IT REFERS to justified protests by Sikkim lawyers on transferring Justice P D Dinakaran to Sikkim High Court. It is insulting for Sikkim that this Indian state is recognised by Indian Judicial System as kaala paani for penal-transfer of High Court ju ..
The Bar Council of India, in its elections held yesterday has appointed the Chairman and Vice Chairman. Bar Council of India, constituted under the Advocates Act is the apex body regulating the legal profession in India. Solicitor General Gopal Su ..
The posting of outgoing Chief Justice Barin Ghosh of J&K, who was scheduled to proceed to Sikkim High Court to interchange with Chief Justice Dr Aftab Saikia, has been altered at the eleventh hour by the Supreme Court Collegium. He has been ..
The Cabinet today approved a proposal to introduce the Prevention of Torture Bill, 2010 in the Parliament. This is a step towards ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment adopted by ..
The Madras High Court has held that an instrument, whether a certificate of sale or sale deed, issued in a public auction of properties, was chargeable with stamp duty under Article 18 read with Article 23 of Schedule I to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 ..
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In a judgement that will come as major relief to corrupt politicians and babus, the Supreme Court has held that courts cannot order probe into corruption allegations but simply monitor investigation in the ongoing cases. The judgement passed by a Ben ..
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday told the Delhi High Court that it would take a decision on amending the law pertaining to appointment of chairperson of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after considering the orders passed by the Supreme Court ..
The Supreme Court threw its weight behind live-in relationships on Tuesday, observing that for a man and a woman in love, to live together is part of the right to life, and not a “criminal offence”.“If two people, man and woman, want to live together ..
A larger revolution than even in the telecom sector awaits us,” were the opening lines from Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, when he was presenting the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Op ..