The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on the petition of a BJP MLA from Karnataka challenging the HC order allowing amendment in the petitions of 5 Independent MLAs disqualified by the Assembly Speaker.

After going through the files relating to the appointment of chief vigilance commissioner P.J. Thomas, the Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine the “validity” of the Centre’s order on his selection despite his name figuring in the chargesheet in Kerala’s palmolien import scam case and while he also faced allegations of a “coverup” in the 2G spectrum scam as telecom secretary.

After finding several deficiencies in the status reports of four “test case” states in implementing the Supreme Court’s 2006 verdict on “police reforms”, a special bench, headed by Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia made it plain to all the states that they could not “escape” putting in place the “reform model” as the court was very serious about improving the law and order as well as criminal justice system in the country.

In an important ruling on filling up of the parliamentary and Assembly vacancies arising out of the resignations of the MP and MLA within six months, the Supreme Court has held that the Election Commi

It took 21 years for the Centre to realise that the compensation paid to the Bhopal gas victims even in the death cases was “grossly inadequate” after a nine-member strong GoM set by the Prime Ministe

As the speculation about the resignation of CVC P.J.

In a substantial relief to the Mayawati government over the Noida park honouring dalit icons close to the national capital, the Supreme Court on Friday declared that while the 33.43-hectare land does

Virtually putting the five Independent disqualified MLAs of Karnataka on the defensive in the Supreme Court, the Yeddyurappa government submitted that all of them had, in fact, joined the BJP and had

Continuing with its probing queries about the alleged brazen acts of former communications minister A.

While admitting industrialist Rattan Tata’s petition for probe into the “leak” of the “Radia tapes” recorded by the income-tax department in connection with investigation of the tax frauds, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the Centre, IT DG, CBI and two media organisations which had published the transcripts of the tapes.