The Supreme Court has ordered septuagenarian Lee Kun-Hee, the billionaire chairman of Korean electronics giant Samsung, to surrender before a Ghaziabad court within six weeks to answer to charges in $1.4m cheating case relating to a supply of goods between Samsung Dubai and another company in 2002. ...

An Indian Supreme Court bench headed up by Justice SS Nijjar has appointed ex-Australian SC judge James Spigelman to preside as arbitrator between Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and the oil ministry. At stake is who whether Reliance will be able to recover $1.8bn in its costs from the governmen...

A Supreme Court bench of CJI P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, commuted the death penalty of 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment, citing its earlier Shatrughan Chauhan decision.

The Supreme Court summer vacation bench, sitting from 12 May until 29 June 2014 will hear regular matters during those holidays from Tuesday to Friday, the Supreme Court announced. [Circular]

The Supreme Court has published its interim order in the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) and Indian Premier League (IPL) case. Six senior counsel, including Harish Salve, CA Sundaram and Mukul Rohatgi, are listed as appearing for the parties amongst a raft of other advocates appearing for t...

A circular by the Supreme Court of India has declared that the week before and after the upcoming court summer vacations from 10 May 2014 to 27 June 2014 will be miscellaneous weeks (i.e., all days from 5 May - 9 May 2014, and from 30 June to 4 July 2014, will be miscellaneous days). Further details...

The Supreme Court has said that the police should take action in the gang-rape of a woman in a village, which was allegedly ordered by a village panchayat as punishment for her affair. The bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam was apparently able to do little substantively in th...

A Supreme Court three-judge bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan told the government to report on what it had done to investigate the Rs 6,500 crore investment into four Indian Indian Reliance Industries companies by what is allegedly a Singaporean shell company called Biometrix used for money launder...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam has ruled in a writ petition on people disposing human waste manually from dry toilets, granting Rs 10 lakh compensation each to families of manual scavengers who died in sewers, manholes or septic tanks since 1993, after the ...

Sahara has said it can’t afford paying the Rs 5,000 crore in cash to the court, and Rs 5,000 crore in bank guarantees to SEBI, which the Supreme Court yesterday stipulated the amounts for Sahara chief to get out of jail on conditional bail. The next hearing will be on 3 April and Roy will be expecte...

Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik said today: “In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president.” Yesterday the court said that N Srinivasan’s continuing to stick on as the current BCCI board chairman was...

Legally India Supreme Court postcard writer and tweeting advocate Court Witness’ column on Subrata Roy: “The Supreme Court dragon has woken and it is annoyed.” [Mumbai Mirror]

The Supreme Court and its registry will be closed on Thursday 10 April and Monday 14 April 2014 because of the general elections and Dr BR Ambedkar’s birthday respectively, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has announced in notices on the SC website Ambedkar birthday notice [ General elections notice...

The Supreme Court has set interim bail for Sahara chief Subrata Roy at Rs 5,000 crore in cash, and Rs 5,000 crore in guarantees to the Securites and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in bank guarantees.

Fali Nariman and PP Rao have completed their recommendations to the Supreme Court in what procedure to follow in case of sex harassment allegations against sitting and former judges.

The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to prevent the Muzaffarnagar riots in September 2013.

The Supreme Court said that the Uttar Pradesh government failed to protect the fundamental rights of Muzaffarnagar residents, of whom 60 died in communal riots last year. While the apex court said all those responsible, irrespective of political affiliation, should be arrested, the bench stopped sho...

“After two wasted years, Sathasivam realizes that Kapadia was, after all, right about the Registry,” tweeted CourtWitness. Livelaw reported that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sathasivam said at an AOR-hosted function yesterday that the registry was not listing matters correctly by allowing lawyers to...

The second national lok adalat in the Supreme Court, which was scheduled for 12 April 2014, has been postponed, with the new date to be announced shortly [SC notification]

Sahara says it will pay Rs 2,500 crore in three days, three instalments of Rs 3,500 cr each at the end of June, Sept and Dec, and Rs 7,000 crore by 31 March 2015. The new proposal totals Rs 20,000, which would be Rs 3,000 crore more than its earlier proposal, as the company’s chief Subrata Roy is st...