The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a writ petition of eight farmers from Bhatta, Parsaul and Acheypur villages, the scene of recent alleged atrocities of the Uttar Pradesh police on the issue of acquiring their land and asked them to approach the Allahabad high court.

In a stern warning to the states against introducing “party politics” in panchayats, the Supreme Court on Friday said any move to amend the Panchayati Raj Act aimed at promoting “groupism” based on the party lines in these institutions of grassroots democracy will not be permitted as it is fraught with the danger of striking at the basic structure of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court Thursday cancelled the allotment of a 1.2-acre plot to cricketer Sourav Gangula in Kolkata’s Salt Lake Sector 5 area, saying the “discretionary quota” allotment by the state’s former Left Front government for a proposed school did not “meet the requirement of the law”.

Even as the Bhatta Parsaul land acquisition controversy refuses to die down, the Supreme Court has laid down guidelines for fixing of the compensation to the farmers preferably on the basis of hard evidence about the market value of their land rather than the “guesstimated” price.

With the arrest of DMK Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi in the 2G scam case after the special court rejected her bail application, the case against her enters the next crucial phase of commencing the process

Holding that the husband could not be allowed to subjugate wife only because he is physically strong, the Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence to a sex maniac from Chhattisgarh for strangling his wife to death after she refused to oblige him with cohabitation on his persistent demands.

The Supreme Court on Thursday called for the details of the two sets of charges framed against Sikkim high court chief justice P.D. Dinakaran in the impeachment process to examine whether the three-member inquiry committee probing the charges had overstepped its limit.

At a time when acquiring farmers’ land for infrastructure projects has emerged as a major political controversy, the Supreme Court, in an important judgment, has said the landowners should not be denied the right of judicial review by the courts against acquisition notifications merely on legal technicalities as it might frustrate the cause of justice to them.

The impeachment inquiry committee set up by Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari to inquire corruption charges against Sikkim high court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran on Wednesday defended in the Supreme Court its decision rejecting his plea for removal of senior advocate P.P. Rao from the probe panel on the allegation of bias.

Upholding the right of a girl child in the joint property of a Hindu family, the Supreme Court in yet another important judgment ruled that if she is discriminated against, she can reopen the case for partition of the property to claim her rightful share even after a decree is passed by the cour