Mumbai criminal lawyer Ashok Saraogi, who has represented gangster Abu Salem, was arrested on Sunday and sent to jail until 25 April for alleged cheating and forgery to help a client grab land, reported the Times of India . Lawyers Sohel Kazi and I V Y Tauro, co-accused with Saraogi, will spend thre...

A special Mumbai court today issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against liquor baron Vijay Mallya, official sources said. On 15 April, the Enforcement Directorate had moved the special court handling cases under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, seeking the warrant against Mallya who is curr...

The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that the East India Company did not take away the Kohinoor diamond but it was gifted to Britain by Sikh monarch Maharaja Ranjit Singh. The government stand on the matter was conveyed to the apex court bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice UU Lalit i...

The All India Bar Exam’s (AIBE IX) results will be delayed this time as well, according to Live Law’s sources. The results were due to release before Friday, according to the notification released on the AIBE’s website one day after the 6 March 2016 bar exam, as reported earlier . However, the resul...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has not satisfactorily complied with the Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI Act) provision which requires that it publish all its affairs on its website, held the Central Information Commission (CIC). The CIC said it is inclined to impose maximum penalty on the BCI if it doesn’t comply in a definite amount of time.

The Delhi lower judicial service (DJS) will now recruit 26 new judges, after the Supreme Court confirmed the result of 11 new candidates who cleared the DJS 2014 interview.

The Bombay high court today ordered that all IPL matches after 30 April should be shifted outside Maharashtra.

The matches scheduled until 30 April can, however, be held in the state, the court said, adding it could not afford to ignore the plight of people affected by drought.

There is an all-pervasive oppression by the ruling class and we are confronting a bizarre reality now, said G N Saibaba, the Delhi University professor who was released on bail last week by a Supreme Court order on health grounds . The 90 percent-disabled professor, who was arrested by the Maharasht...

The Supreme Court on Friday said the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should be “transparent and visible” and observed that the apex cricket body was “refusing to reform” and resisting some of the important recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee. “You are disch...

The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) will shut down its India-based operation after a lack of uptake.

A court today granted bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five others in a criminal defamation case filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. A lower court announced the bail to Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Kumar Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha and Deepak Bajp...

The Supreme Court was told on Tuesday that one report of a test on Maggi noodles by the government research institute has shown that the lead content was within permissible limits but the tastemaker monosodium glutamate (MSG) was on the higher side. Senior counsel Vibha Datta Makhija, appearing for ...

As of today, there are more than 20 million cases pending in the Indian district courts; two-thirds are criminal cases and one in 10 have been pending for more than 10 years, our analysis of National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) data has revealed.

Seth Dua & Associates (SDA) absorbed Alpha Partners to add the > Noida-based Alpha’s office as SDA’s Noida office and Alpha founding > partner Akshat Pande as SDA’s 12th partner.>> Alpha has a specialized practice in private equity, venture capital, > corporate, compliance management, intellect...

The law ministry has invited applications from the public to fill its post of secretary, moving away from its usual process of only selecting from among officers of the Indian Legal Services, reported the Sunday Guardian . Lawyers who have practised for at least 25 years in the Supreme Court and hig...

Senior counsel Harish Salve, whose name appeared in the so-called Panama Papers leak of more than 11 million financial documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, published in India by the Indian Express, told Legally India that including his name was unfair, since his use of a British Virgin Islands-based (BVI) shell company was legal and transparently declared in his tax returns.

In the first sentencing in a coal block allocation case, a special court in Delhi today sent to jail, for four years, two directors of Jharkhand Ispat Pvt. Ltd. whom it had convicted of criminal conspiracy and cheating in bagging a coal block, saying “white collar criminals” are “more dangerous” to ...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) will file a resolution in the Supreme Court, defending its Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015 by stating that “downfall” in the standards of bar association representatives was a result of increase in the number of fake lawyers, reported the Ti...

Aditya Sondhi, who was designated as senior counsel in July 2014, has been appointed additional advocate general of Karnataka, according to two authoritative sources, effective yesterday (31 March). He confirmed the appointment to Bar & Bench today, saying: “It’s an honour and a challenge.” Son...

Senior advocates are now temporarily outside the service tax net, as the Delhi high court today stayed the imposition of this tax on them, reported Mint . Justices S Muralidhar and RK Gauba ordered the stay on the Delhi High Court Bar Association’s (DHCBA) plea that charging senior advocates on the ...