Bar, Bench & Litigation

AIBE 2016 results delayed nth time: 'There are 40,000 sheets, It takes time,' shouts official bar exam hotline

BCI & its contractors : Delaying AIBE results succesfully since 2009
BCI & its contractors : Delaying AIBE results succesfully since 2009
The results to the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) 9 will be out on or before 20 May, as each candidate’s answer sheet now finally stands evaluated, assured the Bar Council of India (BCI) today following two missed official deadlines.

After 3 months, cops manage to ID Patiala House thug-vocates but not much else

Three months after the violence before the Patiala House court complex in the capital in which journalists were assaulted by lawyers, Delhi Police say all they have been able to do is “examine” the visual footage of the incident and having identified the assaulters.

HC stays JNU students' rustication (but only if they stop making trouble for powers that be)

The Delhi high court today stayed all disciplinary action, including rustication orders, against Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid, Anirban Bhattacharya and others, on the condition that they withdraw all current agitation.

Aw well: Supreme Court upholds criminal defamation law

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the constitutional validity of India’s criminal defamation law that was contested by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy.

SC upholds tax man's plea vs Amitabh Bachchan crorepati earnings [READ JUDGMENT]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a plea by income tax authorities challenging a Bombay high court order that had permitted Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan tax relief in earnings made from “Kaun Banega Crorepati” (KBC).

SC strikes down TRAI call drop order

The Supreme Court today struck down a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) notification obligating telecom service providers to compensate consumers for dropped calls. Striking down the notification dated 16 October, 2015, an apex court bench of Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Nar...

Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) exam: 4 questions deleted, HC orders marks recomputed

The Delhi high court on Monday ordered that the marks of the Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) 2015 preliminary examination be recomputed after deleting four questions, which had more than one correct answer. A division bench of Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Najmi Wazri asked the court registry to f...

Case of the week: Cop, so hurt he can't concentrate on work, gets defamation summons vs Kejriwal who used slang term

A Delhi court on Saturday issued summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for allegedly using the word “thulla” - derogatory Delhi slang for cop - to describe policemen.

Why the right to eat beef goes to the core of our being, explains Bombay HC beef-ban-winner Haresh Jagtiani

Once you chip away on right to privately eat beef, you chip away at the 'core of our being': Haresh Jagtiani, advocate-petitioner-in-person
Once you chip away on right to privately eat beef, you chip away at the 'core of our being': Haresh Jagtiani, advocate-petitioner-in-person
The right to eat beef is a part of the right to privacy, which is a part of a citizen’s fundamental right to life, affirmed the Bombay high court today.

NEET AIPMT 2016: SC shows interest in allowing state-level common medical admissions exam

The Supreme Court on Friday said the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) for medical admissions will continue but it may permit a state-level common entrance test (CET) for admission to government medical colleges only. However, this will be subject to the stand to be spelt out by the central ...

Bombay HC: Possession of non-Maharashtrian beef not a crime (but slaughter of Maha cows still is)

In a significant verdict, the Bombay high court today ruled that possession of beef slaughtered outside Maharashtra would not be a criminal offence but it upheld the government’s decision to ban the slaughter of bullocks in the state.

After viral Caravan story on AoL fortune, Sri Sri slapped with contempt suit for 'disrespecting NGT'

With his Art of Living Foundation (AoL) yet to pay the major chunk of “environment compensation” for its cultural fest on the Yamuna floodplains, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was on Thursday slapped with a contempt suit for “alleged disrespect shown by him to the orders of National Green Tribunal (NGT)”.

Centre mulls abolishing BCI; Manan Kumar Mishra disagrees

The government is considering replacing regulators for the the legal, medical, chartered accountancy, cost accountancy, and company secretarial professions.

A look at how even in the US, the legal system moves slowly enough for it to grind many defendants down

A fascinating and depressing story shared on Twitter by a US defence lawyer and collated by Fusion, explains how and why a client pleaded guilty to a charge of assault despite having done nothing wrong.

AIPMT NEET 2016: SC ropes in MCI to talk whether states can make exceptions

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Medical Council of India to respond to a batch of applications by various state governments and associations of private medical colleges seeking to hold their own separate examinations for admission to undergraduate medical courses.

Dalit law student rape & murder becomes political issue in Kerala

Last week’s brutal rape and murder of an around 29-year-old Dalit woman who was studying law at Government Law College Ernakulam has galvanised politics in election-bound Kerala, as Chief Minister Oomen Chandy promised a thorough probe while the opposition alleged “inaction”. Jisha’s dead body was f...

AIPMT vs NEET 2016: SC to hear exemption applications tomorrow with Subramanium, KKV, as SC committee to conduct counselling [UPDATE-1]

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow (Tuesday) a batch of applications seeking that NEET for admissions to undergraduate medical courses may not be thrust on the states and they may be allowed to conduct their own entrance examinations.

AIPMT 2016: 'The matter is over', says SC to last-ditch Saturday NEET challenge

The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to re-look at its order directing the holding of two National Eligibility Entrance Tests (NEET) for admission to under graduate medical courses for 2016-17.

Court Cuts: The SC judiciary's recurring interest in ML Sharma's injuries wins him free steno services today

An uninterested bench of the Supreme Court of India has asked a bystander advocate to provide his stenographer to advocate ML Sharma to help him type his suggestions to the court in a dubious case the bench had not showed much interest in.

AIPMT 2016: No change in schedule, NEET not cancelled

The Supreme Court today said that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will conduct the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) on 1 May and 24 July for admission to under-graduate medical courses as it had earlier directed.