The Madras high court stayed last month’s government order that had cancelled registration of NGO Greenpeace India, and observed that the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies (RoS) had failed to follow the principles of natural justice, reported Times of India . According to the NGO, the court has gran...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has released its final list of candidates, after the phase of withdrawal of names is over.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking cancellation of bail of Bollywood star Salman Khan who was convicted and sentenced in a hit and run case. A bench of Justice FMI Kalifulla and Justice Amitava Roy refused to entertain the plea saying the order of Bombay high court doesn...

Intellectual property cases are exempt from the recently initiatiated process of transfer of small cases from the Delhi high court to Delhi’s district courts, reported Mint . Delhi high court justices GS Sistani and SD Sehgal gave a temporary order in favour of the Asian Patent Association, which ha...

Oral arguments in the sexual harassment case against Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele began today in the parliament, four months after the Supreme Court dismissed the allegations against him. Legally India understands from sources close to the process that the upper legislative house - Raj...

As Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice HL Dattu appeared to be a man in a hurry. However, despite having held the office for a near eternity compared to many other recent CJIs, what he has managed to achieve as a judge and administrator in that time is questionable.

The escape of about 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) – a highly toxic chemical – from a storage tank on the premises of the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) in Bhopal – the capital of the State of Madhya Pradesh – on the night of 02/03 December 1984 resulted in a horrendous disaster. Due to criminal negligence and utter callousness on the part of the plant management in taking adequate safety precautions, water and other impurities – that cause MIC to react violently – entered one of the MIC storage tanks resulting in exothermic reactions and forcing MIC and its reaction products to escape in the form of froth and lethal gases.

Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was on Thursday sworn in as the 43rd Chief Justice of India.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Tamil Nadu government has no suo motu power to grant remission and release the convicts accused of conspiracy in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The apex court’s constitution bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu said that the s...

Special courts to hear corruption cases are on the Delhi government’s agenda, reported *Business Standard . The government will consult Delhi high court’s chief justice to constitute courts to hear cases under the Janlokpal Bill 2015 and Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 to dispose of these cases at...

Outgoing Chief Justice of India HL Dattu on Tuesday refused to join the ongoing debate on intolerance saying that as head of the country’s judiciary, it would not be proper for him to comment on it. “There is a debate going on in parliament and other places. As the head of an institution, if I say a...

Allahabad high court has in a landmark judgment ruled that a child born out of rape will have inheritance rights over the property of the the biological father reported NDTV . The court also discussed the need for rehabilitation of victims of rape and their children while adjudicating a matter where...

The Delhi high court requested Delhi’s Patiala House district court to video-record the trial in the 1984 riots case, in a case transfer order won by senior advocates Colin Gonsalves and HS Phoolka for riot victim Joginder Singh.

The Social Justice bench of the Supreme Court has agreed to examine the existing administrative and judicial guidelines relating to dowry cases, allegedly biased against females, reported The Indian Express . A petition by NGO ‘Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar’ (SAFMA), through advocate Jyotika...

Remaining seated while the Indian national anthem is being sung or played is not punishable under Indian statutory or case law or by any order of the Indian government, argues the Express http: </http:> in light of the recent alleged incident in a Mumbai theatre where, according to a viral vide...

Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and advocate Prashant Bhushan have dubbed the proposed draft Jan Lokpal Bill 2015 as the “Jokepal Bill”, and have alleged that it is a ‘maliciously’ weakened draft of the original Lokpal Bill of 2011 by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). If at all the centre passes the bill it will be an instrument in the hands of the Delhi government to save its own legislative assembly members, allege the Bhushans.

As the Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu retires on 2 December, the Government is apparently preparing red carpet for him at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) according to several reports, as the post of the chairperson of the NHRC has been vacant since May this year, and only former CJIs are eligible for this high office.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the citizenship row of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy dismissed the PIL filed by lawyer ML Sharma, saying PILs cannot be individual-centric. The court also questioned the petitio...

Vodafone has, through senior advocate K Vishwanathan, challenged the telecom authority’s new rules which deprive it of charges paid to it by other operators on outgoing calls from their network to the Vodafone network, reported The Indian Express . In its challenge to the Telecom Regulatory Authorit...

Madras high court is set to break its own judicial vacancy record by March 2016, functioning at 40 less judges than its sanctioned strength of 75 judges, reported Times of India . Madras, along side Delhi, is the fourth largest out of 24 Indian high courts, according to the Department of Justice . T...