Members of the Odisha High Court Bar Association launched a two-day cease-work agitation Wednesday to protest the arrest of former state advocate general Ashok Mohanty by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam. “The CBI did not follow the procedu...

The Supreme Court has cancelled all 214 coal blocks that it declared illegal last month, leaving only four standing, after having ruled they had been awarded in an illegal, arbitrary and non-transparent manner for the last 20 years . [ Download judgment here ] IANS reported: The Supreme Court Wednes...

The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a five-member committee that will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and report to the court. An apex court bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Narima...

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the bail plea of spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, currently in jail for allegedly raping a minor girl studying in one of his ashrams. A bench headed by Justice TS Thakur said that the ground cited by Asaram was not of such urgency to grant him bail. After perusing the r...

The Supreme Court Tuesday asked the Centre for a status report on 54 defence personnel who were languishing in Pakistani jails for over 40 years as prisoners of war (PoWs). The bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman also made it clear ...

The Kerala High Court Tuesday denied anticipatory bail to three doctors who were booked after pictures of a patient of theirs undergoing a caesarean section went viral on social media. A woman from Kasargode district had delivered triplets July 18 through C-section at the state-owned Payyanur taluk ...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Ashok Mohanty, who was the state’s advocate general from 2009 until May of this year, according to reports . Mohanty was arrested in Cuttack over his alleged link with the Artha Tatwa group, which along with 43 other companies was allegedly invo...

Lawyer-cum-filmmaker Siddharth Acharya has made a mini-documentary about the inimitable Ram Jethmalani.

The Supreme Court cracked down on the rise in fake encounter killings by the police, ruling in a writ petition filed by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL). PUCL had questioned the genuineness of 99 encounters by the Mumbai police resulting in the death of about 135 persons between 1995 an...

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear NGO CPIL’s plea seeking recall of its order for disclosure of the identity of the whistleblower who gave information on the CBI director meeting accused in 2G and other cases at his official residence and allegedly interfering in the probe and prosecution of 2...

The Supreme Court will Tuesday hear a plea alleging police inaction on a complaint by an advocate from Chhattisgarh, alleging gang rape by her husband’s family members and two others on 29 November 2013. When the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha was about to leave a c...

The Allahabad high court terminated 11 trainee judicial officers from the lower judicial service last week after a drunken brawl in Lucknow in which the 11 were involved, reported the Times of India . The 11 had visited a restaurant on 7 August to celebrate the completion of their training on 8 Augu...

The Delhi High Court Friday refused to interfere with the appointment of Justice HL Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), on a plea filed by an advocate and former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) female officer against him for dismissing all her cases in the Supreme Court. A division benc...

Four Lok Sabha Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs and others have collected signatures to impeach Karnataka high court judge Justice KL Manjunath, two months after the central government rejected the Supreme Court collegium’s recommendation to transfer him to Punjab and Haryana, reported the Indian Express ....

Amarchand Mangaldas principal associate Ajay Joseph has joined Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan as a corporate partner in Mumbai. After graduating from Symbiosis Pune and a postgraduate at the University of Durham, Joseph worked at FoxMandal Little for around two years, Khaitan & Co for four yea...

The NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, today declined to name the whistleblower who disclosed the alleged interference by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Ranjit Sinha in the 2G investigation and prosecution after meeting the acc...

Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai of the Supreme Court Wednesday inaugurated a vulnerable witness deposition complex for kids in the Saket district court here. Designed like a play-house with small tables, chairs and a toys corner, it is the second such complex for children in Delhi. The inauguration ce...

The SDMC and the DDA Wednesday came under the scanner of the Delhi High Court after both submitted some “photoshopped” images of streets in Dwarka area that were practically wiped clean of all potholes. A division bench of Justice B.D. Ahmed and Justice Siddharth Mridul caught red-handed the counsel...

Tamil movie legend Rajinikanth, also less well known as Shivaji Rao Gaikwad, has filed a petition and managed a stay of the Bollywood movie Main Hoon Rajinikanth.

BJP politician and the party’s former national secretary Lalitha Kumaramangalam was Wednesday appointed as the new chairperson of the National Commission for Women (NCW), replacing pervious chairperson Mamta Sharma. The announcement was made by union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandh...