As the UN convention against corruption-2003 is being repeatedly referred by the members of “civil society” in support of their demand for a strong Lokpal on the face of government toughening its stand on brining the Prime Minister under its ambit, the provisions of the convention would throw a light on what the world body had actually recommended to the member nations.

The Supreme Court in a latest judgment on the evidentiary value of “extra-judicial” confession in criminal cases has held that the admission of the guilt by an accused to any private person cannot be accepted as a sound evidence to convict him unless such a confession stood the real judicial test laid down in the Evidence Act.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered setting up of a committee under the state chief secretary to go into the controversy related to the introduction of “uniform system of education” for all the schools in Tamil Nadu. The controversy had arisen due to certain amendments introduced by the new Jayalalithaa government in the law passed by the previous DMK-led government to implement the uniform education system.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the CBI on DMK MP Kanimozhi’s bail petition in the 2G scam case but with certain uncomfortable questions to her counsel about the status of the `200 crore bribe allegedly received by Kalaignar TV, in which she is a director. The court also made stinging observations about “corruption”, describing it as the worst kind of human rights violation.

The slow process of appointing the judges of high judiciary has badly affected the functioning of several high courts with the vacancy level in some of them going up to 45 per cent and country’s bigge

The slow process of appointing the judges of high judiciary has badly affected the functioning of several high courts with the vacancy level in some of them going up to 45 per cent and country’s biggest high court at Allahabad is working almost with one-third of the sanctioned strength of judges.

DMK MP Kanimozhi and Kalaignar TV MD Sharad Kumar on Friday became the first accused in the 2G spectrum case to approach the Supreme Court for bail even as the top court is yet to give its final verdict on the monitoring of the multi-million rupees scam.

Noted painter M.F. Husain, who was living in self-imposed exile due to reported threat from some right-wing Hindu outfits over his controversial paintings of the Hindu gods and goddesses, faced a large number of cases across the country.

As the acquisition of land for development purposes has embroiled in major political controversies in different states, the Supreme Court has stressed that the government should give preference to the policy of “land-for-land” to ensure that no farmers, especially the tribals, were rendered landless.

The retirement of seven Supreme Court judges in the next four months is going have a major impact on some important cases with the “black money” matter to be the first causality as Justice B. Sudershan Reddy, heading the bench monitoring the probe into it is set to superannuate soon after reopening of the apex court on July 4.