Bar owners in Kerala, other than five star hotels, will be able to serve liquor till Sep 30 as the Supreme Court Thursday ordered status quo till this date while asking the state high court to decide the challenge to the notification directing them to shut shop. A bench of Justice Anil R Dave and Ju...

The Gujarat high court has struck down the part of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular governing wilful defaulter notices, which restricts all directors of wilful defaulter companies from banking services for other businesses for five years.

In the petition against the Kerala government shutting down 730 bars, Supreme Court Justice Anil Dave said: “There is no logic. What do you mean sub-standard [bars should be shut]? I am a teetotaller, but even I see no logic… how do you distinguish here?” The policy that is set to come into force on...

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi high court yesterday seeking a ban of the word “fanny” from promotional materials for, and songs, title and dialogue in the Bollywood film Finding Fanny , because of the “vulgar word ‘fanny’”, reported IANS . The petition filed by Nandini Tiw...

In a pre-dawn order at the residence of future CJI HL Dattu with Justice AR Dave, the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Surinder Koli, who was convicted of the so-called Nithari serial murders and rapes that took place in Noida from 2005. Senior counsel Indira Jaising obtained the one-week s...

The president has cleared for Justice HL Dattu to become the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) on 28 September 2014, replacing RM Lodha when he retires from the Supreme Court, reported the PTI . Dattu reportedly said: “I will request for blessing of all citizens of this country to give me courage an...

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium will again be amicus curiae in the Padmanabha Swamy temple case, reported The Hindu , with the Times of India reporting that he would be visiting the temple in Kerala this weekend. The former solicitor general had withdrawn from the case in August despite the Supreme...

In a bold move the Supreme Court today tried begin solving the national undertrial prisoner crisis, by ordering the release of all those in jail for more than half their charged sentence who’ve yet to see a trial. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha ordered all districts’ judic...

Former CJI P Sathasivam was today sworn in as governor of Kerala, as the first ex-CJI to have been appointed to a state’s governorship.

A Supreme Court bench of justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana told real estate developer DLF that it should deposit with the court the entire penalty of Rs 630 crore that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed on it in 2011, pending the outcome of its appeal against the Compet...

A five-judge constitutional bench has ruled that it had no power to stop the states’ and country’s executive being staffed by politicians who have criminal charges pending against them, but argued for a “legitimate expectation” that prime and chief ministers should “consider” not picking such candid...

The Gwalior judge who alleged she was sexually harassed by a senior high court judge, has asked the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to form a new inquiry committee to probe her allegations since she suspected bias from the Madras high court committee , reported NDTV

The Supreme Court bench of three, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, has ordered the potential cancellation of 218 coal block licences – all allocated since 1993 - because they suffered from the “vice of arbitrariness”, according to reports. The court held that the government screening...

The Supreme Court bench of justices Anil Dave, Chelameshwar and AK Sikri has declined to entertain the five writ petitions against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill. What they said Fali Nariman eloquently argued why it is not a premature matter. He said he is all for the NJAC...

Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju has apparently set his crosshairs on the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), HL Dattu, in a column published by the Times of India and re-published on his own blog. Katju argued in his post that the CJI post should not be awarded automatically on ...

Manipur hunger striker and activist Irom Sharmila was re-arrested today by local police two days after a court ruling that she should be released and could not be charged with attempted suicide for her refusal to eat, reported NDTV.

The Supreme Court told the government that it should explain within four weeks how the “leader of opposition” post should be interpreted under the Lokpal Act, since the Congress party lost to the BJP so badly that it can’t muster enough members in the Lok Sabha to count as an opposition. 55 MPs was ...

The criminal trial against actor Salman Khan, who allegedly killed a pavement dweller when driving while drunk more than a decade ago, has hit a new roadblock with the police telling the court that its case diaries have disappeared. In addition, only seven out of 63 original witness statements were ...

The Supreme Court has reversed two minor amendments in its Supreme Court Rules 2013: A4 won’t be the sole paper format accepted, and that all lawyers’ attendance should be recorded by the court master instead of just seniors and one of their juniors. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has unsu...

The Delhi high court yesterday designated seven lawyers to senior counsel, reported Bar & Bench . The new designates are, according to Bar & Bench : Vaish Associates managing partner Ajay Vohra, Sachin Dutta (Delhi University graduate), Vinay Garg (enrolled 1990) C Harishankar (indirect ta...