Nine Kerala students were arrested and bailed on Sunday after posting “NaMo” as a crossword clue to the expected solution “NAyeente MOn”, which, according to the Times of India loosely translates to “son of a bitch”, only several days after six other Kerala students and educational staff were arrest...

The Tiruchi Bar Association called a strike yesterday over the murder of advocate S Mathiazhagan, demanding that the case be handed to the Crime Branch CID or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after little progress in the investigations for a month, presenting a memorandum to the city’s poli...

Two members of staff and four students of a Kerala polytechnic were arrested, then bailed, after publishing a campus magazine that contained a photograph of Narendra Modi alongside Adolf Hitler, George W Bush, Osama Bin Laden and others in a “negative faces” collage, reported the PTI . They, and the...

According to the Economic Times , citing an unnamed “senior law ministry official”, senior counsel and former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s nomination to the Supreme Court bench, which was announced by the collegium and then-new Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha last month , is currently...

The BJP government’s law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad signed off on senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi becoming Attorney General of India yesterday, reported the Times of India and other papers citing ministry sources, which is set to be approved by the president in a day or two. Although Rohatgi’s appoi...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has ordered all Supreme Court advocates’ clerks to wear a uniform of “sky-blue shirt and navy blue trousers” while also being coached to keep out of the aisles in the court room and clear the space as soon as possible after court appearances. In the notificat...

Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar has today been appointed solicitor general of India by the new BJP government’s law ministry, reported the PTI . Senior advocates Maninder Singh, Tushar Mehta, L Nageshwar Rao, PS Patwalia, Neeraj Kishen Kaul and PS Narasimha would each become additional solicitor genera...

The appointment of Mukul Rohatgi, who was considered a shoo-in to become the next Attorney General of India , appears to have been put on hold following a critical letter by senior counsel and former BJP member Ram Jethmalani to the BJP leadership. Jethmalani told the Indian Express : “Yes, I have w...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) cannot take any action against retired Supreme Court (SC) justice and National Green Tribunal (NGT) head Swatanter Kumar in the sexual harassment complaint against him, as the charges are from when he was an SC judge, the MoEF told the SC, reported the ...

The Bar Council of Delhi’s (BCD) chairman RS Chauhan accused Luthra & Luthra litigation partner and former BCD vice chairman Vijay Sondhi of trying to obstruct the BCD from initiating disciplinary proceedings against Luthra, which Sondhi denied in a 2 June letter to Chauhan as “frivolous, bald and baseless”.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court, which from today will be called the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the state of Telangana and the state of Andhra Pradesh, has enforced new rules for entry of litigants and advocates not practicing in it, reported the New Indian Express . All outsiders can o...

News website Firstpost’s news satire offering Faking News debuted as “evidence” in court on Tuesday when Nitin Gadkari’s lawyers alleged contempt against Arvind Kejriwal based on a “news item”, reported Firstpost . Gadkari, represented by senior advocate Pinky Anand in his defamation case against Aa...

Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, the “King of Miscellaneous Days” according to this profile by Court Witness , has formally been confirmed to be the recently elected BJP government’s Attorney General of India, reported the PTI . Rohatgi told NDTV : “My priority would be to streamline the litigation pro...

The Tis Hazari lawyer mob which allegedly assaulted a woman lawyer and her two north eastern clients is facing protests from hundreds of north eastern students and activists, reported the TOI . Yesterday the protesters met the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) members to demand that the mob lawyers’ lice...

A woman lawyer, allegedly manhandled by officers at the police station where she went to serve a court order restraining the eviction of vegetable vendors, has asked the Supreme Court for transfer of investigation to the CBI, reported Firstpost . The SC agreed to hear her transfer petition after her...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran have tendered their resignations as is customary on change of government, reported the PTI . The AG’s and the SG’s tenures are conventionally co-terminus with the term of the existing government. According to speculation senior ...

Around 30 lawyers at Tis Hazari district court assaulted one woman lawyer and her two clients, in the court complex, on Friday, as reported by NDTV . The two clients – members of the North East Union - and the woman lawyer had gone to court to file a criminal case against a lawyer who had allegedly ...

BJP veteran, senior advocate Ravi Shankar Prasad has been assigned the union law ministry, tweeted journalist Ashok Bagariya . Prasad was designated a senior at the Patna high court in 1999 and at the Supreme Court in 2000, the same year as he also became a member of parliament. He became the Minist...

The Central Information Commission (CIC) fined the Bar Council of Delhi’s (DBC) secretary Murari Tiwari Rs 25,000 for not complying with its order and for failing to appear before it, reported the PTI . The CIC found Tiwari “fully responsible” for not furnishing information sought in a Right to Info...

The DBC’s secretary Murari Tiwari, whom former DBC vice chairman Vijay Sondhi had allegedly replaced on 13 May, today alleged that Sondhi’s claim was false, and that he is still continuing as secretary.