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Mr Justice Jagdish Bhalla assumed office as Chief Justice in the Rajasthan High Court today. Governor Shilendra Kumar Singh administered the oath of the office to Justice Bhalla at a brief ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan here. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Leader of the Opposition Vasundhara Raje, Rajasthan High Court acting Chief Justice R C Gandhi and ..

The Madras High Court directed the registry to post before some other bench the pending case against police officials following a clash between advocates and police personnel at the court premises on February 19.  When the petitions filed by senior advocates, Madras High Court Advocates Association and other lawyers associations came up before a division bench comprisi..

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Justice R B Mishra has been appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court. Justice Mishra is the senior most judge of the High Court. The top High Court post fell vacant following the transfer of Chief Justice Jagdish Bahalla to the Rajasthan High Court. Justice Mishra would formerly assume the charge tomorrow..

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow a petition seeking prosecution of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for calling Mahatma Gandhi ‘naatakbaaz’. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan is scheduled to hear the petition filed by advocate Ravikant who has also sought directions to the government for making any derogatory reference to the Father of th..

Madhya Pradesh High Court stayed the order of a fast track court and additional district court for imposing ban on the publication, printing, distribution and sale of Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, a book based on Bhopal gas tragedy written by French writers Dominic Lapierre and Javier Moro. The writers challenged the order of the lower court and said that there was nothing ..

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to Union Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena and the Chief Electoral Officer in a petition filed by BJP nominee Col Kirori Singh Bainsla for declaring Mr Meena’s election to the Lok Sabha as "null and void". A single bench of the High Court comprising Justice Dilip Singh issued notices yesterday. ..

Madras High Court has set aside an order of authorities rejecting the claim of a lottery ticket winner, and directed them to pay the prize money of Rs 1 lakh with nine per cent interest from April 2001. In his petition, S Krishna Kumar stated that he had won the first prize in the draw held in February 2001. He had deposited the ticket with the Directorate of Raffles in Mar..

Strongly disapproving the attempt of Andhra Pradesh government to shield an MLA and his associates accused of submitting bogus medical bills for illegal pecuniary gains, the Supreme Court has imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on the state government directing it to deposit the same with the AP State Legal Services Authority within four weeks. A bench comprising Justices S K Sinha..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued a notice to BJP leader and Lok Sabha Member Sushma Swaraj on a plea challenging her election from Vidisha on the ground of improper randomisation of electronic voting machines (EVMs) from Budhni, Khategaon and Ichhawar assembly segments. Justice K K Lahoti, hearing the petition of Ichhawar voter Balbir Tomar who accused Ms Swaraj of empl..

Patna High Court stayed the Bihar government’s order to the LJP to vacate its office from wheeler road near airport. Justice A K Tripathi issued the directive on a petition of state LJP president Pashupati Kumar Paras, who challenged the order of the state Building Construction department to vacate the party office from wheeler road, saying it was illegal as the conce..

he Supreme Court(SC) on Friday suspended its own order that had allowed the Uttar Pradesh government to raze to the ground the sprawling 195-acre Lucknow Jail to pave the way for construction of an ecological park. A bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan took the decision on a plea by a Lucknow resident Sangam Lal Pandey, who contended that the state government had secured the apex court order..

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed an NRI woman to appear with her four-and-a-half year daughter before the UK High Court to join proceedings initiated by her husband accusing her of illegally detaining their daughter. A division bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul asked Shilpi (the wife) to appear before the Family Division of U K High Court in compliance with its previous..

he Supreme Court has declined to stay Karnataka High Court's March order confirming the alignment of Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC) peripheral road near Gottigere tank. Arguing for the petitioner, Uday Holla pleaded for stay of the impugned order on the peripheral road. However, when the SC Bench (Justices D K Jain and H L Dattu) sought the state government's opinion, th..

Judges in the state have been asked to introspect and come out with a plan to dispose of the large number of pending cases. What's more, they will be answerable to the public. In a bid to make the judiciary more accountable, the high court on Saturday inaugurated a state-level judicial officers' review meet for the preparation of an action plan. Judges from the state will now be required..