The Supreme Court has refused to hear the petition seeking to defer the Ayodhya dispute verdict and to mediate it, with the court saying it should be taken up by another “appropriate” bench, reports OneIndia . The petitioner Ramesh Chand Tripathi claimed that the verdict would disturb communal harmo...

Following his failure in the Bombay High Court to prevent the disciplinary committee from judging him, claiming it was biased, former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi has now approached the Supreme Court. Modi is now seeking for the apex court to hold that he can not expect fair findi...

The strike of Rajasthan lawyers would end after judges in Rajasthan High Court said at midnight yesterday that the contentious judicial service exam would be scrapped, reported CNN-IBN this morning , citing the principal private secretary to the Chief Justice who said he had received notice in writi...

Advocate Prashanth Bhushan who is currently facing contempt proceedings for having called eight out of the previous 17 Chief Justices of India (CJIs) corrupt, has submitted a second affidavit to the Supreme Court giving evidence of six former CJIs’ alleged corruption.

Former law minister Shanti Bhushan said that at least eight of the last 16 Chief Justices of India (CJI) were “definitely corrupt” in his defiant defence in the contempt proceedings brought against his son Prashanth Bhushan who had given an interview to national magazine Tehelka on September 5 2009 making the same allegation.

The Bombay High Court has cleared the way to set up 124 morning courts in Maharashtra by next week, with 20 being based in Mumbai. The courts will operate between 8am and 10am to increase the caseload the courts are able to handle, reported the Times of India . Maharashtra received Rs 542 crore ($11...

Vodafone has filed its appeal to the Supreme Court challenging last week’s Bombay High Court order that said the Indian tax authorities could charge Indian tax on its $11bn acquisition of Hutchison Essar in 2007 . Vodafone released a statement today saying that the company remained “convinced that t...

The Uttar Pradesh High Court is due to rule on 24 September on who owns the Babri site where a mosque was destroyed in 1992 by Hindu activists claiming the site was the birthplace of Hindu god Ram, which sparked sectarian violence causing 2,000 deaths, reported the AFP . As both sides expect a favou...

The Supreme Court has issued notices to the government’s department of telecommunication, telecom minister A Raja and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reply to charges that Raja caused the government losses of Rs 60,000 crore ($12.9bn) by mishandling the 2G spectrum allocation to mobile ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia has initiated the transfer of 20 high court judges, citing “public interest” in an apparent first step by him to clean up the judiciary.

The Bombay High Court said that the right to practice a religion did not guarantee the right to access public property to do so. The court said there was no need for the petitioner to visit a Hanuman temple in Mumbai’s Colaba district that lay on land restricted by the Navy for security reasons. “Wh...

The Delhi High Court has fined two siblings Rs 75,000 after litigating against each for 18 years over property. The court said: “Keeping in view the conduct of the petitioners that they still do not want the suit instituted about 18 years ago to reach its ultimate destination, they must be made to p...

The defence counsel of a man accused of killing and injuring two motorists while driving under the influence of alcohol on Marine Drive, has argued that section 304(II) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) – culpable homicide – could not apply because the accused had no prior intention of hitting the othe...

Advocates from Rajasthan High Court are protesting the most recent exam for the post of additional district judge, in which they allege non-lawyers have been selected. A number of lawyers in Jaipur and 29 colleagues from Jodhpur have announced an “indefinite strike” and kept work at the court suspen...

The bar council of Maharashtra and Goa has resolved to oppose the establishment of evening courts in the state, which would put an undue burden on advocates’ working hours. After receiving complaints from a number of the state’s associations, the bar council resolved at a special meeting on 25 Augus...

The Supreme Court has reopened the Bhopal gas leak disaster case today after a curative petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), seeking harsher punishments for the accused after convictions in June resulted in a two-year suspended jail sentence for those responsible.

The Chief Justice of India has granted a two month extension that magistrates will be allowed to issue domicile certificates – a power that was planned to be transferred to bureaucrats which could have ended the work of up to 10,000 advocates in Maharashtra and Goa who were either partially or fully dependent on the system, according to petitioners.

The Supreme Court has issued notice to ex-Satyam director B Rama Raju and four others following the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) challenge of the High Court’s grant of bail to the defendants, who were allegedly responsible for the Rs 7,000 crore scam that almost brought the IT company to ...

Former Karnataka chief justice P D Dinakaran has finally been appointed the chief justice of the Sikkim High Court at Gangtok following his transfer to the north-eastern state amidst charges of corruption and pending impeachment proceedings in the Rajya Sabha.

The Delhi bar council has become embroiled in controversy about whether there is a right to hereditary succession following the demise of incumbent chairman KK Sareen last month, as Luthra & Luthra lawyer Vijay Sondhi has continued his unrelated letter-writing campaign against the bar council’s “mess”.