A court here on Wednesday granted bail to Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti, who is accused in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra. Additional Sessions Judge Anil Kumar released Bharti on bail asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of...

A Chhatisgarh district bar association has debarred lawyers enrolled “outside” from practicing in Jagdalpur courts, reported Bhaskar . The Bastar district bar Association in Chhatisgarh’s Jagdalpur town allegedly passed a resolution to debar the lawyers, in its general body meeting, but a copy of th...

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) advised the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) led consortium on infusing Rs 226.28 crores ($35m) in TRN Energy. TRN was advised in house. KSP partner Tanuj Sud and associates Henna Vadhera and Aiswarja Mohanty acted for REC REC’s infusion will be used to meet ...

Heated exchanges were witnessed in Court No 6 of the Supreme Court between 2 and 4 pm in the hearing of the case of Nagrik chetna manch vs UOI The attorney general, Mukul Rohatgi, who argued in favour of modification of the Court’s 11 August order clashed with SA Shyam Divan, who represented the petitioners in the main case, and opposed the modification plea.

Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras high court passed radical directions on a petition asking the court to curb entry of persons with criminal antecedents into the legal profession and to maintain purity of law courses.

On certain days, the Indian litigant knows better than to hold the courts to their official calendar of working days: at least 100 days have already been lost this year across various Indian courts to strikes by advocates.

Civil rights activist Irom Sharmila, accused of a suicide bid during her fast-unto-death protest in 2006, told a court here on Tuesday she was implicated in a false case because of worldwide media attention to her struggle. “My struggle was attaining (attention) in national and international media a...

In the Extra-Judicial Execution of Victim Families Association vs Union of India, which came up before the bench of justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit at Court 9 on Monday at 2.30 p.m., the amicus curiae, Menaka Guruswamy, proposed the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the six fake encounters involving seven victims in Manipur, as a result of action by the security forces.

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central and Delhi governments as to why pollution compensatory charge be not levied on the trucks and commercial vehicles entering national capital and further contributing to already alarming air pollution in the city.

A court today extended, till 19 October, the judicial custody of Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti in a domestic violence case filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. A magistrate’s court remanded Bharti in 14 days judicial custody after he was presented before it after expiry of his one-day judici...

Despite the Law Commission’s suggestion to go for mediation as an alternative system of settling disputes, the process is yet to start visibly in India, Tripura High Court judges have said. “The process is yet to start noticeably though the system is a well accepted method in the US,” high court jud...

The Supreme Court today asked the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to form a three-judge bench to examine the validity of penal provisions that bans slaughtering of cattle and sale of beef in the state. Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy put on hold the order of the Jamm...

Maharashtra’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has declined to share any information on expenses incurred on hanged 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon on grounds that it could affect “the sovereignty, unity and security of the country”, said a RTI applicant. RTI activist Anil Galgali had sou...

Maharashtra’s second National Law University (NLU) would get its permanent campus in the coastal town of Uttan in Mumbai’s Thane district.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday criticised the central government for giving priority to the domestic violence case against its leader Somnath Bharti, saying it looks like the government does not want him to be released on bail. “The attorney general, solicitor general and additional solicitor g...

The Supreme Court has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on the Kerala State Electricity Board and NTPC for urging it to allow withdrawal of their appeal, saying they cannot treat the court according to their own convenience. A bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice NV Ramana on Thursday took excepti...

The Supreme Court dismissed the public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to curtail attorneys general’s ability to act for private parties . Headline: No issue for AG to act for private parties, says SC “As long as there is no conflict of interest, there is no issue. We may address him as learned At...

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Lipika Mitra, the estranged wife of former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti whether she was inclined to join mediation efforts as offered by her husband to resolve all issues between them. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy issu...

A Supreme Court bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant today invoked Sir Winston Churchill through late Justice VR Krishna Iyer, to direct the High Court of Manipur at Imphal to decide expeditiously the election petition against Mairembam Prithviraj, elected from the Moirang assembly constituency of Bishnupur district, Manipur, in the election held on 28 January 2012.

The Modi government’s law ministry wants the Supreme Court to disclose greater details about itself, including court-wise pendency of civil as well as criminal cases, number of adjournments in each particular case and sanctioned and working strength of judges to increase transparency in the legal sy...