Court News Updates

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday transferred the probe being conducted by the Delhi Police into the alleged murder of Ankit Gujjar inside Tihar jail, to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The public interest litigation by Vishnu Kumar Srivastava had prayed to the the Allahabad High Court to direct state authorities to curb fake news. The Court dismissed the plea since it involved a direction to the State on policy matters and the Supreme Court was already looking into such cases.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday observed that extension of tenure granted to government officers who are attaining the age of superannuation, should be done only in 'exceptional cases'.

The petitioner has submitted in its petition that at the end of Mishra's two-year tenure as the ED Director, he would have been ineligible for reappointment by virtue of Section 25 of the CVC Act, 2003.

The Delhi High Court, on Tuesday, directed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to constitute a medical board to examine the feasibility of termination of pregnancy of a woman, who approached the court alleging that the fetus she’s carrying suffers from ‘Nuchal Edema and Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate’.

The Supreme Court today refused to grant bail to two police officers accused in the case of custodial deaths of a man and his son in Tamil Nadu. The bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari refused to grant bail to Inspector S. Sridhar and Sub-Inspector P. Raghu Ganesh who were charge-sheeted as accused by the CBI in the Jayaraj-Bennix case.

The Supreme Court today has opined that NGT is an umbrella body created to ensure all bodies under Schedule-I of the NGT Act work in tandem while considering the issue as to whether the National Green Tribunal has suo motu powers or not.

The Supreme Court today deferred its hearing on the plea of a man from Pakistan convicted of attacking Red Fort in December 2000 to September 14. The matter was listed before beach comprising of J...

A Delhi High Court single-judge bench noted that is was admitted fact that both the complainant and the appellant were known to each other being erstwhile classmates.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by an NRI, whose stay in India was involuntary extended on account of Covid-induced lockdown and suspension of international air travel, challenging the notification issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), alleging that it had placed him in the pernicious position of losing his 'non-resident status' for the purpose of Indian Income Tax Act, 1961.