The Supreme Court today told the CBI to probe the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh including the over 40 deaths linked to it. The BJP welcomed the ruling even as the Congress and the CPI-M sought Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s resignation. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL. Dattu h...

LiveLaw reported that Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Dushyant Dave said at the general body meeting today, in which he had threatened to vote on a boycott of official functions at the Supreme Court attended by judges, that the bench had apparently listened to his demands, including f...

LiveLaw reported that Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Dushyant Dave said at the general body meeting today, in which he had threatened to vote on a boycott of official functions at the Supreme Court attended by judges, that the bench had apparently listened to his demands, including f...

The Supreme Court dismissed a Right to Information (RTI) appeal that had asked for judges’ medical expenses, citing judges’ right to privacy, reported the Indian Express . The court was hearing advocate Prashant Bhushan for RTI activist Subhash C Aggarwal. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (C...

The Supreme Court dismissed a Right to Information (RTI) appeal that had asked for judges’ medical expenses, citing judges’ right to privacy, reported the Indian Express . The court was hearing advocate Prashant Bhushan for RTI activist Subhash C Aggarwal. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (C...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has decided to boycott all official functions with Supreme Court judges, including references, judges’ farewell functions and the Law Day and Independence Day celebrations, reported Live Law . The SCBA would continue this boycott until 2 December 2015, or unt...

Madhya Pradesh district and sessions judge Jagdish Baheti has filed a petition before the Supreme Court over the Madhya Pradesh high court collegium’s decision to elevate his juniors but not him, due to a chargesheet against him alleging that he had granted defendants anticipatory bail on the basis ...

“)Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in five cases.

“For those of you who follow former Supreme Court Justice and former Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman, Justice Katju on Facebook, you would have learnt two things over the last couple of months: first he’s holidaying in the US with family and second he’s making very serious allegations of corru...

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence of a couple for killing all seven members of a girl’s family, holding that the “couple indulged in such debased act of multiple murders driven by infatuation and exhibited no remorse”. Upholding the death sentence of Shabnam and her partner Salim, a...

A Supreme Court five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu, and justices AK Sikri, Arun Mishra, Rohinton F Nariman and Amitava Roy declined to interfere with the setting up of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ...

The Supreme Court yesterday permitted the central government to go ahead with the selection and appointment of the chief vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioner - two positions that had been waiting to be filled up for more than half a year. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Arun ...

The Supreme Court Tuesday was told that the unaccounted black money stashed away to tax havens would not be recovered as the central government and its bureaucrats entrusted with the task have not taken any effective steps to recover it. Describing the steps taken so far to recover the money as “gre...

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would not take part in the NJAC while the court’s constitution bench was hearing the challenge to the validity of the NJAC Act and the supporting constitutional amendment act, the apex court was told today. Informing the c...

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and the state governments, including union territories, on a PIL seeking that country should be named as ‘Bharat’. The PIL petition has sought direction to the Centre and the state governments including union territories to use to Bharat for al...

The Supreme Court (SC) today asked the Special Investigation Team to submit by May 12 for its consideration the status report on its work on bringing back unaccounted money stashed away in tax havens abroad. The directive follows jurist Ram Jethmalani telling the apex court today that there were det...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hold hearing on April 30 on the CBI’s plea seeking registration of a fresh FIR against some of the 2G accused on the basis of fresh material that it had come across in the course of its investigations into the scam. As senior counsel KK Venugopal, appearing ...

To address the backlog of pending cases relating to criminal and taxation matters, the Supreme Court has set up two benches to exclusively hear them on a daily basis when the court resumes work after the Holi break on 9 March, it was announced Monday. Apex court registrar MK Hanjura Monday said that...

The Supreme Court Wednesday said it was for elected representatives to take a call at what stage of proceedings a person facing criminal charges should be barred from contesting elections and the courts could not issue directions to the legislature and intrude in its domain. A bench of Chief Justice...