Five days after the state government banned Jaswant Singh’s controversial book ‘Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence’, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in Gujarat High Court on Mo ..
The Allahabad High Court, on Monday, refused to stay the arrest of BJP MP Rama Kant Yadav against whom an FIR was lodged under Section 302, 307 of IPC for opening fire on the members of Ulema Council in which one person died. The allegation against t ..
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has agreed to a special audit by the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) of its Andhra offshore (KG-D6) contract, but said it hopes this will be a one-off case. In a letter conveying its `no objection' to suc ..
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan's dismissal of a conscientious objector in the judiciary as a ``publicity seeker'' is the latest in a series of attempts by him in recent months to play down or cover up serious issues concerning judicial accou ..
The state government has moved the Bombay high court to challenge the dropping of all charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against 11 Malegaon blast accused, including former armyman Lt Col Prasad Purohit and Sadhvi Pr ..
Supreme Court Judgement in the matter of Zoroastrian Cooperative Housing Society Ltd Vs. Distric Registrar, Cooperative Societies (Urban) published in AIR 2005 SC 2306, according to, A. Patrawala Advocate, Surat is injurious to the Unity & I ..
In a landmark judgment, the Rajasthan High Court has held that the policy decision of the National Council for Teachers’ Education (NCTE) to control “mushroom growth” of teachers’ training colleges in the country cannot be pu ..
Chief Justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan has constituted a Committee of Judges to bring out an authoritative series of ‘Restatements of Law’ on about 100 topics to remove ambiguities surrounding the legal principles and their applicabili ..
Expressing serious concern over the increasing number of deaths caused by road accidents due to rash and negligent driving, the Law Commission has recommended 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for such offences, up from a two-year term provided ..
The RTI complaints and appeals dealing with the State Information Commission and its nodal department -- administrative reforms department -- will be heard by the state chief information commissioner (SCIC) Ranjeet Singh Pankaj himself. The new SCIC, ..