The Supreme Court has said that the magnitude of the Uphaar fire tragedy may call for “higher sentence” but it could not go beyond the choices under the law while sentencing brothers and real estate barons Sushil and Gopal Ansal who own the Uphaar cinema hall, represented by senior counsel Ram Jethmalani.

Following a Delhi court’s order, charges of murder and kidnapping will be framed against six policemen on Wednesday for the alleged custodial death of a man here in 2014. Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg last week found prima facie evidence against then head constable Bhoop Singh a...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking cancellation of the visa given by government to controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen for allegedly violating Foreigners Act by preparing scripts for a film and a serial here. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Ja...

The copyright ownership fight over a world-famous “monkey selfie”, taken by a black macaque after pressing a button on a camera owned by a wildlife photographer four years ago in Indonesia, has now reached the court. Animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has f...

Moneylife Journalists Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal may not be compensated with Rs 1.5 lakh each by the National Stock Exchange (NSE), after the Bombay high court stayed its own order that had fined the NSE to pay them, reported DNA . The NSE had filed a Rs 100 crore defamation claim against the j...

The Advocates-on-record (AOR) designation will stay in the Supreme Court, decided a bench of justices AR Dave and AK Goel dismissing the challenge to the AOR system that was filed more than two years ago, reported Live Law . The Supreme Court’s briefing counsel senior advocate Sidharth Luthra’s asse...

Sniffer dogs, armed commandos and Rajputana Rifles personnel might soon be common citings at the Supreme Court which is being audited for parliament-style campus security, reported the Times of India . Emailed threats after the recent Yakub Menon verdict by the Supreme Court, prompted the move. SC p...

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual (LGBT) community in Nepal now stands out as the only LGBT community in Asia to have the right to equality and non-discrimination, reported Catch News . Articles 12, 18 and 42 in Nepal’s first federal constitution guarantee citizens the right choose their gen...

The Rajasthan assembly on Monday passed a legislation to curb vexatious litigation, becoming the fifth state in India to do so. The Rajasthan Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill 2015, was passed by voice vote, to cover both civil and criminal cases in the high court and subordinate courts. Introd...

Widows abandoned by their families in Vrindavan, Varanasi and other parts of India on Monday demanded that the government bring a bill for their protection. The widows, some of whom were present at a function to release a book “India’s Abandoned Mothers: The Widows of Banaras and Vrindavan” said the...

The Bombay high court on Monday declined to give an interim injunction on the ban on slaughter of bulls and sale of beef during Bakr-Eid. A division bench comprising Justice AS Oka and Justice VL Achliya was hearing a bunch of petitions, seeking relaxation on the ban on slaughter of bulls and sale o...

The Delhi high court on Monday issued notice to central government and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and its chief RK Pachauri on the plea of a woman employee who levelled sexual harassment allegations against the environmentalist.

The Delhi high court on Monday issued notices to the Centre and the state government on a PIL accusing the AAP government and MCDs of not acting vigilantly and responsibly to control dengue, a mosquito-borne tropical disease. The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed by Congress leader Ajay Mak...

The Rajasthan assembly on Monday passed a legislation to curb vexatious litigation, becoming the fifth state in India to do so. The Rajasthan Vexatious Litigation (Prevention) Bill, 2015, was passed by voice vote, to cover both civil and criminal cases in the high court and subordinate courts. Intro...

The composite scheme of arrangement among the four OP Jindal group companies - Jindal Stainless Ltd and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Ltd and Jindal United Steel Ltd and Jindal Coke Ltd - got the Punjab & Haryana High Court’s sanction on Monday, the company said. In a statement issued here, Jindal S...

Indian district courts’ complete case pendency records are now available online.

Indian Law Partners (ILP) advised Toshiba Corporation which bought Rs 400 crore ($60.7m) worth of shares in Noida based water services company UEM India from India Value Fund (IVF) and UEM’s promoter Krishnan Kshetry. IVF was advised by DSK Legal and Kshetry was advised by Amicus Services. ILP partn...

The Supreme Court’s Women Lawyers Association (WLA) has asked the Supreme Court to ban porn websites from the internet, to implement porn victim protection measures and to direct law enforcement agencies for stricter prevention of porn distribution, reported Live Law . The WLA through its secretary ...

The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Rajasthan government for not appointing chairman of the state Human Rights Commission, a position lying vacant for the last five years since 2010. The apex court described it as a “very sad state of affairs” and “totally unacceptable”. “We are distressed that ...

The Supreme Court’s Social Justice bench comprising of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit pursued their quest for social justice on Friday, Sepember 18 with a combination of compliment, reprimand, and expression of dismay. The bench heard eight cases in two hours from 2 pm in Court 9.