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The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a green signal to the government to go ahead with its construction activities near the Yamuna river bed for the Commonwealth Games. A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan quashed the Delhi High Court order that had put various restrictions on the cons..

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court reserved its verdict on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition challenging the state decision to dissolve the Bharat Bhavan Managing Board, the cultural and art center developed at Bhopal last year. A division bench comprising Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice Ram Kishore Gupta, while hearing the petition of Daya Prakash Sinha, challenging..

Andhra Pradesh High Court stayed the forthcoming civic elections in the state capital.  A Division Bench of the High Court, comprising Chief Justice Anil Ramesh Dave and Justice Ramesh Ranganathan, had on July 24 reserved orders after hearing arguments of the state Election Commission, Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC) and those on behalf of the petitioners..

Tamil Nadu Advocate General (AG) G Masilamani tendered his resignation, citing personal reasons. Official sources said the resignation was accepted and the DMK Government appointed Additional Advocate General P S Raman as the new Advocate General. Mr Masilamani was appointed as AG in 2006, after the DMK came to power. Mr Raman is th..

Indian project finance is hitting a purple patch, helping Indian law firms to beat the world’s biggest to emerge top legal advisors to    global project deals, ..

The Delhi High Court imposed a fine of Rs 75,000 on Gyan Bharti Educational Society and directed the school to absorb its 16 teachers which were retrenched earlier. A Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice Manmohan directed the society to absorb the teachers as permanent teachers and to distribute the fine of Rs 75,000 between NDMC, Centre and Delhi Government...

A local court in Jaipur ordered filing of case of forgery and violation of Copy Right Act against item girl and TV personality Rakhi Sawant and six others. The Judicial Magistrate Jaipur ordered the filing of FIR for allegedly using the script and the word Swayambar in a popular TV reality show in an unauthorised manner, on a complaint filed by one Gaurav Tiwari. ..

The Madras High Court has ruled that couples intending to adopt children without being inhibited by their personal laws of their religion are entitled to do so in terms of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act (JJCPC ACT) As seen from its preamble, the JJCPC Act itself was enacted to fulfil international obligations as well as the constitutional goal, the court said. ..

The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of advocate R K Anand for trying to win over the prosecution witness to save Sanjeev Nanda, accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, resulting in the death of seven people. A bench headed by Justice B N Agrawal, however, acquitted another advocate I U Khan. Anand was held guilty of contempt of court by the Delhi..

Madras High Court today ordered the CB-CID not to harass or threaten an accused in an alleged fertilizer scam case to turn into an approver. While allowing a criminal original petition filed by 62-year-old M Nageswaran of Srikanth & Nagesh Fertilizer Trading Company, Mr Justice P R Sivakumar came down heavily on Mr Parthasarathy, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), O..

Madras High Court today ordered for status quo on an appeal petition filed by Dravidar Kazhagam (DK) leader K Veeramani against single Judge order in a copyright case involving late Founder of DK EVR Periyar’s articles. While admitting the appeal, a division Bench comprising Justices K Raviraja Pandian and Justice A Janarthana Raja, ordered for status quo, and ordered..

CBI special court Judge Chitra Bhedi was today re-instated by City, Civil and Sessions Court Principal Judge M T Joshi to preside over the partly-heard matters including the multi-crore fake stamp and stamp paper scam involving prime accused Abdul Karim Telgi. The Law and Judiciary department of Maharashtra government had recently issued an order de-notifying all the specia..