The Maharashtra government will have to figure out its stance on the legality of casinos in the state, within six months, after the Bombay high court today ordered it to take a decision on the yet-not-notified Maharashtra Casinos (Control & Tax) Act 1976. Hariani & Co solicitor Anirudh Har...

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by Neelam Katara seeking enhancement of sentence to death for Vishal and Vikas Yadav who have been convicted for murdering her son Nitish Katara in February 2002. A bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice R Banumathi said that while it was a murd...

The Supreme Court on Thursday sought response from the central and Delhi governments on a plea filed by three lawyers seeking ban on the sale and bursting of firecrackers during the festival of Dussehra and Diwali because it further aggravates the already dangerous level of air pollution.

The Supreme Court on Thursday said a constitution bench will hear on 14 October a batch of applications, including one by the central government seeking “clarification/modification” of its 11 August order to permit the use of Aadhaar card for availing benefits under social welfare schemes including ...

Nestle India on Thursday asked the apex consumer court why fresh food safety tests were being ordered on Maggi noodles when a similar exercise has already been conducted as per the directions of the Bombay high court. The matter came up before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCD...

The Bombay high court on Thursday quashed an order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) which had ruled that the IT Department had powers to raise a tax demand on telecom giant Vodafone India in a Rs 8,500 crore transfer pricing case. In a terse statement, Vodafone India “welcomed” the high c...

Delhi high court rapped the government yesterday for failing to produce the contracts it has entered into with companies like facebook and google reported The Economic Times . The government had sought time to place the contracts with the court in May and July but has still not produced them. This i...

In a setback to the central government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify its 11 August order restricting the use of Aadhaar card for distribution of foodgrain under PDS, supply of kerosene oil and LPG, saying that plea for the clarification or modification of its order would be decid...

A court here on Wednesday granted bail to Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti, who is accused in a domestic violence case filed against him by his wife Lipika Mitra. Additional Sessions Judge Anil Kumar released Bharti on bail asking him to furnish a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of...

A Chhatisgarh district bar association has debarred lawyers enrolled “outside” from practicing in Jagdalpur courts, reported Bhaskar . The Bastar district bar Association in Chhatisgarh’s Jagdalpur town allegedly passed a resolution to debar the lawyers, in its general body meeting, but a copy of th...

Khaitan Sud & Partners (KSP) advised the Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) led consortium on infusing Rs 226.28 crores ($35m) in TRN Energy. TRN was advised in house. KSP partner Tanuj Sud and associates Henna Vadhera and Aiswarja Mohanty acted for REC REC’s infusion will be used to meet ...

Justice N Kirubakaran of the Madras high court passed radical directions on a petition asking the court to curb entry of persons with criminal antecedents into the legal profession and to maintain purity of law courses.

On certain days, the Indian litigant knows better than to hold the courts to their official calendar of working days: at least 100 days have already been lost this year across various Indian courts to strikes by advocates.

Civil rights activist Irom Sharmila, accused of a suicide bid during her fast-unto-death protest in 2006, told a court here on Tuesday she was implicated in a false case because of worldwide media attention to her struggle. “My struggle was attaining (attention) in national and international media a...

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the central and Delhi governments as to why pollution compensatory charge be not levied on the trucks and commercial vehicles entering national capital and further contributing to already alarming air pollution in the city.

A court today extended, till 19 October, the judicial custody of Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti in a domestic violence case filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. A magistrate’s court remanded Bharti in 14 days judicial custody after he was presented before it after expiry of his one-day judici...

Despite the Law Commission’s suggestion to go for mediation as an alternative system of settling disputes, the process is yet to start visibly in India, Tripura High Court judges have said. “The process is yet to start noticeably though the system is a well accepted method in the US,” high court jud...

The Supreme Court today asked the chief justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to form a three-judge bench to examine the validity of penal provisions that bans slaughtering of cattle and sale of beef in the state. Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy put on hold the order of the Jamm...

Maharashtra’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led government has declined to share any information on expenses incurred on hanged 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon on grounds that it could affect “the sovereignty, unity and security of the country”, said a RTI applicant. RTI activist Anil Galgali had sou...

Maharashtra’s second National Law University (NLU) would get its permanent campus in the coastal town of Uttan in Mumbai’s Thane district.