NEW DELHI: The best known victim of the existing system of judicial appointments has suggested reforms on the verge of his retirement .A P Shah, chief justice of the Delhi High Court who was surprisingly bypassed for appointment to the Supreme Court ..
BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday, stayed an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) which had struck down Rule 5 (3) of the Indian Administrative Services (Appointment by Promotion) Regulations, 1964, according to which no o ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked all the States to cap all discarded and abandoned borewells in their territories and to properly fence all working wells to prevent small children falling into them. A three-Judge Bench of Chief Justice ..
New Delhi: As long as doctors have performed their duties and exercised an ordinary degree of professional skill and competence they cannot be held guilty of negligence, the Supreme Court held on Wednesday.Laying down a set of principles, a Bench sai ..
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled that a spouse merely living separately does not amount to desertion. The aggrieved other spouse must prove that the estrangement wasn’t due to ill-treatment meted out by him or her.Under the Hindu Ma ..
Central Information Commission (CIC) has opined that non-disclosure of feedback on probe in tax evasion complaints filed by whistle-blowers will dissuade them from giving any future information. Acknowledging that the investigation wing of the income ..
As is now well known, the Empowered Committee of State Finance Minister (EC) had, in November 2009, issued a First Discussion Paper (Paper) on the dual Goods and Service Tax (GST). This paper had set out the EC’s views on the nature of the dual ..
NEW DELHI: Faced with increasing number of queries under Right to Information (RTI) Act on judges' appointment to higher judiciary, the Supreme Court on Monday sought the views of all High Courts on this issue.Responses of HCs were sought by a Bench ..
New Delhi: After rebuking the bureaucracy for being indifferent to the weak and the poor, the Supreme Court has chastised a trial court and a high court for passing orders which were “a towering fraud played upon an illiterate and helpless wid ..
Bangalore: Jails may no more be the ultimate destination for all convicts in criminal cases. If radical prison reforms initiated by the Centre go the desired distance, many convicts in minor cases may end up doing community service or buying freedom ..