Supreme Court justices AK Patnaik, KS Radhakrishnan and SS Nijjar are effectively retiring today with the long Supreme Court summer vacations starting from today, leaving the bench that had briefly enjoyed a full and unprecedented strength of 31 during the tenure of former CJI P Sathasivam , severel...

Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik said today: “In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president.” Yesterday the court said that N Srinivasan’s continuing to stick on as the current BCCI board chairman was...

The Supreme Court has told the cricket body’s boss N Srinivasan to step down as board chief so that the IPL betting and match-fixing could be investigated properly, with Justice AK Patnaik saying it was “nauseating” that he continued and would have to go if cricket were to be cleaned: “Why is Sriniv...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices AK Patnaik and SJ Mukhopadhaya ruled that lawmakers can be disqualified if they have been convicted of a criminal offence. The bench struck down as ultra vires section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), which protected MPs, MLAs and other legislator...

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed its September 2012 order that made it compulsory to appoint retired judges to central and state information commissions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005.