A Delhi court today dismissed an anticipatory bail plea of a St Stephen’s college teacher accused of molesting a PhD student. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg dismissed the plea of Satish Kumar, an assistant professor in the chemistry department of the college. On the victim’s allegation, polic...

The bail hearing of Reliance Industries in-house counsel Janhavi Gadkar, who is accused of driven while drunk and killing two men, was adjourned in the Kurla metropolitan magistrate’s court yesterday to 25 June amidst arguments between counsel. Advocate Dimple Shah, representing Gadkar, had argued t...

The Karnataka government today moved the Supreme Court challenging the state high court’s verdict acquitting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natrajan and two others in a case of disproportionate assets. The Karnataka government has urged the apex court to stay the operati...

The Supreme Court will hear in July BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea challenging the non-bailable warrants issued against him by a court in Assam over his controversial comments that mosques were not religious structures. A vacation bench of Justice MY Eqbal and Justice Arun Mishra directed listi...

A Delhi court today dismissed the bail application of Delhi’s former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar in the fake degree case, saying that allegations against him were serious in nature as he is a legislator. Dismissing the plea, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Tarun Yogesh extended his ju...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the central government and the UP government on a PIL seeking CBI probe into the killing of journalist Jagendra Singh allegedly at the behest of UP minister Ram Murti Verma. The apex court vacation bench headed by Justice MY Eqbal issued notice on a PIL a...

Over 40 percent Indians were deprived of certain basic rights and opportunities, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur of the Supreme Court has said here. “Over 40 percent out of 1.25 billion Indians are acutely deprived of certain basic rights and opportunities,” said Justice Thakur, who is also the executiv...

A Delhi court on Sunday sent former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, accused in a fake degree case, to one-day judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Ankit Singla remanded Tomar to judicial custody for a day after he was presented before the court as his two-day police remand expired on S...

A case was filed today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in a court in the Bihar capital for giving a “religious colour” to yoga, thereby hurting people’s sentiments, one day before Modi’s national Yoga day celebrations. “We have filed a case a...

In a major setback to self-styled godman Asaram, the Jodhpur district and sessions court rejected on Saturday his bail plea in a sexual assault case. District judge Manoj Kumar Vyas denied the bail after looking into the facts and circumstances of the case. Asaram is behind bars since September 2013...

Disputing the government position, an association of apex court lawyers on Friday told the Supreme Court that parliament could not have passed the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act in August 2014 as it had no foundation in the constitution to stand on. “The passage of NJAC Act, 2014, was ...

A court here on Friday extended the police custody of former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar for two days in the fake degree case, though the Aam Aadmi Party leader later moved a bail plea. Delhi Police sought Tomar’s custody to confront him with Madan Pratap Chauhan, a man being interrogate...

Delhi high court Justice Gian Parkash Mittal, who was appointed as an additional judge in the high court in 2010, has resigned according to the Press Information Bureau (PIB).

“)Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in five cases.

The Supreme Court on Friday gave 18 months to Sahara to repay Rs.36,000 crore of the investors money which its two companies, SIRECL and SHFCL, had collected in 2007-08 through OFCDs.

“For those of you who follow former Supreme Court Justice and former Press Council of India (PCI) Chairman, Justice Katju on Facebook, you would have learnt two things over the last couple of months: first he’s holidaying in the US with family and second he’s making very serious allegations of corru...

The Supreme Court on Friday gave CBSE time till August 16 to conduct and declare the results of All India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) for medical and dental courses for the year 2015-16, despite the CBSE having yesterday requested three months saying it was impossible to conduct the exam in one . The a...

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Friday the verdict that will decide the fate of Sahara chief Subrata Roy and two group directors who are in jail since March 4 last year for not complying with the court’s order to return investors’ Rs.24,000 crores that two group companies SIRECL and SHFC...

Madhan Mohan Punchhi, who passed away aged 81 last night, was Chief Justice of India (CJI) between 18 January 1998 and 9 October 1998.

As was being speculated, the Supreme Court of India has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical and Pre-Dental Test (AIPMT) for the academic session 2015-2016 and has asked the organising body, the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE), to re-conduct the test within four weeks, which the CBSE today told the apex court was impossible.