A court has extended OP Khaitan & Co managing parter Gautam Khaitan’s 7-day custody by another five days at the request to the enforcement directorate, reported the Indian Express . Senior counsel PV Kapur, representing Khaitan in the choppergate scam related anti-corruption investigation, argu...

Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju Tuesday joined issue with former chief justice of India RM Lodha, saying that there was no rule constraining judges from taking up government assignments or constitutional posts after their retirement. ”There is no such hard and fast rule. There is no ...

The Delhi high court Tuesday directed various internet and telecom service providers to block access to 72 websites hosting the yet-to-be released Hrithik Roshan starer “Bang Bang”. Justice Manmohan Singh said the court is totally against the piracy of copyrighted material, including movies, and “it...

After reports earlier today that the Karnataka high court wouldn’t hear jailed J Jayalalithaa’s bail plea until Monday , after the holidays, a special bench is now set to hear her bail plea tomorrow, reported India Today and others. Ashish Dixit, appearing as junior counsel to to senior counsel Ram ...

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***A Chief Justice of India for 153 days is unlikely to leave a legacy behind. Somehow, this one did, explains Court Witness.

The criminal revision petition of jailed former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa for suspension of her sentence and bail was Tuesday adjourned to Oct 6 by the judge of a vacation bench of the Karnataka high court here. After admitting the revision petition, Justice Rathnakala posted the bail...

The Bombay high court has designated 11 new senior counsel, including three outside Mumbai, Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Vikram Nankani, and one woman.

Proceedings in six Delhi district courts were paralysed Monday following a strike by lawyers against the “delay in enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts despite a Delhi high court recommendation” in this regard. The co-ordination committee of all district court bar associations said ...

The Delhi high court Monday observed that married women in India are “safer on the street than in their matrimonial homes” as it upheld life imprisonment for a man convicted of killing his wife.A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mukta Gupta upheld the trial court’s July 14 dec...

The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat), which has been dead in the water without chairman and members as reported by Legally India in August , now has a new chairman in former Supreme Court judge Justice GS Singhvi, as first reported by Bar & Bench . Singhvi is now listed on the Compat web...

Jailed AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa will file a criminal revision petition Monday in the Karnataka high court to seek bail in the four-year jail term she has been sentenced to for corruption. “A team of senior lawyers met Jayalalithaa Sunday in the visitors’ room of the central jail where she is lod...

Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was Sunday sworn-in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India. Administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee, Chief Justice Dattu will hold office till Dec 2, 2015. He succeeds Chief Justice R.M. Lodha who demitted office Sep 27. Talking to report...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was taken into judicial custody in Bangalore Saturday after a special court sentenced her to four years in prison for corruption, dealing a huge blow to the charismatic former actor’s political career. Pronouncing his verdict on a legal battle that began in ...

The Supreme Court Friday rejected a PIL by two advocates seeking the deferment of pronouncement of verdict by the special court in Bangalore in a case of corruption against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on the grounds of inadequate security.Dismissing the PIL as withdrawn, a bench of Just...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “ring-fenced” as a sovereign representative of India and cannot be served summons in a case filed against him in a federal court here by an organisation claiming to be representing alleged 2002 riots victims, an Indian government official said here Friday.”The Indian ...

The Delhi high court Friday restrained the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) from using terms such as “MBA , BBA or management course” for the courses it offers.A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw directed the IIPM to prominently display on their websit...

The Delhi high court Friday asked Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to initiate the process to fill the post of lokayukta as it has been lying vacant since November last year.A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw said that the statutory provisions make it mandatory on the part of t...

In apparent disapproval of his predecessor P Sathasivam accepting the Kerala governor’s post, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha Friday said that no CJI or Supreme Court or high court judge should accept any government position or occupy a constitutional office at least for some time after retiring. In...

The Advocates Association Bangalore called for a strike to defend “prominent Judges of Karnataka”.

The NHRC has issued notice to Uttar Pradesh Police over the alleged torture of an under-trial prisoner after he refused to bribe the jailor in the states’ Mahoba district, a statement said Friday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel took suo motu cognizance of a media report published ...