Reliance Industries, BP and Niko Resources on Saturday served the Indian government with an arbitration notice in order to allow them to increase the price of natural gas that was shelved by the Election Commission until the elections finish on 16 May. Senior counsel Harish Salve, who has been repre...

“Thus the prosecutrix (the wife) and the accused being legally wedded husband and wife, the prosecutrix being major, the sexual intercourse between the two, even if forcible, is not rape and no culpability can be fastened upon the accused,” said additional Delhi sessions judge Virender Bhat about a ...

Bombay high court Justice Roshan Dalvi has been accused of corruption by producer Sanjay Punamiya in a nine-page complaint, alleging that her husband Shamim Dalvi told his lawyer in March that for Rs 25 lakh he could get his wife to pass a favourable order in the case before her

Supreme Court justices AK Patnaik, KS Radhakrishnan and SS Nijjar are effectively retiring today with the long Supreme Court summer vacations starting from today, leaving the bench that had briefly enjoyed a full and unprecedented strength of 31 during the tenure of former CJI P Sathasivam , severel...

Gopinath Pillai’s lawyer, Shamshad Pathan, was fined for not turning up in court, despite having been scheduled for arguments against the CBI court’s decision that it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute BJP general secretary Amit Shah. Pathan was fined Rs 500 after he didn’t turn up for th...

A Supreme Court bench of justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramajit Sen gave the green light to the Tamil Nadu-based Kudankulam nuclear power plant, after being satisfied with the safety measures and compliance of the central government and responsible authorities. Activist G Sudarrajan represented by...

Supreme Court justices KS Radhakrishnan and Pinaki Chandra Ghose have banned Tamil Nadu bull fighting at the Jallikattu festival, which “severely harmed” the bulls and was illegal under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act (PCA) BBC . The judges wrote: “Bulls cannot be used as performing animals...

The Bombay high court has declined granting interim relief to movie director and producer Anurag Kashyap over a challenge of the government’s rule to superimpose a “smoking is injurious to health” warning on movies whenever a cigarette is shown on screen. The Censor Board had not given one of Kashya...

A five-judge constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices HL Dattu, Chandramauli KR Prasad, Madan B Lokur and MY Eqbal ruled in favour of the Tamil Nadu government that the Kerala government must not restrict the water levels in the Mullaperiyar dam. The bench said that the Kerala law from 2006 w...

The alleged victim of snooping by the Gujarat government has approached Supreme Court justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and NV Ramana with her father to restrain the central and state governments from launching an inquiry into the alleged abuse of surveillance powers, claiming that any probe would be v...

The Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the Right to Education Act under Article 15(5) and 21-A of the Constitution about compulsory education to six to 14-year-olds. Sitting in two related cases, the constitution bench of CJI RM Lodha and justices AK Patnaik, Dipak Misra, SJ Mukhopadhaya and I...

The Kerala bar council’s disciplinary committee has stayed an advocate’s professional misconduct suspension for two months after an appeal by the advocate, against whom the bar council handed down a one year suspension for “proved misconduct” of a very serious nature for cheating the complainants in...

The Supreme Court ruled that Sahara boss Subrata Roy should stay in jail in a 207-page order, while noting in a post script to the judgment that Roy and Sahara had abused the judicial process and wasted “hundreds of judge hours”. Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Jagdish Singh Khehar ruled dismissed Roy...

The Supreme Court yesterday recommended that former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia should mediate in a dispute of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) over two priests who were banned for allegedly performing allegedly unsanctioned ceremonies. The ban was quashed by the Bombay high court in 2011, and...

The government has conceded a major criticism against its Lokpal that resulted in several lawyers declining appointment to its search committee, and changed the rules for the search committee allowing it to select anyone qualified for the post of Lokpal, rather than waiting for applications from des...

A Supreme Court bench told the residents of the society that had been built illegally that they would have to vacate the building by 31 May, despite an earlier order staying their eviction in the midst of a media circus seven months ago. [Hindustan Times]

The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by ex-Maharashstra chief minister Ashok Chavan into whether the Election Commission can probe “paid news” allegations in cases where the expense was not accounted for in candidates’ election returns. The bench of justices Surinder Singh Nijjar and Justice F...

BJP leader Arun Jaitley claimed that no judge would “lend himself” to the ” “political and malafide” exercise of investigating charges that India’s possible future leader, Narendra Modi, and his Gujarat government had arranged to have a woman in his home state followed and “snooped” on illegally. Ka...

The Bombay Lawyers Association wrote to Chief Justice of India RM Lodha about an incident alleged by senior counsel Dushyant Dave in March about Supreme Court Justice CK Prasad hearing and deciding on a property matter listed before another bench himself: “We expected some response to our letter but...

The Supreme Court has announced the next Advocates-on-Record exam to take place between 3 and 6 June 2014, with lectures for papers taking place between 5 and 10 May hosted by advocates Dipankar Gupta, Indira Jaising, UU Lali and PP Rao. [Notice]