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Delhi litigation firm Karanjawala & Co has withdrawn as advocate-on-record (AoR) in senior advocate Ram Jethmalani’s Supreme Court case to get black money held by Indian nationals abroad returned to the country, reported the Times of India . Managing partner Raian Karanjawala told the TOI: “Whe...

The Delhi high court has issued a notice to Delhi University on an advocate’s plea alleging arbitrary admission process in two courses. A bench of Justice Manmohan asked DU to file a reply to the advocate’s plea and listed the matter for hearing March 16, 2015. The court was hearing the plea of advo...

Kerala Governor and former Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam today told journalists to ensure that they report court cases after reading the judgments. “First get the copy of the judgment… these days in the Supreme Court, it’s available on the internet after two or three hours. Then read the judgm...

The central government today told the Supreme Court that it could not disclose the names, received from foreign governments, of people who have allegedly stashed away their ill-gotten money to tax havens, as it was bound by the confidentiality clause under the double taxation avoidance agreement. It...

Realty major DLF today moved the securities tribunal against the order passed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) banning it and six of its executives from the capital markets for three years on charges of misleading investors. A DLF spokesperson told IANS that the Securities Appell...

The Delhi Prosecutors Welfare Association (DPWA) has intervened in a writ petition filed in the Delhi high court for providing speedy justice, and have asked for an upward revision in Delhi’s public prosecutors’ pay scales in the sixth pay commission, and for the payment of arrears of such revised p...

The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, convicted of possessing assests disproportionate to her known sources of income. Alongwith Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natarajan and two others have also been granted bail. PTI tweeted: “Jaya volunteered be...

The Supreme Court Thursday asked the chief secretaries and police chiefs of Bihar and Chhattisgarh to be present in the court Oct 30 to answer why they did not comply with its direction on the investigation and recovery of missing children. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur an...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the 2G case, senior advocate Anand Grover, to file two reports on the role of CBI chief Ranjit Sinha in the probe and naming the person who leaked the contents of the visitor book at his residence. A bench of Justice HL Da...

The Supreme Court Thursday said it cannot restrict the companies, whose mining licences it has cancelled, from extracting coal as they have been allowed to carry on for six months till their ownership and management can be transferred. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B ...

Senior counsel P Chidambaram, former Congress finance minister, has picked up his law practice again four months after his party’s electoral defeat, representing Reliance Infra in a Supreme Court dispute with GVK and Larsen & Toubro over hydropower projects, reported the Financial Express.

The Gujarat high court on Friday quashed a public commission formed to probe allegations of snooping on a woman, while ruling that the commission was not in the public interest, reported the Indian Express and others.

A Delhi court Tuesday convicted five men for the abduction and gang rape of a call centre executive that took place in the Dhaula Kuan area in 2010. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat convicted Shamshad alias Khutkan, Usman alias Kale, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamru...

SEBI has banned real estate giant DLF and six managers from the capital markets for three years after a finding of fraud.

The Supreme Court Monday said sugarcane farmers will have precedence over banks for the recovery of their dues from mills as they are in a state of financial distress and are prone to commit suicide. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice AK Sikri, while dismissing appe...

OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper deal, yesterday told a Delhi court that two accused in the deal were acquitted of corruption charges by an Italian court and sought bail on this fresh ground. In his fresh ...

The Bombay high court has served a show cause contempt notice on the Mumbai Mirror for reporting a litigant’s allegation made in court earlier this year that a judge hearing was corrupt.

The Supreme Court will Friday hear the bail plea of AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, who is at present in a Bangalore jail after her conviction in a corruption case. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister was sentenced to four years in prison and a Rs.100 crore fine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dat...

The Delhi high court has directed former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to surrender to Tihar Jail authorities here Saturday and discontinue his political rallies effective Friday. Justice Siddharth Mridul, in an order, also asked the jail authorities to take Chautala to the All India In...