The Supreme Court Thursday suspended defamation proceedings in five cases initiated by the Tamil Nadu government against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for making critical observations against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice UU Lalit, while suspending t...

SCBA tea at 4 on SC Rules : The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will meet at 4:10pm today to discuss the new Supreme Court Rules and some of the minor tweaks regarding A4 paper and other concessions made by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), including putting “in abeyance” two examples of AoR mi...

Senior counsel and ex-law minister Kapil Sibal, won a Delhi high court stay for the Gandhis and other Congress politicians over a summons obtained by BJP politician Subramanian Swamy in a magistrate’s court in June. In the case revolving around an alleged loan by the Congress party, which Swamy clai...

A Supreme Court constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and four other judges yesterday dropped the contempt of court proceedings started by Subramanian Swamy against then- Indian Express editor Arun Shourie, wrote the Times of India in a detailed report including the case...

The Delhi HC dismissed BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s petition claiming that newspapers can not be edited by foreigners, specifically referring to The Hindu ’s former editor Siddharth Varadarajan – a US passport holder, reported Mint . Swamy argued that because protection under fundamental rights di...

SC rules in favour of Swamy as Justice AK Ganguly holds three months sufficient for sanctioning prosecution against government, upholding citizens’ constitutional right to invoke POCA [ Mint ] Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s criminal proceedings stayed by Gujarat HC in Modi-affidavit case [ Indian Exp...