The Supreme Court Friday extended its order putting on hold the execution of the death sentence of Nithari killer Surendra Koli till Oct 29. While extending the stay, an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice-designate Justice H.L. Dattu asked the senior counsel to place before them in bullet poin...

Bar owners in Kerala, other than five star hotels, will be able to serve liquor till Sep 30 as the Supreme Court Thursday ordered status quo till this date while asking the state high court to decide the challenge to the notification directing them to shut shop. A bench of Justice Anil R Dave and Ju...

In the petition against the Kerala government shutting down 730 bars, Supreme Court Justice Anil Dave said: “There is no logic. What do you mean sub-standard [bars should be shut]? I am a teetotaller, but even I see no logic… how do you distinguish here?” The policy that is set to come into force on...

The president has cleared for Justice HL Dattu to become the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) on 28 September 2014, replacing RM Lodha when he retires from the Supreme Court, reported the PTI . Dattu reportedly said: “I will request for blessing of all citizens of this country to give me courage an...

In a bold move the Supreme Court today tried begin solving the national undertrial prisoner crisis, by ordering the release of all those in jail for more than half their charged sentence who’ve yet to see a trial. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha ordered all districts’ judic...

A Supreme Court bench of justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana told real estate developer DLF that it should deposit with the court the entire penalty of Rs 630 crore that the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed on it in 2011, pending the outcome of its appeal against the Compet...

A five-judge constitutional bench has ruled that it had no power to stop the states’ and country’s executive being staffed by politicians who have criminal charges pending against them, but argued for a “legitimate expectation” that prime and chief ministers should “consider” not picking such candid...

The Supreme Court bench of three, headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, has ordered the potential cancellation of 218 coal block licences – all allocated since 1993 - because they suffered from the “vice of arbitrariness”, according to reports. The court held that the government screening...

The Supreme Court bench of justices Anil Dave, Chelameshwar and AK Sikri has declined to entertain the five writ petitions against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill. What they said Fali Nariman eloquently argued why it is not a premature matter. He said he is all for the NJAC...

The Supreme Court told the government that it should explain within four weeks how the “leader of opposition” post should be interpreted under the Lokpal Act, since the Congress party lost to the BJP so badly that it can’t muster enough members in the Lok Sabha to count as an opposition. 55 MPs was ...

Senior counsel Fali Nariman has added another to the four public interest litigations (PILs) against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), which will be heard on Monday. Together with advocate Subhash Sharma, he claimed that the constitutional amendment “severely affects and damages ...

The Supreme Court has reversed two minor amendments in its Supreme Court Rules 2013: A4 won’t be the sole paper format accepted, and that all lawyers’ attendance should be recorded by the court master instead of just seniors and one of their juniors. The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has unsu...

Governor files petition against NaMo for pushing out governors : Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has filed a writ under Articles 155 and 156(1) of the Constitution against Narendra Modi and his government for pushing him (and other governors) out of their constitutional positions. He will be argui...

On Monday a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha would hear four petitions challenging the government’s freshly passed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and accompanying constitutional amendment as unconstitutional. Petitions have been filed by ex-ad...

A petition in the Supreme Court pleaded for a constitutional amendment to make Hindi an official language to conduct high and apex court proceedings in. A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice HL Dattu issued notice to the government about the petition that was filed by advocate Shiv Sagar Tiwari, w...

The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Bill 2014 was passed by the Rajya Sabha today, including a Lok Sabha amendment from yesterday by senior Congress politician and former law minister Veerappa Moily to restrict the government’s effective veto over new appointments. The upper house c...

Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre, R Banumathi and Prafulla Chandra Pant, together with former senior counsel UU Lalit today took up their post as Supreme Court judges to take the bench strength of the apex court up to 30 out of 31 sanctioned judges. PTI

Update 15:12: The bill has been passed. @CourtWitness1 commented on Twitter: The INS JAC has left the dry docks. Without right armaments it’s woefully exposed to destruction by judicial torpedoes. If the RS doesn’t amend the veto power given to Law minister in the NJAC, it’s pretty much dead in the ...

Current Press Council of India (PCI) chairman and former Supreme Court and high court judge Markandey Katju, has written another blog post about judicial corruption, attacking the system of judicial transfers and the conspiracy of silence on judicial corruption within the bench. He argued that: “Mos...

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and Anil R Dave asked Gopal Subramanium to reconsider his recusal as the amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure case, because he had already put significant work into the case, reported The Hindu . Subramanium had announced, as reported on 5 August , th...