Advocate Abhik Chimni argues that CJI RM Lodha, who retires today, was a remarkable CJI made of the right idealistic stuff at the right time.

A day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to the US, a human rights group has obtained summons against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots as state chief minister. New York based American Justice Centre (AJC) obtained the summons from the US Federal Court for t...

A plea seeking directions to implement safety measures in zoological parks in the country to deal with in any untoward incidents and emergency situations was filed in the Delhi high court Thursday. The PIL came two days after a 20-year-old youth was mauled to death by a white tiger in Delhi zoo Tues...

The Chhattisgarh advocate who was admitted to hospital after having poisoned herself with naphthalene balls before appearing in the chief’s court, would be discharged from hospital within two or three days, according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by amicus curiae Vandana Sehgal. The Del...

A Supreme Court constitutional bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, and justices JS Khehar, J Chelameswar, AK Sikri and Rohinton Nariman have declared the proposed National Tax Tribunal (NTT)unconstitutional, quashing sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 of the Act, rendering the law practically us...

A special CBI court in Odisha has sent former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty to judicial custody till Sep 30, a lawyer said Thursday. Local lawyers had called for a strike yesterday. Mohanty was in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody on a two-day remand after being arrested Monday fr...

The Supreme Court Wednesday declined a plea by mobile phone service providers and other corporate honchos to stay the trial of 2G cases before the Special CBI Court which is hearing the matter on a day-to-day basis. “What we have not done earlier we won’t do now,” said the bench of Justice HL Dattu ...

The Supreme Court has selected former Australian high court judge Michael Kirby to chair over the arbitration between Reliance Industries and the Centre over KG Basin gas production, after five months ago Justice SS Nijjar, had already selected one and then another Australian ex-judge to preside aft...

Members of the Odisha High Court Bar Association launched a two-day cease-work agitation Wednesday to protest the arrest of former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam. “The CBI did not follow the procedu...

The Supreme Court has cancelled all 214 coal blocks that it declared illegal last month, leaving only four standing, after having ruled they had been awarded in an illegal, arbitrary and non-transparent manner for the last 20 years . [ Download judgment here ] IANS reported: The Supreme Court Wednes...

The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a five-member committee that will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and report to the court. An apex court bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Narima...

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the bail plea of spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, currently in jail for allegedly raping a minor girl studying in one of his ashrams. A bench headed by Justice TS Thakur said that the ground cited by Asaram was not of such urgency to grant him bail. After perusing the r...

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre for a status report on 54 defence personnel who were languishing in Pakistani jails for over 40 years as prisoners of war (PoWs). The bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman also made it clear ...

The Kerala High Court Tuesday denied anticipatory bail to three doctors who were booked after pictures of a patient of theirs undergoing a caesarean section went viral on social media. A woman from Kasargode district had delivered triplets July 18 through C-section at the state-owned Payyanur taluk ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Ashok Mohanty, who was the state’s advocate general from 2009 until May of this year, according to reports . Mohanty was arrested in Cuttack over his alleged link with the Artha Tatwa group, which along with 43 other companies was allegedly invo...

Lawyer-cum-filmmaker Siddharth Acharya has made a mini-documentary about the inimitable Ram Jethmalani.

The Supreme Court cracked down on the rise in fake encounter killings by the police, ruling in a writ petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). PUCL had questioned the genuineness of 99 encounters by the Mumbai police resulting in the death of about 135 persons between 1995 an...

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear NGO CPIL’s plea seeking recall of its order for disclosure of the identity of the whistleblower who gave information on the CBI director meeting accused in 2G and other cases at his official residence and allegedly interfering in the probe and prosecution of 2...

The Supreme Court will Tuesday hear a plea alleging police inaction on a complaint by an advocate from Chhattisgarh, alleging gang rape by her husband’s family members and two others on 29 November 2013. When the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha was about to leave a c...

The Allahabad high court terminated 11 trainee judicial officers from the lower judicial service last week after a drunken brawl in Lucknow in which the 11 were involved, reported the Times of India . The 11 had visited a restaurant on 7 August to celebrate the completion of their training on 8 Augu...