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  The Bombay High Court today directed the Maharashtra government to initiate departmental action against former Superintendent of Arthur Road Jail, Swati Sathe, within six months for her alleged involvement in the brutal assaul..

Gujarat High Court today issued a showcause notice to the state government to file reply within two weeks as to why the Public Interest Litigation, filed by Ukai Right Bank Canal Adivasi Adhikar Samiti praying for direction for commencing th..

 The Madras High Court today granted conditional anticipatory bail to a doctor and his son in connection with the mark sheet fudging case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation. Justice M Jeyapaul granted the bail to Dr C Krishnamurthy and his son Kiruba Sridhar, on the condition that they should produce a surety of Rs one lakh each. The Judge also imposed a condition that the fat..

  The Supreme Court has directed Home Secretary, Rajasthan to appear personally in the court on July 27 to explain why its order to re-arrest a rape accused has not been complied with. A bench comprising Justices Markandey Katju and A K Ganguly yesterday severely reprimanded Rajasthan police officials and told the two investigating officers present in the cou..

Legally India caught up with Bar Council of India chairman Suraj Narain Prasad Sinha last week. We asked him about legal education, Australian racism and why allowing foreign law firms to pra..

It is one thing to tell a hungry person to wait for the food-- quite another to say that seeds have just been sown for grain to grow. That example was cited by Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan to illustrate the plight of litigants who suffer delays-- years of st..

About 70,000 cases, some of them pending for decades, were settled by Lok Adalats since 2007 amicably in Jammu and Kashmir where 3807 cases have been disposed of by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and 1035 cases have been recommended for ex-gratia relief. This..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court today directed issuance of contempt notices to the state Secretary and Commissioner (Medical Education) and the Dean, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, for not refunding excess fees to a petitioner despite court orders. Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Pankaj Jaiswal heard the plea of Mr Vikash Khare, a 2008 batch student who was giv..

 The Government is preparing a roadmap for judicial reforms in the country which aims, inter alia, at reducing pendency in the courts, at providing quick and effective justice, introducing accountability of the judges and bringing the transparency in judici..

The Ministry of Environment and Forest has made the Environmental Clearances process more transparent than before. The Ministry, in the past, received some communications from NGOs complaining about the violation of rules regarding matters such as non-implementa..

The Bill for establishment of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) is under finalization. As environmental cases are inter-sectoral and cross-cutting in nature it is difficult to exactly quantify the same. The NGT intends to reduce the load of ..

About 70,000 cases, some of them pending for decades, were settled by Lok Adalats since 2007 amicably in Jammu and Kashmir where 3807 cases have been disposed of by the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and 1035 cases have been recommended for ex-gratia relief. This was informed at review meeting of Law department held here today under the chairmanship of Minister for La..

Sarva Dharam Sansad (SDS), a religious organisation having representatives of all religions, decided to approach the Supreme Court, seeking direction to the authorities to remove all religious structures built on public land through encroachment across the country. Senior Advocate K T S Tulsi agreed to help the SDS in preparing the PIL. This decision ha..

 The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notice of contempt of court to two state government officials in Uraon and other tribal caste Certificate matter. A division bench while hearing the contempt petition yesterday issued notice to Chief Secretary Rakesh Sahni and Principal Secretary Sudesh Kumar. Several organisations belonging to Scheduled Tribe ..

In order to have an appropriate mechanism to deal with matters relating to equal opportunities for deprived groups and diversity in living, educational and work spaces, the Government had constituted two Expert Groups. One Expert Group was to examine and determine the structure and functions of an Equal Opportunity Commission and the other one was to recommend an appropriate ‘diversity in..