Three Judges of the Supreme Court, justices Madan B Lokur, Gopal Gowda and Kurian Joseph, attended a book launch function at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi yesterday (11 April). While Justice Lokur formally released the book, Appointing our judges: Forging independence with accountability edite...

The Supreme Court today said that the plea for SIT probe into the assault on JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others by some lawyers at Patiala House court complex on 15 February and 17 was “justified”. “That is the efficiency of the police in such a situation… they (petitioner) are j...

Recalling its earlier order, the Supreme Court on Monday said admission to private medical colleges will be on the basis of entrance tests conducted under the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which was possibly leaked according to advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who had criticised the...

On Friday, hyper-eminent senior counsel Ram Jethmalani, during the Supreme Court hearing of the constitutionally hairy P&H water-river dispute , revealed to the bench that his right ear could not hear, while to his right assisting counsel tried in vain to correct Jethmalani on one of his facts,...

Chief Justice of India Justice TS Thakur said on Saturday the process of appointing judges must go on while improving the system, as the delay in appointments will deprive people of their fundamental right of access to justice. He said 130 names recommended from various high courts are in the proces...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea by NGO _Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) _seeking cancellation of Reliance Jio’s 4G licence on several counts including adverse comments in a draft CAG report. The CPIL had contended that Reliance Jio Was given 4G licence for data services and...

The Supreme Court on Friday appointed two senior counsel as amicus curiae to assist the court in the hearing of the appeals by the four convicts sentenced to death in the 16 December Delhi gang rape case, saying the matter was serious. Noting the gravity of the whole issue, the bench of Justice Dipa...

The Supreme Court’s constitution bench hearing on the sharing of river water through the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal, took an interesting turn this afternoon with Punjab’s counsel, senior advocate, Ram Jethmalani, making a strong pitch for the return of the Presidential reference on the issue unanswered.

The Supreme Court on Friday said the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should be “transparent and visible” and observed that the apex cricket body was “refusing to reform” and resisting some of the important recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee. “You are disch...

The Supreme Court on Friday took up for hearing a petition on laws to protect the rights of elderly, infirm and sick people, and asked the central government why these could not be enforced. A bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur, Justice R Banumathi and Justice UU Lalit issued the notice to the governm...

There are many cases in the Supreme Court, which are under continuous monitoring of the court, meaning that the court, rather than dispose them of after issuing certain orders, monitors them once in a while, so as to ensure compliance with its orders by the authorities concerned. The petition, filed by senior counsel Ram Jethmalani in 2009, (writ petition [civil] 176 of 2009) is one such, which has seen several ups and downs.

The Supreme Court on Thursday told liquor baron Vijay Mallya to disclose all his assets - movable and immovable and tangible and intangible - and other shareholding and beneficial interests in India and abroad by 21 April. An apex court bench comprising Justice Kurien Joseph and Justice Rohinton Nar...

Bollywood star Salman Khan has told the Supreme Court that he was not driving his Toyota Land Cruiser when it killed a man in Mumbai in 2002 but police were trying to implicate him in the case. Claiming that his driver Ashok Singh was at the wheels, Salman said in an affidavit filed on 17 March that...

The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that one report of a test on Maggi noodles by the government research institute has shown that the lead content was within permissible limits but the tastemaker monosodium glutamate (MSG) was on the higher side. Senior counsel Vibha Datta Makhija, appearing for ...

The law ministry has invited applications from the public to fill its post of secretary, moving away from its usual process of only selecting from among officers of the Indian Legal Services, reported the Sunday Guardian . Lawyers who have practised for at least 25 years in the Supreme Court and hig...

The Supreme Court today granted bail to Delhi University professor GN Saibaba, accused of being associated with a front organisation of a banned Maoist outfit. As reported on Legally India in February , Saibaba requires constant and expensive medical attention, which the Mahrashtra government was un...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) will file a resolution in the Supreme Court, defending its Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015 by stating that “downfall” in the standards of bar association representatives was a result of increase in the number of fake lawyers, reported the Ti...

Even as the two rival national political parties played April Fool of their actual political rivalries on 1 April by appealing together in the Supreme Court, a common judgment passed against them by the Delhi high court, The Wire has exposed a little-known fact, which promises to excel the incredible phenomenon of these two rival parties coming together on a common platform to fight a common enemy.

The BJP and the Congress today both found defending themselves as appellants in a case before the Supreme Court, which is likely to hear it in detail after the summer vacation.

In line with tradition, Kalaiyarasan, Gokuldas, Bharathidasan, S Sunder, MV Muralidharan and D Krishnakumar today signed in the Devanagari script in court to become Madras high court judges, high court sources told The Hindu , after Madras high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and the Supreme ...