A judge on the Supreme Court’s collegium, talking on condition of anonymity to the Economic Times , has come out in support of elevating senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court, despite the government’s attempts to veto his earlier nomination . The judge said that Subramanium’s “credib...

The law ministry has returned the file to elevate senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court bench to the collegium, which will again have to reconsider whether it wants to elevate the advocate, though the ministry cleared the elevation of senior counsel Rohinton Nariman and high court ch...

The SC has said that from 8 July, two benches would only hear miscellaneous matters in service matters, cheque bounce appeals and labour matters.

The Maharashtra government is dropping a provision in the Bombay Police Act 1951 that allowed dance performances in “exempted” establishments like three-star and five-star hotels but banned it elsewhere, and proposing to have a blanket ban on dance bars in the state, reversing the Supreme Court’s Ju...

The Supreme Court is for the second time in its history attempting to create its own dedicated intellectual and institutional research unit with the appointment of NLU Delhi assistant professor Anup Surendranath to the post of deputy registrar (research).

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri told the Sahara Group after a two hour hearing that they would have to pay Rs 10,000 crore to get its boss Subrata Roy and two directors released from jail. The judges, who replaced the previous bench of justices KS Radharkrishnan and JS Khehar amid unpr...

Retired Supreme Court judge Justice KS Radhakrishnan, in a brief interview in the Indian Express, talked about some of his landmark cases and challenges facing the judiciary. [Indian Express]

Supreme Court Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar told the Supreme Court registry on 6 May, the evening after passing its scathing judgment against Sahara chief Subrata Roy and his lawyers, that he did not want to be on the new bench that would hear the Sahara matter after the bench headed by retiring Just...

A former intern, who had alleged that ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar has sexually harassed her in 2011, has applied to the Supreme Court to transfer Kumar’s defamation case.

Facing a long string of retirements during his term, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has recommended the elevation of two former solicitor generals to the apex court.

Reliance Industries, BP and Niko Resources on Saturday served the Indian government with an arbitration notice in order to allow them to increase the price of natural gas that was shelved by the Election Commission until the elections finish on 16 May. Senior counsel Harish Salve, who has been repre...

Supreme Court justices AK Patnaik, KS Radhakrishnan and SS Nijjar are effectively retiring today with the long Supreme Court summer vacations starting from today, leaving the bench that had briefly enjoyed a full and unprecedented strength of 31 during the tenure of former CJI P Sathasivam , severel...

A Supreme Court bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramajit Sen gave the green light to the Tamil Nadu-based Kudankulam nuclear power plant, after being satisfied with the safety measures and compliance of the central government and responsible authorities. Activist G Sudarrajan represented by...

The sexual harassment case against NUJS Kolkata assistant registrar Siddhartha Guha, who was arrested late last year after a female staff member accused him of sexual harassment and violent threats, has climbed to the apex court over cancellation of his bail. The woman, represented by advocates Sidd...

Supreme Court justices KS Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose have banned Tamil Nadu bull fighting at the Jallikattu festival, which “severely harmed” the bulls and was illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA) BBC . The judges wrote: “Bulls cannot be used as performing animals...

A five-judge constitutional bench of CJI RM Lodha, AK Patnaik, Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, Dipak Misra and FM Ibrahim Kalifulla has overruled the Supreme Court’s earlier Kone Elevators decision in a four-to-one majority against Kalifulla. The majority opinion, written by Misra, ruled that the sale ...

A five-judge constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices HL Dattu, Chandramauli KR Prasad, Madan B Lokur and MY Eqbal ruled in favour of the Tamil Nadu government that the Kerala government must not restrict the water levels in the Mullaperiyar dam. The bench said that the Kerala law from 2006 w...

The alleged victim of snooping by the Gujarat government has approached Supreme Court justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana with her father to restrain the central and state governments from launching an inquiry into the alleged abuse of surveillance powers, claiming that any probe would be v...

The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Right to Education Act under Article 15(5) and 21-A of the Constitution about compulsory education to six to 14-year-olds. Sitting in two related cases, the constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices AK Patnaik, Dipak Misra, SJ Mukhopadhaya and I...

The Supreme Court ruled that Sahara boss Subrata Roy should stay in jail in a 207-page order, while noting in a post script to the judgment that Roy and Sahara had abused the judicial process and wasted “hundreds of judge hours”. Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Jagdish Singh Khehar ruled dismissed Roy...