The religious heads of various communities came together on Saturday to oppose the recent judgement of the Delhi High Court decriminalising homosexuality and to urge the government to take a stand against it.Representatives of Jamait Ulama-i-Karnatak ..
The legal profession would be in peril if professionals were implicated in criminal cases for discharging their duty, the Madras High Court said on Thursday.Justice M. Jeyapaul was allowing petitions by M.V. Chandran and E. Kumar, both advocates, who ..
A Sessions Court in Alibaug, Raigad district, on Saturday rejected the plea for grant of bail to Nationalist Congress Party MP Padamsinh Patil. The Osmanabad MP was accused of ordering the killing of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimbalkar in a case of ..
Should you seek information from the Centre through a Right to Information (RTI) petition, you better be conversant in all Indian languages.Even so, chances are you may still not get what you have asked for. M.K. Haridas of The Proper Channel petiti ..
A Delhi High Court has acquitted a man facing Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) violation charge for illegally possessing foreign currencies, nearly two decades after he was booked. Allowing Prabhat Kumar Srivastava's petition, which challenged ..
The Delhi High Court verdict legalising gay sex has put the government in a fix as it remains undecided about its stand in the Supreme Court, 10 days after a response was sought from it on the vexed issue. "No affidavit has been filed in the co ..
The Supreme Court on Friday put a lid on the controversy triggered by the Kerala High Court’s adverse observation on the law and order situation and the police investigations vis-a-vis political murders in the State, saying it was only ..
An application will be filed tomorrow in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order of the apex court permitting Mayawati government to shift inmates from the old jail in Lucknow to a new one.An advocate, Sangam Lal Pandey has already served ..
A lawyer bailed out two weeks ago after 57 months in jail under trial for swindling a client faced cancellation of the bail.B N Singhvi was granted bail by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate A K Pandey after having been denied it repeatedly ov ..
The Allahabad High Court issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Bar Council, Allahabad, Bar Council of India, New Delhi and the state government to show cause as to why the resolution passed by the Bar council of UP, asking the lawyers of the state to a ..