Polygamy - the practice of taking several wives - is “heinously patriarchal” observed the Gujarat high court even as it quashed the bigamy charges against a muslim man, reported the Times of India . Gujarat high court justice JB Pardiwala quashed the charges against the man because bigamy and polyga...

Amity Law School student Paras Jain recovered Rs 15 lakh in damages from India’s first and biggest fairness cream brand Emami, for causing psychological hardship to his brother Nikhil Jain, through its allegedly false claims of fairness, reported The Telegraph . Emami was also banned from advertisin...

In the midst of the melee in Court 4 on 5 November before the constitution bench hearing the proposals on reforming the collegium, counsel arguing for and against the brief adjournment, missed a crucial fact: the present collegium headed by the outgoing CJI, Justice HL Dattu, is unlikely to meet to recommend the names of new Judges, in view of Dattu’s recommendation to the government to elevate the senior-most of his colleagues, Justice TS Thakur, as the CJI, after his retirement on 2 December.

The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a law to prohibit cow slaughter and sale of beef and its products across the national capital region (NCR). A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath dismissed the plea saying the petition is “misconceived” and the Delh...

With the Central Information Commission facing a huge pendency of cases, the Delhi high court on Friday directed the centre to finalise the selection of three central information commissioners within six weeks. “The selection process that has already been commenced vide notifications dated 25 Februa...

The Delhi high court on Friday directed app-based cab service provider Uber to file an affidavit giving details of the diesel cabs it has phased out within the national capital. Justice Manmohan, who remarked that there was no “phasing out of diesel-based cabs by Uber”, also asked the firm to also p...

The Supreme Court on Thursday extended till 13 November the time for inviting suggestions to make the functioning of collegium system transparent and eligibility criteria based for the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary. An apex court constitution bench headed by Justice AS Khehar said th...

Congress leader and senior counsel Kapil Sibal has been slated to take up cudgels on behalf of young Patel leader Hardik Patel, who faces sedition charges, in the Supreme Court. The Gujarat Police slapped the charges for Patel’s allegedly incendiary remarks and speeches during his four-month protest...

Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017. Chief Justice Dattu has recommended the name of Justice Thakur, being the seniormost judge after h...

Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav who raped a woman executive on 5 December last year was awarded life imprisonment till death by a court here on Tuesday. Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja pronounced the order. Yadav was convicted last month on charges of rape, causing grievous bodily harm and ...

The Tamil Nadu government has asked the Supreme Court for relief from a Madras high court order directing it to put in place Central police (CISF) security worth Rs 16.6 crore at the Madras high court, reported the Times of India . Madras HC Chief Justice Kishan Kaul and Justice TS Sivagnanam had on...

JPMorgan has hired Deutsche Bank vice president (legal) Yash Yadav in the same role at JP Morgan as a senior markets lawyer, specialising in structured finance.

The Supreme Court refused to stay the rules regarding the Certification of Practice (CoP) of the Bar Council of India (BCI) reported webindia . A division bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and RK Agrawal were hearing transfer petition of BCI and declined to stay the CoP rules. The court had sta...

The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) has suggested a consultative mechanism comprising judges outside the collegium and representatives of various lawyers bodies for selection of candidates for appointment as apex court and high court judges. The SCAORA in its suggestion for a ...

The Supreme Court today said it would appoint a retired judge of the apex court to re-evaluate the answer sheets of the Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) main exam of 2014 which have come under cloud for alleged “unreasonable and arbitrary” evaluation. The apex court bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Jus...

The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 will not apply to women whose father died before the amendement came in force, ruled the Supreme Court, effectively withdrawing such women’s right to equal share in their fathers’ property, reported The Indian Express . The Supreme Court bench of justices An...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is to continue functioning as per current procedure, as the BCI succeeded in its appeal against the Madras high court order that had suggested transferring its functions to an expert judicial body, reported The Hindu . The Madras high court on Friday stayed its justice...

In a setback to the Arvind Kejriwal government, the Delhi high court on Friday quashed the executive decision to get the books of accounts of the three private power distribution companies (discoms) in the city-capital scrutinised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).

The Supreme Court will look into a plea for a ban on websites with jokes on the Sikhs, as a lawyer-petitioner told the apex court on Friday that the community was projected as people of low intellect, stupid and foolish through such jokes. As petitioner Harvinder Chowdhary urged for directions to ba...

According to internet freedom watchdog Freedom House, “Internet freedom in India has improved in the past year” in its report of 65 countries, with India having seen “positive developments relating to ‘regulatory framework, declining detentions for online speech and burgeoning digital access’”, repo...