The Supreme Court refused a district-level judge relief in his petition demanding reservation for Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes in the higher judiciary on Monday, reported The Hindustan Times . The petitioner judge, Kanta Prasad was seeking promotion to the Uttarakhand high court on the basis...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Rajasthan government on a plea for prohibiting the use of elephants in the Amer Fort and the Elephant Village for joy rides and exhibitions and to protect them from the cruelty they were being subjected to. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice ...

Incarcerated Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, whose five-year sentence for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts was confirmed by the Supreme Court in March 2013, will be freed from prison by 7 March, 2016, official sources said here on Tuesday. The sources indicated that barring last-minute ...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has released its final list of candidates, after the phase of withdrawal of names is over.

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a petition seeking cancellation of bail of Bollywood star Salman Khan who was convicted and sentenced in a hit and run case. A bench of Justice FMI Kalifulla and Justice Amitava Roy refused to entertain the plea saying the order of Bombay high court doesn...

Oral arguments in the sexual harassment case against Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele began today in the parliament, four months after the Supreme Court dismissed the allegations against him. Legally India understands from sources close to the process that the upper legislative house - Raj...

As Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice HL Dattu appeared to be a man in a hurry. However, despite having held the office for a near eternity compared to many other recent CJIs, what he has managed to achieve as a judge and administrator in that time is questionable.

Justice Tirath Singh Thakur was on Thursday sworn in as the 43rd Chief Justice of India.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the Tamil Nadu government has no suo motu power to grant remission and release the convicts accused of conspiracy in the assassination case of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. The apex court’s constitution bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu said that the s...

Outgoing Chief Justice of India HL Dattu on Tuesday refused to join the ongoing debate on intolerance saying that as head of the country’s judiciary, it would not be proper for him to comment on it. “There is a debate going on in parliament and other places. As the head of an institution, if I say a...

The Social Justice bench of the Supreme Court has agreed to examine the existing administrative and judicial guidelines relating to dowry cases, allegedly biased against females, reported The Indian Express . A petition by NGO ‘Social Action Forum for Manav Adhikar’ (SAFMA), through advocate Jyotika...

Remaining seated while the Indian national anthem is being sung or played is not punishable under Indian statutory or case law or by any order of the Indian government, argues the Express http: </http:> in light of the recent alleged incident in a Mumbai theatre where, according to a viral vide...

As the Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu retires on 2 December, the Government is apparently preparing red carpet for him at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) according to several reports, as the post of the chairperson of the NHRC has been vacant since May this year, and only former CJIs are eligible for this high office.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the citizenship row of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy dismissed the PIL filed by lawyer ML Sharma, saying PILs cannot be individual-centric. The court also questioned the petitio...

In a breather for union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, the Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Karnataka high court direction to the Bangalore Development Authority to repossess a residential plot allotted to him. An apex court bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice SA Bobde also held that Gow...

Harish Salve said he has materials to show that “dance bar is an animal in itself”, while acting for Maharashtra which defended its defiance of the Supreme Court’s order that had directed it to begin accepting bar licence applications, reported Indian Express . Salve asked a bench of justices Dipak ...

The Essar group told a bench headed by justice TS Thakur of Supreme Court that there is “nothing illegal or improper” in politicians and bureaucrats making job requests to them and that certain favours to government servants are “common courtesies extended by corporate houses” in a counter affidavit...

Taped telephonic conversation was admitted in defence evidence, in an unprecedented move by the Supreme Court, in a child sexual abuse case’ trial on Monday, reported the Times of India . A Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant admitted the CD produced by the alleged sexual offende...

Jail authorities in Pakistan were on Tuesday set to hang a paraplegic who developed tubercular meningitis while on death row after being convicted of murder, which according to rights group will be the 300th execution since the controversial moratorium was lifted in the country. Abdul Basit, 43, who...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hold an urgent hearing of a PIL seeking CBI probe into the allegation that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had declared himself a British national in the documents filed before the registrar of companies in Britain. “There is no urgency in the matter,” t...