others

The government has proposed to set up village courts to settle civil disputes.  This, in the wake of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's suggestion at the chief ministers' conference in New Delhi to speedily dispose of cases. Home minister V S Acharya Wednesday said village courts will be set up at..

Taking a note of the alleged sexual abuse and harassment of children inside juvenile homes, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday constituted a four-member committee to look into the matter.  Setting up the committee, a division bench headed by chief justice Ajit Prakash Shah and justice Manmohan s..

 Taking a tough stand on violations committed by Delhi hospitals by not following the guidelines to provide free medical aid to the poor, the High Court directed the Apollo hospital to furnish details of the aid being provided to the poor patients so far. A bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Manmohan directed Mr Lalit Bhasin, lawyer for Apollo hospital..

The Kerala High Court directed the state government to ensure that the school elections in the state were held completely on apolitical lines. Single Bench Judge Justice V Giri also held that no representative of any political party should be permitted to enter the school campuses on the election day.  The court directed that appropriate steps shou..

The Allahabad High Court directed Shaheen, the daughter of a Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh to deposit Rs one lakh in the Court as fine for influencing the district administration for granting licence in her favour.  The order was passed by Justice Devi Prasad Singh on a writ petition filed by Niyamat Jahan of village Afzalpur in Moradabad, whose fair price shop was..

Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy submitted his written arguments in the Madras High Court in a matter relating to an appeal in the Chidhambaram Natarajan temple case. As per the direction of the Division Bench of the court, Swamy’s counsel Venkataraman had filed the written arguments. Dr Swamy said the ancient temple was maintained by t..

Journalist Anirudh Bahal, who had carried out a sting operation on 11 former MPs for allegedly taking cash for asking questions in Parliament in 2005, filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the police chargesheet, which reflected him as accused and not as a witness. Bahal has challenged the trial court order, which summoned him along with other MP's accused of..

The Delhi High court directed the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Wakf board to appoint Maulana Mohammad Ibrahim Quasim, the former Imam of Janpath mosque, as the head priest of Karol Baghs Naiwala Mosque with immediate effect. Justice Vipin Sanghi directed CEO Mohammad Ali Ashraf to provide the Imam with appropriate accommodation having water and electricity connectio..

Once the minority institution status is conferred on an institution, the government is not justified in imposing a condition that the institution concerned must renew its status every year, the Madras high court has said.  In his order on Tuesday, Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar said the fundament..

 The high court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on an application filed by Iskcon, Bangalore, seeking change of the Bench headed by Justice K L Manjunath that is hearing an appeal filed by Iskcon, Mumbai. The Bench heard arguments of both parties for nearly four hours on Tuesday, before deciding to reserve its verd..

The Patna High Court issued a notice to its former Chief Justice J N Bhatt, directing him to reply why he did not join as the Chief Information Commissioner despite being appointed for the same by the Bihar government. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prafull Kumar Mishra and Justice Shiv Kirti Singh issued the notice on a petition filed by Vikash Chandra alias Gud..

The Madras High Court directed Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy to file his arguments in writing in connection with Chidambaram Natarajan Temple case. Disposing off an appeal petition, filed by Podhu Dikshitars of the temple challenging the single Judge order which upheld the decision to appoint an Executive Officer, a Division Bench comprising Justices K Raviraja P..

Almost six months after the Madras high court witnessed largescale violence involving police and lawyers, a division bench has ordered fresh notices to the director-general of police, former city police commissioner and former joint commissioner, in their official as well as personal capacity. The bench comprising Justice FM Ibrahim Kalifulla and Justice R Banumathi issued the notices ..

he government has challenged the order of a single-member Bench of the Delhi High Court, which has quashed the department of telecom notification setting September 25, 2007, as the cut-off date for applying for telecom licences bundled with start-up 2G spectrum. The department of telecom (DoT) has approached a Division Bench headed by Chief Justice A P Shah requesting a stay order pass..

The Supreme Court has awarded life sentence to four members of a Dawood Ibrahim-Chotta Shakeel gang with Pakistani ISI links responsible for killing three Shiv Sena workers in Mumbai in March 1999 but rejected Mahrashtra's appeal for death sentence to three of them. The apex court reversed the Bombay High Court's acquittal of Mohd Juber Kasam Shaikh alias Tabrez and Fazal Mohd Shaikh a..