The Bombay High Court Friday rejected the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's (MNS) petition for permission to hold a poll rally at Shivaji Park. Terming the move as "partisan", MNS chief Raj Thackeray said his party would hold the rally on Mumbai streets. The court rejected the petition to hold the rally Feb ...

The Delhi High Court Friday sought the state election commission's response to a plea that has challenged the earmarking of seats as reserved for the Scheduled Castes (SC) in the April 2012 elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). A bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the government should give sanction to prosecute accused officials within 3 months. If there is need for any consultation with the legal authorities, the government might give its sanction within 4 months. However, the SC left it for Parliament to frame guidelines for giving sanction ...

The Supreme Court Monday asked the Gujarat government why it was recording statements of witnesses alleging that social activist Teesta Setalvad doctored affidavits of victims of the 2002 riots when the proceedings had already been stayed by the court. The apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice R.P. Desai ...

Private unaided schools here have sought government aid and two years for putting in place infrastructure for teaching disabled children -- as desired by the Delhi High Court. The schools told the court that the responsibility of educating the disabled students was on the government and the burden could not be ...

The Delhi High Court Friday gave a go-ahead to schools to admit children aged three-plus years to nursery classes. The court refused to interfere with age criteria for pre-school and pre-primary classes, and said the schools which have admitted children aged three-plus will continue to do so. The court gave its order ...

The Delhi government Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that none of the 446 milk samples checked by its agencies from Jan 1, 2009 to Aug 4, 2011 were found to contain any harmful adulterants like detergent or urea. An affidavit filed by the department of prevention of food adulteration (PFA), ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court Tuesday issued notice to the state’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on botched eye operations in September that left several aged persons blinded in one eye. The high court, which is based at Bilaspur town, some 100 km from Raipur, issued the notice as it took up ...

The Delhi High Court Tuesday asked Essar Teleholdings, Loop Telecom and the CBI to seek a clarification from the Supreme Court on the companies' plea to delink their cases from the other co-accused in the 2G trial. The companies say their case should not be heard by the Central Bureau of ...

The Delhi High Court Monday refused to stay the state government's draft notification aimed at putting a blanket ban on the manufacture, sale and use of plastic bags in Delhi. The bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw rejected the plea of the All India Plastic Industries ...