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A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising of Justices AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan is currently hearing petitions filed by Binoy Vishwam, senior Communist Party of India leader; Bezwada Wilson, a Dalit rights activist; and S.G. Vombatkere, a...
The official notification is out confirming the appointment of the new judges to the Supreme Court Bench. The honorable President made the appointment of the five Judges under Article 124 clause 2 of the Constitution of India. They are...
The Apex Court acted upon the petition presented by a visually challenged lawyer Pankaj Sinha directing the centre to take steps to eradicate the Leprosy and formulate the policy and bring to it the same within four weeks also...
Madras High Court
The case against Judge C S Karnan is for continuous allegations against Madras High Court Chief Justice, several sitting and other retired judges. He was levelling corruption charges against them. “The Attorney General has asked the Supreme Court...
The Supreme Court Collegium has suggested the names of four High Court Chief Justices and a High Court Judge for the Supreme Court of India, as per the reports of Times of India. It is said that though there...
It is the Landmark judgment one of its kind where the Apex Court ruled that the process of appointment of the Principal of the Minority institutions amenable to the judicial review. The judgment came in the civil appeal of...
The Supreme Court will be all set to hear the State Bank of India led consortium’s plea against out of use airline Kingfisher’s owner Mr. Vijay Mallya on 2 February 2017. The banks, in their plea, told the apex...
The Supreme Court on March 16, 2016 asked Punjab to maintain the status quo by giving its order regarding the Sutlej- Yamuna Link Canal (SYLC). It was in reference to an application filed by the Haryana Government alleging that...
In the case of State of Karnataka vs. Common Cause & Ors., the Supreme Court in its review petition permitted the photographs of Governors, Chief Ministers and Cabinet Ministers to be published in print media and electronic media while...
The apex bar body, BCI, conducts All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to examine an advocate's capability to practice the profession of law and it has been made mandatory. The notification bringing the All India Bar Examination into force was passed...
The Maharashtra police arrested Dr. G.N Saibaba, an English Literature professor at Ramlal Anand College, Delhi University, on 9th May 2014. The wheelchair –bound professor was charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for alleged Maoist links. He...
Delhi receives most of its water from the Yamuna through Haryana, Ganga and underground reserves. The areas affected by the crisis are West Delhi, North-West, Central, South and part of North Delhi. The water crisis had surfaced following the...
It was a black day for the Indian judiciary when, on 15th February, 2016, a troop of lawyers attacked the student leader of JNU Students’ Union, Kanhaiya Kumar who was present for a hearing at the Patiala House Court in...
The Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public university set up in 1969 by an Act of Parliament. The present controversy surrounding this university began on 9th February when an event was organized by the ultra-Left Democratic Students Union...
A year and a half ago, 39 Indians were taken hostage by ISIS from a construction site in Mosul, Iraq. On June 30, 2015, Gaurav Kumar Bansal, a lawyer filed an RTI to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)...
After a heated month in Arunachal Pradesh with the imposition of emergency in the State, the SC finally declared during the hearing that the Governor can’t summon Assembly on his whims and fancies alone. The Governor, JP Rajkhowa nearly...
At 3:14 pm on Tuesday, 2nd February, 2016, hearing for what turned out to be a “landmark” curative petition commenced before a three-judge bench of Indian Supreme Court’s senior most judges-CJI T S Thakur, Justice Anil R Dave and...
The curious case of the Arunachal Pradesh (AP) Governor’s recommendations started in November 2011 when Nabam Tuki became Chief Minister of AP. His cousin, Nabam Rebia was appointed Speaker of the Assembly.
In April 2015, Kalikho Pul, the former Health...
The Supreme Court collegium had, last week, recommended Judges to occupy the post of Chief Justice for the High Courts of Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Orissa, Bombay, Gauhati and Gujarat.
The five member SC collegium has, in principle, decided to start the...
Sabarimala is a Hindu pilgrimage centre in Kerala. The temple is situated on top of a hill and is believed to have the highest number of annual pilgrimages. This temple allows men of all ages to enter the shrine...
While hearing a petition filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA), a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and N.V Ramana asked the Parliament to consider making a separate law for awarding harsher punishment to those convicted of...
Perjury in law is the crime of telling a lie in a Court after promising to tell the truth promised under an oath. In the Jessica Lal Murder case, the apex court has nullified the perjury prosecution against the...
Section 138 of The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 deals with the dis-honour of cheques. It was enacted with the main motive of providing relief to those who suffer as a result of dis-honoured cheques. But after the landmark judgement...
The controversial law banning dance bars in Maharashtra, which provided employment to thousands of women, was put on hold by the Supreme Court in the month of October. A plea was filed in the Supreme Court, more than a...
In a child sexual abuse case trial, the alleged sexual offender produced a CD as defence evidence in the court of law, claiming that the phone conversation recorded in it establishes the fact that he was wrongfully framed for...
In order to combat global terrorism, which is the biggest threat to the world right now, all nations need to unite in order to eradicate it completely, said the Supreme Court today while refusing to grant interim relief to...
The Supreme Court in its recent judgement, given by Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R.K. Agrawal, held that the names of holy or religious books cannot be claimed as trademark for goods or services.
One Mr. Priyadarshi, a trader, wanted to register a trade mark...
How do law breakers become law makers is a question that has been plaguing the Indian political system for decades. In order to address this very grievance, dubbed as criminalization of politics by criminal netas, the Supreme Court has agreed...
Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017.
Current Chief Justice Dattu has...