The Supreme Court today transferred to the Delhi high court JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s petition seeking bail and security. An apex court bench of Justice J Chelameswar and Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre, while transferring Kanhaiya’s petition, asked the high court to hear it expedit...

JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested for sedition, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court for bail as students rallied in support across the country and the opposition took the row to President Pranab Mukherjee.

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Anil R Dave, and comprising justices Kurian Joseph and Amitava Roy, heard Massimiliano Latorre, one of the accused in the Italian marines case, who has been permitted by the Supreme Court to be in Italy in view of his health condition, and gave him further extension of time to return to India.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned till January 13, 2016 the hearing on the plea of two Italian marines questioning the NIA probe into the killing of two Indian fishermen as it was told that the international tribunal for the law of the sea has asked both India and Italy to put on hold all the...

The Supreme Court Wednesday extended by three months Italian marine chief master sergeant Massimilano Latorre’s stay in Italy for his recovery in the wake of a heart surgery that he underwent Jan 5. The apex court Bench, headed by Justice Anil Dave, extended the stay of Latorre after his senior coun...

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.

Reliance Industries, BP and Niko Resources on Saturday served the Indian government with an arbitration notice in order to allow them to increase the price of natural gas that was shelved by the Election Commission until the elections finish on 16 May. Senior counsel Harish Salve, who has been repre...

The names of senior advocates Fali S Nariman, K K Venugopal, Harish Salve and attorney general Goolam Vahanvati have been forwarded in the category of “eminent jurist” to the Lokpal selection panel, alongside former attorney generals Soli Sorabjee and K Parasaran. They will be discussed in a meeting...

The revelation that former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly is the judge alleged to be at the heart of the apex court’s sexual harassment inquiry, has split commentators along political and institutional lines.

Soli vs political RTI ordinance : Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee said that the government’s proposal to bring an ordinance to keep political parties out of the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, is an abuse of constitutional power. “Ordinance should be brought in only in ...

DH Law offices moves to a bigger, 3500 sq feet office space with “superior facilities” in Free Press House (FPH) Nariman Point from it’s earlier smaller Nariman Point space, said managing partner Nusrat Hassan. The firm launched formally in Delhi and Patna on 1 July 2012 SC attacks violent conduct o...

Former Solicitor General Goolam Vahanvati was appointed Attorney-General of India on Monday (8 June), giving AZB & Partners the second close family connection in that post.