Giving major relief to external affairs minister S.M. Krishna, who is facing an FIR on illegal mining in Karnat-aka, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings against him before the lokayu-kta court in Bengaluru as well as a direction of the state high court for continuing the investigation in the case.

The Indian government has come in for sharp criticism from some legal experts for “messing up” the issue of the custody of two minor NRI children in Norway, saying the court there was allowed to apply the domestic laws of that country in their case “wrongly” in contravention of the UN Convention on Child Right while the case ought to have been dealt under “personal laws” applicable to the parents.

After handing over Gujarat’s Sohrabuddin and Tulsriram Prajapati “fake encounter” cases to the CBI earlier, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the state government-appointed monitoring authority on high-profile cases to examine the allegedly stage-managed killings of 19 others, most of them hardcore criminals with some having links to underworld dons Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Shakeel.

Disapproving the Centre’s lax approach in deporting foreign nationals lodged in Indian jails even after serving the sentence for the offences they were convicted, the Supreme Court on Tuesday directed repatriation within a month of all such Pakistan nationals whose identity has been well established.

Disapproving the Centre’s lax approach in deporting foreign nationals in Indian jails even after serving their sentences, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the repatriation within a month of all such Pakistanis whose identity has been well established.

Not satisfied with the Centre’s stand that armed forces personnel had complete immunity even against court martial under the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the Supreme Court on Monday made the Union government party to a CBI petition seeking prosecution of some Army officers and soldiers in the Chittisinghpura fake encounter case.

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the income-tax department’s demand that the UK-based company Vodafone pay `12,000 crore capital gains tax for investments in India, saying any company registered outside the country can’t be taxed on FDI if paying tax in that country.

In a swift move, the Gujarat government on Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against the state high court’s verdict on Wednesday upholding the appointment of Justice R.A.

Contrary to all speculations, the Supreme Court has not listed the petition of Army Chief V.K. Singh on date of birth row on Friday with a PIL on the issue while he has supplied to the top court almost entire record related to the matter along with his writ petition filed earlier this week.

In a swift move the Gujarat government on Thursday filed an appeal in the Supreme Court against state high court’s Wednesday verdict upholding the appointment of Justice R.A. Mehta as “lokayukta” of the state by governor Kamla Beniwal without consulting chief minister Narendra Modi and his council of ministers.