The Supreme Court’s e-committee has rejected the government’s proposal to start recording court proceedings stating that it was not acceptable at present, reported the Times of India , quoting sources, though it did not report further details on the reason. The government had mooted the proposal in ...

After 12 years and 24 extensions, the two-member Nanavati-Mehta Commission of Enquiry submitted its much-awaited final report on the 2002 Godhra train carnage and the subsequent communal riots. The commission, consisting of retired Supreme Court judge Justice GT Nanavati and retired high court judge...

Correction: It has come to our attention that the below story, which we syndicated from a wire service without a thorough fact check, has been misreported by us and other media. Newslaundry has written that while Samuel’s bail was cancelled by the court on the morning of 10 November, he was granted ...

The Bombay high court Tuesday ruled in favour of the Indian arm of Royal Dutch Shell on two transfer-pricing adjustments made by the income tax department - of Rs 15,000 crore and Rs 3,000 crore for 2007-08 and 2008-09, respectively - to the taxable income of Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd (SIMPL). BMR...

A Delhi sessions court ordered initiation of proceedings against a woman for filing a false rape case. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat in a recent order said there was no truth in the woman’s allegation of rape against her brother-in-law Rajeev Kumar. Even her testimony does not inspire any ...

Chief justice of India HL Dattu has withdrawn the practice of his predecessor RM Lodha, who had asked high courts to consult non-collegium judges before sending their judge-recommendations to the Supreme Court, reported the Economic Times . The high court collegium, which consists of the chief justi...

A special court today extended till Nov 28 the judicial custody of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland VIP chopper deal. Special judge VK Gupta sent Khaitan to 14 days’ judicial custody after he was presented before t...

The Supreme Court today disclosed the names of four key cricket personalities investigated by the Justice Mudgal Committee for allegations of spot fixing and betting in the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The apex court bench comprising justice TS Thakur and Justice FM Kalifullah sa...

A Delhi court yesterday fixed 16 January 2015 as the date to consider the chargesheet filed against Delhi’s then law minister Somnath Bharti and others in connection with raids in Khirki Extension. Metropolitan Magistrate Ankita Lal, after observing that the investigating officer was not present in ...

Several months ago a born-and-bred Mumbaikar advocate returned all of his Bombay high court briefs and literally drove his BMW to make Delhi and the Supreme Court his new home. Why?

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) chairperson and retired Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan yesterday said overcrowding in Indian prisons can be reduced if the number of undertrials is brought down. “If a charge sheet is being filed and there is no indication that the accused may in...

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the Ahmedabad-based trial court to complete within three months the trial over the 2002 post-Godhra Gulberg Society massacre, in which 35 people including former Congress parliamentarian Ehsan Jaffri were burnt alive and 31 people went missing. The bench of Chief...

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) on Monday wrote to Delhi high court chief justice G Rohini requesting new Delhi Mediation Centre guidelines, to stop the mediation centre allegedly being “run by few lawyers”.

The Supreme Court Tuesday unequivocally rejected arguments by Bar Council of India (BCI) counsel Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad to set an upper age limit for graduates to enrol as lawyers, reported the Indian Express . The BCI had sought to a rule to prevent graduates older than 45 from enrolling as law...

The Supreme Court yesterday declined senior counsel Gopal Subramanium’s offer to step aside as amicus curiae in the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple case after members of Travancore royal family who are the temple’s trustees assailed him for interfering with temple rituals and trying to oust them. Declini...

The Supreme Court Tuesday disposed of an Aam Aadmi Party AAP petition seeking dissolution of the Delhi assembly and holding early elections. The AAP had moved the apex court seeking direction for the dissolution of assembly and the holding of fresh elections after the president placed the assembly u...

The Delhi high court Tuesday asked the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) to respond on a plea challenging the refusal to grant certificate to the film “En Dino Muzaffarnagar”, on the grounds that the film has the potential of creating com...

The counsel of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti, Deepak Khosla, will appeal to the high court against the dismissal of Bharti’s plea to register a First Information Report (FIR) against police officers. Khosla will also continue to fight in his criminal defamation compl...

New rules prohibit an advocate from starting to practise in the Supreme Court unless they have practiced for at least two years in a trial court and three years in a HC.

The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the provision that prohibited female make-up artists and hairdressers from becoming the members of film industry professional association, the Mumbai-based Cine Costume and Make-up Artist Association, as the bench had threatened last week it would do . A bench...