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SAT rules with SEBI against Sahara, asks to refund to investors [Moneycontrol / Indian Corporate Law]
High Court judge’s daughter arrested for bribery granted Rs 50,000 bail [TOI]
Jet-Sahara case heads to Supreme Court after Bombay HC declines to allow Sahara to recover higher Rs 2,000 crore purchase price [Mint]
Pranab defends CAG: Has not exceeded jurisdiction, basic responsibility to identify lapses [TOI]
Court stays arrest of Ahmedabad lawyer in Godhra train massacre ‘dodgy’ affidavit case [Express]
NLIU Bhopal under fire after two profs sacked for alleged irregularities in grading student papers [TOI]
PIL challenging UK Sinha’s SEBI appointment to be re-filed, exclude finance minister says SC [Mint]
BCI denied affiliation to 21 colleges in 2010-11, only one in previous year and eight in 2008-9, says Kursheed [PIB]
Bombay HC rules for clothes seller against BMC in request for licence to sell pre-cooked food [DNA]
Mining suspended by SC in two more K’tka districts [Hindu]
NUJS Kolkata submits comments on draft national competition policy [Draft]
“Young members of the Bar will be encouraged provided they are prepared to argue their case”: B’lore HC motivational posters catch RamJet’s eye [IBN]
Bombay High Court turns 150: senior advocate TR Andhyarujina celebrates with an ode and potted history [Hindu]
Two editorials in Express family papers today condemn SC’s new journalist control rules; But for Mint and Express other MSM remain strangely mute [Financial Express / Indian Express]
Former Amarchand COO Bithika Anand’s consulting firm Legal League Consulting enters into strategic alliance with Edge International [Press release]
K’tka HC sets aside compensation for Mangalore Air India crash [IBN]
Chargesheets land on Amar Singh, politicians and aides in nuclear cash-for-votes scam [Hindu]
Special Delhi HC bench to hear Reliance KG basin gov’t ‘cheating’ allegations [UNI]
Hearings close on whether gov’t covertly tried to keep CBI out of RTI ambit, verdict soon [TOI]
Supreme Court may ban journalists without law degrees at “sole discretion” of CJI, could bar 80% of correspondents [Indian Express / Mint / New SC norms]
Karnataka HC instructs former judge to monitor investigation into 10-year-old irregularities in Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) [ExpressBuzz]
Third CBI 2G chargesheet only ready by mid-September [Hindu Business Line]
Opinion by Christ Univ student: Lokpal bill will head towards death [Indiatogether]
SC hears PIL to exclude ‘creamy layer’ in SC/ST reservations: oversteps judicial boundary or filling in weakness left by democracy? [Hindu]
UP gov’t petitions SC to clarify whether Reliance KG gas taxable in state or in Centre [HT]
Delaying complaint by a few days is not defence to sexual assault, says Bombay HC [DNA]
SC rules for farmers in Ghaziabad 28,000 acre land acquisition case for leather works, nullifies deal [Law et al]
Who will judge the judges? Good summary of recent judicial activism and corruption at the bench [India Today]
Competition Commission of India (CCI) fines DLF Rs 600 crore (7% of turnover) for abusing dominant position against residential buyers [PTI / CCI order]
Andaman & Nicobar bar association protests appointment of young Kolkata-based son of senior SC Justice Altaman Kabir as special public prosecutor for the islands [Andaman Chronicle]
Kasab sentencer Ranjana Desai to become second woman on apex bench; Gujarat & Karnataka CJ also elevated to SC [DNA / Hindu]
Laws under which Lokpal activist Anna Hazare was detained today (FYI: s107, 141 of CrPc for breach of peace, etc) [ET]
Man in his will gifts 1 acre farmland to Supreme Court for mysterious reasons [TOI]
Lawyers striking against lower court power transfer interrupts Delhi HC 2G hearing [ET]
Reliance tells CBI that Swan Telecom was not an associated company at the time of the licence issue [Hindu]
SC extends stay on “very polluting” Sterlite plant closure [Law et al]
561 out of 626 districts have constituted “Juvenile Justice Boards” [PIB]
Churchgate’s Mocha and others to challenge in SC Bombay HC upholding of ban on tobacco sales in eateries [DNA]