Six new senior advocates were designated in the Jharkhand high court, including Jharkhand bar council chairman Rajiv Ranjan, on 29 April. The other five newly designated seniors in the high court are Birendra Kumar Poddar, Raj Nandan Sahay, Anil Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar and Ajit Kumar, according to a not...

“Yes I have recommended saying it is a fit case for appeal” for the Karnataka government special prosecutor BV Acharya, who was responsible for getting the initial trial court verdict against J Jayalalithaa, told the Times of India as well as the Hindu Businessline . Acharya had said earlier this we...

In a setback to former CBI director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “inappropriate” his meetings with some of the accused in the coal block allocation scam at his official residence. “It was inappropriate for Ranjit Sinha to have met the accused persons at his residence,” the b...

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on Sahara group chief Subrata Roy’s plea to be released from custody for six weeks coupled with lifting of restrictions to deal with his 72 properties so that he could place before the court a plan to return investors money that two group companies had coll...

In a setback to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, the district and sessions court in Jodhpur today rejected his revision petition for re-examination of five witnesses in a case of violations of the Arms Act. Jodhpur District and Sessions Judge Manoj Kumar Vyas while upholding the decision of the chief ju...

A Supreme Court five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu, and justices AK Sikri, Arun Mishra, Rohinton F Nariman and Amitava Roy declined to interfere with the setting up of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ...

The Supreme Court yesterday permitted the central government to go ahead with the selection and appointment of the chief vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioner - two positions that had been waiting to be filled up for more than half a year. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Arun ...

A petition seeking quashing of the Delhi government’s decision to file defamation cases against media organisations for publishing or broadcasting defamatory news about Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was filed in the Delhi high court on Wednesday. The public interest litigation, filed by advocate ML...

The Supreme Court on Thursday accused Delhi Chief Minister of double standards by seeking stay of criminal defamation proceedings against him but issuing a circular permitting action against media groups for defamatory reporting. “Don’t you feel that there is dichotomy between you challenging sectio...

The Delhi high court Bar Association on Wednesday called off its strike protesting the clearance of bill by the Rajya Sabha to increase pecuniary jurisdiction of the high court as parliament adjourned before it could be passed by the Lok Sabha.

The Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) has filed a complaint against Delhi LawMinister Jitender Singh Tomar and sought a probe into his alleged’fake law degree’ case, according to a letter by BCD to the DelhiPolice. “The Bar Council of Delhi has observed that Jitender Singh Tomar hasenrolled himself in the ...

As Vikram Hegde explained in a Legally India column on Livemint yesterday, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa was acquitted by the Karnataka high court in appeal because it found that only 8 per cent of her assets were illegal (because there was no proof of their origin).

The Supreme Court Tuesday was told that the unaccounted black money stashed away to tax havens would not be recovered as the central government and its bureaucrats entrusted with the task have not taken any effective steps to recover it. Describing the steps taken so far to recover the money as “gre...

The Supreme Court today refused to refer, for now, to a larger bench a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission in the context of the judicial primacy in judges’ appointments as a preliminary issue. The court made it clear that it was not ruling ou...

A network of NGOs, lawyers, activists and individuals working for child rights under the banner of ‘Prochild’ on Monday opposed the juvenile justice amendment bill, arguing that it was against the constitution. The Lok Sabha on May 7 passed the bill which paves the way for children in the age group ...

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) BV Acharya on Monday expressed reservation over the acquittal of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets’ case by the Karnataka high court without considering his submission. “I expected the high court to conform to t...

A city court on Monday granted bail to B Ramalinga Raju and all other accused in multi-crore-rupee Satyam accounting fraud case. The metropolitan sessions court granted bail to Satyam Computers Services Limited (SCSL) founder and former chairman Ramalinga Raju and his brother Rama Raju on a personal...

The Central government Monday urged the Supreme Court to refer to a nine or 11-judge bench the reconsideration of 1993 judgment which took away from the government the power of appointing judges and vested it with an apex court collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India. As the government presse...

The Supreme Court on Monday restrained Madras High Court judge Justice C.S. Karnan from hearing a case relating to appointment of junior judicial officers in Tamil Nadu as it directed uninterrupted recruitment of the subordinate officers by the selection committee. The selection committee includes f...

The Delhi high court Bar Association (DHCBA) has called for an extension of its strike against the Rajya Sabha passing the bill to increase lower courts’ pecuniary jurisdiction, asking for “complete abstention from work” on 12 and 13 May.