The Regional Transport Office (RTO) might revoke for life the driving licence of advocate Janhavi Gadkar, who is alleged to have killed two people in road rash, in a final order of RTO that will be drafted this month.

New Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur told it like it is, in a speech at a function hosted by the Bar Council of India (BCI).

In a notification issued on 7 January, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, has suggested that bulls may continue to be exhibited or trained as a performing animal, at events such as Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu and bullock cart races in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Gujarat in the manner by the customs of any community or practiced traditionally under the customs or as a part of culture, in any part of the country.

Madurai advocates association president W Peter Ramesh Kumar was asked to answer to contempt charges by the Madras high court after the high court felt his attitude was “one of confrontation”, reported PTI . Ramesh is the president of the Madurai Bench High Court Advocates Association and he was one...

Molestation and attempted-murder-accused alleged offenders were set free of their charges by the Bombay high court yesterday, in return for community service, reported IANS . The four men will have the sweep public roads in Thane for eight hours every Sunday for the next six months, as punishment fo...

The fastest working out of 13 Supreme Court judges were justices AR Dave, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur, JS Khehar and Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur, while justice Dipak Misra was the slowest according to a basic arithmetic study commissioned by CJI Thakur, reported the Times of India . CJI T...

The Delhi government on Friday told the Delhi high court that it may extend the odd-even scheme beyond the planned 15 days trial period, after the court had on Wednesday asked the government why the scheme could not end after only a week of trial . A division bench of chief justice G Rohini and Just...

Jessica Lal murder case hostile witness Prem Sagar Manocha – the ballistic expert who was charged for perjury by the Delhi high court in May 2013 – was cleared of the charge by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

A Division Bench of the Delhi high court comprising the chief justice G Rohini, and Justice Jayant Nath today set aside the order of the Single Judge of the High Court directing the Supreme Court registry to comply with the Central Information Commission’s directive to maintain records regarding the judgments pending, after being reserved by the benches.

In Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and Ors vs R Ramanathan and Ors, the Supreme Court bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur and SA Bobde, refused to intervene in the dispute between the Aurobindo Ashram Trust and the respondents over the former’s failure to take steps to seek confiscation of copies of the book, “The Lives of Sri Aurobindo” written by Peter Heehs.

In a significant ruling, a federal judge in San Francisco has declined to give a macaque monkey the right to his famous selfie in Indonesia in 2011.

Delhi police commissioner BS Bassi said that the police was nowadays “committed to human rights” but bemoaned that the 1960s and 1970s were a bygone era in which criminals still feared the police.

The facts unfold the plight of a poor landlord languishing in courts for over fourty years. The case gets sadder when we note that appellant had been successful both in the trial court and the first appellate court and the saddest part is that the high court in second appeal, went against him on a pure question of fact!”

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Aam Aadmi Party government whether it can limit the restriction on the plying of even- and odd-numbered vehicles in the national capital on alternate days to “a week” instead of the planned 15 days. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Ja...

The government on Tuesday said it has notified the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Bill, 2015 to clarify the jurisdictional issue for filing of cheque dishonour cases that was approved by parliament in its recent Winter Session. “The provisions of the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2015 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted Gujarat Police to file a charge sheet against Patel reservation agitation leader Hardik Patel for allegedly instigating one of his followers to kill policemen instead of committing suicide. Gujarat Police have accused the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) le...

Justices Anil R Dave, Kurian Joseph and Adarsh Kumar Goel will hear in their chambers at 1.45 pm today the review petitions filed by the CBI and the Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy (AVUT) against the judgment delivered by them on 23 September 2015 substituting the sentences of the convicts,...

The Supreme Court on Monday was unimpressed with the functioning of the national carrier Air India, which is running into losses while other private airlines are prospering, demanding to know the reason why, reported The Economic Times . A bench of Chief Justice of India TS Thakur, Justice AK Sikri ...

Accusing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of making false statements against him, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday recorded his statement in a court here in connection with a criminal defamation complaint filed by him. Jaitley has filed a complaint against Kejriwal and five other Aam Aad...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to relax its December 2015 order prohibiting the sale and registration in Delhi of diesel vehicles with engine capacity of 2000cc or above, saying that for now the ban will continue. “This order (banning the registration of diesel vehicles with engine capacity o...