The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Sahara to arrange a bank guarantee of Rs. 5,000 crore in the favour of the capital market regulator to comply with the conditions for the release of its chief Subrata Roy and two other directors who are in custody in Delhi’s Tihar jail since March 4, 2014. A bench...

Ex-prime minister Manmohan Singh today moved the Supreme Court against the order of a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) trial court that summoned him as an accused alongside industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla in the coal scam case, reported NDTV and others. Senior counsel KTS Tulsi and K...

The Hindu reported: The Supreme Court on Monday granted three more months to the Sahara group to sell its offshore properties to raise the Rs 10,000 crore required to secure the release of its chief Subrata Roy on bail. The court said it was satisfied with the company’s latest proposal and would all...

The Supreme Court on Friday gave Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy a “final chance” to raise Rs 10,000 crore - Rs 5,000 crore in cash and Rs 5,000 crore in bank guarantee - to make part repayment of investors’ money raised by the company in 2008 and 2009, which is also a condition for his and two other...

Saurav Datta presents the case against Teesta Setalvad and Javed Anand, as well as their defence, and looks into the case law and arguments that’ll lie before the Supreme Court tomorrow.

“Does this case fall in the 93 per cent or in the remaining 7 per cent?” Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi has begun asking the bar increasingly often, reported Utkarsh Anand in the Indian Express . While Kapil Sibal reportedly did not get the reference, Gogoi was referring to recent research by ad...

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...

The Supreme Court stayed, until Tuesday, the Delhi high court’s order that had banned Prasar Bharti from airing certain sports matches on cable. Prasar Bharti had, through attorney general Mukul Rohatgi, appealed against the high court’s order that was passed last week . Rohatgi, assisted by lawyers...

The Supreme Court Thursday turned down the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress’s plea for the court monitoring of the CBI probe into Saradha and non-Saradha chit fund scam cases. Noting that there was no allegation by the applicants (West Bengal and Trinamool) that the Central B...

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 today allowed the Indian cricket board to postpone its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of the office-bearers till Jan 31, 2015, as the hearing into the allegations of betting and conflict of interest is continuing. The apex court bench headed by Justice T S Thakur allowe...

Senior advocate Vikas Singh alleged before a Supreme Court bench of justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana that an ex-Supreme Court judge made a ruling on 11 February, which helped the judge’s sister in a similar case under the Bombay Rent Act, in which she allegedly cited her brother’s judgment, re...

The Supreme Court today heard arguments by counsel in the allegation by a former Gwalior district judge that she was sexually harassed by a Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele. The order, uploaded on the Supreme Court website , stated: Arguments heard, which remained inconclusive. List for fu...

In the petition against the Kerala government shutting down 730 bars, Supreme Court Justice Anil Dave said: “There is no logic. What do you mean sub-standard [bars should be shut]? I am a teetotaller, but even I see no logic… how do you distinguish here?” The policy that is set to come into force on...

Senior counsel and ex-law minister Kapil Sibal, won a Delhi high court stay for the Gandhis and other Congress politicians over a summons obtained by BJP politician Subramanian Swamy in a magistrate’s court in June. In the case revolving around an alleged loan by the Congress party, which Swamy clai...

BJP leader Arun Jaitley claimed that no judge would “lend himself” to the ” “political and malafide” exercise of investigating charges that India’s possible future leader, Narendra Modi, and his Gujarat government had arranged to have a woman in his home state followed and “snooped” on illegally. Ka...

Law minister Kapil Sibal has written to all chief justices to get recommended names on how to increase each HC’s bench strength by 25%, taking the total size of India’s higher judiciary to 1,112 from 906. Nevertheless, there are already 250 vacancies, even without the new plan [The Hindu]

Former Supreme Court Justice AK Ganguly continued insisting that he would not resign from his chair at the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC). Calls for him to step down grew meanwhile, with the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, Congress and additional solicitor general Indira Jaising asking for...

The law providing for compulsory registration of marriages solemnised under any religion in India is a step away from enactment but is liable to judicial scrutiny after it gets enacted. The Rajya Sabha yesterday passed by voice vote The Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Bill 2012, report...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) was displeased with its completely “fruitless” and “meaningless” meeting with union law minister Kapil Sibal on 10 August. Sibal allegedly did not discuss any of the items on the meeting’s agenda and instead focused on the National Judicial Appointments Commission in w...