civil law

New Delhi: In a curious case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing, the law ministry has released the letter written by then chief election commissioner N Gopalaswami to the president seeking removal of fellow election commissioner Navin Chawla while t..

New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) reserved its judgment on the Mayawati government’s plea on Thursday for scrapping the stay on constructions in the periphery of BSP symbols — statues of party founder Kanshi Ram and Mayawati, and the BSP poll symbol, elep..

NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Railways to recover the cost borne by its staff on travelling to attend RTI hearings from an applicant's salary. The applicant had sought details of his transfer order. "The DRM, Western Railways, Bhavnagar (Gujarat), is directed to consider recovery of th..

MADURAI: Tamil Nadu Electricity Board consumers cannot institute civil suits challenging demand notices issued to them to pay dues without approaching higher officials concerned, the Madras High Court has ruled. Allowing a second appeal filed by the Board before the Madurai Bench, Justice G. Rajasuria held that the civil courts did not have jurisdiction t..

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The bar councils are open to public scrutiny under the Right To Information (RTI) Act and should set-up a mechanism to facilitate processing of applications directed to them under the transparency law, the Central Information Commission has held. The Bar Council of India and Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana had rejected several RTI applications say..

RIL gets a week to clear contempt case The Andhra Pradesh High Court on Tuesday granted one-week time to Reliance Industries Limited to explain the reasons why its chairman Mukesh Ambani should not be made a respondent party in a con..

The Bombay high court on Friday directed the chief election commissioner and the state election commissioner to reconsider the use of ration cards as identity proof for voters. div id="lhs-col" style="border-right: 0px solid rgb(240, 240, 240); padding-right: 1em; margi..

New Delhi: The 26 judges of the Supreme Court (SC) will together discuss and decide whether the Delhi high court’s judgment, that the office of the chief justice of India (CJI) falls within the ambit of the RTI Act, should be challenged. div id="l..

NEW DELHI: NRIs will be able to vote in the next general elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told the annual gathering of the Indian Twitter    Facebook    Share Email    Print    Save    Comment diaspora amid indications that the long-held promise may be comimg to fruitio..

New Delhi: A three-judge bench of the Delhi high court has thrown out the Supreme Court’s attempt to wriggle out of the ambit of the Right to Information Act (RTI); the apex court is hence liable to disclose judges’ assets. Among other things, the bench, headed by chief justice AP Shah, held that the chief justice of India (CJI) is n..

New Delhi: The legal fraternity was ecstatic about the Delhi high court’s ruling that the office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes within the ambit of the Right to Inf..

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Monday came down heavily on mobile companies for sharing their databases with call centres and other agencies. sp..

Mumbai: The tussle over control of the multi-crore Lilavavti Hospital in Bandra is set to intensify after the Bombay high court last week refused to intervene and decided not to stay proceedings against Charu Mehta, a trustee of Lilavati Kirtilal Mehta Medical (LKMM)..