The Karnataka high court on Wednesday stayed an inquiry being conducted by the state Lokayukta’s police into the bribe charge against some of its unidentified officials. Passing an interim order against the internal probe, a division bench of the high court comprising Justice N Kumar and Justice B S...

Karnataka high court and Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay has commissioned a web developer to build a website that is intended to allow advocates to rate judges on three parameters - knowledge, integrity and cordiality.

PTI reported that: The Bombay high court on July 1 deferred till July 13 an appeal filed by Bollywood superstar Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the hit-and-run case, after the actor’s lawyer sought time to check documents. Although the ‘paper book’ (compilation of eviden...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that there can be no compromise in a rape case in the name of promising wedlock. An apex court bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C Pant said that any compromise promising wedlock between a rape accused and the victim compromises the dignity of the ...

Companies supplying gas are now free to fix their own tariff with the Supreme Court on Wednesday turning down a plea by the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) seeking power to regulate prices of intra-city supplies. An apex court bench, headed by Justice Dipak Misra, dismissed a PNGR...

Sexual harassment appears to be everywhere these days, yet it was always so. Complaints, on the other hand, seemed to be rarer only a few years ago.

The Supreme Court’s creche won’t open on time after all , announced the court’s registry in a notice, blaming a writ petition by advocate Anindita Pujari challenging the child care centre yesterday. The Indian Express reported that Pujari was: seeking direction to set up an “effective” creche that w...

In a partial breather for Nestle, the Bombay high court on Tuesday allowed the company’s Indian branch to export all varieties of its popular two-minute Maggi noodles. The domestic restrictions, however, would continue to apply. The matter will now come up for further hearing on July 14. Shardul Ama...

Madhya Pradesh district and sessions judge Jagdish Baheti has filed a petition before the Supreme Court over the Madhya Pradesh high court collegium’s decision to elevate his juniors but not him, due to a chargesheet against him alleging that he had granted defendants anticipatory bail on the basis ...

A few months ago, a cheque of Rs. 75,000 issued to a Mumbai businessman was repeatedly being returned and he instructed his lawyers to file a case under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1882. But the businessman, JP Vaghani, a partner of JP Electronics, a giant consumer electronics distributor in nor...

“Justice [Gyan Sudha] Misra, who although sat a little after the scheduled time, never compromised by rising just after half-an-hour. She was the last one to leave the court premises, be it the Supreme Court or High Court. There were absolutely no cause-lists that were not exhausted by her and no ju...

In a landmark judgement, the US Supreme Court ruled on Friday that gay people can marry nationwide and states cannot ban same-sex marriage - an issue that divides America and India.

Janhavi Gadkar, the Reliance Industries lawyer who allegedly killed two while driving drunk, has had her bail refused by magistrate Richa Khedkar, after senior counsel Amit Desai, representing Gadkar, argued yesterday that “significant progress” had been made in the case and keeping her in jail on b...

Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has written a letter to the Delhi high court chief justice on 18 June after having received allegations of “corruption, favouritism and nepotism” in the long-controversial Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) exam, reported the Indian Express ’ Utkarsh Anand. As reported by ...

The special public prosecutor (SPP) in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blasts case which involves some Hindu fundamentalists, including Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, on Thursday alleged that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) wanted her to “go soft” on the accused since the new BJP government came to powe...

The collegium, the Bar Council of India (BCI) and the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) symbolise the cliques that are not accountable to anyone other than themselves that run the Indian legal universe, argues NLSIU Bangalore visiting professor Shamnad Basheer on recent news start-up website The Wire...

A Delhi magistrates court today took cognizance of a complaint against Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani for allegedly misrepresenting facts in her election affidavits, holding that “arguments made on behalf of the complainant hold merit”. Metropolitan Magistrate Akash Jain considered...

The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of India will soon have a new office complex here and all offices of central information commission will be housed under a single roof, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Jitendra Singh, who met newly-appointed CIC Vijai Sharma he...

The main accused in the Mumbai hooch tragedy, in which at least 102 people have died, was arrested in the national capital on Tuesday and handed over to Mumbai police by a court. The 26-year-old bootlegger named Mansur Latif Shaikh was arrested from Seelampur area in east Delhi by a special Delhi Po...

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*Wherever the legal system is perceived as being unable to deal with something speedily or fairly, the media can and will step into the breach, for better or for worse, argues Kian Ganz.