Source:- ndtv.com CHENNAI:  A 32-year-old man, claiming to be late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s son, has been ordered by the Madras High Court to appear before the Chennai Police commissioner on Saturday. The man, identified as J Krishnamurthy, has also been warned that he would face arrest should the documents he presented are found

Source:- indiatimes.com KOLKATA: Financial behemoth State Bank of India will have to alter its recruitment procedure after a transgender person took it to court for not providing the third gender category in its application and won the case. The Calcutta high court on Thursday directed SBI to not only accept Atri Kar’s application for the

Source:- thehindu.com The Supreme Court Collegium has handed over the finalised Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges to the government. While maintaining the government’s proposal for a national security clause in the MoP, the Collegium has reserved to itself the right to reiterate a name rejected by the government. In the final draft

Source:- intoday.in A Haryana court on Saturday sentenced 13 former workers of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) to life imprisonment, in connection with the 2012 Maruti factory violence and rioting case. The court also sentenced four other accused to five years’ imprisonment, and said the sentence already served by the remaining 14 accused was sufficient.

Source:- bbc.com Bhanwari Devi is an unlikely heroine. Nearly a quarter of a century after the illiterate, low-caste woman was allegedly gang-raped by her high-caste neighbours in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, she refuses to give up her fight for justice. It was her case that resulted in the Indian Supreme Court formulating guidelines

Source:- india.com Agartala, March 18 (IANS) The lack of resources and geographical isolation sometimes hamper the delivery of justice, Supreme Court Justice Ranjan Gogoi said here on Saturday. “Because of lack of economic solvency, geographical isolation and remoteness sometimes justice might not reach to the people at the right time,” Justice Gogoi said after laying

Source:- hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court has asked lower courts to use video-conferencing facility in divorce, custody and other matrimonial cases when the estranged couple live in different cities, an order aimed at speedy disposal of such disputes. Disagreement between a husband and a wife over the place of hearing is one of the biggest reasons

Source:- intoday.in The Election Commission has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court saying it supports a life ban on tainted political leaders. The central poll panel, in its affidavit, said that convicted netas should be barred from  contesting elections for life. Currently, this ban is for six years. At present, a person, convicted in

Source:- indiatimes.com AHMEDABAD: Automobile companies should be more cautious in advertising about mileage of their vehicles. A consumer court has directed an auto company to repair and augment the mileage of a customer’s motorcycle to deliver the promise made in advertisement claims. The court has also asked the company to refund the price of the

Course:- dnaindia.com The Supreme Court today said the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) for appointments to the higher judiciary has been cleared and the process of filling the vacancies in the high courts was proceeding on a “war footing”. A bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar, while disposing of PILs seeking filling of vacancies for