The Supreme Court’s Social Justice bench comprising of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit pursued their quest for social justice on Friday, Sepember 18 with a combination of compliment, reprimand, and expression of dismay. The bench heard eight cases in two hours from 2 pm in Court 9.

A Supreme Court bench comprising of justices Madan B Lokur, Kurian Joseph and AK Sikri finally gave the go-ahead today (14 September), to the inquiry team led by former CBI special director ML Sharma to probe the visitors’ diary of former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha.

In a rebuff to the government, the Supreme Court Monday appointed senior counsel KK Venugopal as amicus curiae to assist the court in 2G matters and directed the CBI and Enforcement Directorate to provide him all the documents and briefings in respect of their investigations and status of different ...

A Supreme Court bench of justices Gopala Gowda and Amitava Roy declined a transfer petition from Ahmedabad city civil court to Delhi in the Rs 250 crore defamation case launched by Essar against Caravan magazine and others, as first reported by Legally India in August . Mint reported: Lawyer Prashan...

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition by NGO Common Cause seeking quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner (VC) TM Bhasin as it breached the principle of “institutional integrity”. The no...

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in what way it could assist the court in probing allegations that the meetings then-CBI director Ranjit Sinha had with several coal block allocation scam accused impacted utcome of the cases. The case came up for hearing before...

In Indian National Congress vs UOI, which came up before the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Bench today, the counsel for the Association for Democratic Reforms, Prashant Bhushan, alleged that both the Congress and the UOI suffer from conflict of interests in the case, in the face of a clear finding by the Delhi high court that both the Congress and the BJP had received crores as funding from foreign sources, and that there is not even an iota of doubt that the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976 was violated by both.

The 2014 Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) exam’s controversial results were not stayed, but may be probed after the Supreme Court’s order in a writ today. The DJS will hold its interviews for selection of judges in Delhi on Thursday, as per schedule.

“Hope died, man died, justice lived,” commented Rishabh Sancheti, one of Yakub Memon’s advocates, about the early-morning, eleventh hour Supreme Court hearing that ultimately failed to save his client from the noose. “Have you (heard) it happen in any other country?”

Yakub Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was hanged till death at the Nagpur Central Jail in Maharashtra today morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows - on his 54th birthday on Thursday - after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by v...

A Supreme Court hearing is likely to place on a plea seeking to put on hold the execution of 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon in the early hours of Thursday. Perhaps for the first time, the Supreme Court will be hearing a petition seeking a stay on the execution of death sentence at the court p...

The Supreme Court was on Wednesday moved for quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner TM Bhasin, on grounds that their appointments were in breach of “institutional integrity”. The petition by NGO Common Cause and many eminent people sough...

The Supreme Court dismissed a Right to Information (RTI) appeal that had asked for judges’ medical expenses, citing judges’ right to privacy, reported the Indian Express . The court was hearing advocate Prashant Bhushan for RTI activist Subhash C Aggarwal. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (C...

Prashant Bhushan today termed the government’s decision to appoint former Central Board of Direct Taxation chief KV Chowdary as the new chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) as “shameful and unfortunate”, as senior counsel and BJP politician Ram Jethmalani penned a public break up letter to the Prime M...

The Supreme Court will hear, on Thursday May 21, a petition seeking re-conduct of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) as the key to the answers was leaked in several states and was made available to some candidates using sophisticated technology. The vacation bench of Justice AK Sikri an...

The Supreme Court yesterday permitted the central government to go ahead with the selection and appointment of the chief vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioner - two positions that had been waiting to be filled up for more than half a year. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Arun ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hold hearing on April 30 on the CBI’s plea seeking registration of a fresh FIR against some of the 2G accused on the basis of fresh material that it had come across in the course of its investigations into the scam. As senior counsel KK Venugopal, appearing ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, accused in a defamation case filed by senior congress leader Kapil Sibal’s son Amit, appeared before a court here on Saturday. Kejriwal appeared before Metropolitan Magistrate Sunil Kumar Sharma after Amit Sibal’s counsel...

PTI reported that Supreme Court justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant rejected a PIL filed by Prashant Bhushan with his father, senior counsel Shanti Bhushan, appearing: seeking registration of an FIR against former apex court judge and Press Council of India Chairman Justice C K Prasad for alleg...

Saurav Datta discusses the authorities’ weak case for refusing Prashant Bhushan a full 10-year passport renewal.