The collegium, the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) symbolise the cliques that are not accountable to anyone other than themselves that run the Indian legal universe, argues NLSIU Bangalore visiting professor Shamnad Basheer on recent news start-up website The Wire...

A Delhi magistrates court today took cognizance of a complaint against Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani for allegedly misrepresenting facts in her election affidavits, holding that “arguments made on behalf of the complainant hold merit”. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain considered...

The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India will soon have a new office complex here and all offices of central information commission will be housed under a single roof, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Jitendra Singh, who met newly-appointed CIC Vijai Sharma he...

The main accused in the Mumbai hooch tragedy, in which at least 102 people have died, was arrested in the national capital on Tuesday and handed over to Mumbai police by a court. The 26-year-old bootlegger named Mansur Latif Shaikh was arrested from Seelampur area in east Delhi by a special Delhi Po...

*

*Wherever the legal system is perceived as being unable to deal with something speedily or fairly, the media can and will step into the breach, for better or for worse, argues Kian Ganz.

A Delhi court today dismissed an anticipatory bail plea of a St Stephen’s college teacher accused of molesting a PhD student. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg dismissed the plea of Satish Kumar, an assistant professor in the chemistry department of the college. On the victim’s allegation, polic...

The bail hearing of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who is accused of driven while drunk and killing two men, was adjourned in the Kurla metropolitan magistrate’s court yesterday to 25 June amidst arguments between counsel. Advocate Dimple Shah, representing Gadkar, had argued t...

The Karnataka government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court’s verdict acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natrajan and two others in a case of disproportionate assets. The Karnataka government has urged the apex court to stay the operati...

The Supreme Court will hear in July BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea challenging the non-bailable warrants issued against him by a court in Assam over his controversial comments that mosques were not religious structures. A vacation bench of Justice MY Eqbal and Justice Arun Mishra directed listi...

A Delhi court today dismissed the bail application of Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar in the fake degree case, saying that allegations against him were serious in nature as he is a legislator. Dismissing the plea, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tarun Yogesh extended his ju...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the central government and the UP government on a PIL seeking CBI probe into the killing of journalist Jagendra Singh allegedly at the behest of UP minister Ram Murti Verma. The apex court vacation bench headed by Justice MY Eqbal issued notice on a PIL a...

Over 40 percent Indians were deprived of certain basic rights and opportunities, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur of the Supreme Court has said here. “Over 40 percent out of 1.25 billion Indians are acutely deprived of certain basic rights and opportunities,” said Justice Thakur, who is also the executiv...

A Delhi court on Sunday sent former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, accused in a fake degree case, to one-day judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Ankit Singla remanded Tomar to judicial custody for a day after he was presented before the court as his two-day police remand expired on S...

A case was filed today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in a court in the Bihar capital for giving a “religious colour” to yoga, thereby hurting people’s sentiments, one day before Modi’s national Yoga day celebrations. “We have filed a case a...

In a major setback to self-styled godman Asaram, the Jodhpur district and sessions court rejected on Saturday his bail plea in a sexual assault case. District judge Manoj Kumar Vyas denied the bail after looking into the facts and circumstances of the case. Asaram is behind bars since September 2013...

Disputing the government position, an association of apex court lawyers on Friday told the Supreme Court that parliament could not have passed the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act in August 2014 as it had no foundation in the constitution to stand on. “The passage of NJAC Act, 2014, was ...

A court here on Friday extended the police custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar for two days in the fake degree case, though the Aam Aadmi Party leader later moved a bail plea. Delhi Police sought Tomar’s custody to confront him with Madan Pratap Chauhan, a man being interrogate...

Delhi high court Justice Gian Parkash Mittal, who was appointed as an additional judge in the high court in 2010, has resigned according to the Press Information Bureau (PIB).

“)Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in five cases.

The Supreme Court on Friday gave 18 months to Sahara to repay Rs.36,000 crore of the investors money which its two companies, SIRECL and SHFCL, had collected in 2007-08 through OFCDs.