The two-day strike by Delhi lawyers, which began on Wednesday to protest against the delay in passing the amended bill regarding enhancement of the pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts, was on Thursday extended till April 28 even as over a 100 lawyers were detained during a protest march. The l...

Five lawyers, including two women, were designated as senior advocates by the Supreme Court today - Rana Muhkerjee, Subramonium Prasad, Mahalakshmi Pavani, V Mohana and Sanjay Hegde - reported Bar & Bench . Hegde is one of the most active Indian advocates on the social network Twitter, where he...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Rajya Sabha reconvened today for its first sitting after it was prorogued on March 28, 2015. The members in the Upper House decided to unanimously suspend the scheduled business of the day and take up a discussion on farmers’ distress and agrarian crisis...

The central government today informed the Supreme Court that during the pendency of the appeal against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) and the constitutional amendment backing it, the commission would only deal with cases of additional judges whose terms would be coming to an en...

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the government to spell out whether it has cleared the army’s promotion policy to have a combat unit commanded by a colonel at the age of 37 years who will exit after commanding the unit for two and a half years. The bench of Justice TS Thakur and Justice R Banumath...

A court in Assam yesterday sentenced three people to death for abducting and beheading a Class 9 student in 2011. Arup Dutta, the son of Anu Dutta in Jagiroad near Guwahati, was abducted by Sanjoy Chandra and Bhim Das on July 1, 2011. The third accused Mohan Teron joined them later. They beheaded Du...

The union cabinet yesterday approved amendment to the Juvenile Justice Bill to provide that if a heinous crime is committed by a person in the 16-18 age group, it will be examined by the Juvenile Justice Board to assess if the crime was committed as a ‘child’ or as an ‘adult’. “The union cabinet, ch...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the Delhi government not to take “coercive action” against tobacco sellers and manufacturers. The court was hearing a bunch of pleas filed by tobacco manufacturers challenging the ban on sale of chewable tobacco in the national capital. Justice Rajiv Shakdher ...

The cabinet will introduce The Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts and Commercial Courts Bill 2015 in the current parliamentary session “taking into consideration the Law Commission’s recommendations”, according to a release from the Press Information Bureau (PIB). F...

The Supreme Court will from April 27 start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the NJAC Act, 2014, and the constitution amendment backing it. The court on Wednesday rejected the plea that Justice JS Khehar should withdraw from hearing the matter as he is a member ...

A court here on Wednesday fixed April 24 for hearing the bail application of five corporate executives accused in connection with the petroleum ministry’s documents leak case. Due to the lawyers’ strike in Delhi courts over pecuniary jurisdiction , Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kapoor postponed the ...

Night vision cameras and high mast lights, men patrolling the gates day and night. No, it’s not the latest edition of Hunger Games, but could be the future of Tis Hazari court complex soon enough.

Advocate Aditya Barthakur has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay high court challenging the criminalisation of cannabis under Indian law, based on the fact that none of six government organs he queried had any idea about how the herb is harmful to the human body.

Karnataka high court justice KL Manjunath retired on Monday accusing, in his farewell speech, a Supreme Court judge for damaging his prospects of “climbing higher in the judiciary”, reported the Indian Express and others. Justice Manjunath, who was a judge at the Karnataka high court since December ...

PTI reported that all of Delhi’s six district courts’ lawyers today decided they would go on a two-day strike over Parliament’s delay in tabling the bill to enhance lower courts’ pecuniary jurisdiction. The lawyers would march and assemble outside the Prime Minister’s residence. Several strikes have...

The Supreme Court (SC) today asked the Special Investigation Team to submit by May 12 for its consideration the status report on its work on bringing back unaccounted money stashed away in tax havens abroad. The directive follows jurist Ram Jethmalani telling the apex court today that there were det...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hold hearing on April 30 on the CBI’s plea seeking registration of a fresh FIR against some of the 2G accused on the basis of fresh material that it had come across in the course of its investigations into the scam. As senior counsel KK Venugopal, appearing ...

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A court today took cognizance of the charge sheet filed against 13 accused in the case relating to the leak of documents from the petroleum ministry. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal accepted the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police in the case and directed them to supply related documen...