The Supreme Court has participated in Narendra Modi’s open challenge to clean India, by literally sweeping its own back yard.

A day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to the US, a human rights group has obtained summons against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots as state chief minister. New York based American Justice Centre (AJC) obtained the summons from the US Federal Court for t...

Shiv Sena force feeders not PIL material : A Delhi high court bench of chief justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath have declined to hear public interest litigation (PIL) to disqualify 11 Shiv Sena MPs who allegedly force-fed a Muslim member of canteen staff over Ramadan as a way of protesting abo...

Governor files petition against NaMo for pushing out governors : Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has filed a writ under Articles 155 and 156(1) of the Constitution against Narendra Modi and his government for pushing him (and other governors) out of their constitutional positions. He will be argui...

Nine Kerala students were arrested and bailed on Sunday after posting “NaMo” as a crossword clue to the expected solution “NAyeente MOn”, which, according to the Times of India loosely translates to “son of a bitch”, only several days after six other Kerala students and educational staff were arrest...

Two members of staff and four students of a Kerala polytechnic were arrested, then bailed, after publishing a campus magazine that contained a photograph of Narendra Modi alongside Adolf Hitler, George W Bush, Osama Bin Laden and others in a “negative faces” collage, reported the PTI . They, and the...

A Mumbai resident’s anticipatory bail application for arrest under hate speech laws was rejected, after his anti-Modi Facebook posts led to an FIR against him under sections 153(A), 295(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and section 125 of the People’s Representation Act and 66-A of the Information T...

The alleged victim of snooping by the Gujarat government has approached Supreme Court justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana with her father to restrain the central and state governments from launching an inquiry into the alleged abuse of surveillance powers, claiming that any probe would be v...

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...

Legally India’s informal online poll from last week saw 629 readers cast their virtual vote when asked: Who do you want as your next government.

A few days ago the Financial Express did a long interview with senior advocate and former parliamentarian Fali Nariman. The chat covers a dozen topics, including Nariman’s fear of modern Hinduism’s intolerance, how a Narendra Modi prime minister would affect the courts and constitution, judicial ref...

As polls kicked off in Delhi today we asking, who do lawyers and, more importantly, Legally India readers, want as India’s next government? The outgoing Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman (as “a representative of 1.7m lawyers”), already said he wants you to vote Modi . But what do you want? Have yo...

Despite the BCI chairman’s recent ringing personal but apparently representative endorsement of Narendra Modi, lawyers will have to make their own choice this election. LI tries to help.

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said that he supported Narendra Modi’s bid to become India’s next PM.

With Lok Sabha elections now scheduled to start on 7 April it is fair to ask: what has the current government done for India’s legal profession? And can any of the others do better?

Supreme Court justice Dipak Misra asked the Bar Council of India (BCI) to not “please electoral politics”, in a BCI golden jubilee conference closing speech.

Prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi, Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra and legion of judges convened at a BCI function in Gandhinagar.

BCI cozies up to NaMo A delegation led by Bar Council of India (BCI) chief Manan Kumar Mishra met Narendra Modi on Saturday, inviting him to address the valedictory function of the Gujarat bar Council. According to a Gujarat state press release, the BCI respected Modi’s nationalism, while Modi calle...