Legally India has responded to the legal notice sent by Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra on 25 May 2015 to Legally India, Kian Ganz and Prachi Shrivastava.

Three days after issuing circular to hospitals to conduct two-finger test on rape victims and facing criticism, the Delhi government decided to revoke it on Monday. Speaking at the Delhi secretariat, Health Minister Satyendra Jain said the government had decided to completely ban the two finger test...

The Supreme Court today chided the Rajasthan government for displaying “state of helplessness” in carrying out a high court direction to facilitate widening of the Delhi-Jaipur highway. The widening of the highway is held up due to a ‘bavadi’ (stepwell) and ‘samadhi’ (memorial of Baba Balnath. The R...

Justice Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela was today sworn-in as the chief justice of the Odisha High Court by Governor SC Jamir in Cuttack. Prior to his new assignment, Justice Waghela was officiating as the chief justice of the Karnataka high court. Waghela was transferred here in April this year by a pres...

The Hindu reported that the Rule of Law Index 2015 by the US-based World Justice Project has placed India 59th out of 102 countries globally for its rule of law performance on a number of metrics. On criminal justice India ranked 44th, while for civil justice it ranked 88th globally, third in South ...

The Delhi high court today issued notices to the central and Delhi governments and AIIMS on a plea of a man who has sought directions to the hospital to provide his brother, a blood cancer patient, free and continuous treatment, after the court in April had ordered the Delhi government to pay for tr...

Three graduates from NLSIU Bangalore - K S Bharath Kumar (2001 batch), Nerale Veerabhadraiah Vijay (2001) and Nerale Veerabhadraiah Bhavani (1999) - will become Karnataka district judges, alongside advocates Vijayakumar Malasiddappa Anandashetti and Ravi M R, reported Bar & Bench . They will be...

The Supreme Court, observing the credibility of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) was in question, on Wednesday asked the CBSE not to declare the results till June 9 as Haryana Police was probing the leak of the May 3 examination paper. A vacation bench of Justice Prafulla C Pant and J...

Ain’t it just the way? The only thing that’s come out of the Rohini district court in months is a circular issued by its Building Management Committee, headed by judges Pradeep Chadda and Yogesh Khanna.

The Karnataka government today decided to appeal in the Supreme Court against the acquittal of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case. “The state cabinet has accepted the recommendation of the special public prosecutor (BV Acharya) and state advocate general (Ra...

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has sent an unsolicited email to Legally India’s editor Kian Ganz earlier today, after having sent a legal notice claiming defamation just over one week ago.

Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit has been served a notice by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for endorsing Maggi noodles, an official said on Friday. The film actress is seen endorsing the two-minute noodle as a healthy food for children in a television commercial. The FDA in Uttar Pradesh had sou...

NLU Delhi’s nine-month-old death penalty clinic helped death penalty convicts Shabnam and Saleem win relief in the Supreme Court, which quashed their death warrants on Wednesday after having stayed their execution earlier in the week . The clinic, according to its press release, coordinated the lega...

The Delhi high court today refused to stay the union home ministry’s May 21 notification holding that the Delhi Lt. Governor has discretionary powers for appointments and transfers to key bureaucratic posts in the capital. NDTV reported that chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had proposed in court an “i...

In a small advantage to the central government, the Supreme Court today described as “tentative” the Delhi high court’s observation that its May 21 order giving Delhi’s Lt. Governor the final say in posting and transfers of bureaucrats was “suspect”, even as it issued notice to the city government o...

Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar on Tuesday urged the high court to stay the proceedings of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) initiated against him in an alleged “fake law degree” case. Approaching the high court, senior advocate AS Chandhiok who appeared for Tomar mentioned the case before Just...

The legislature of the US state of Nebraska has approved abolishing the death penalty there in a 30-19 vote, a sufficient majority to avert a veto attempt by Governor Pete Ricketts, Efe news agency reported. The sponsors of the initiative needed exactly 30 votes to overcome the veto issued Tuesday b...

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday the central government’s plea challenging the Delhi high court verdict (click to read judgment) which described as “suspect” the May 21 central notification on the Delhi government powers. The notification barred the Delhi government from proceeding against cent...

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed NGO Greenpeace India to operate two of its domestic accounts, which were frozen by the central government last month, to accept fresh domestic contribution. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also allowed Greenpeace to liquidate the fixed deposits and utilise the funds ...

Photographer Prashant Panjiar got rare camera access to chronicle Patna high court’s daily ins-and-outs, with the series of beautiful black and white photos published by the BBC.

Definitely worth checking out for any court buff.