Child rights activists protested against the the Juvenile Justice Bill that seeks to amend existing law and treat juveniles in the age group of 16-18 as adults for trial in heinous crimes. “We feel one unfortunate Nirbhaya case cannot determine the fate of all the (juvenile accused) boys,” child rig...

Desai & Diwanji advised the Bector Family and Motilal Oswal Private Equity on their Rs 450 crore ($67.5m) exit from Ludhiana based food and beverage company Mrs Bectors Food Specialities, after selling their minority stake in it. Private equity firms CX Partners, advised by Platinum Partners, a...

ARA Law acted for customer support firm Freshdesk in it’s acquisition of Konotor, a mobile based user engagement platform developed by software company Demach who were advised by Agama law Associates. ARA Bengaluru partner Avik Karmakar acted for Freshdesk. Agama Mumbai partner Archana Balasubramani...

Finance Minister of India, Arun Jaitley filed a civil defamation case against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and five other Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders in the Delhi high court today reported The Indian Express . Jaitley has accused AAP leaders of issuing false and defamatory statements again...

Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal said that the Supreme Court on Monday will hear her midnight plea against the release of the juvenile convicted in 16 December gang-rape case. The DCW chief said: “They (Supreme Court) have listed the matter for today (Monday) and we are goi...

Several judges of the court participated enthusiastically in observing call for car-free day made by Punjab and Haryana high court employees welfare association reported The Tribune on 19 December 2015. Judges were seen walking, cycling and using public transport to commute to and fro the court prem...

The Delhi high court today said the 16 December, 2012, Delhi gang-rape “juvenile” convict’s stay can’t be extended in an observation home. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said the convict, who was found to be a juvenile at the time of the crime, cannot be kept at t...

Kerala high court judge Justice PD Rajan has punished two police constables with contempt for accidentally addressing him colloquially outside of court, ordering them to copy the police manual by hand as punishment while standing in court all day.

A session court has ordered the police to return the driving licence and car of Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries in-house lawyer and former Talwar Thakore Associates associate who allegedly killed two passengers in a taxi when driving drunk in June 2015.

Advocate Seema Sapra, who has long-alleged that General Electric and its agents are trying to poison her in retaliation for whistleblowing over alleged corruption at the multinational’s India offices, has been sentenced to prison for a month by the Delhi high court for contempt.

The Supreme Court has increased transparency in the banking sector by holding that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cannot deny information sought under the right to information (RTI) law merely by citing economic interest and the central bank’s fiduciary relationship with banks.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked the state government to respond on a PIL seeking repainting of zebra crossings and removal of unauthorisedly parked vehicles from roads to prevent traffic disruptions. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath asked the Delhi governmen...

Journalists must take necessary precautions while reporting the court proceedings, a division bench of the Himachal Pradesh High Court observed on Thursday. The bench, comprising Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Sureshwar Thakur, dropped contempt proceedings against a reporter of an English daily fo...

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed by a voice vote the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which aims to make the country more investor-friendly. The bill, which seeks to amend the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 3 December by Law and Justi...

The 305-page judgment that overturned the drunk driving conviction of Salman Khan has been uploaded on the Bombay high court website.

Former Delhi high court judge Justice Reva Khetrapal took oath as the new Lokayukta of Delhi on Thursday. Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung administered the oath at a function where Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was also. Khetarpal will serve a five-year term. The post has remained vacant since Novemb...

Delhi’s lawyers on Wednesday wrote to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting him to exempt advocates from the city government’s odd-even vehicle restriction plan. The coordination committee of all district court bar associations, in its letter to Kejriwal, said that the odd-even traffic restricti...

Congress Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor has introduced a bill that would decriminalise private consensual sexual intercourse between adults by amending the Indian Penal Code’s section 377, reported Mint and others. The bill, which has been tabled for discussion on 18 December, seeks to amend section 37...

Former Hindustan Unilever senior legal counsel Rajendra Misra has joined the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces group as general counsel (GC) several days ago, taking over part of the role that was previously handled by the group’s company secretary and vice president legal Beejal Desai.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed Justice Virendra Singh, - former judge of the Allahabad high court - as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh and expressed its disapproval of the way constitutional authorities mandated to appoint the ombudsman failed to discharge their responsibilities. Noting tha...