Legally India ( @LegallyIndia ) tweeted: “SC puts stop to Jallikattu petitioner vs retd Justice KS Radhakrishnan for accepting PETA award” The Hindu ( @the_hindu ) tweeted: “Justice Radhakrishnan, author of the judgment banning jallikattu, received a ‘Man of the Year’ award from PETA” SC stays Madra...

The NGO People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has recognised former Supreme Court Justice KS Panicker Radhakrishnan its man of the year award. In a press release, PETA wrote: For heading the bench that passed the landmark judgement in favour of PETA India and the government body the Ani...

The law ministry has advised against the setting up of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to chair which recently retired Supreme Court justice KS Radhakrishnan’s name had been recommended, reported the Express . The reported reason for this advice was that the National Company Law ...

Retired Supreme Court judge Justice KS Radhakrishnan, in a brief interview in the Indian Express, talked about some of his landmark cases and challenges facing the judiciary. [Indian Express]

Supreme Court Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar told the Supreme Court registry on 6 May, the evening after passing its scathing judgment against Sahara chief Subrata Roy and his lawyers, that he did not want to be on the new bench that would hear the Sahara matter after the bench headed by retiring Just...

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...

A Supreme Court bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramajit Sen gave the green light to the Tamil Nadu-based Kudankulam nuclear power plant, after being satisfied with the safety measures and compliance of the central government and responsible authorities. Activist G Sudarrajan represented by...

Supreme Court justices KS Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose have banned Tamil Nadu bull fighting at the Jallikattu festival, which “severely harmed” the bulls and was illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA) BBC . The judges wrote: “Bulls cannot be used as performing animals...

The Supreme Court ruled that Sahara boss Subrata Roy should stay in jail in a 207-page order, while noting in a post script to the judgment that Roy and Sahara had abused the judicial process and wasted “hundreds of judge hours”. Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Jagdish Singh Khehar ruled dismissed Roy...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramjit Sen modified a Delhi high court order giving the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) power to do a statutory or special audit of private telecom companies accounts. Instead, the bench decided that the CAG should have the right to scr...

The Supreme Court has ruled that all government departments must recognise a third gender, and not discriminate against transgender people in the provision of services.

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice KS Radhakrishnan today rejected the appeal for the bail of jailed Sahara boss Subrata Roy, pending the next hearing on 25 March 2014.

SC Judge slams Gov for “scaring away all foreign investors” : “We are sorry to say that lawmakers are not keeping pace with the changing times, especially fast-changing technology. Then you will legislate with retrospective effect, scaring away all foreign investors,” said Justice KS Radhakrishnan t...

The Supreme Court has ordered prosecution of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha for not filing income tax (IT) returns between 1991 and 1994 for the company which she co-owned at the time. Jayalalitha and the company’s other co-owner had appealed to the apex court for discharge from the crimina...

The Supreme Court today asked all high court chief justices to nominate a retired district judge each, to serve for two years on State Committees overseeing the implementation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules 2000. The serving judges will be paid Rs 20,000 per month for their work on th...

The chief justice of India Altamas Kabir yesterday told off senior advocate Arvind Dattar who, in the matter of SEBI V Sahara, had objected to his passing an order contradictory to an order passed by a two judge bench of the court - before which bench the matter is still pending. A bench of justices...

Can a high court review its own decision after the Supreme Court has dismissed a special leave petition from such decision? The absence of a definite answer to this question is causing the double-filing of special leave petitions before the SC. A bench of SC justices Dipak Misra and KS Radhakrishnan...