Criticism of a district judge attracted criminal contempt charges by the Madras high court against two advocates who also prevented a court staff from performing his duties, reported the Express . The court further ordered the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry to initiate disciplinary proceed...

The 2014 Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) exam’s controversial results were not stayed, but may be probed after the Supreme Court’s order in a writ today. The DJS will hold its interviews for selection of judges in Delhi on Thursday, as per schedule.

Sexual harassment wasn’t proved against Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele, reported an ad hoc in-house committee of the Supreme Court, after examining charges leveled against him by a former lower court judge. The Supreme Court accepted this finding, reported the Express . The Supreme Court...

Markandey Katju committed no offence by dubbing as “nonsense” the Hindu belief that cow is mother, said a Delhi court while rejecting a plea to register a First Information Report (FIR) against the former Supreme Court judge, reported the PTI . The Supreme Court meanwhile told Katju that the parliam...

The Supreme Court’s secretary general VSR Avadhani has issued a press release that its former deputy registrar (research), Anup Surendranath, had resigned “on his own request as he wanted to pursue his interest in research projects in which he is involved in”.

“What was played out this week at the Supreme Court was the proverbial final nail,” said Surendranath.

The Bombay high court will deliver its verdict on Monday over food multinational Nestle India’s petition challenging the orders of FSSAI and Maharashtra’s FDA banning its products last month for containing toxic substances. Nestle has contended that its products do not contain lead in excess of perm...

As a debate rages over the hanging of Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon, the Rajya Sabha on Friday admitted CPI leader D Raja’s private member’s resolution to abolish the death sentence in the country. A private member’s resolution is moved by an individual member and not by the government. “Snatchi...

“Owing to misbehaviour and insult meted out to advocates for a pretty long time, we took a resolution to abstain and refrain from attending the court of Justice Girish Gupta,” Calcutta high court Bar Association outgoing secretary Rana Mukherjee told PTI about the reason for lawyers have boycotted G...

Dismissing the argument that 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon’s execution should have been stalled by 14 days after the rejection of his mercy plea, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi on Thursday said had that happened, it would have been against the “spirit of the law”. In an interview to Karan T...

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who is also the Bihar State Bar Council’s (BSBC) representative at BCI, apologised to the Patna high court for the “mistakes” of the BSBC as the court admonished the BSBC for calling a state-wide lawyer strike on July 15, reported the Times of ...

Yakub Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, was hanged till death at the Nagpur Central Jail in Maharashtra today morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows - on his 54th birthday on Thursday - after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by v...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday slammed app-based cab service Ola for not complying with the ban imposed on it and asked the city government to “strictly enforce” the injunction. Justice Manmohan, while refusing interim relief to Ola to vacate the stay, issued notice to the central and Delhi gover...

A Supreme Court hearing is likely to place on a plea seeking to put on hold the execution of 1993 Mumbai blast convict Yakub Memon in the early hours of Thursday. Perhaps for the first time, the Supreme Court will be hearing a petition seeking a stay on the execution of death sentence at the court p...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on a petition by the Karnataka government challenging the high court verdict acquitting her and three others in a disproportionate assets case. Notice has also been issued to Jayalalithaa’s three close aides, Sasik...

Things promised to return to normal in the Delhi high court on Monday after high-stakes drama last week, when the members of DHCBA received message through the newly formed SMS handle DHCBAS declaring that the strike was suspended.

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*Kian Ganz looks into the BCI’s latest claim that 30 per cent of lawyers are not really lawyers and asks, how the BCI knows.

As 1993 Mumbai serial Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon Monday told the Supreme Court that he could not be executed on July 30 as this would be in “flagrant” violation of the court’s earlier directions, the central government strongly opposed it saying that he has already exhausted all the lega...

Sleuths of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) today arrested Ashwin Rao, son of Karnataka Lokayukta Justice V Bhaskar Rao, for allegedly seeking Rs.1-crore bribe from a state executive engineer. “A SIT team led by our Superintendent of Police Laburam nabbed Ashwin Rao at Aurangabad in Marathwada r...

The 1993 Bombay blast convict Yakub Memon’s plea for stay on his execution, slated for 30 th July 2015, will be heard by the Supreme Court today with NLU Delhi’s death penalty litigation clinic as an intervenor . The hearing comes in the midst of intense public scrutiny as everyone from politicians ...