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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon the judiciary and executive to work together to make the Indian judicial system arrear-free and stressed the need of urgently filling the large number of vacancies in the High Courts and subordinate courts to accomplish this task. Speaking at the Joint Conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices here, Dr Singh said the eliminat..

The Madras High Court dismissed applications seeking an interim injunction restraining Tata Consultancy Services from infringing the applicant’s copyright and patent in the invention ‘FLYGUARD’ under the title e-passport (Smartcard) and as TCS e-passport solution. The applicant, S Paul Raj, a computer science graduate, said during his study, he identified ..

The pace at which the legal system is improving, there will be no pendency of cases by 2011, according to Additional Solicitor General A S Chandiok. Talking about the justice delivery system, Mr Chandiok said ‘our system is very good, it draws a lot of praise from abroad.  Recently, a lot of improvement have been made to make it fast and effi..

The screening of the romantic Bengali film Paran Jai Jolia Re got a breather as a two-Judge bench of the Calcutta High Court restrained from issuing a stay on the show. The bench, comprising Justices P C Ghosh and I P Mukherjee, also appointed two lawyers representing both sides. They were directed to submit the proceeds of the sales from the film&rsquo..

Madras High Court has said it is a settled proposition of law that when a statute prescribes to do a particular thing in a particular manner, the same should not be done in any other manner.  The proposition is well recognised as held by the Supreme Court in a case, the High Court observed. While passing a common order on writ petitions filed by th..

The state government seems to be dragging its feet on implementing a path-breaking bill passed by the legislature that provides for penal action against any builder who does not convey land to the housing society within four months of the society being registered.  According to an estimate, the..

 For nearly 1.7 lakh undertrials languishing in jails after being booked for petty offences, there could be good news soon.  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, law minister Veerappa Moily and Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan were unanimous that urgent steps were needed to release them a..

 In the matter pertaining to water scarcity in Mohali, the divison bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court comprising Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia issued a notice of motion to the Union of India, the state of Punjab and Chandigarh administration for October 8 on the public ..

The remarks of Union minister Sachin Pilot regarding the bifurcation of the Allahabad High Court bench in western UP has angered the lawyer fraternity here. On Thursday, lawyers of the high court hurriedly convened a meeting of the Bar and passed a resolution to observe Protest Day on Monday to condemn the Central gover..

High Court remarks dubbing blackmailer a man who sued top officials for non-performance of duty after he was overcharged and slapped by a telephone booth attendant, have been set aside. ‘The comments made personally against the appellant in the impugned order... are set aside,’ a two-Judge bench of the Delhi High Court has written in a judgement now on the web...

 Central information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has given a new `mantra' to his counterparts across the country for speedy disposal of applications filed under the Right to Information Act.  Before drafting a comprehensive action plan for his colleagues, Gandhi has ensured that he himsel..

 The Bombay high court on Thursday heard a petition filed by IL&FS, one of the private developers whose bid for the Rs 813-crore Mantralaya redevelopment plan was rejected as "late''.  A bench, headed by the Chief Justice, while reserving its judgment on the petition seeking direc..

The Mumbai police got a dressing down in the Bombay high court on Thursday.  Rapping the MIDC police for illegally detaining two activists a day before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the city, the HC said the police "must not act like nawabs. This is a democratic country and..

 The Madras High Court has allowed an application in a civil suit seeking an order of attachment before judgment of the immovable property in the names of the legal heirs of the late K Kalimuthu, former Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly.  The application was filed by Krishna Ponnuswamy and her son, Nirmal Kumar, a software engineer and consultant. The..

 A two-judge bench of Calcutta High Court stayed an order asking to shut down all computer training centres of the state youth welfare department. The bench, headed by Bishwanath Samaddar, issued the ruling on a petition challenging a single-bench. The single-bench issued the ruling after a city resident alleged that all computer training centres w..