Two civic agencies were Wednesday pulled up by the Delhi High Court for not removing illegal encroachments in a locality in northwest Delhi and their chiefs were summoned May 12 for explanation. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Mukta Gupta directed Municipal Corporation of Delhi ...

The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the government to refund Rs.80 lakh fine to the heirs of Maharani Gayatri Devi of the erstwhile Jaipur royal family, which was penalised 35 years ago for possessing undeclared gold. The income tax department had seized 800 kg of undeclared gold which was listed ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday lamented an unsavoury spat between two veteran lawyers, and said that if the apex court could witness such acrimony, imagine the plight of the lower judiciary. “If two senior advocates fight like this in the Supreme Court, I wonder what would be the plight in the lower ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday censured two special public prosecutors of Gujarat for going public with their allegations that the two special judges trying Gujarat riots cases in Ahmedabad were biased against the victims. 'We disapprove this. They are degrading the judicial system,' said a three-judge bench headed by Justice D.K. ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed nearly two dozen criminal cases against Tamil actress Khushboo for making a controversial statement endorsing pre-marital sex and live-in relationships. A bench comprising Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice B.S. Chauhan quashed 22 criminal cases against her saying that her statement on the issue of pre-marital ...

The khap panchayat menace has surfaced in Rajasthan, with many people alleging victimisation at the hands of the caste councils. The victims of khap panchayats from Rajasthan gathered here Tuesday to share their experiences. Sanjoy Sachdeva, president of the National Journalists Front (India), described the khap panchayat as a “panchayat which has ...

The Delhi High Court Tuesday granted bail to a rape convict who has been suffering from an 'incurable' liver disease since last May. Justice Siddharth Mridul ordered the Tihar jail authorities to release convict Satyam Singh on bail. He was sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by a lower court for raping ...

An advocate Tuesday questioned a plea filed in the Supreme Court seeking contempt action against him for accusing a senior apex court judge of indulging in judicial impropriety. Advocate Prashant Bhushan challenged the maintainability of the plea by senior counsel Harish Salve to launch contempt to court proceeding against him ...

Angry over a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a community group here has alleged that the CBI did not investigate material witnesses in the case when its team came to the United States. The Sikh group based in New York and India, Sikhs for Justice, ...

Fast track courts have disposed off 29.08 lakh cases since their inception in 2000, the Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday. 'According to information received from the state governments/registries of the high courts, out of 35.85 lakh cases transferred to fast track courts since inception, 29.08 lakh cases have been disposed ...