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 The Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court today stayed the admission of a PIL challenging implementation of 50% reservation in private engineering colleges in Uttar Pradesh till September 3. The Bench of Justice Pradeep Kant and Justice Rituraj Awasthi passed the order on a petition filed by Ajay Swaroop and others.  The state government had ..

The Bar Council of Gujarat has removed advocate Pankajkumar Bachubhai Velani of Patan from the state roll of advocates for misrepresentation and suppression of material fact that he was engaged in business of two firms in 2002 when he was enrolled. The suspension followed an inquiry by the Enrollment Committee. The Bar Council of India also accepted the..

The Supreme Court refused to entertain a PIL seeking directions to the Union Government to set up an expert committee to examine if Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) were tamper-proof.  A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishanan and Mr Justice P Sadasivam told the petitioner V V Rao and others to approach the Election Commissioner of India for the purpose. ..

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 The government is taking strict steps by effective laws to stop cutting of trees in forest areas and to curb forest mafia.Strict enforcement of the Indian Forests Act, 1927, the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 and the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 enable..

Dr. M.Veerappa Moily, Minister of Law and Justice informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that the Lok Sabha passed the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2008 on 22nd December, 2008 and it received the assent of the President on 5th February, ..

The Law Commission of India in its 216th Report on “Non-Feasibility of Introduction of Hindi as Compulsory Language in the Supreme Court of India” has, inter-alia, recommended that the higher judiciary should not be subjected to any kind of even pers..

Madras High Court has directed the Coimbatore Police Commissioner to form a team of officers to arrest a proclaimed offender involved in three cases and produce him before it.  ‘Police Inspectors in Coimbatore had kept quiet even after the court issued proclamation against a person’, Court observed. Considering the sorry state of affair..

Under the proposed Judges Assets Bill, judges of the higher judiciary, failing to declare their assets or providing false declaration will be deemed misconduct, giving way for removing a judge, according to Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan. Talking to media persons, he said judges were already declaring their assets to the Chief Justice. But the assets of their depen..

The Supreme Court has proposed to open 4000 new courts across the country to reduce the pendency of cases, Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan said. Inaugurating the new Guest House built by the Tamil Nadu government for judges, the Chief Justice said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given his nod for opening 70 special courts to try CBI cases and 200 family courts. ..

Chhattisgarh High Court issued directives to inform Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu about execution of the election petition’s notice by publishing it in Raipur newspapers. Justice Dheerendra Kumar Mishr issued this directive for making alternate execution of the notice while hearing the petition of Abhanpur’s Praveen Sahu.  Th..

A Pakistani anti-terror court on Saturday adjourned till August 29 the trial of five LeT operatives, including its operations commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Judge Baqir Ali Rana of anti-terror court no 2, who is conducting the trial in the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, put off the matter after hearing arguments by ..

 NIC selects Ahmedabad RTO for launching pilot project A long wait and serpentine queues at Road Transport Offices (RTOs) across Gujarat will soon be a thing of the past. For, the State Transport authorities have mooted a proposal to introduce online registration of applications for learning licence by vehicle owners/..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court reserved its verdict on a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directives to resettle and rehabilitate tribal Pardhis, living in Betul district's Chouthia village, whose houses were allegedly demolished by BJP leaders and workers two years back. Chief Justice Anang Kumar Patnaik and Justice Ajeet Singh heard the plea of social activist Anur..

The Indian Society of International Law was reminded to ‘respect rule of law’ in dealing with members. The request came from a group of the Society’s Associate members who condemned its having held general body meetings ‘in the recent past’ without notifying them. A resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting this evening s..