Proceedings in six Delhi district courts were paralysed Monday following a strike by lawyers against the “delay in enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts despite a Delhi high court recommendation” in this regard. The co-ordination committee of all district court bar associations said ...

The Delhi high court Monday observed that married women in India are “safer on the street than in their matrimonial homes” as it upheld life imprisonment for a man convicted of killing his wife.A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mukta Gupta upheld the trial court’s July 14 dec...

The Competition Appellate Tribunal (Compat), which has been dead in the water without chairman and members as reported by Legally India in August , now has a new chairman in former Supreme Court judge Justice GS Singhvi, as first reported by Bar & Bench . Singhvi is now listed on the Compat web...

Jailed AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa will file a criminal revision petition Monday in the Karnataka high court to seek bail in the four-year jail term she has been sentenced to for corruption. “A team of senior lawyers met Jayalalithaa Sunday in the visitors’ room of the central jail where she is lod...

Justice Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu was Sunday sworn-in as the 42nd Chief Justice of India. Administered the oath of office by President Pranab Mukherjee, Chief Justice Dattu will hold office till Dec 2, 2015. He succeeds Chief Justice R.M. Lodha who demitted office Sep 27. Talking to report...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was taken into judicial custody in Bangalore Saturday after a special court sentenced her to four years in prison for corruption, dealing a huge blow to the charismatic former actor’s political career. Pronouncing his verdict on a legal battle that began in ...

The Supreme Court Friday rejected a PIL by two advocates seeking the deferment of pronouncement of verdict by the special court in Bangalore in a case of corruption against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on the grounds of inadequate security.Dismissing the PIL as withdrawn, a bench of Just...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “ring-fenced” as a sovereign representative of India and cannot be served summons in a case filed against him in a federal court here by an organisation claiming to be representing alleged 2002 riots victims, an Indian government official said here Friday.”The Indian ...

The Delhi high court Friday restrained the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) from using terms such as “MBA , BBA or management course” for the courses it offers.A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw directed the IIPM to prominently display on their websit...

The Delhi high court Friday asked Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung to initiate the process to fill the post of lokayukta as it has been lying vacant since November last year.A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw said that the statutory provisions make it mandatory on the part of t...

In apparent disapproval of his predecessor P Sathasivam accepting the Kerala governor’s post, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha Friday said that no CJI or Supreme Court or high court judge should accept any government position or occupy a constitutional office at least for some time after retiring. In...

The Advocates Association Bangalore called for a strike to defend “prominent Judges of Karnataka”.

The NHRC has issued notice to Uttar Pradesh Police over the alleged torture of an under-trial prisoner after he refused to bribe the jailor in the states’ Mahoba district, a statement said Friday. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) panel took suo motu cognizance of a media report published ...

A day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s landmark visit to the US, a human rights group has obtained summons against him for his alleged role in the 2002 Gujarat riots as state chief minister. New York based American Justice Centre (AJC) obtained the summons from the US Federal Court for t...

A plea seeking directions to implement safety measures in zoological parks in the country to deal with in any untoward incidents and emergency situations was filed in the Delhi high court Thursday. The PIL came two days after a 20-year-old youth was mauled to death by a white tiger in Delhi zoo Tues...

The Chhattisgarh advocate who was admitted to hospital after having poisoned herself with naphthalene balls before appearing in the chief’s court, would be discharged from hospital within two or three days, according to a report submitted to the Supreme Court by amicus curiae Vandana Sehgal. The Del...

A Supreme Court constitutional bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, and justices JS Khehar, J Chelameswar, AK Sikri and Rohinton Nariman have declared the proposed National Tax Tribunal (NTT)unconstitutional, quashing sections 5, 6, 7, 8 and 13 of the Act, rendering the law practically us...

A special CBI court in Odisha has sent former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty to judicial custody till Sep 30, a lawyer said Thursday. Local lawyers had called for a strike yesterday. Mohanty was in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody on a two-day remand after being arrested Monday fr...

The Supreme Court Wednesday declined a plea by mobile phone service providers and other corporate honchos to stay the trial of 2G cases before the Special CBI Court which is hearing the matter on a day-to-day basis. “What we have not done earlier we won’t do now,” said the bench of Justice HL Dattu ...

The Supreme Court has selected former Australian high court judge Michael Kirby to chair over the arbitration between Reliance Industries and the Centre over KG Basin gas production, after five months ago Justice SS Nijjar, had already selected one and then another Australian ex-judge to preside aft...