Source: indiatoday.in Shehla Rashid, JNU student leader and aspiring politician from Kashmir, is the latest target of the sedition law. Her tweets on alleged army excesses in Kashmir prompted Supreme Court lawyer Alakh Alok Srivastava to file a complaint with the Delhi Police. Given that the complaint cites a cognisable offence under the Indian Penal

Source: scroll.in The Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association has written to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, requesting him to transfer the court’s third most senior judge, Sanjay Yadav, from the state because of his alleged misbehaviour with lawyers, Live Law reported on Friday. The lawyers are apprehensive that Yadav may become the acting chief justice at

Source: dnaindia.com Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing Muslim parties in the Ayodhya Babri Masjid land dispute case, on Thursday submitted before the Supreme Court that he has been receiving threats on social media for appearing in the matter.”I am receiving threats on Facebook for appearing against in the case,” he submitted before a five-judge constitution

Source: dnaindia.com Former BJP parliamentarian Dinu Bogha Solanki and his nephew Shiva, who have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a special CBI court on July 11 for the murder of RTI activist Amit Jethwa, have moved the Gujarat High Court challenging the verdict of the lower court. The appeals are likely to

Source: thehindu.com The Karnataka High Court on Thursday directed the State government and the Jungle Lodges and Resorts (JLR) Ltd. to submit an application within a month to the Union government seeking consent — under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 — for the lodges operated in permanent structures built using materials such as bricks in the forest

Source: nenow.in The Sikkim High Court on Thursday rejected a plea for live telecast and video recording of the court proceedings of a writ petition. The single-bench court of Justice Bhaskar Raj Pradhan in an order said the application seeking live telecast and video recording of the court proceedings “does not merit any further consideration”. The petitioners

Source: thehindu.com The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside the grant of bail to Bhushan Steel’s former chief financial officer Nittin Johari, arrested by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office for alleged fraudulent activities. A Bench led by Justices N.V. Ramana, Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Ajay Rastogi referred to the law laid down by the Supreme Court in past decisions

Source: thehindu.com Political leaders have come out in support of the owners of the Maradu flats which the Supreme Court has ordered to be razed before September 20. Meanwhile, the apartment residents said they would approach the President and the Prime Minister seeking their intervention in the issue. They would write to all MPs from

Source: india.com New Delhi: A 23-year old girl lost her life after an illegal flex banner/hoarding that was erected on the median of a 200-feet radial road in Pallikaranai, Chennai for the family function of an AIADMK functionary, reportedly fell on the two-wheeler she was riding. She subsequently lost balance and fell on the road when

Source: barandbench.com The Bombay High Court recently upheld an arbitral award passed in favour of the Government of Israel, and directed a company in South Mumbai to refund a security deposit worth Rs. 1.17 crore paid for office space given on rent basis for the Israeli Consulate between 2009 and 2012. Justice RD Dhanuka passed an order to