Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the government has identified around 1,700 obselete and is working towards their repeal. Pointing out that the world is looking at India with great hopes, he said one of the reasons for this was the global investor community trusts the independence of the c...

The countrywide national Lok Adalat for the settlement of bank recovery, cheques bounce and dishonoured cheques cases Saturday witnessed the settlement of 56,000 cases involving more than Rs 265 crore. The day-long Lok Adalat for the amicable settlement of such cases was organized by the National Le...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Permanent Judicial Museum at Bombay high court here Saturday, set up as part of its Sesquicentennial Celebrations depicting the rich judicial history of the city spanning three centuries. The first court held here was the Mayor’s Court (1726-1798), followed...

There is an old joke amongst lawyers. Annoyed with a lawyer’s argument, the judge asks the lawyer: “Counsel do you take me for an idiot?”

The Supreme Court Friday extended its order restraining the Gujarat police from arresting social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand. An apex court bench headed by Justice SJ Mukhopadhya extended the restrain order as it directed the hearing of an appeal by Setalvand and Anand Feb 1...

The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record (AOR) exam saw its lowest pass rate in four years when results were announced yesterday.

A Mumbai magistrates court Thursday ordered police to investigate and register an FIR against 14 celebrities involved in the controversial “AIB Roast” show performed in a stadium here on 20 January, a lawyer said. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate CS Baviskar of the fourth Girgaum Court direc...

A team of Gujarat Police and Mumbai police Thursday reached the home of social activist Teesta Setalvad after a Gujarat court declined her plea for anticipatory bail in a case relating to alleged embezzlement but the apex court restrained her arrest. Setalvad, 53 and her husband Javed Anand, both fo...

The Delhi high court yesterday issued notice to the central and Delhi governments on the deplorable conditions of undertrial prisoners, including women and the mentally challenged, in jails here. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw asked for responses to filed by March 5...

The Sahara Group Wednesday told the Supreme Court that its deal with the Mirach Capital Group to raise a $650-million loan to comply with the court’s order to deposit Rs.5,000 crore in cash and bank guarantee of like amount has collapsed. The apex court Jan 9 had permitted Sahara group to raise a “j...

The Supreme Court yesterday said it will examine whether the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had the jurisdiction to entertain the plea by flat owners in three DLF residential complexes in Gurgaon who alleged that the real estate giant was exploiting its dominant position on conditions for pro...

A day after the AAP registered a historic victory in the Delhi assembly polls, chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal yesterday sought the centre’s cooperation to ensure full statehood for the national capital. Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) convenor, meanwhile, declined to take the Z secur...

A Delhi court today granted AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal exemption from personal appearance in a defamation complaint filed by an advocate. Metropolitan Magistrate Muneesh Garg allowed Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav’s applic...

Advocate Sushil Kumar Mishra has filed a criminal defamation complaint before an Allahabad magistrate against US president Barack Obama, who allegedly “tarnished the image of India which is a secular country”, after POTUS warned in a speech on his India visit that religious tolerance was on the rise...

US-based Mirach Capital Group claims to have returned $2.625m in due diligence fees to Sahara Group but asked the Supreme Court to intervene and allow a sale of three of Sahara’s hotels to “ready, willing, and able investors.” The syndicate of five UK and US investors, which had last month made a $2...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), set to win Delhi in a landslide election today, has promised to video court proceedings, while running courts in double shifts “if required” to clear backlogs.

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A group of lawyers analysed 884 judgments handed down by the Supreme Court in the 2014 calendar year and found that only 64, or 7 per cent, involved any substantive constitutional issues.

The Delhi High Court today sentenced Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav to 30 years in prison for the murder of Nitish Katara, a friend of Vikas Yadav’s sister. But a special bench of Justice Gita Mittal and Justice JR. Midha rejected police and Nitish Katara’s mother Neelam Katara’s plea to aw...

The central government told the Delhi high court Friday that Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai has been “involved in anti-national activities” and that was why she was offloaded Jan 11 at the airport here. Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain told the court that Pillai was offloaded on the basis ...