The Delhi Prosecutors Welfare Association (DPWA) has intervened in a writ petition filed in the Delhi high court for providing speedy justice, and have asked for an upward revision in Delhi’s public prosecutors’ pay scales in the sixth pay commission, and for the payment of arrears of such revised p...

The Supreme Court Friday granted bail to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, convicted of possessing assests disproportionate to her known sources of income. Alongwith Jayalalithaa, her aide Sasikala Natarajan and two others have also been granted bail. PTI tweeted: “Jaya volunteered be...

The Supreme Court Thursday asked the chief secretaries and police chiefs of Bihar and Chhattisgarh to be present in the court Oct 30 to answer why they did not comply with its direction on the investigation and recovery of missing children. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur an...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) in the 2G case, senior advocate Anand Grover, to file two reports on the role of CBI chief Ranjit Sinha in the probe and naming the person who leaked the contents of the visitor book at his residence. A bench of Justice HL Da...

The Supreme Court Thursday said it cannot restrict the companies, whose mining licences it has cancelled, from extracting coal as they have been allowed to carry on for six months till their ownership and management can be transferred. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B ...

Senior counsel P Chidambaram, former Congress finance minister, has picked up his law practice again four months after his party’s electoral defeat, representing Reliance Infra in a Supreme Court dispute with GVK and Larsen & Toubro over hydropower projects, reported the Financial Express.

The Gujarat high court on Friday quashed a public commission formed to probe allegations of snooping on a woman, while ruling that the commission was not in the public interest, reported the Indian Express and others.

A Delhi court Tuesday convicted five men for the abduction and gang rape of a call centre executive that took place in the Dhaula Kuan area in 2010. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat convicted Shamshad alias Khutkan, Usman alias Kale, Shahid alias Chhota Billi, Iqbal alias Bada Billi and Kamru...

SEBI has banned real estate giant DLF and six managers from the capital markets for three years after a finding of fraud.

The Supreme Court Monday said sugarcane farmers will have precedence over banks for the recovery of their dues from mills as they are in a state of financial distress and are prone to commit suicide. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice AK Sikri, while dismissing appe...

OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper deal, yesterday told a Delhi court that two accused in the deal were acquitted of corruption charges by an Italian court and sought bail on this fresh ground. In his fresh ...

The Bombay high court has served a show cause contempt notice on the Mumbai Mirror for reporting a litigant’s allegation made in court earlier this year that a judge hearing was corrupt.

The Supreme Court will Friday hear the bail plea of AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, who is at present in a Bangalore jail after her conviction in a corruption case. The former Tamil Nadu chief minister was sentenced to four years in prison and a Rs.100 crore fine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dat...

The Delhi high court has directed former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to surrender to Tihar Jail authorities here Saturday and discontinue his political rallies effective Friday. Justice Siddharth Mridul, in an order, also asked the jail authorities to take Chautala to the All India In...

The Supreme Court Friday said that the rules and regulations governing the payment of insurance claims could be not come in the way of people of Kashmir who lost their properties in the recent devastating floods that had hit the state. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice SA Bobde and Justice ...

Taking exception to the central environment and forest ministry “sleeping” over its order to submit the environment and ecological impact of each of the 24 projects proposed or underway on Bhagirathi and Alaknanda river basin, the Supreme Court Thursday said that unless its orders were complied with...

Bombay high court chief justice Mohit Shah and Justice MS Sanklecha ruled in favour Vodafone India Services in its Rs 3,200 crore transfer pricing tax case, deciding that there was no taxable income on share premium received on the issue of shares to their parent companies, reported Mint and others....

The Bombay high court has ordered costs of Rs 40 lakh against 10 petitioners who filed a property matter that Justice Gautam Patel called a “sponsored” petition “without the faintest glimmer of merit. It is precisely the kind of litigation — speculative, lacking in bonafides, sponsored, an abuse of ...

Former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, currently lodged in Bangalore jail following her conviction in a disproportionate assets case, today moved the Supreme Court seeking bail on several grounds including her ill health. Jayalalithaa, along with her aide Sasikala Natrajan, VK Sudhakaran a...

The Delhi high court directed former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to appear before it on Friday after the CBI moved the court charging him with violating the bail conditions. Justice Siddharth Mridul Thursday issued notice to Chautala, who is also the Indian National Lok Dal chief, for...