The Bar Council of Kerala will now start constructing the MK Nambyar Academy for Continuing Legal Education, as its foundation stone was laid by Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur yesterday, reported The Hindu . At the inauguration ceremony, CJI Thakur defended the high litigation fees charged b...

History was made today, with three Constitution benches sitting at the same time in the Supreme Court at 2 pm.

Advocate Pradeep Dwivedi, represented by advocate Anupam Dwivedi, has filed a criminal contempt and sedition complaints against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using “defamatory and seditious” words against prime minister Narendra Modi, which would spread disharmony,reported First...

In the ongoing Extra Judicial Execution of Victim Families Association vs Union of India, being heard by justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit, the Attorney General had alleged that an article published in The People’s Chronicle (English) and Poknapham (Manipuri) carried certain “highly objectionable statements” by Babloo Loitongbam, who has been reporting the case.

The Delhi high court ordered the Delhi government’s “road safety” committees to hear two Delhi lawyers on the efficacy of “box junctions”, and to consider introducing these box junctions on Delhi’s roads if convinced about their effectiveness.

A Delhi court today settled a cheating case against Unitech officials after the complainants said they have received payment and did not want to pursue the matter further. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao observed that the complainants settled the matter with Unitech officials in ...

Retired Supreme Court judges justices Gyan Sudha Mishra, CK Prasad and Balbir Singh Chauhan, were nominated by the apex court to head the proposed Lokpal ombudsman. Also in the running is retired Jharkhand high court chief justice and current Appellate Tribunal for Electricity chairman M Karpaga Vinayagam

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hold an urgent hearing of a plea challenging the Delhi high court’s order allowing, on trial basis, the odd-even policy for private cars for 15 days here. Declining to hold an early hearing of the plea, the bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur wondered if...

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday told Delhi high court that the defamation suit filed by union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley against him and five other AAP leaders was a classic instance of “political vendetta” against them for speaking up against the “malaise of corruption” in the DDCA Jai...

Senior counsel and ex-BJP parliamentarian Ram Jethmalani had offered to represent Congress president Sonia Gandhi for free in the National Herald case in December.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday reserved its order on a plea filed by a female research analyst who has accused environmentalist RK Pachauri of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted to him. Justice SP Garg posted the matter for order on 28 January. However, metropolitan magistrate Shivani C...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government if it was seeking to hike the spectrum usage charge of one percent of the annual gross revenue of telecom companies for 4G services and if it had the powers to do so. A bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur, Justice AK Sikri and Justice R Banumath...

The Supreme Court today permitted the Mysuru-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) to get more samples of Maggi noodles to test the lead and mono sodium glutamate (MSG) contents in its taste-makers. The bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana also asked the CFTRI to ...

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Anil R Dave, and comprising justices Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy, heard Massimiliano Latorre, one of the accused in the Italian marines case, who has been permitted by the Supreme Court to be in Italy in view of his health condition, and gave him further extension of time to return to India.

The collegium will not wait for the government’s new procedural guidelines on transparent judicial appointments, to start the process of appointment of 400 new high court judges and five new Supreme Court judges, reported the Hindustan Times . High courts across India are facing 445 judicial vacanci...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to vacate its order barring the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu that is held during Pongal festivities beginning on Thursday. An apex court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana declined to lift an earlier order that put on hold...

The Allahabad high court on Wednesday restrained the state government from going ahead with a departmental inquiry against suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Amitabh Thakur. The inquiry, the Lucknow bench of the court said, could only be held if the government provides the official with t...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Director M C Mishra in two cases of alleged illegal purchases at the hospital, reported Business Standard . On the CBI’s report the health ministry asked AIIMS’ vigilance officer to investigate the al...

The Supreme Court will hear at 3 p.m. on Wednesday a bunch of petitions seeking vacation of the stay on the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. Counsel Raja Ramana, appearing for the petitioners, told an apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra that Jallikattu was a matter of faith and...

Jharkhand will set up fast-track courts in five districts to expedite cases of witchcraft, an official said on Wednesday. “The fast-track courts will come up in Ranchi, West Singhbhum, Khuti, Palamau and Simdega districts, where maximum such cases were registered, to ensue punishment to those who br...