A person not much aware of the functional difference between the criminal and civil courts and often ill-advised by the lawyers to register criminal case against the rival party if he has lost a property dispute in a civil court, the Supreme Court has a word of caution against taking such ill-advised legal venture.

In a rare order, the Supreme Court on Friday stayed the trial proceedings against Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in an anti-Sikh riot case amidst the ongoing cross examination of key witness Jagdish Kaur, whose husband and son were among the seven Sikhs massacred in Sultanpuri area.

In an significant judgement protecting the editorial freedom, the Supreme Court on Friday imposed an unusual heavy fine of Rs 2 lakhs on Bengaluru-based association of excise practitioners for initiating a “false” contempt case against the editor of the city-based excise magazine.

Expressing unhappiness over the states’ “apathy” towards improving the public distribution system despite repeated orders while food stocks were rotting at several places, the Supreme Court on Thursday set the states a tight deadline of one week to respond on the supply of rations to BPL and AAY families.

Solicitor-general Gopal Subramaniam said the government has accepted the Supreme Court’s proposal for computerisation of the PDS in coordination with the Department of Information Technology, National Informatics Centre and Unique Identification Authority of India. The Centre was allowed six weeks to submit a progress report on its computerisation plan.

Amidst a high pitched drama rarely witnessed in the Supreme Court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was on Thursday allowed three months extension to complete the probe in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, haunting the Narendera Modi government while former Gujarat minister Amit Shah’s lawyer questioned the very basis of the top court order handing over the investigation to the agency.

The Supreme Court proposal for fresh probe into the cancelled deemed universities virtually fallen flat on Wednesday with their lawyer not agreeing to confining the inquiry to the 44 derecognised institutions but wanting to broaden its ambit to include all 136 deemed universities examined by HRD ministry’s Tandon committee.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition by Karnataka tourism minister and leading iron ore mine owner in the state Janardhan Reddy accusing former chief minister H.D. Kumaraswamy of collecting Rs 150 crores from Bellary miners.

The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the CBI for “selective” leak to media about the investigation in the mysterious Aarushi and Hemraj double murder and restrained both print and electronic media from reporting on the basis of such leaks attributed to unidentified sources in the agency.

Putting his words about the use of the modern technology into action, the Chief Justice of India has issued an order for serving the notice to the parties in a case through email to speed up the dispo