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With a view to bringing in far reaching judicial reforms, the UPA government is seriously thinking of introducing the National Judicial Service on the lines of Indian Administrative Service, Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily has said. Addressing a function to mark the first anniversary of High Court Circuit Bench in WALMI campus here yesterday, he said the Centre wanted the..

The Madras High Court has upheld an order of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) for quashing the orders of the Railway Board of 2006 by which the upper age limit of 38 years, plus training period, was applied to all class of candidates, irrespective of their categorisation as OC, OBC, SC and ST, for appointment to the post of Substitute Helper Grade II. In its order ..

A strong demand was made by the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha to "dump" the Union Minister who allegedly tried to "pressurise" a judge of the Madras High Court to sanction anticipatory bail to the accused in a forgery case. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Leader of the Opposition Arun Jaitley said the mini..

 A petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a CBI probe into the charge by a Judge of the court that a union minister had called him trying to influence him in a pending criminal case. Contending that by attempting to influence Justice R Regupathy, the unnamed minister 'committed gross impropriety' and violat..

The Allahabad High Court reserved its judgment on a criminal contempt petition filed against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.  Criminal contempt petition has been filed by ex-MLA Alka Rai, wife of slain BJP MLA Krishnanad Rai. According to the petition, Ms Mayawati, while addressing a public meeting on April 12, 2009 in district Ghazipur, had..

Upholding the judgment of the Divisional Forum, Jammu and Kashmir State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (SCDRC), has directed the government to pay Rs 50,000 to a consumer for disconnecting his water connection. Rejecting the appeal of the public health engineering (PHE) department against the order of Divisional Forum, Srinagar of June 14,2008, the SCDRC directed th..

Madras High Court returned a writ petition filed by Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) President G K Mani seeking direction to the Election Commission of India to forbear the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in future elections. A Division Bench Comprising Justice D Murugesan and Justice K Venkatraman directed petitioner to alter his prayer and submit the petition afresh.b..

Madras High Court issued notice to the State Government on a petition filed by the Association of House Surgeons and Post-graduate Medical students, who are on strike demanding decent hike in their stipend. When the matter came up before a Division Bench comprising Justices D Murugesan and K Venkatraman, counsel for the petitioner V S Sethuraman pointed out that medical col..

 The Madras High Court has asked the government to hold discussions with office-bearers of the association of House Surgeons and post-graduate medical students, who are on strike demanding decent hike in their stipend. A division bench comprising Justices D Murugesan and K Venkataraman, before whom the petition filed by an advocate V S Sethuraman on behalf of the House..

  NEW DELHI: After the Delhi High Court's historic judgment decriminalising homosexuality, can gays across India express their sexuality in private  anywhere in the country, or confine it to the territorial limits of the national capital? Or, as put in legal parlance, would the Delhi High Court's ruling have an all-India effect? The Supreme Court in the..

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The Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered stay on the work of canal construction and land acquisition over the Indira Sagar dam project and the Omkareshwar project without taking advice from the gram sabhas. Hearing a petition filed by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a division bench comprising Chief Justice A K Patnaik and Justice P K Jaiswal said the work on canal construction an..

The Madhya Pradesh High Court issued notice to the Election Commission on a petition over not taking action against a legislator for not providing details of his election expenditure incurred during state assembly elections within the given time frame.  Hearing a petition filed by an electorate from Prithvipur in Tikamgarh district and BJP candidate’s election ag..

The Madras High Court has permitted a final year student of the Government Law College in Tiruchirapalli to sit for X and IX semesters examinations of the five-year B L course. Justice M Jaichandren in his judgment, permitted the student to sit for the exams. In his petition, S Basheer Mohideen of Thanjavur submitted that he had studied all semesters an..

 Retired High Court Judge, Justice Purushottam Bapurao Gaikwad was sworn in as the new Lokayukta of Maharashtra at a simple swearing-in ceremony, held at Raj Bhavan. Governor S C Jamir administered the oath of office to Justice Gaikwad. Justice Gaikwad succeeds Justice (retd) G D Patil who demitted office on January 26, 2009. Upa Lokaykta Suresh Ku..