The afternoon hearing at Court No 4 of the Supreme Court on the entry of women to Sabarimala temple got interesting with senior counsel for the temple board, KK Venugopal, comparing the discrimination at Sabarimala with similar classification on the basis of gender in other areas of activity.

The Delhi high court today asked the city government to see if there was any possibility of lawyers being exempted from the odd-even traffic scheme now in place in the national capital. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said: “Consider if there is any possibility to ...

Taking a dig at Maharashtra government over its persistence to curb dance bars, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it was better to dance then go to streets for begging or going to “places which are not acceptable” to earn a livelihood.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who has challenged the propriety of the government introducing the Aadhaar law as a money bill, and asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to address the court on the issue. The apex court bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur...

The Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur’s cricket team – the CJI XI – won in its face-off against the Supreme Court Bar Association’s (SCBA) team, by 35 runs at the Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi cricket stadium yesterday, reported the Times of India . The Bombay high court’s justice RV Ghughe, batting 5...

India cannot achieve its economic growth without a robust judiciary overseen by an adequate number of judges, Chief Justice TS Thakur said on Sunday.

The city government has informed the Delhi high court that it was taking strict action against app-based taxi aggregators, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly overcharging and arbitrarily applying surge rates during the odd-even traffic scheme. Filing an affidavit before Justice JR Midha, the Delh...

Two live hand grenades were found on Saturday in an unclaimed bag in the Varanasi district court premises, leading the police to cordon off the area and suspend the court’s work. “All the entry and exit points to the court have been sealed and police is trying to check the whole premises for any mor...

It was an exchange of barbs, rarely witnessed, in the Supreme Court’s courtrooms. But then it was not an ordinary case, with huge stakes in the outcome, even if there are several rounds of battle ahead.

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Uttarakhand High Court order, removing President’s rule in the hill state and restoring Congress’ Harish Rawat as chief minister, be kept in abeyance till 27 April. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Mishra, while passing its orders, said the high court will deli...

After not doing so yesterday despite everyone’s expectations to the contrary , the Supreme Court today asked the central government to approach its secretary general for listing its petition challenging the Uttarakhand High Court order setting aside president’s rule in the state. An apex court bench...

As news of the Uttarakhand high court quashing President’s rule in the state reached the Supreme Court, suspense was building up whether the Centre would seek an immediate stay by mentioning the matter before Court No.1, where the Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur and Justice R Banumathi were hearing the pollution matter.

The Jharkhand high court took notice of a Hindi daily newspaper’s report that ailing prisoners in the Rajendra Institue of Medical Sciences Ranchi (RIMS) were without drinking water.

In a major blow to the central government, the Uttarakhand High Court today set aside _President’s Rule_ imposed in the hill state last month. After two consecutive days of hearing on a matter filed by ousted Congress chief minister Harish Rawat, the court said the proclamation of central rule in th...

Columnist and author Chetan Bhagat called lawyer Dushyant Arora an “India hater” on Twitter sparking online controversy on the microblogging site, after Arora posted a column on blogging platform DailyO critical of Bhagat’s open letter to Kashmiri Youth. Arora, who is a regular tweeter with more tha...

The Delhi high court has elevated 12 lawyers to senior counsel.

The Odd-Even notification – the Delhi government’s 15-day rule restricting vehicles with even-numbered registration plates from plying on odd-numbered dates, and vice versa – is illegal, according to advocate Sachit Jolly’s petition challenging it.

Mumbai criminal lawyer Ashok Saraogi, who has represented gangster Abu Salem, was arrested on Sunday and sent to jail until 25 April for alleged cheating and forgery to help a client grab land, reported the Times of India . Lawyers Sohel Kazi and I V Y Tauro, co-accused with Saraogi, will spend thre...

In the ongoing hearing of petitions challenging the denial of right to worship to women devotees at the Sabarimala temple, Kerala, Justice Kurian Joseph, one of the three judges on the bench, on 18 April, asked amicus curiae Raju Ramachandran, a pointed question: Can you force deity who does not want to see women (of menstruating age), to ‘see’ women?

A special Mumbai court today issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against liquor baron Vijay Mallya, official sources said. On 15 April, the Enforcement Directorate had moved the special court handling cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, seeking the warrant against Mallya who is curr...