The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it was gifted to Britain by Sikh monarch Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The government stand on the matter was conveyed to the apex court bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit i...

The All India Bar Exam’s (AIBE IX) results will be delayed this time as well, according to Live Law’s sources. The results were due to release before Friday, according to the notification released on the AIBE’s website one day after the 6 March 2016 bar exam, as reported earlier . However, the resul...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has not satisfactorily complied with the Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI Act) provision which requires that it publish all its affairs on its website, held the Central Information Commission (CIC). The CIC said it is inclined to impose maximum penalty on the BCI if it doesn’t comply in a definite amount of time.

Maverick lawyer from Mumbai, Mathews J Nedumpara, had two of his writ petitions listed before two different benches at courts 3 and 4 on Wednesday, 13 April.

Item 9 before the bench of Supreme Court Justices JS Khehar and C Nagappan turned out to be an interesting hearing yesterday (13 April) when counsel for Tata Motors, Sidharth Luthra, persisted that there was a case of defamation against the Sunday Indian magazine, edited by the appellant IIPM-Supremo Arindam Chaudhuri, who has been no stranger to strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) against publishers.

The CBI today said it has no fresh material to register an FIR against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister K Mayawati in a case of disproportionate assets, but the Supreme Court said it will examine the fresh material brought forward by petitioner Kamlesh Verma. As the bench of Justice Anil R Dave a...

The Delhi lower judicial service (DJS) will now recruit 26 new judges, after the Supreme Court confirmed the result of 11 new candidates who cleared the DJS 2014 interview.

The Bombay high court today ordered that all IPL matches after 30 April should be shifted outside Maharashtra.

The matches scheduled until 30 April can, however, be held in the state, the court said, adding it could not afford to ignore the plight of people affected by drought.

There is an all-pervasive oppression by the ruling class and we are confronting a bizarre reality now, said G N Saibaba, the Delhi University professor who was released on bail last week by a Supreme Court order on health grounds . The 90 percent-disabled professor, who was arrested by the Maharasht...

On 12 April, during the hearing of case 20 before justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant in Court 4 yesterday morning, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan was angrily objecting to the appearance of the intervener-in-person, SN Shukla, a former IAS officer.

Three Judges of the Supreme Court, justices Madan B Lokur, Gopal Gowda and Kurian Joseph, attended a book launch function at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi yesterday (11 April). While Justice Lokur formally released the book, Appointing our judges: Forging independence with accountability edite...

The Supreme Court today said that the plea for SIT probe into the assault on JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others by some lawyers at Patiala House court complex on 15 February and 17 was “justified”. “That is the efficiency of the police in such a situation… they (petitioner) are j...

The hearing of the case of women’s right to enter Sabarimala temple in Kerala in court No. 4 after 2pm saw some interesting moments, with senior advocate Indira Jaising taking on her male counterparts who opposed women’s entry point blank. Saying that the temple trust was practising discrimination b...

Recalling its earlier order, the Supreme Court on Monday said admission to private medical colleges will be on the basis of entrance tests conducted under the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which was possibly leaked according to advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who had criticised the...

On Friday, hyper-eminent senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, during the Supreme Court hearing of the constitutionally hairy P&H water-river dispute , revealed to the bench that his right ear could not hear, while to his right assisting counsel tried in vain to correct Jethmalani on one of his facts,...

Chief Justice of India Justice TS Thakur said on Saturday the process of appointing judges must go on while improving the system, as the delay in appointments will deprive people of their fundamental right of access to justice. He said 130 names recommended from various high courts are in the proces...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by NGO _Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) _seeking cancellation of Reliance Jio’s 4G licence on several counts including adverse comments in a draft CAG report. The CPIL had contended that Reliance Jio Was given 4G licence for data services and...

The Supreme Court on Friday appointed two senior counsel as amicus curiae to assist the court in the hearing of the appeals by the four convicts sentenced to death in the 16 December Delhi gang rape case, saying the matter was serious. Noting the gravity of the whole issue, the bench of Justice Dipa...

The Supreme Court’s constitution bench hearing on the sharing of river water through the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, took an interesting turn this afternoon with Punjab’s counsel, senior advocate, Ram Jethmalani, making a strong pitch for the return of the Presidential reference on the issue unanswered.

The Supreme Court on Friday said the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should be “transparent and visible” and observed that the apex cricket body was “refusing to reform” and resisting some of the important recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee. “You are disch...