Courts

By Punit Mishra For years, Kerala’s tourism industry has marketed the state as God’s Own Country, though its own denizens as well as visitors to the state have found it to be Hartals Own Country. F...

From the historic Ayodhya verdict to the dismissal of Rafale review pleas, the nation witnessed many landmark Supreme Court judgments in 2019. Here are the top 5 verdicts of the year. Ayodhya judgmen...

In less than two weeks, the first of the four waterfront apartment complexes in Kochi, Kerala ordered to be demolished by the Supreme Court for violation of Coastal Regulation Zone rules will be broug...

The Calcutta High Court has stayed the deportation of a Rohingya couple on humanitarian grounds, till the pendency of their writ petition challenging the state’s attempt to deport them to Myanmar whic...

The Bombay High Court held that persons accused of sexual offences against minors should be “mercilessly and inexorably punished”, while upholding the conviction of a person accused of raping a 5-year...

A Delhi court on Tuesday issued bailable warrant against BJP leader Kapil Mishra for non-appearance in a defamation case filed by Delhi’s Environment Minister Imran Hussein for allegedly accusing him ...

A Delhi court on Tuesday stayed bailable warrant issued against BJP MP Hans Raj Hans till Feb 17, 2019 subject to appearance on next date. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM), Vishal Pa...

A Delhi court on Monday dismissed the bail plea of 15 people arrested in connection with Daryaganj violence that took place during the anti-CAA rally last week. While rejecting the bail plea, the c...

Eight district judges have protested against a Madras High Court collegium decision to promote junior officers and knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court   By R Ramasubramanian in Chennai In...

In a strongly worded judgment, the Jammu and Kashmir High Court pulled up lawyers who had been on strike for 43 days and said their conduct was a blatant violation of the mandate of law  By Pushp ...