The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on a petition by the Karnataka government challenging the high court verdict acquitting her and three others in a disproportionate assets case. Notice has also been issued to Jayalalithaa’s three close aides, Sasik...

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*SCOI Report, Monday 27 July 2015: Yakub Abdul Razak Memon vs State of Maharashtra Through the Secretary, Home Department, and Others

The Supreme Court will hear on Monday the plea by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon’s plea challenging the death warrant issued against him and for the stay of his execution set for July 30. “I have already assigned the bench. It will come by Monday,” said Chief Justice HL Dattu as ...

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the dress code prescribed by the CBSE for candidates appearing for the AIPMT exam on Saturday, barring them from wearing either a head scarf and full-sleeved shirt. A bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Amitava Roy...

The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that after a mercy petition by a death row convict is rejected by the President, it cannot be moved afresh before the governor of a state unless there were entirely new grounds. Telling this to the Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

The Supreme Court was on Wednesday moved for quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner TM Bhasin, on grounds that their appointments were in breach of “institutional integrity”. The petition by NGO Common Cause and many eminent people sough...

The central government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that no mercy could be shown to the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as it opposed the Tamil Nadu government’s move set free seven convicts by granting them remission of sentence. Opposing Tamil Nadu government’s plea to release the ...

Special TADA Court Judge PD Kode who conducted the trial in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court’s rejection of his curative petition, which will send prime accused Yakub Memon to the gallows in just over a week . Nik...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a curative petition by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who is scheduled to hang on July 30 . Memon had challenged the earlier verdict of the apex court to uphold his death sentence. Rejecting the curative petition, a bench of Chi...

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Special Task Force (STF) to take “appropriate steps” under the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Vyapam accused so that they do not take advantage of delayed action and seek bail. “Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, we permit the SIT/STF to take...

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition challenging the second re-promulgation of the land ordinance to amend the 2013 land acquisition law to ease the process of land acquisition. The bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel iss...

The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred hearing on a petition by former high court judges who were appointed directly from among practising lawyers, seeking pension and other benefits on par with those judges who came through the judicial service. The apex court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Just...

One of the many things that lawyers practising at the supreme and high courts hate most about the filing process is curing defects in the paperbooks.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) and extended its interim order protecting services of the additional judges till the verdict is pronounced A constitution bench of J...

After Subramanian Swamy and PP Rao began arguing yesterday in the multi-petitioner challenge of sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Swamy, senior counsel Rao and Rajeev Dhavan today continued their arguments.

Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday. He is likely to be be hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail, where he is currently lodged, following the rejection of his mercy plea in April this year by ...

“)The process of appointing senior advocates is broken and no one has bothered to fix it, until now.

The hearings in the Subramaniam Swamy v Union of India case began today, with Swamy, alongside several other petitioners, seeking to get the Supreme Court to strike down section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. This is what happened.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has published on its website a list of 111 lawyers with between 0 and 30 years of experience, in a bid to encourage more senior lawyers who are looking for associates or junior lawyers to contact those job seekers directly.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has published on its website a list of 111 lawyers with between 0 and 30 years of experience, in a bid to encourage more senior lawyers who are looking for associates or junior lawyers to contact those job seekers directly.