The Supreme Court reduced the Delhi High Court’s death sentence handed down to law student Priyadarshini Mattoo’s rape and murder convict Santosh Kumar to life imprisonment in today’s ruling in the 14-year old trial.

India’s Supreme Court has stayed the Madras High Court’s order to shut a Sterlite Industries copper smelting plant that the lower court had decided was polluting and in ‘pathetic condition’, as reported two days ago on Wednesday. The apex court judges decided to stay the Madras HC order until 18 Oct...

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Sterlite Industries has to shut down its copper smelting plant in Tuticorin, due to the “negative impact of running of the industry at the place and in the manner it is being run” said a Madras High Court division bench.

The Supreme Court of India has rejected the plea to defer the Ayodhya ruling by the Allahabad High Court, which is now expected to be handed down at 3pm on Thursday 30 September, which has again put states on high alert fearing potential violence.

The Supreme Court declined to stay the Bombay High Court judgment against Vodafone of 8 September , giving the Indian tax department four weeks to decide how much Vodafone will have to pay in taxes on its purchase of Hutchison Whampoa’s Indian telecoms subsidiary, reported Bloomberg today . Vodafone...

Rakesh Tiku has been elected chairman of the Delhi bar council, winning all 14 votes cast today against opponent Rakesh Goswami in a fresh election held today after the post was left vacant for over two months following the demise of former chairman K K Sareen.

Tomorrow’s judgment in the Ayodhya religious dispute has been postponed by one week to 28 September by the Supreme Court, reported news organisations. The retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi filed a petition with the Supreme Court to make the dispute subject to mediation, which was yesterday ...

The Supreme Court has refused to hear the petition seeking to defer the Ayodhya dispute verdict and to mediate it, with the court saying it should be taken up by another “appropriate” bench, reports OneIndia . The petitioner Ramesh Chand Tripathi claimed that the verdict would disturb communal harmo...

Following his failure in the Bombay High Court to prevent the disciplinary committee from judging him, claiming it was biased, former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi has now approached the Supreme Court. Modi is now seeking for the apex court to hold that he can not expect fair findi...

The strike of Rajasthan lawyers would end after judges in Rajasthan High Court said at midnight yesterday that the contentious judicial service exam would be scrapped, reported CNN-IBN this morning , citing the principal private secretary to the Chief Justice who said he had received notice in writi...

Advocate Prashanth Bhushan who is currently facing contempt proceedings for having called eight out of the previous 17 Chief Justices of India (CJIs) corrupt, has submitted a second affidavit to the Supreme Court giving evidence of six former CJIs’ alleged corruption.

Former law minister Shanti Bhushan said that at least eight of the last 16 Chief Justices of India (CJI) were “definitely corrupt” in his defiant defence in the contempt proceedings brought against his son Prashanth Bhushan who had given an interview to national magazine Tehelka on September 5 2009 making the same allegation.

The Bombay High Court has cleared the way to set up 124 morning courts in Maharashtra by next week, with 20 being based in Mumbai. The courts will operate between 8am and 10am to increase the caseload the courts are able to handle, reported the Times of India . Maharashtra received Rs 542 crore ($11...

Vodafone has filed its appeal to the Supreme Court challenging last week’s Bombay High Court order that said the Indian tax authorities could charge Indian tax on its $11bn acquisition of Hutchison Essar in 2007 . Vodafone released a statement today saying that the company remained “convinced that t...

The Uttar Pradesh High Court is due to rule on 24 September on who owns the Babri site where a mosque was destroyed in 1992 by Hindu activists claiming the site was the birthplace of Hindu god Ram, which sparked sectarian violence causing 2,000 deaths, reported the AFP . As both sides expect a favou...

The Supreme Court has issued notices to the government’s department of telecommunication, telecom minister A Raja and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reply to charges that Raja caused the government losses of Rs 60,000 crore ($12.9bn) by mishandling the 2G spectrum allocation to mobile ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia has initiated the transfer of 20 high court judges, citing “public interest” in an apparent first step by him to clean up the judiciary.

The Bombay High Court said that the right to practice a religion did not guarantee the right to access public property to do so. The court said there was no need for the petitioner to visit a Hanuman temple in Mumbai’s Colaba district that lay on land restricted by the Navy for security reasons. “Wh...

The Delhi High Court has fined two siblings Rs 75,000 after litigating against each for 18 years over property. The court said: “Keeping in view the conduct of the petitioners that they still do not want the suit instituted about 18 years ago to reach its ultimate destination, they must be made to p...