Scroll.in lists nine, mostly compelling, reasons for why convicted serial murdered Surendra Koli should not be hanged, including a lack of evidence, his apparent psychopathy, iffy confession and oher circumstances. Worth a read, at Scroll.in . Senior counsel Indira Jaising had obtained a stay on Kol...

The Delhi High Court Tuesday dismissed a PIL seeking a CBI probe into the licences granted to several real estate developers in Haryana, including one allegedly associated with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw ...

The usual cacophony of lawyers, petitioners and visitors at the Karkardooma Court Complex has of late been replaced by hushed talk about ghosts, spirits and the supernatural. A white shadowy figure has been sighted in many parts of the complex. And a video footage has only buttressed the claims - an...

The Supreme Court Monday asked the Jammu and Kashmir government to consider giving ex-gratia payment for people affected by the floods and to immediately take up the issue of restoring banking facilities in the affected areas. The bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice ...

The Delhi High Court will Tuesday pronounce its order on a PIL seeking a CBI probe into licences granted to Haryana realty developers, including one to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra. A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice R.S. Endlaw will pronounce the judgme...

Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Monday said the government will soon come up with a law and allow running of e-rickshaws in Delhi. Addressing reporters here on the completion of his 100 days in the ministry, Gadkari said his ministry Monday brought a draft notification concerning ...

Ex-Supreme Court judge and Press Council of India chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, has posted a blog with the title “Defaming the Judiciary”, claiming that Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha had “made a complete U-turn” after being quoted at a converence as saying that “there is agrowing corrup...

Senior Advocate and former Additional Solicitor General of India (ASG) Gourab Banerji will be joining London’s Essex Court Chambers as an overseas associate on 1 October.

The Delhi High Court today, accepting the plea of former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, quashed the Election Commission’s show cause notice asking him to explain why he should not be disqualified in a “paid news” case. Justice Suresh Kait set aside the poll panel’s July 13 show cause notic...

The Supreme Court Friday extended its order putting on hold the execution of the death sentence of Nithari killer Surendra Koli till Oct 29. While extending the stay, an apex court bench headed by Chief Justice-designate Justice H.L. Dattu asked the senior counsel to place before them in bullet poin...

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Sunder Lal has declined taking congisance of the police’s charge sheet against BJP president Amit Shah for alleged hate speech in Uttar Pradesh during the election campaign there, because the police had not tried arresting Shah, or seeking warrant or attachment p...

Madras high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul has ordered that every judgment must mention on its first page, the dates on which it was reserved and pronounced, in a bid to increase transparency of and reduce the delay in pronouncing judgments, reported The Hindu . Kaul relied on the 13-year-ol...

Bar owners in Kerala, other than five star hotels, will be able to serve liquor till Sep 30 as the Supreme Court Thursday ordered status quo till this date while asking the state high court to decide the challenge to the notification directing them to shut shop. A bench of Justice Anil R Dave and Ju...

The Gujarat high court has struck down the part of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular governing wilful defaulter notices, which restricts all directors of wilful defaulter companies from banking services for other businesses for five years.

In the petition against the Kerala government shutting down 730 bars, Supreme Court Justice Anil Dave said: “There is no logic. What do you mean sub-standard [bars should be shut]? I am a teetotaller, but even I see no logic… how do you distinguish here?” The policy that is set to come into force on...

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Delhi high court yesterday seeking a ban of the word “fanny” from promotional materials for, and songs, title and dialogue in the Bollywood film Finding Fanny , because of the “vulgar word ‘fanny’”, reported IANS . The petition filed by Nandini Tiw...

In a pre-dawn order at the residence of future CJI HL Dattu with Justice AR Dave, the Supreme Court has stayed the execution of Surinder Koli, who was convicted of the so-called Nithari serial murders and rapes that took place in Noida from 2005. Senior counsel Indira Jaising obtained the one-week s...

The president has cleared for Justice HL Dattu to become the next Chief Justice of India (CJI) on 28 September 2014, replacing RM Lodha when he retires from the Supreme Court, reported the PTI . Dattu reportedly said: “I will request for blessing of all citizens of this country to give me courage an...

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium will again be amicus curiae in the Padmanabha Swamy temple case, reported The Hindu , with the Times of India reporting that he would be visiting the temple in Kerala this weekend. The former solicitor general had withdrawn from the case in August despite the Supreme...

In a bold move the Supreme Court today tried begin solving the national undertrial prisoner crisis, by ordering the release of all those in jail for more than half their charged sentence who’ve yet to see a trial. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha ordered all districts’ judic...