The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a plea challenging a Bombay high court ruling prohibiting holding of Indian premier League (IPL) cricket matches in Maharashtra due to unprecedented drought conditions in Vidarbha and Marathwada. The plea was filed by the Maharashtra and Mumbai Cricket Associ...

_President’s Rule_ will continue in Uttarakhand, the Supreme Court ruled today, drawing curtains on the floor test of the ousted Congress government that was to be held on Friday as ordered by the Uttarakhand high court. Advocate Rahul Kilam tweeted @KilamRahul: Uttarakhand fiasco: Attorney General ...

The writ petition of the former Judge of the Supreme Court and former chairman of the Press Council of India, Markandey Katju, challenging the unanimous resolutions passed by both the Houses of Parliament disapproving of his remarks on Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose in March last year, was heard by the Supreme Court’s three Judge bench this forenoon, with the Amicus Curiae, Fali Nariman making a snide remark about the petitioner considering himself a super citizen, by adding ‘former Judge of the Supreme Court’ etc, to his name.

In a revelation which may shock many, the Solicitor General, Ranjit Kumar told the Supreme Court’s three-Judge bench hearing the black money investigation case this afternoon at Court No 2, that nothing survived in this case, and the court could dispose it of.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed beleaguered liquor baron Vijay Mallya to disclose all the overseas assets held by him and his estranged wife and children to the banks which are seeking the recovery of more than Rs 9,000 crore in the principal and interest, loaned to his now-grounded Kingfisher...

The afternoon hearing at Court No 4 of the Supreme Court on the entry of women to Sabarimala temple got interesting with senior counsel for the temple board, KK Venugopal, comparing the discrimination at Sabarimala with similar classification on the basis of gender in other areas of activity.

Taking a dig at Maharashtra government over its persistence to curb dance bars, the Supreme Court on Monday said that it was better to dance then go to streets for begging or going to “places which are not acceptable” to earn a livelihood.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea of Congress leader Jairam Ramesh who has challenged the propriety of the government introducing the Aadhaar law as a money bill, and asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to address the court on the issue. The apex court bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur...

India cannot achieve its economic growth without a robust judiciary overseen by an adequate number of judges, Chief Justice TS Thakur said on Sunday.

It was an exchange of barbs, rarely witnessed, in the Supreme Court’s courtrooms. But then it was not an ordinary case, with huge stakes in the outcome, even if there are several rounds of battle ahead.

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Uttarakhand High Court order, removing President’s rule in the hill state and restoring Congress’ Harish Rawat as chief minister, be kept in abeyance till 27 April. A bench headed by Justice Dipak Mishra, while passing its orders, said the high court will deli...

After not doing so yesterday despite everyone’s expectations to the contrary , the Supreme Court today asked the central government to approach its secretary general for listing its petition challenging the Uttarakhand High Court order setting aside president’s rule in the state. An apex court bench...

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Nanju Ganpathy has been designated as senior advocate of the Delhi high court, and talks to Legally India about his career and plans.

Mumbai criminal lawyer Ashok Saraogi, who has represented gangster Abu Salem, was arrested on Sunday and sent to jail until 25 April for alleged cheating and forgery to help a client grab land, reported the Times of India . Lawyers Sohel Kazi and I V Y Tauro, co-accused with Saraogi, will spend thre...

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it was gifted to Britain by Sikh monarch Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The government stand on the matter was conveyed to the apex court bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit i...

The All India Bar Exam’s (AIBE IX) results will be delayed this time as well, according to Live Law’s sources. The results were due to release before Friday, according to the notification released on the AIBE’s website one day after the 6 March 2016 bar exam, as reported earlier . However, the resul...

Item 9 before the bench of Supreme Court Justices JS Khehar and C Nagappan turned out to be an interesting hearing yesterday (13 April) when counsel for Tata Motors, Sidharth Luthra, persisted that there was a case of defamation against the Sunday Indian magazine, edited by the appellant IIPM-Supremo Arindam Chaudhuri, who has been no stranger to strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) against publishers.

The CBI today said it has no fresh material to register an FIR against former Uttar Pradesh chief minister K Mayawati in a case of disproportionate assets, but the Supreme Court said it will examine the fresh material brought forward by petitioner Kamlesh Verma. As the bench of Justice Anil R Dave a...

There is an all-pervasive oppression by the ruling class and we are confronting a bizarre reality now, said G N Saibaba, the Delhi University professor who was released on bail last week by a Supreme Court order on health grounds . The 90 percent-disabled professor, who was arrested by the Maharasht...

On 12 April, during the hearing of case 20 before justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant in Court 4 yesterday morning, senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan was angrily objecting to the appearance of the intervener-in-person, SN Shukla, a former IAS officer.