As the 21 high courts in the country are clogged with over four million cases, the Supreme Court has cautioned them against the practice of entertaining appeals against trial judges’ verdicts in a routine manner.

Though the Supreme Court has cleared all hurdles in the way of pronouncing the judgments in nine major Gujarat riot cases but it still might take a considerable time for the trial proceedings to come to an end in eight of them due to the raging controversy over examination of certain “crucial” witnesses.

A person suffering from mental disorder has been provided protection under the law against prosecution for any crime, including murder, but the Supreme Court in an important judgment held that the ben

The Supreme Court on Saturday virtually made Gujarat as “taripaar” (out of bound) for former minister of state for home Amit Shah for next two weeks, a day after he was granted bail by the state High Court in the Sohrabbuddin “fake encounter” case.

The dispute between the ministries of HRD and health on the proposed “common entrance” test for medical and engineering admissions in the country on Friday reached the Supreme Court with the CBSE seeking the top court’s intervention in the matter after MCI supported HRD minister Kapil Sibal’s move.

In a strong indictment of the Union government, the Supreme Court on Friday questioned the continuation of communications and IT minister A. Raja in the ministry when the CBI is probing allegations of corruption against him in the 2G spectrum scam case.

When there is much clamour for the extension of the branches of Indian institutions like IITs and IIMs to foreign countries, the Supreme Court in an impotent judgment has ruled that any degree by a foreign college affiliated to an Indian University will be illegal if there is no “prior” sanction for such affiliation from the Indian government.

After putting the investigation of nine major Gujarat riots cases back on the rails under the aegis of a special investigation team and constant monitoring during the past eight years, a “satisfied” Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted trial judges in the state to go ahead with their verdicts in eight cases as soon as proceedings are complete.

As the National Advisory Council has recommended broadening of the subsidised food supply by extending it beyond the below poverty line (BPL), the vast difference in the Centre and states’ figures of

The Supreme Court, which found the provisions of the new Domestic Violence Act grossly “inadequate” to deal with the problems of women in “live-in” relationships, relied heavily on the case of famous Hollywood actor Lee Marvin which had laid the foundation for grant of maintenance to women in such liaisons all over the world.