New chief justices (CJ) were appointed at the Meghalaya, Karnataka and Orissa high courts by Presidential order, reported the Press Information Bureau . Allahabad HC judge Dinesh Maheshwari will assume the CJ’s office at Meghalaya HC, Karnataka HC judge Subhro Kamal Mukherjee will at Karnataka HC an...

The Meghalaya High Court on Friday referred a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking disqualifications of state legislators holding dual post to a larger bench saying that such important issues are required to be decided by a full bench. A division bench of Justice T Nandakumar Singh and Justice S...

Tea cuffs: “One might take tea in a variety of ways, not all of them always elegant or delicate, some of them perhaps even noisy. But we know of no way to drink tea ‘suspiciously’,” observed a Bombay HC bench while chastising the police for arresting a man for suspicious conduct u/s 151 after they t...

The Madras high court, the Jharkhand high court, the Delhi high court and the Meghalaya high court will soon have new chief justices respectively with Madras HC acting chief justice RK Agrawal, Madras HC seniormost judge R Banumathi, Andhra Pradesh HC acting chief justice NV Ramana and seniormost Ut...