Jailed AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa will file a criminal revision petition Monday in the Karnataka high court to seek bail in the four-year jail term she has been sentenced to for corruption. “A team of senior lawyers met Jayalalithaa Sunday in the visitors’ room of the central jail where she is lod...

Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was Sunday sworn-in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India. Administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee, Chief Justice Dattu will hold office till Dec 2, 2015. He succeeds Chief Justice R.M. Lodha who demitted office Sep 27. Talking to report...

The Supreme Court Friday rejected a PIL by two advocates seeking the deferment of pronouncement of verdict by the special court in Bangalore in a case of corruption against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on the grounds of inadequate security.Dismissing the PIL as withdrawn, a bench of Just...

In apparent disapproval of his predecessor P Sathasivam accepting the Kerala governor’s post, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha Friday said that no CJI or Supreme Court or high court judge should accept any government position or occupy a constitutional office at least for some time after retiring. In...

The Chhattisgarh advocate who was admitted to hospital after having poisoned herself with naphthalene balls before appearing in the chief’s court, would be discharged from hospital within two or three days, according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by amicus curiae Vandana Sehgal. The Del...

A Supreme Court constitutional bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, and justices JS Khehar, J Chelameswar, AK Sikri and Rohinton Nariman have declared the proposed National Tax Tribunal (NTT)unconstitutional, quashing sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 of the Act, rendering the law practically us...

A special CBI court in Odisha has sent former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty to judicial custody till Sep 30, a lawyer said Thursday. Local lawyers had called for a strike yesterday. Mohanty was in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody on a two-day remand after being arrested Monday fr...

The Supreme Court Wednesday declined a plea by mobile phone service providers and other corporate honchos to stay the trial of 2G cases before the Special CBI Court which is hearing the matter on a day-to-day basis. “What we have not done earlier we won’t do now,” said the bench of Justice HL Dattu ...

The Supreme Court has selected former Australian high court judge Michael Kirby to chair over the arbitration between Reliance Industries and the Centre over KG Basin gas production, after five months ago Justice SS Nijjar, had already selected one and then another Australian ex-judge to preside aft...

Members of the Odisha High Court Bar Association launched a two-day cease-work agitation Wednesday to protest the arrest of former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam. “The CBI did not follow the procedu...

The Supreme Court has cancelled all 214 coal blocks that it declared illegal last month, leaving only four standing, after having ruled they had been awarded in an illegal, arbitrary and non-transparent manner for the last 20 years . [ Download judgment here ] IANS reported: The Supreme Court Wednes...

The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a five-member committee that will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and report to the court. An apex court bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Narima...

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the bail plea of spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, currently in jail for allegedly raping a minor girl studying in one of his ashrams. A bench headed by Justice TS Thakur said that the ground cited by Asaram was not of such urgency to grant him bail. After perusing the r...

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre for a status report on 54 defence personnel who were languishing in Pakistani jails for over 40 years as prisoners of war (PoWs). The bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman also made it clear ...

The Supreme Court will Tuesday hear a plea alleging police inaction on a complaint by an advocate from Chhattisgarh, alleging gang rape by her husband’s family members and two others on 29 November 2013. When the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha was about to leave a c...

Four Lok Sabha Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs and others have collected signatures to impeach Karnataka high court judge Justice KL Manjunath, two months after the central government rejected the Supreme Court collegium’s recommendation to transfer him to Punjab and Haryana, reported the Indian Express ....

The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, today declined to name the whistleblower who disclosed the alleged interference by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha in the 2G investigation and prosecution after meeting the acc...

Scroll.in lists nine, mostly compelling, reasons for why convicted serial murdered Surendra Koli should not be hanged, including a lack of evidence, his apparent psychopathy, iffy confession and oher circumstances. Worth a read, at Scroll.in . Senior counsel Indira Jaising had obtained a stay on Kol...

The Supreme Court Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to consider giving ex-gratia payment for people affected by the floods and to immediately take up the issue of restoring banking facilities in the affected areas. The bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice ...

Ex-Supreme Court judge and Press Council of India chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, has posted a blog with the title “Defaming the Judiciary”, claiming that Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha had “made a complete U-turn” after being quoted at a converence as saying that “there is agrowing corrup...