The Delhi high court yesterday issued notice to the central government on a plea by advocate Prashant Bhushan challenging the government’s refusal to reissue him a passport with full validity of 10 years as criminal cases are pending against him. Justice Rajiv Shakdher sought a response from the min...

The Supreme Court Monday asked Gujarat’s chief secretary to explain as to why cooperation was not being extended to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by providing the investigating agency with the documents relating to Naini and Morga-II coal blocks. A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice...

The Supreme Court Monday permitted newly-appointed CBI Director Anil Sinha to take over the probe into 2G cases. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu passed the order on an application by the probe agency seeking clarification on its earlier order removing then Central Bureau of Investigation (C...

It won’t be long after you start practice in the Supreme Court of India that you come across the figure of Prashant Bhushan striding purposefully between the courtrooms.

A high stakes case was part-argued today by government and petitioners on the constitutional validity of certain sections of the Information Technology Act 2000.

The Delhi high court Tuesday asked the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) and the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT) to respond on a plea challenging the refusal to grant certificate to the film “En Dino Muzaffarnagar”, on the grounds that the film has the potential of creating com...

The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, today declined to name the whistleblower who disclosed the alleged interference by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha in the 2G investigation and prosecution after meeting the acc...

A Supreme Court three-judge bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan told the government to report on what it had done to investigate the Rs 6,500 crore investment into four Indian Indian Reliance Industries companies by what is allegedly a Singaporean shell company called Biometrix used for money launder...

Advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged in an interview that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) judgment was leaked from the chambers of ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir to private medical colleges. In response to a question about how Kabir had called Bhushan one of his enemies...

Competition Commission of India orders investigation into Bharat Matrimony’s complaint against Google’s anti-competitive practices and abuse of dominant position, CUTS to follow suit with complaint next week [ Hindustan Times ] Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan withdraws PG student’s plea in SC strik...

Indian Music Industry obtains Cal HC order blocking 104 Indian music websites for piracy Radioreloaded, songsPK, funmaza, and everything else on the list [ Medianama ] Economic Times’ take on law firms: The Amarchand ‘churan’ and AZB ‘sandwich stacks’ compared and contrasted [ ET ] CJI Kapadia sets ...

Prashant Bhushan rues SC’s “welcoming wink” and tax authorities’ “benign attitude” to “blatant evasion” of tax; hopes India is not a “banana republic” for “post box companies” et al [ ITAT Online ] Karnataka State Bar Council swears off representing media houses in litigation; lawyers bleed [ Deccan...

Linklaters wants rival Slaughters’ Aussie best-friend Allens Arthur Robinson while Herbert Smith looks to marry Freehills [ The Lawyer ] CJAR through Bhushan complains to CJI, Prez, PM and Law minister about Del HC’s Kait sending litigant to mental asylum for trying to record court proceedings [ TOI...

Prashant Bhushan attacked and beaten in own chambers while interviewed by journalists; Bhushan files FIR against alleged Hindu extremist [Video: TOI / Write-up: DNA ] Kapadia starts pilot projects to restate & re-summarise laws of legislative privilege, contempt of court and public interest lit...