With the last batch of Supreme Court elevations having been made only in May 2016 with four new judges (who had been recommended in December 2015), the collegium’s latest recommendations of five new Supreme Court judges were cleared by the president yesterday.

The Tamil novel, “Madhorubagan”, authored by Perumal Murugan, and translated into English as “One Part Woman” which received literary awards, was alleged to narrate non-existent conventions that sought to tarnish the image of populace of the area.

Controversial Madras high court judge Justice CS Karnan, now transferred to the Calcutta high court, today met Chief Justice of India TS Thakur at his office in the Supreme Court. The meeting lasted for half an hour during the course of which all the issues surrounding him were discussed, said infor...

The Supreme Court on Monday restrained Madras High Court judge Justice C.S. Karnan from hearing a case relating to appointment of junior judicial officers in Tamil Nadu as it directed uninterrupted recruitment of the subordinate officers by the selection committee. The selection committee includes f...

Justice Amitava Roy was Friday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court. With the elevation of Roy, who was chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the strength of the apex court has gone up to 29 against a sanctioned strength of 31 judges. Justice Roy will have a tenure of three years. Coming from ...

Madras high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul has ordered that every judgment must mention on its first page, the dates on which it was reserved and pronounced, in a bid to increase transparency of and reduce the delay in pronouncing judgments, reported The Hindu . Kaul relied on the 13-year-ol...

Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was today sworn-in as chief justice of the Madras high court. The 55-year-old Delhi University law graduate and former senior counsel replaces Justice RK Agrawal, who was elevated to the Supreme Court, and acting chief justice Satish K A...