In a small advantage to the central government, the Supreme Court today described as “tentative” the Delhi high court’s observation that its May 21 order giving Delhi’s Lt. Governor the final say in posting and transfers of bureaucrats was “suspect”, even as it issued notice to the city government o...

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday the central government’s plea challenging the Delhi high court verdict (click to read judgment) which described as “suspect” the May 21 central notification on the Delhi government powers. The notification barred the Delhi government from proceeding against cent...

The Supreme Court today issued notice to three students of Jindal Global Law School in Sonepat, Haryana, who are accused of sexually assaulting a junior BBA/MBA course student . The notice will be served on the three students - Hardik Sikri, Vikas Garg and Karan Chhabra - through jail superintendent...

The Supreme Court today stayed the execution of death warrants of Shabnam and Salim - convicted for murdering seven members of the girl’s family, including a ten-month-old child, and whose death sentence was upheld by the top court on May 15 . “Execution of death warrant is stayed,” said the vacatio...

The Supreme Court restored its practice of “listed mentioning” of matters before the registry, less than 10 days after issuing a circular discontinuing the practice. The SC had on 14 May issued a circular stating that from 1 July 2015 all urgent matters could only be orally mentioned before the chie...

Justice JS Khehar of the Supreme Court today inaugurated a mediation centre at the Patiala House district courts here. Justice Khehar, in his inaugural address, highlighted the benefits of mediation and the success it has achieved in India in reducing the huge pendency of cases. He expressed the hop...

The Supreme Court will hear, on Thursday May 21, a petition seeking re-conduct of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) as the key to the answers was leaked in several states and was made available to some candidates using sophisticated technology. The vacation bench of Justice AK Sikri an...

Pleas for euthanasia were made not only on behalf of nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who passed away of natural causes yesterday after 42 years in a vegetative state following her rape, but kin of many others in similar situation also had sought end of their lives in a dignified manner. Most of these pleas we...

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence of a couple for killing all seven members of a girl’s family, holding that the “couple indulged in such debased act of multiple murders driven by infatuation and exhibited no remorse”. Upholding the death sentence of Shabnam and her partner Salim, a...

In a setback to former CBI director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court on Thursday termed as “inappropriate” his meetings with some of the accused in the coal block allocation scam at his official residence. “It was inappropriate for Ranjit Sinha to have met the accused persons at his residence,” the b...

The Supreme Court today reserved its order on Sahara group chief Subrata Roy’s plea to be released from custody for six weeks coupled with lifting of restrictions to deal with his 72 properties so that he could place before the court a plan to return investors money that two group companies had coll...

A Supreme Court five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu, and justices AK Sikri, Arun Mishra, Rohinton F Nariman and Amitava Roy declined to interfere with the setting up of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal ...

The Supreme Court yesterday permitted the central government to go ahead with the selection and appointment of the chief vigilance commissioner and vigilance commissioner - two positions that had been waiting to be filled up for more than half a year. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Arun ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday accused Delhi Chief Minister of double standards by seeking stay of criminal defamation proceedings against him but issuing a circular permitting action against media groups for defamatory reporting. “Don’t you feel that there is dichotomy between you challenging sectio...

The Supreme Court Tuesday was told that the unaccounted black money stashed away to tax havens would not be recovered as the central government and its bureaucrats entrusted with the task have not taken any effective steps to recover it. Describing the steps taken so far to recover the money as “gre...

The Supreme Court today refused to refer, for now, to a larger bench a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission in the context of the judicial primacy in judges’ appointments as a preliminary issue. The court made it clear that it was not ruling ou...

Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) BV Acharya on Monday expressed reservation over the acquittal of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in the 18-year-old disproportionate assets’ case by the Karnataka high court without considering his submission. “I expected the high court to conform to t...

The Central government Monday urged the Supreme Court to refer to a nine or 11-judge bench the reconsideration of 1993 judgment which took away from the government the power of appointing judges and vested it with an apex court collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India. As the government presse...

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Sahara to arrange a bank guarantee of Rs. 5,000 crore in the favour of the capital market regulator to comply with the conditions for the release of its chief Subrata Roy and two other directors who are in custody in Delhi’s Tihar jail since March 4, 2014. A bench...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) Friday opposed the government’s plea for referring to a larger bench the challenge to the NJAC contending that the issue before the court was whether it was in conformity with the basic structure of the constitution or not. The SCAORA told th...