The countrywide national Lok Adalat for the settlement of bank recovery, cheques bounce and dishonoured cheques cases Saturday witnessed the settlement of 56,000 cases involving more than Rs 265 crore. The day-long Lok Adalat for the amicable settlement of such cases was organized by the National Le...

A team of Gujarat Police and Mumbai police Thursday reached the home of social activist Teesta Setalvad after a Gujarat court declined her plea for anticipatory bail in a case relating to alleged embezzlement but the apex court restrained her arrest. Setalvad, 53 and her husband Javed Anand, both fo...

A team of Gujarat Police and Mumbai police Thursday reached the home of social activist Teesta Setalvad after a Gujarat court declined her plea for anticipatory bail in a case relating to alleged embezzlement but the apex court restrained her arrest. Setalvad, 53 and her husband Javed Anand, both fo...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and the apex court’s most senior judges have decided to continue holding collegium meetings to recommend new judges, reported the Indian Express , despite law minister DV Sadananda Gowda late last month warning that there would be no new judges until the Nationa...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...

The Supreme Court today put on hold, for three weeks, the trial of Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal for alleged sexual assault on his junior colleague in Goa during an event organised by the magazine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu suspended Tejpal’s trial by three weeks after senior co...

The Supreme Court Thursday extended the bail of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa by another four months as it asked the Karnataka high court to decide on her appeal challenging her conviction in disproportionate assets case within three months. Noting that Jayalalithaa had complied wi...

The Supreme Court Monday permitted newly-appointed CBI Director Anil Sinha to take over the probe into 2G cases. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu passed the order on an application by the probe agency seeking clarification on its earlier order removing then Central Bureau of Investigation (C...

The Supreme Court yesterday said that the public interest litigation (PIL) system may have started with good intentions to help the poor people by espousing their cause before the higher judiciary but was now being misused for raising frivolous matters. “It was started with a good intention of to he...

In a bid to address issues of social justice involving vulnerable sections of the society, the Supreme Court will now have a ‘Social Justice’ bench that would exclusively hear such matters once a week. Chief Justice HL Dattu constituted the special bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

The Supreme Court Friday asked DLF to deposit the balance Rs.480 crore of a total Rs.630 crore penalty imposed on the realty major by the fair trade regulator CCI for allegedly exploiting its dominant position, after Harish Salve yesterday promised that the company would pay Rs 100 crore into court ...

In a blow to CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court Thursday directed him not to interfere with the 2G spectrum case and recuse himself from its investigation and prosecution. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice AK Sikri said that the senior-most of...

Chief justice of India HL Dattu has withdrawn the practice of his predecessor RM Lodha, who had asked high courts to consult non-collegium judges before sending their judge-recommendations to the Supreme Court, reported the Economic Times . The high court collegium, which consists of the chief justi...

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the Ahmedabad-based trial court to complete within three months the trial over the 2002 post-Godhra Gulberg Society massacre, in which 35 people including former Congress parliamentarian Ehsan Jaffri were burnt alive and 31 people went missing. The bench of Chief...

The Supreme Court Tuesday unequivocally rejected arguments by Bar Council of India (BCI) counsel Ardhendumauli Kumar Prasad to set an upper age limit for graduates to enrol as lawyers, reported the Indian Express . The BCI had sought to a rule to prevent graduates older than 45 from enrolling as law...

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...

The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an author...

“The judges are serious about rendering speedy justice to litigants. In most cases, the law has already been succinctly laid down and does not require further arguments to delay a verdict. Those cases need to be decided fast with crisp judgments focusing only on facts in the backdrop of the already ...

The central government Wednesday submitted to the Supreme Court names of the 627 people who are holding accounts in foreign banks revealed to it by the French government. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi handed over two sealed envelopes to the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu. Rohatgi...