The Supreme Court has ruled that social and economic backwardness is one of the mitigating circumstances while commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment. The convicts Mulla and Guddu along with others had abducted five villa ..
The Supreme Court directed the petitioner in Bofors Guns scandal case to file within two weeks the amended petition.A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan adjourned the hearing of the case till March 23.The petitioner, Ajay Kumar Agarwal ha ..
The Supreme Court directed the states to prepare a comprehensive policy within eight weeks to prevent the encroachment of public land in the name of religion through construction of religious structures. A bench headed by Justice Dalveer Bhandari a ..
The Supreme Court has disapproved retired judges charging exorbitant fees in arbitration cases. A bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and H L Dattu, while dismissing the appeal of the Centre challenging a Delhi High Court order appointing a re ..
Justice N V Ramana of Andhra Pradesh High Court said the present labour laws are outdated and there was need to amend them. Speaking as the chief guest at the symposium on ‘Employment Law’ Managements’ perspective’ organized ..
Citing omissions in developing ‘a new police system’ for an independent India, Law and Justice Minister M Veerappa Moily stressed reforms that he said ‘are still continuing.’ ‘At the dawn of independence there was no de ..
The Allahabad High Court held that no conscious and systematic efforts were being made for checking the proliferation of spurious drugs in Uttar Pradesh. The High Court directed the Central and the state governments to give a clear indication as to ..
The 2-year old National Law University, Delhi came of age with their first-ever moot court competition win. The team took home the 2010 D.M. Harish Memorial Government Law College Moot Court Competition after beating Indian Law Society, Pune. Held e ..
K.G. Balakrishnan, the Chief Justice of India is in the eye of yet another storm. The Bar Association of the Punjab & Haryana High Court passed a resolution yesterday, condemning him and former Attorney General, Milon Banerjee for having given a ..
A writ Petition challenging the constitutional validity of the Explanation inserted by the Finance No.2 Act 2009 to section 80IA (4) of the Act with retrospective effect from 1.4.2000 has been admitted today (16.2.2010) by the Bombay High Court in ..