The Supreme Court today put off till after the Dusshera holidays the hearing of an appeal filed against the verdict of the Jharkhand High Court, which had dismissed a plea filed by BJP leader Pradeep Sonthalia challenging the election of Congress member Dhiraj Sahu as Rajya Sabha MP from the state.
In the compliance of the Allahabad High Court's previous order, the ASP of Varanasi appeared before the Court in the case of Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a missing student of Banaras Hindu University.
The Uttar Pradesh government has requested the Allahabad High Court to ensure disposal of cases related to crimes against women and the POCSO Act on a priority basis.
The Bombay High Court on Friday confirmed that on an experimental basis lawyers from the Metropolitan Region of Mumbai may be permitted to use local trains from Mumbai for a week.
A new system has been devised as an experiment for hearing cases in the Patna High Court. Chief Justice Sanjay Karol sat with Justice S Kumar in his chamber, while the lawyers who attended the hearing appeared in another courtroom and attended the hearing through video conferencing.
Nine women lawyers, including Supreme Court advocate Aparna Bhat, have sought a stay in a July 30 order of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in which a judge had given bail to a sexual offender on the condition that he ties a rakhi on the woman whose modesty he allegedly outraged.
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday banned the implementation of the Compounding Scheme 2020 which will allow regularization of any illegal construction with a fee.
The Allahabad High Court has ordered a girl named Sheeba, who had accepted Hinduism and changed her name to Shikha to marry a Hindu man named Rohit Rathore, to be freed from the confinement of her father and brother.