Court News Updates

The Supreme Court on Monday granted four weeks time to the Centre to file its response in a plea filed by Lt Col Suprita Chandel, who sought relaxation in age to appear in a departmental examination ...

A two-judge Supreme Court bench declined to entertain PIL by giving direction to Mahabir Singh and other retired officers of Central Armed Police Force to approach concerned authority with regard to relief seeking in the Petition. 

The Supreme Court on Monday, as one-time measure, relaxed the upper age limit criteria of 32 years as the eligibility for the Delhi Judicial Service Examination 2022 and the age of 45 years for the Delhi Higher Judicial Service Examination 2022, who had otherwise qualified in the year 2020 and 2021, but did not appear as no examination was held in those years. 

Former MD and CEO of National Stock Exchange, Chitra Ramkrishna was on Monday sent to 14 days judicial custody in NSE co-location case. Earlier, the court had sent Chitra to 7-day CBI custody, sta...

A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a petition filed by Ajit Kumar Srivastava said that the Petitioner's claim for gratuity shall not be rejected only on the ground that "Option Form" has not been filled by the petitioner's wife.

Madhya Pradesh High Court Bench has disposed of a PIL filed by a self-styled social activist, stating that he being a public-spirited person, must initiate an awareness drive among the public at large against encroachment and may also approach the competent authority on that behalf

The Allahabad High Court has allowed a jailed person to appear in the LLB first semester examination in police custody. The Division Bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi and Justice Narendra Kum...

An early hearing was sought from the Delhi High Court on the petition seeking intervention of the Government of India in the case of Nimisha Priya, who was awarded the death sentence in Yemen.

The Supreme Court will on Monday hear a fresh petition concerning the imminent threat to the safety of more than a century old Mullaperiyar Dam by unprecedented rains or seismic activity, alleging that in case it collapses, millions of citizens of Kerala will perish. 

The Allahabad High Court has held that the scale of punishment in a rape case cannot depend on the social status of the victim or the accused. It should depend on the conduct of the accused, the cond...