The union government will urge the Supreme Court’s e-committee to allow audio-visual (AV) recording of Supreme Court proceedings to “usher transparency as it would discourage witnesses from retracting their statements” and to prevent “unwarranted delay in trials (through re-recording of witness test...

Because the union government has ordered enquiry into allegations of foul play in the Delhi lower judicial services exam (DJS) 2014, two Delhi high court judges whose relatives cleared the DJS 2014 should not be assigned cases in which the union of India is a party, or these judges should be transfe...

The bail of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who allegedly killed two while driving drunk, has been rejected by the Kurla metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai today, reported NDTV and others. Her lawyer Mahesh Sabnis told the court that she would cooperate with the police and that b...

A group of lawyers at Rohini district court in Delhi reportedly tried to slap Ravinder Kumar, who stands accused of at least 27 cases of the rape and murder of children, after he exited the court room. Zee News and others reported that a number of lawyers tried to hit Kumar, who has is currently in ...

One day after members of the Delhi High Court Bar Association received text messages that its president Rajiv Khosla had been suspended for alleged “anti–bar activity”, members were left confused when they received messages today that the DHCBA secretary Abhijat was suspended.

Update 17:14 : In a breather for social activist Teesta Setalvad, the Bombay High Court on Friday extended her and her husband Javed Anand’s interim bail by two weeks. The high court order came barely hours after a special court rejected their anticipatory bail application, paving the way for their ...

The Supreme Court will hear on Monday the plea by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon’s plea challenging the death warrant issued against him and for the stay of his execution set for July 30. “I have already assigned the bench. It will come by Monday,” said Chief Justice HL Dattu as ...

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the dress code prescribed by the CBSE for candidates appearing for the AIPMT exam on Saturday, barring them from wearing either a head scarf and full-sleeved shirt. A bench of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu, Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Amitava Roy...

The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that after a mercy petition by a death row convict is rejected by the President, it cannot be moved afresh before the governor of a state unless there were entirely new grounds. Telling this to the Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

The Supreme Court was on Wednesday moved for quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner TM Bhasin, on grounds that their appointments were in breach of “institutional integrity”. The petition by NGO Common Cause and many eminent people sough...

The Indian Express reported that 44 days after her arrest, while still in jail without bail and the court expected to give its order on 24 July: Arguing for lawyer Janhavi Gadkar to be released on bail, her advocate said that the traffic authorities were maligning the law fraternity by putting up po...

India’s leading stock exchange National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) on Wednesday said it has issued notice to 260 companies for not having appointed a woman director. The stock bourse, in a statement, said: “In compliance with the SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) directive, NSE ha...

The central government Tuesday told the Supreme Court that no mercy could be shown to the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as it opposed the Tamil Nadu government’s move set free seven convicts by granting them remission of sentence. Opposing Tamil Nadu government’s plea to release the ...

Amid all the legal troubles she and her husband Javed Anand face, human rights activist Teesta Setalvad is unfazed and believes that the good will finally triumph. Accusing the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of political vendetta, Setalvad took strong exception to the CBI calling her a “natio...

Lawyers of Delhi’s district courts on Tuesday began an indefinite strike against the delay in passage of an amended bill in parliament on enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts. Advocate RK Wadhwa, chairman of the coordination committee of all district courts bar associations, said la...

Special TADA Court Judge PD Kode who conducted the trial in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Tuesday hailed the Supreme Court’s rejection of his curative petition, which will send prime accused Yakub Memon to the gallows in just over a week . Nik...

The AAP-run Delhi government on Tuesday decided to scrap Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor system introduced by Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government in the city, after the Delhi high court had declined to ban it in 2012 . “The decision to scrap BRT was taken in a meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Mini...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a curative petition by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who is scheduled to hang on July 30 . Memon had challenged the earlier verdict of the apex court to uphold his death sentence. Rejecting the curative petition, a bench of Chi...

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Special Task Force (STF) to take “appropriate steps” under the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Vyapam accused so that they do not take advantage of delayed action and seek bail. “Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, we permit the SIT/STF to take...

The Bombay high court on Monday rejected a murder convict’s challenge against Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s stay of his five-year jail sentence in the actor’s 2002 drunk-driving accident case. The intervention appeal, filed by a murder convict whose plea has not been heard since 2009, contended that...