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Expressing concern over the increasing backlog of cases in courts and the slow rate of disposal, Chief Justice of India K...

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Chaos prevailed in the Karnataka High Court when thousands of advocates, ignoring a court order, boycotted the proceedings in various courts in the city demanding Chief Justice P D Dinakaran to stay away from the court till he was absolved of allegations levelled against him. Unsavoury scenes were witnessed when so..

Social activist and advocate Aires Rodrigues filed a contempt petition in the Bombay High Court at Goa against State Advocate General Subodh Kantak for making allegedly ‘false, malicious and utterly dishonest statements’ against Justice N A Britto in a Special Leave Petition recently in the Supreme Court, which the AG had l..

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The much awaited results of the Rajasthan High Court Bar Association Jaipur are over. Madhav Mitra has been declared President with a huge margin And first time in the history of High Court Bar a candidate has won the consicutive elections. No doubt the work done in the Bar really paid a good reward to Mr. Madhav Mitra. Mr. Manish Kumawat has been elected as General Secratory and Mr. Brij Bihar..

The Delhi High Court has held that information stored in Electronic Voting Machine(EVM) cannot be made public under the RTI Act. Justice Sanjiv Khanna set aside the order of the Central Information Commission which had asked the Election Commission to reveal information in EVM to an information seeker under the transparency law. "Right to information is an important right. At the same time, mainta..

The Gujarat High Court (HC) on Thursday upheld the Gujarat University Syndicate’s decision to cancel fee hike in Self-Financed Institutions (SFIs) offering BBA, BCA and B Com degree courses. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice K S Radhakrishnan and Justice A S Dave turned down a plea by the SFIs against the university’s decision taken on October 11. The Syndicate members had qu..

For years, there has been loud debate and even orders from courts to do away with or, at least, amend Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with the offence of matrimonial cruelty. This clause is considered to be rampantly abused, with several examples of husbands and their families being arrested without a preliminary inquiry on allegations of harassing their wives for a range..

he Supreme Court today frowned upon the practice of adopting summary court martial proceedings to sack lower rank army personnel and directed the Chief of the Army Staff Gen Deepak Kapoor to explain if there are any guidelines to prevent its abuse. A bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and H L Dattu at one stage threatened to summon the Army chief to the court as the union government failed ..

With Lucknow West assembly by-election taking communal and sectarian turn, a group of Shia Muslims, owing allegiance to ruling BSP on Friday lodged FIR against Samajawadi Party general secretary Amar Singh for hurting the community's religious sentiments. The FIR was lodged under section 153 A of Indian Penal Code for doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony. This move is presumably ..

The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed the DDA to go ahead with the allotment process of over 5,280 flats to the people who were successful in lucky draw in December last year, an exercise which was mired in controversy following charges of irregularity. Justice G S Sistani passed the order after the Economic Offence Wing of the Delhi Police submitted a report in the court giving clean chit to ..

Noted social activist Anna Hazare has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict rejecting anticipatory bail to suspended NCP leader Padamsinh Patil. "This will strengthen people's faith in judiciary," Hazare told PTI. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the anticipatory bail application of Patil in connection with a complaint lodged against him by social activist Anna Hazare. Patil had approa..