The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested senior Tis Hazari judge Rachna Tiwari Lakha while accepting a Rs 4 lakh bribe from an advocate in a case she was hearing, according to CBI sources as reported by PTI.

NUJS Kolkata made NLU history when it suspended, for alleged corruption, an officer of the university – the registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay. A full inquiry report detailing how Mukhopadhyay was involved in alleged illegal award of contracts related to university infrastructure, has been released. The students of the law school led the initiative, the report duly notes.

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports that the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to make the process of arbitration simpler to ensure timely disposal of cases. The Lower House discussed the Bureau of Indian Standards Bill. The Bill replac...

Bar Council of India (BCI) associate managing trustee Rajinder Singh Rana and former vice chairman Raju Dhanapal Raj were tried before a special CBI court in Delhi yesterday, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 6 lakh to approve Global Law College in Ghaziabad.

Bar Council of India (BCI) member Rajinder Singh Rana and former BCI vice chairman Raju Dhanpal Raj were charged for corruption by a special CBI court, for taking bribes in exchange for a favourable inspection report to a law college

On 27 August 27 2015, the Ministry of Law and Justice stated in a press release that it has received the Law Commission’s 258th report on laws regarding bribery of foreign officials. The report also recommends changes to the Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International O...

Four members of civil society, represented by Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay, have filed a writ petition in the Karnataka high court praying that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation be started against the Lokayukta of Karnataka, Y Bhaskar Rao and his son Ashwin Y Rao, who are being investigated for corruption charges by the Lokayukta’s internal police force.

The executive committee of the Delhi high court Bar Association (DHCBA) has formed a grievance committee to deal with complaints relating to corruption and misconduct in the judicial system. For this, a box has been kept at the DHCBA office to enable lawyers to drop their complaints. DHCBA president...

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that suppression or non-disclosure of information about serious crimes by a candidate at the time of filing nomination interferes with the voters’ right to make an informed choice and the election of such a candidate is liable to be set aside. [ Download judgment: K...

The Times of India reported that the purchase of laptops by over 300 judges of the lower courts will be examined by Delhi chief justice G Rohini and a panel, after discrepancies were raised into how the money was spent, with allegations that some may have bought TVs or home theatre systems rather th...

The long-awaited 911-page order by Justice John Michael Cunha, which convicted and jailed then-serving Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 for holding disproportionate assets, has been published by The Hindu today. The paper reported that front compan...

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 ...

Current Press Council of India (PCI) chairman and former Supreme Court and high court judge Markandey Katju, has written another blog post about judicial corruption, attacking the system of judicial transfers and the conspiracy of silence on judicial corruption within the bench. He argued that: “Mos...

Justice Markandey Katju has continued his indictment of the collegium system on his blog, now alleging that then-Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan pushed hard for the elevation of Justice PD Dinakaran to the Supreme Court, despite strong evidence of corruption against the latter. While no...

Markandey Katju, former Supreme Court judge and current Press Council chairman, has tweeted that the situation has worsened in the judiciary since former Chief Justice of India (CJI) SP Bharucha implied in 2001 that as many as 20 per cent of judges might be corrupt . Katju tweeted about the topic af...

Bombay high court Justice Roshan Dalvi has been accused of corruption by producer Sanjay Punamiya in a nine-page complaint, alleging that her husband Shamim Dalvi told his lawyer in March that for Rs 25 lakh he could get his wife to pass a favourable order in the case before her

Bombay HC mandates cinemas to offer free online booking : Bombay HC asked the state government to issue a circular asking all movie theatres and multiplexes to set up their own websites for online booking of movie tickets without a convenience charge. A government resolution had already asked all th...

The US NRI widower who won a Rs 6 crore medical negligence in October, yesterday won in a special CBI court that convicted two ex-Supreme Court registry officials of corruption.

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...

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