Bar, Bench & Litigation
Nandrajog wins big for Bennett Coleman, kills dead Sahara-Swatanter injunction over Pachauri sex harassment claim [READ ORDERS]

Public Service Announcement: SCBA gets rid of ping pong table from chambers, seeks new home
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will remove the table tennis table from the CK Daphtary chambers block, because it has been disturbing those trying to have conferences with clients in the building. The SCBA will now look for an “appropriate place for installation of Table Tennis Table, alon...
SC reserves Teesta Setalvad judgment, stays arrest for now, pending 'liberty' ICU question...
The Supreme Court Thursday restrained the Gujarat Police from arresting activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand in connection with the alleged misuse of funds collected by NGO Sabrang Trust for setting up a museum at Gulbarga Society which witnessed one of the worst carnage during 2002 ...
When judges joke: 'Delhi Development Authority should be renamed Delhi Destruct Authority'
The Delhi high court yesterday called the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) the “Delhi Destruct Authority” while saying that the land-owning agency and other departments are not concerned about Delhi. “You all are not concerned about Delhi. All of you should be renamed. DDA should be renamed Delhi D...
Delhi HC: De-planing Greenpeace activist 'inappropriate', risk of India becoming pariah state overstated
The Delhi high court today termed “inappropriate” the central government’s decision to prevent Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai from leaving India because she would project a negative image of the country at the international level. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said that there can be differences of opinio...
The files for & against Teesta Setalvad: New SC bench to decide [today] if Guj HC was fair to both & right on arrest laws [Read SLP, judgments, affidavit]

Gurgaon bans pigs from streets; Owners threatened with 6 months jail
The nuisance of stray pigs in Gurgaon city is likely to be controlled with the authorities banning them. “Roaming of pigs will be completely banned in the areas falling under Municipal Corporation Gurgaon from Feb 22, 2015,” a state government spokesman said here Wednesday. “Thereafter, stray pigs w...
CJI calls for limit to SC's activism & power to blacklist (alleged) criminal politicians
The Supreme Court Wednesday said it was for elected representatives to take a call at what stage of proceedings a person facing criminal charges should be barred from contesting elections and the courts could not issue directions to the legislature and intrude in its domain. A bench of Chief Justice...
UP lawyers strike again after meeting law min: This time won't fall for 'any trick'
Lawyers in Ghaziabad did not attend courts today in response to a call by the lawyers’ action committee for a boycott in the light of their years-old objection to transferring of cases from Agra to Etawah. The Ghaziabad Bar Association president Ram Autar Gupta said that after the transfer of cases ...
PIL to change rape in live-in relationship to non-rape, ditched by Delhi HC
The Delhi high court Wednesday refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the government to keep cases of live-in relationships out of the purview of rape under the Indian Penal Code. The PIL also sought direction with regard to the issue of police arresting a person only on the basis of an al...
ML Sharma PIL: Centre tells HC that no issues in AAP's foreign funding
The central government Wednesday told the Delhi high court that the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) foreign funds were investigated and nothing was found in violation of the law. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw also asked the ministry of home affairs to submit its revised o...
Justice Gogoi springs new SC meme on Sibal: 'Is your case part of the 7%?'
“Does this case fall in the 93 per cent or in the remaining 7 per cent?” Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi has begun asking the bar increasingly often, reported Utkarsh Anand in the Indian Express . While Kapil Sibal reportedly did not get the reference, Gogoi was referring to recent research by ad...
SC extends stay of HC order banning cricket world cup feed from Doordarshan on cable
Cricket fans across the country will continue to view the World Cup matches involving India on public broadcaster Doordarshan’s national channel as the Supreme Court Tuesday extended its interim order for telecast of the matches on the channel. The court also asked Prasar Bharati to respond to Star ...
The Delhi Barfly diaries: When the district court’s government pharmacy becomes a pain, suffering court staff get sharp relief from unexpected quarters

Uber rape driver's new lawyer accuses old counsel of incompetence, wants to re-examine witnesses
Rape-accused Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav Monday moved an application in a Delhi court seeking to recall some prosecution witnesses in the case for further cross examination. Yadav’s defence counsel Dharmender Mishra told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that the lawyer who was previously...
NaMo: Retire 1,700 laws
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the government has identified around 1,700 obselete and is working towards their repeal. Pointing out that the world is looking at India with great hopes, he said one of the reasons for this was the global investor community trusts the independence of the c...
SC Lok Adalat axes 56,000 cheque & bank cases off the books
The countrywide national Lok Adalat for the settlement of bank recovery, cheques bounce and dishonoured cheques cases Saturday witnessed the settlement of 56,000 cases involving more than Rs 265 crore. The day-long Lok Adalat for the amicable settlement of such cases was organized by the National Le...
NaMo inaugurates Mohit Shah's judicial museum in the Bombay high court
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Permanent Judicial Museum at Bombay high court here Saturday, set up as part of its Sesquicentennial Celebrations depicting the rich judicial history of the city spanning three centuries. The first court held here was the Mayor’s Court (1726-1798), followed...
Is it ever ok to call a judge a 'sumbhan'? An idiots guide to contempt of court laws

SC extends stay on arrest of Gujarat riot activist Setalvad to 19 Feb
The Supreme Court Friday extended its order restraining the Gujarat police from arresting social activist Teesta Setalvad and her husband Javed Anand. An apex court bench headed by Justice SJ Mukhopadhya extended the restrain order as it directed the hearing of an appeal by Setalvand and Anand Feb 1...