Former Delhi high court judge Justice Reva Khetrapal took oath as the new Lokayukta of Delhi on Thursday. Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung administered the oath at a function where Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also. Khetarpal will serve a five-year term. The post has remained vacant since Novemb...

Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and advocate Prashant Bhushan have dubbed the proposed draft Jan Lokpal Bill 2015 as the “Jokepal Bill”, and have alleged that it is a ‘maliciously’ weakened draft of the original Lokpal Bill of 2011 by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). If at all the centre passes the bill it will be an instrument in the hands of the Delhi government to save its own legislative assembly members, allege the Bhushans.

To strengthen its representation in the courts, the Delhi government yesterday (1 September) decided to increase the posts of government standing counsel in the Delhi high court and the National Green Tribunal (NGT), an official statement said. The decision, taken in a cabinet meeting, came on the r...

“Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has given charge of the ministry to his deputy Manish Sisodia and removed Kapil Mishra,” reported NDTV , citing sources who said Mishra would focus on the tourism and water ministry. Just over two months ago, Mishra was appointed to replace Jitender Singh Tomar, who w...

A Delhi court refused to grant interim relief to former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, accused of having a fake degree, and deferred the hearing on his bail plea till June 16. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Jain deferred the bail hearing while observing that the investigating officer of...

Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar today moved his bail application in a Delhi sessions court, alleging that Delhi Police did not comply with the requisite legal formalities before arresting him. Seeking bail, Tomar told the court that he has been falsely implicated in the case. “The que...

Kapil Mishra to be Delhi’s new Law and Tourism Minister replacing jailed Jitender Singh Tomar.

A court here on Tuesday sent Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar into four-day police custody following his arrest in an alleged fake degree case. Delhi Police had sought five-day police custody of Tomar after he was presented before the court. Metropolitan Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja allowed D...

A petition seeking quashing of the Delhi government’s decision to file defamation cases against media organisations for publishing or broadcasting defamatory news about Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was filed in the Delhi high court on Wednesday. The public interest litigation, filed by advocate ML...

The Supreme Court on Thursday accused Delhi Chief Minister of double standards by seeking stay of criminal defamation proceedings against him but issuing a circular permitting action against media groups for defamatory reporting. “Don’t you feel that there is dichotomy between you challenging sectio...

A Bihar-based university from where Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar claimed to be enrolled as an advocate and obtained his LLB degree yesterday told the Delhi high court that the provisional certificate is not “genuine” and the document “does not exist in the university...

The Delhi high court today issued notice to Delhi Aam Aadmi Party’s law minister Jitender Singh Tomar after a new petition , this time by the BJP politician Tomar had defeated in elections, that Tomar had enrolled himself as an advocate on the basis of a “false and bogus” science degree, reported Ze...

On 13 February 2014, towards the tail-end of the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) short-lived first tenure in charge of Delhi, then-Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti wrote a 15-page letter to his party colleagues.

The central government Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) foreign funds were investigated and nothing was found in violation of the law. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw also asked the ministry of home affairs to submit its revised o...

A day after the AAP registered a historic victory in the Delhi assembly polls, chief minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal yesterday sought the centre’s cooperation to ensure full statehood for the national capital. Kejriwal, the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) convenor, meanwhile, declined to take the Z secur...

A Delhi court today granted AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Arvind Kejriwal exemption from personal appearance in a defamation complaint filed by an advocate. Metropolitan Magistrate Muneesh Garg allowed Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Manish Sisodia and Yogendra Yadav’s applic...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), set to win Delhi in a landslide election today, has promised to video court proceedings, while running courts in double shifts “if required” to clear backlogs.

Former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti yesterday moved the Delhi high court against the NHRC decision asking the city government to pay Rs 25,000 each to the Ugandan women “victims of racial prejudice and unlawful acts” whose homes the AAP leader had allegedly barged into during a controversial mi...

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...