A petition was filed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir. Justice Pratibha Rani would hear the case post-lunch on Tuesday. “Indian Army...

PDS Legal won Rs 49.82 crore Value Added Tax (VAT) relief for Flipkart in the Allahabad high court which ordered the Uttar Pradesh VAT department to refund that amount to Flipkart, with interest, and also ordered the department’s concerned tax officer to pay Rs 2 lakh, in litigation cost, to the e-c...

The Art of Living (AoL), headed by spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, said today via its lawyer Akshama Nath it was committed to setting up a bio-diversity park at the Yamuna floodplain. “We are working with environmental experts as per the directions of the (National Green Tribunal, NGT) to set...

Those who thought the NGT’s 9 March insistence that the AoL pay a fine ofRs 5 crores before going ahead with the event at the disputed site ofYamuna was too mild, compared to the kind of devastation which it is likelyto cause to the site, must today concede that the NGT order “being mild”was probably an understatement. In today’s order (read below), the NGTappeared too willing to accept AoL’s offer of Rs 25 lakh now, and pay thebalance within three weeks.

The Supreme Court today dismissed a petition seeking to quash a criminal case against Gujarat Police personnel involved in the Ishrat Jahan shoot-out case in view of Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Headley’s statement regarding the matter. A bench of Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice Amitava ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday gave three weeks to Art of Living (AoL) to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5 crore for holding World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi, after AoL’s leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had said in TV interviews he’d rather go to jail than pay...

The Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) recruitment committee will interview, within four weeks, the 12 new candidates who crossed the exam’s cut-off marks on a re-evaluation. The re-evaluation was part of a judicial inquiry on fairness in the conduct of the DJS 2014.

In an order, which reads like admission of helplessness, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) today declined to prohibit the holding of multi-crore World Culture Festival (WCF) organized by the Art of Living Foundation on the flood plains of the river Yamuna, after two days of hectic hearing of the parties concerned.

The Enforcement Director (ED) on Monday registered a money-laundering case against founder of now defunct Kingfisher Airlines and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, official sources said. “We have filed a case against Mallya on Monday. The case is specifically based on the case registered by the CBI against...

The Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) 2014 exam’s results were turned on their head by retired Supreme Court judge PV Reddy’s committee, after almost all of the top 200-ranked candidates’ marks in the exam increased on re-evaluation.

After a suspenseful countdown to delivery of order in the JNU students union leader, Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail application, Delhi high court justice Pratibha Rani, gave the key accused in the JNU sedition case conditional bail for six months in a 23 page order.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) asked two national law university faculty members to comment on an alleged live-in relationship between them, in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed in NLU Delhi by a relative of one of the two faculty members, reported Live Law . Correctio...

The Supreme Court will hear a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking suo motu contempt action against former home minister P Chidambaram for perjury and misleading the apex court and the Gujarat High Court on alleged LeT links of Ishrat Jahan. The PIL has also sought contempt against the then Cent...

By: Tags: *RK Pachauri, sexual harassmen, R K Pachauri, Prashant Mendiratta A charge sheet was filed by police in a sexual harassment case against TERI executive vice chairman R K Pachauri, court sources said. “The charge sheet was filed before a metropolitan magistrate Shivani Chauhan in Saket cour...

The Delhi high court took serious exception to its two-judge bench being called a “Dedh Bench (one-and-a-half bench) by advocate Deepak Khosla and ruled, last week, that he was in criminal contempt of the court.

The Delhi high court said it will pass an order on Wednesday on the bail plea of JNU student union chief Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges. Justice Pratibha Rani on Monday reserved the order on the bail plea and asked Delhi Police about the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has implemented two new compulsory requirements for lawyers – submit all educational qualification certificates and get a certification from “court procedure and ethics” training academies, in order to practice in courts. The BCI is collecting all the certificates of l...

“Lawyers”, numbering up to 200, allegedly attacked leftist protest demonstrators in Allahabad, reported The Wire . The report names several victims, including two women, who sustained injuries when 15-20 offenders, who’re reportedly lawyers, gathered at the spot of the peaceful demonstration, shoute...

The Delhi high court would no longer charge five times the cost under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005, for supplying information under an RTI filed to the court. However the court will still get to reject RTI requests which club unrelated questions in one single application.