The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Gauhati High Court order directing a CBI probe against Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki for alleged corruption in awarding state contracts to his family members. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu also issued notice to the Arunac...

The Bombay high court on Wednesday directed the court registry to prepare afresh the paper-book pertaining to the Salman Khan accident case. Justice VR Joshi also asked the registry to ask for a fresh paper-book from the sessions court, and if required, the assistance of the trial court judge should...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday took strong objection to the central and Delhi governments showing apathy towards the issue of 90 percent of buildings in the capital being “structurally unsafe” to withstand a seismic zone (SZ) IV earthquake. A division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev...

Court No 4 witnessed interesting arguments concerning the scope of India’s secularism before justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant, in the case of The State of Gujarat and others vs Islamic Relief Committee, Gujarat (IRCG) and another.

With an eye to make India an arbitration hub, the union cabinet on Wednesday approved a number of amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Bill, 2015 to make the resolution of commercial disputes less time-consuming with an option of fast-tracking the process. However, the draft bill or the Pr...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 13, 2016 the hearing on the plea of two Italian marines questioning the NIA probe into the killing of two Indian fishermen as it was told that the international tribunal for the law of the sea has asked both India and Italy to put on hold all the...

On 25 August the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) hosted a meeting with journalists and Arun Jaitley, finance and information and broadcast minister.

The Kerala Government’s senior counsel, Kapil Sibal, who resumed his arguments at 10.30 a.m. yesterday (August 25) in Court No.11 of the Supreme Court, completed his arguments at 2.30 p.m. As the justices Vikramajit Sen and Shiva Kirti Singh queried him about the basis of classification of four star and five star hotels for the purpose of grant of licences to the latter, Sibal asked what is so irrational about classification.

A death row prisoner, convicted of killing four policemen, was hanged on Tuesday in Pakistan, a media report said. The execution took place in Punjab province’s Bahawalpur city, Dawn online reported Zulfiqar was sentenced to death after he was found guilty of killing four policemen in 1997. Pakistan...

Bollywood megastar Salman Khan’s lawyer Salman Khan lawyer on Tuesday told the Bombay high court that certain documents were not included in the paper-book and hence he could not argue his appeal. In an application filed before Justice AR Joshi, counsel Desai claimed that some documents relating to ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the government to respond to the National Legal Service Authority (NALSA) recommendation seeking amendments in the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act to enlarge the definition of sexual exploitation to include involuntary acts done under coercion and in absence of free ...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday applauded a young woman for standing up to the man who abused her at a traffic signal. “We appreciate the girl for taking steps. We are glad that now girls are coming forward to complain about such harassment cases,” said a division bench of Justice Kailash Gambhir an...

The city government on Tuesday told the Delhi high court that it has modified the Radio Taxi Scheme and is coming up with new specific scheme in 10 days for radio taxis which will include mandatory installation of GPS devices and a panic button. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice...

The words of an alleged rape and kidnap survivor, reported by The Ladies Finger in a must-read account of how criminal complaints against sexual violence can go: It’s been a year now, and filing this case is something I regret all the time. It’s traumatic enough when the assault occurs, but what you...

The Delhi high court on 21 August 2015 released the final merit result of candidates prepared by the selection committee after the selection process started in June 2014.

The Delhi high court was on Monday informed by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DLSA) that 51 women out of 152 women undertrial prisoners, who have been languishing in Tihar jail for more than six months or completed half of their sentences in lesser offences, have been released on bail. Fi...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Central Bureau of Investigation three weeks’ time to take over all the cases relating to the Vyapam scam and complete the appointment of public prosecutors to lead prosecution of its cases before the trial court. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Kurian ...

The Delhi high court on Monday issued notice to the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) on a plea filed by Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar seeking closure of the fake degree case against him. Justice VP Vaish sought response from the Bar Council of India (B...

An international tribunal on Monday ruled that it would not take action over a deadly 2012 maritime incident that sparked a diplomatic dispute between Italy and India.

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that political parties were not covered under RTI as they were not public authorities and any attempt to bring them under the transparency law was fraught with dangers of misuse with “malicious intention” of thwarting their “smooth internal wor...