The Delhi high court was on Monday informed by the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DLSA) that 51 women out of 152 women undertrial prisoners, who have been languishing in Tihar jail for more than six months or completed half of their sentences in lesser offences, have been released on bail. Fi...

The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Central Bureau of Investigation three weeks’ time to take over all the cases relating to the Vyapam scam and complete the appointment of public prosecutors to lead prosecution of its cases before the trial court. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Kurian ...

The Delhi high court on Monday issued notice to the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) on a plea filed by Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar seeking closure of the fake degree case against him. Justice VP Vaish sought response from the Bar Council of India (B...

An international tribunal on Monday ruled that it would not take action over a deadly 2012 maritime incident that sparked a diplomatic dispute between Italy and India.

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that political parties were not covered under RTI as they were not public authorities and any attempt to bring them under the transparency law was fraught with dangers of misuse with “malicious intention” of thwarting their “smooth internal wor...

Intellectual property (IP) firm LexOrbis, which set up a Bangalore office in April, has merged with local IP boutique Inolyst, which was set up by Dilip Kumar.

Essar Steel India has filed a Rs 250 crore defamation suit in the Ahmedabad city civil court against Delhi-headquartered magazine Caravan, its publisher Delhi Press, several of its editors and staff reporter Krishn Kaushik.

60 Delhi University law students allege that they had attended an evidence law exam for which they had been marked as absent and having failed according to the mark sheets released recently. The Hindustan Times reported: “We had given the examination and now have been marked absent in the Evidence L...

Tight security measures were in place at the Punjab and Haryana High Court complex following an anonymous letter on Tuesday which threatened that blasts would rock the premises today. Scores of Chandigarh Police personnel and para-military forces were seen around the high-security complex since the ...

The Supreme Court yesterday (20 August) declined the CBI’s plea to put forward its arguments on the period of sentence for Ansal brothers - Sushil and Gopal - following their conviction for negligence in 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy which claimed 59 lives.

Taking note of the deplorable state of district courts in the national capital, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked lawyers and bar associations to lend a helping hand in keeping the court premises clean.

A college student in China has sued the ministry of education to do away with textbooks describing homosexuality as a “disorder that should be treated”. The female student used the alias Qiu Bai when filing the case to prevent exposure of personal information to the Chinese public, who are largely c...

The Hindustan Times ’ Aloke Tikku reported: A first-of-its-kind set of statistics compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveals that 2,402 people, including 29 women, were arrested in 4,192 cases under section 66A — which was struck down in March by the Supreme Court that ruled that i...

education?”)The Allahabad high court has passed an order taking away the freedom of children of public functionaries in Uttar Pradesh to enrol in private schools.

Justice CS Karnan of the Madras high court sought 12 weeks’ time to reply to a petition alleging “intemperate observations” made by him against the Madras high court Chief Justice SK Kaul, reported PTI . According to the PTI , Karnan had written to the registrar general of the Supreme Court and said...

Former Linklaters Singapore managing associate Pallavi Gopinath Aney is set to join Baker & McKenzie as a partner, an authoritative source has confirmed to Legally India.

After having been unsuccessful in getting anticipatory bail in late June , the Delhi high court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to a St. Stephen’s chemistry teacher accused of molesting a doctoral student and asked him to join the investigation. Justice Indermeet Kaur granted bail to Satish Kuma...

The Supreme Court on Monday extended till September 30 the special facilities given to Sahara chief Subrata Roy to facilitate communication for negotiating transactions to raise money to pay market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India. Seeking details of a loan transfer from the Bank of ...

Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Monday gave consent to the state Lokayukta Amendment Bill 2015, paving the way for the removal of a ‘tainted’ ombudsman through lawmakers and judicial probe . “The Karnataka Lokayukta amendment bill has been enacted into law with the governor’s consent and the ame...

Britain-based Cairn Energy on Tuesday said it would contest a Rs 10,247 crore ($1.6 billion) retrospective demand raised by India’s income tax department and it would seek damages for losses resulting from the department’s attachment of its stake in Cairn India. “Cairn is currently unable to access ...