Supreme Court judge, reported the Times of India today. In his complaint, according to the paper, he said tha...

A post on social media corroborated parts of the sexual harassment allegations against a former Supreme Court judge made by one of his former research assistants.

The inquiry committee of Supreme Court justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Ranjana Prakash Desai, who are investigating the allegation of sexual harassment by a former NUJS Kolkata student who interned with an ex-apex court judge in late 2012, convened yesterday and asked her to appear before the commit...

The Supreme Court today stayed the demolition of flats, which were illegally constructed more than two decades ago in the Mumbai Campa Cola society, reported the PTI . A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi passed the order after around 140 families living in the apartments had barricaded themselves ...

The NUJS Kolkata graduate who blogged about having been allegedly sexually assaulted by a former Supreme Court judge in 2012, released a statement requesting privacy until she would depose before the Supreme Court’s three-judge inquiry, which was set up yesterday.

NUJS professor Shamnad Basheer has called for the administration to launch an investigation to protect interns from such cases in future. Basheer, who is the Ministry of Human Resource Development chaired professor in intellectual property (IP) law, wrote in a Facebook post: “I’m urging the NUJS adm...

The Supreme Court has set up a three-judge committee to probe the allegation that a retired Supreme Court judge sexually harassed a law student intern in late 2012.

A 75-year-old lawyer petitioned the Supreme Court to abolish the custom of addressing judges as “my lord” and “your lordship” as being “against the dignity of the country”, reported the PTI . Shiv Sagar Tiwari said that “using the word My Lord and Your Lordship which is symbol of slavery should be s...

The SC stayed the Gauhati HC’s order that the CBI is unconstitutional , three days after the 6 November order, in an urgent hearing at the Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam’s residence on Saturday, reported Firstpost . Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati had filed a special leave petition on behalf ...

Supreme Court Justice J Chelameshwar indirectly heaped praise on Congress politician Rahul Gandhi at a judge-felicitation ceremony, by giving him credit for being the saviour of the SC judgment disqualifying convicted politicians, reported the Times of India . His praise was in these words: “A great...

The Gauhati high court on Wednesday struck down the 1963 resolution setting up the Central Bureau of Investigation – the government’s primary investigating agency – and declared it unconstitutional, saying it should be stripped of its powers to probe, file first information reports, arrest suspects ...

The Civil Services Board (CSB) ordered to be set up by the Supreme Court on Thursday, will now replace ministers’ power to manage bureaucrats via transfers, postings, inquiries, promotions, reward, punishment and disciplinary matters, reported The Hindu . The SC also suggested a fixed tenure for civ...

The Supreme Court has, for the third time, upheld the appointment of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha, Mint reported. Dismissing a September 2012 petition filed by a Bangalore-based financial expert alleging irregularities in the process of his appointment, a bench of ...

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium has joined English barristers’ chamber 3 Verulam Buildings as an associate member and arbitrator.

The Delhi government today asked the Supreme Court to revive the ten-fold hike in court fees under last year’s Court Fee (Delhi Amendment) Act 2012 which was struck down by the Delhi HC on 9 October, reported the PTI . Justice GS Singhvi’s bench will hear the matter on Monday on a priority basis. Th...

Advocate’s wheelchair stolen, police indifferent: A differently-abled Madras HC advocate’s Rs 20,000 wheelchair was stolen inside the Madras HC premises three weeks ago but the police refused to even register an FIR for his complaint and a senior official asked him to get a new wheelchair, alleged t...

The Delhi high court will take a further step to going paperless after the inauguration of its e-filing facility at 5pm today, in its company and tax jurisdictions. “Thereafter in both jurisdictions the e-filing of appeals, petitions, counter affidavits, rejoinder affidavits, applications and all do...

The Supreme Court has passed a landmark award in Indian medical negligence against a Kolkata hospital for the negligent death of Anuradha Saha in 1998.

Maha lawyers’ strike winds down after 54th-day CJ meet : Lawyers from six districts in Maharashtra who were demanding a Bombay HC circuit bench in Kolhapur yesterday ended their 55-day boycott of courts, “respecting the judiciary” after an hour-long meeting with Bombay HC chief justice Mohit Shah wh...