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The Supreme Court has expressed deep shock and concern at the sacrifice of two small children due to superstition 31 years ago but, however, upheld the acquittal of the mother of the victim and another person with a heavy heart.  A bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and R M Lodha pronouncing the judgment yesterday noted superstition plays a very important role in ..

The Allahabad High Court granted bail to Vibha Tiwari, the wife of ruling Bahujan Samaj Party MLA Shekhar Tiwari and main accused in the sensational PWD engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta murder case of Auraiyya district.  The order was passed by Justice S K Tripathi, who was hearing the bail petition of Vibha Tiwari who was in jail for the past few months. The court had reser..

All India Qazi Council Chairman Amir Ullah Khan Kasmi today claimed that no religion accepted homosexuality and he was prepared to fight shoulder to shoulder with Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on this issue. Expressing disagreement with the Delhi High Court judgment decriminalising homosexuality, Mr Kasmi told media that God had a set of rules and how could anything that went again..

The Madras High Court referred a case related to Former Union Minister and Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president K V Thangabalu to a Division bench to decide its maintainability. Referring the case to the bench, Justice K Suguna said the petition seemed to have been filed with an ulterior motive and publicity angle and hence, the court was referring the matter to a..

The Supreme Court cleared the decks for demolition of a jail in Lucknow to facilitate the construction of Dr B R Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram Memorial high tech eco-park. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices P Sathasivam and J M Panchal stayed the order of Allahabad High Court directing the state government not to demolish the jail till further orders...

The Madras High Court has directed the Government Pleader to file a detailed counter affidavit, along with supporting documents on a petition filed against the cradle-baby recipient scheme.  A Division Bench, comprising Justices D Murugesan and K Venkataraman, posted the matter for July 16. In its petition, the Development Education and Environment..

The Kerala High Court admitted a petition challenging the interference of religious and caste leaders in the electioneering process. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice S R Bannurmath and Mr Justice Kurian Joseph issued notices to organisations like the NSS, SNDP, Jammat-e-Islam and KCBC. The petitioner, Dr S Ganapathi from Kollam, also urged that..

The Allahabad High Court today stayed the arrest of Kaushlendra Singh, the Mayor of Varanasi, in connection with a case wherein he had allegedly used abusive language on caste name against Bhonu Ram, a nazir in Varanasi Nagar Nigam.  The case was registered against the Mayor under SC/ST Act in Sigra police station on July 1. The order was passed by a division bench com..

The Supreme Court stayed till further orders all proceedings pending in Bombay High Court challenging the extension granted to Union Law Secretary T K Viswanathan on his superannuation. A bench, comprising Chief Justices K G Balakrishnan and P Sathasivam, passed the order, when the matter was mentioned by Attorney general G E Vahanvati and Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniu..

The Supreme Court today pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government for making allegations of bias against the Allahabad High Court. A bench comprising Justices B N Aggarwal and G S Singhvi reacted sharply to the allegations made by Satish Chandra Mishra, former minister and close aide of Chief Minister Mayawati, when he tried to assert before the court that the High Court was p..

The Madras High Court has issued notice to the State and Union Governments on a habeas corpus petition, seeking the production of a person detained under the National Security Act (NSA), before the court and set him at liberty. A Division Bench comprising Justices S J Mukhopadhaya and Raja Elango, while admitting a petition yesterday, ordered notice to the State and Centre ..

Seeking the participation of all stakeholders to improve the educational system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday told the Rajya Sabha that the government was contemplating alegislation to allow foreign universities into the country. He, however, added this would be done only after there wasconsensus on the issue. Replying to a question and related supplementar..

 Video tapes on narco analysis in Abhaya case CBI says the tapes are genuine, original ones The reported claim of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that the video tapes relating to the narco analysis in the Abhaya case it had presented to the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court, Ernakulam, and for subsequent analysis by experts at the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-D..

TODAY ONE UNFORTUNATE THING HAPPENED IN ROHINI COURT DELHI.PANKAJ GUPTA[JUDGE] HAS BEATEN BY SOME LAWYERS...

The Bombay High Court set aside Maharashtra government’s notification to reserve 90 per cent of seats in junior colleges for SSC board pass-outs, leaving 10 per cent seats for the ICSE and CBSE students.  A division Bench comprising Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice S C Dharmadhikari, in their order, agreed with the petitioners that the 90:10 formula is d..