The Supreme Court issued bailable warrants against all the seven accused in the 1994 Gopalganj District Magistrate G Krishnaiah murder case.Krishnaiah and his car was set on fire by the mob in Vaishali, Bihar on December 5, 1994.The then MP Anand Moh ..
SCs, STs and OBCs cannot claim the benefits of reservation if they migrate from one state to another if the caste/tribe to which they belong are not recognized as a reserved community in the adopted state, the Supreme Court has ruled. Further, a migr ..
Almost six months after the Madras high court witnessed largescale violence involving police and lawyers, a division bench has ordered fresh notices to the director-general of police, former city police commissioner and former joint commissioner, in ..
he Madras high court has quashed a criminal case against two school teachers, who were charged with scolding, and thereby instigating a Class 9 girl to commit suicide. N Anjali Devi and C Veeran were cited as accused in the case after the girl, Udhay ..
he government has challenged the order of a single-member Bench of the Delhi High Court, which has quashed the department of telecom notification setting September 25, 2007, as the cut-off date for applying for telecom licences bundled with start-up ..
The Supreme Court has awarded life sentence to four members of a Dawood Ibrahim-Chotta Shakeel gang with Pakistani ISI links responsible for killing three Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai in March 1999 but rejected Mahrashtra's appeal for death sentence t ..
The Supreme Court refused to entertain a petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the allegation of a foreign country’s involvement in 2003 Marad Massacre in Kerala.A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, however, ..
Another attempt to get a stay against the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising gay sex between two consenting adults drew a blank as the Supreme Court today declined to stay the High Court judgment dated July two this year.A bench comprising Chi ..
The Madras High Court has directed a private bank to sanction educational loan to a Scheduled Caste (SC) applicant within a month to meet his expenses for MBA course.Allowing a plea by the student, Justice K Suguna said educational loans were welfare ..
The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has held that the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) was vicariously liable for the electrocution of a six-year-old girl in a case of electricity theft and recommended to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to he ..