History was made today, with three Constitution benches sitting at the same time in the Supreme Court at 2 pm.

In the ongoing Extra Judicial Execution of Victim Families Association vs Union of India, being heard by justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit, the Attorney General had alleged that an article published in The People’s Chronicle (English) and Poknapham (Manipuri) carried certain “highly objectionable statements” by Babloo Loitongbam, who has been reporting the case.

Retired Supreme Court judges justices Gyan Sudha Mishra, CK Prasad and Balbir Singh Chauhan, were nominated by the apex court to head the proposed Lokpal ombudsman. Also in the running is retired Jharkhand high court chief justice and current Appellate Tribunal for Electricity chairman M Karpaga Vinayagam

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hold an urgent hearing of a plea challenging the Delhi high court’s order allowing, on trial basis, the odd-even policy for private cars for 15 days here. Declining to hold an early hearing of the plea, the bench headed by Chief Justice TS Thakur wondered if...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government if it was seeking to hike the spectrum usage charge of one percent of the annual gross revenue of telecom companies for 4G services and if it had the powers to do so. A bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur, Justice AK Sikri and Justice R Banumath...

The Supreme Court today permitted the Mysuru-based Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) to get more samples of Maggi noodles to test the lead and mono sodium glutamate (MSG) contents in its taste-makers. The bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana also asked the CFTRI to ...

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 collegium will not wait for the government’s new procedural guidelines on transparent judicial appointments, to start the process of appointment of 400 new high court judges and five new Supreme Court judges, reported the Hindustan Times . High courts across India are facing 445 judicial vacanci...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to vacate its order barring the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu that is held during Pongal festivities beginning on Thursday. An apex court bench comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana declined to lift an earlier order that put on hold...

The Supreme Court will hear at 3 p.m. on Wednesday a bunch of petitions seeking vacation of the stay on the bull taming sport Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. Counsel Raja Ramana, appearing for the petitioners, told an apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra that Jallikattu was a matter of faith and...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), that raises many public interest matters before the apex court and Delhi high court, to create a mechanism that inspires confidence that the suits filed by it were really in public interest centric and not a proxy f...

Nearly a month after Bollywood megastar Salman Khan was acquitted in the 2002 accident case, Mumbai Police have done some soul-searching on alleged lapses that led to the legal defeat, officials said on Tuesday. For starters, police top brass issued a circular to all police stations on the procedura...

The Supreme Court has stayed the Centre’s notification that allowed Central Government’s notification allowing Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to restrict the scope of its discretionary powers, under the constitution’s article 136, to entertain pleas challenging various high court orders, saying that the issue has already been decided by the earlier constitution bench. Declining to revisit the scope of i...

The Delhi high court on Monday asked the central government to file a response on a PIL seeking to declare a provision in the penal law unconstitutional as it discriminates against married women sexually assaulted by their own husbands. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant N...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that unless a temple had a constitutional right, it could not prohibit the entry of the women pilgrims to offer worship. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice NV Ramana said this in the course of the hearing of a petition by the Ind...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that unless a temple had a constitutional right, it could not prohibit the entry of the women pilgrims to offer worship. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice NV Ramana said this in the course of the hearing of a petition by the Ind...

The Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice TS Thakur, and Justices AK Sikri and R Banumathi, is set to hear as many as five writ petitions challenging the validity of the notification issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on 7 January permitting the holding of jallikattu and other related festivals involving the performance of bulls in religious festivals, despite the Supreme Court’s 2014 judgment holding it illegal.

Two very important cases related to the power to appoint teachers and rules on when special leave petitions (SLPs) should be entertained, are scheduled to be heard by two Supreme Court’s constitution benches today under CJI TS Thakur’s new constitution bench schedules.

New Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur told it like it is, in a speech at a function hosted by the Bar Council of India (BCI).