Kalyan Singh will be tried as soon as he loses immunity as governor
~By Sujit BharThe Supreme Court on Wednesday (April 19) struck a major legal and political blow to the entrenched old guard of th...
The contempt case of an advocate, Mohit Chaudhary, who had made comments about a judgement came up for hearing before the Supreme Court again on April 17. Hearing the case was the bench of Chief Justi...
Liquor baron to pay for massive defalcation, but what about the banks who loaned him the money?
~By Sujit Bhar
Karma catches up with you sooner or later. And when karma is worth Rs 9,000 crore i...
Appellant wants special courts to try criminal cases against peoples’ representatives, public servants and members of the judiciary
A PIL by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay seeking direction from the Supre...
24 percent of the sanctioned strength of forces vacant across the country
Police forces across the country, especially in six states, are grossly understaffed. A PIL to the Supreme Court on April 1...
Green bench wields hammer on absenteeism, says cost to be imposed for delays
The Ganga Action Plans 1 and 2 implementation case is being deliberated by the National Green Tribunal (NGT), but is bei...
The centre says the reports are not meant to be used in courts as they do not countenance any contest legally
Question referred to a constitutional bench
~Parsa Venkateshwar Rao JrThe questions ...
Two cases in which the apex court leant towards freedom of expression
Film (and television ) censorship in India has become a contentious issue, especially with several high-handed decisions of lat...
~By Rashme Sehgal
What do Muslim women on the ground feel about the issue of triple talaq which they refer to as `teen talaq’? Speaking to a cross-section of Muslim women from the towns of Saharanp...
Raghavendra Singh has been made the Advocate General (AG) of Uttar Pradesh by the new BJP dispensation, headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
UP chief secretary Rahul Bhatnagar sent a notice to...