A lawyer has been arrested for allegedly stealing law books and citations from Hyderabad High Court, police said today.

If the official minutes of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Executive Committee meeting held on 18 March are any indication, its president, Dushyant Dave, who presided over that meeting, never ceased to be its president, despite his resignation earlier on 15 February.

The Supreme Court Bar Association’s (SCBA) former president Dushyant Dave called an SCBA executive committee (EC) meeting today to withdraw his resignation from the SCBA’s presidential post, effective today. The SCBA’s secretary Gaurav Bhatia called the meeting “illegal”.

The All India Bar Exam (AIBE) challenges will be heard by a Supreme Court constitution bench next month.

One of the petitioners in the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) constitutional mega-challenge currently in the Supreme Court, due to be heard on Friday (18 March), will raise the question of irregularities in the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) appointment of private contractor ITES Horizon Pvt Ltd to conduct the AIBE in 2010.

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has rapped the central and the state government authorities on the misuse of oxytocin and directed for measures to regulate the manufacture, import and distribution of drugs liable to misuse. There is rampant misuse of oxytocin in dairy, agriculture and horticulture a...

Just as his resignation as the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president in February was an impulsive decision, Dushyant Dave’s withdrawal of his resignation today also proved to be similarly emotional.

The Delhi high court today refused to entertain a plea that sought action against JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charge. Action was sought against Kanhaiya on the charge that he had said that the Indian Army was responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir, as reported earlier ...

The petition filed by V Vasanthakumar, advocate from Puducherry, seeking the court’s directions to the Government to consider setting up a National Court of Appeal to relieve the Supreme Court of its case burden, got a new lease of life with the two-judge bench comprising the Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit, deciding to refer the matter to a five-judge constitution bench to hear from 4 April.

A petition was filed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir. Justice Pratibha Rani would hear the case post-lunch on Tuesday. “Indian Army...

Following last year’s revival of the collegium system of judicial appointments by the Supreme Court’s constitution bench, which quashed the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) last year, the government is all set to revise the existing Memorandum of Procedure for appointment of judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, as suggested by the same bench.

PDS Legal won Rs 49.82 crore Value Added Tax (VAT) relief for Flipkart in the Allahabad high court which ordered the Uttar Pradesh VAT department to refund that amount to Flipkart, with interest, and also ordered the department’s concerned tax officer to pay Rs 2 lakh, in litigation cost, to the e-c...

The Art of Living (AoL), headed by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, said today via its lawyer Akshama Nath it was committed to setting up a bio-diversity park at the Yamuna floodplain. “We are working with environmental experts as per the directions of the (National Green Tribunal, NGT) to set...

On 11 March, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi, Arun Mishra and Prafulla C Pant, after hearing the review petition of three convicts in the 2000 bus burning at Dharmapuri, Tamil Nadu, case in the open court, commuted their death sentences to life sentences.

Those who thought the NGT’s 9 March insistence that the AoL pay a fine ofRs 5 crores before going ahead with the event at the disputed site ofYamuna was too mild, compared to the kind of devastation which it is likelyto cause to the site, must today concede that the NGT order “being mild”was probably an understatement. In today’s order (read below), the NGTappeared too willing to accept AoL’s offer of Rs 25 lakh now, and pay thebalance within three weeks.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking to quash a criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in the Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case in view of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley’s statement regarding the matter. A bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi, after AoL’s leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had said in TV interviews he’d rather go to jail than pay...

Should India be known as Bharat? Having issued notice in a public interest litigation petition in April last year, a division bench of Supreme Court of India headed by the Chief Justice of India TS Thakur will be posed with this question on 11 March (today).

The Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) recruitment committee will interview, within four weeks, the 12 new candidates who crossed the exam’s cut-off marks on a re-evaluation. The re-evaluation was part of a judicial inquiry on fairness in the conduct of the DJS 2014.