Advocate general of Kerala has admitted a criminal contempt petition against Mavelikkara Bar Association’s office bearers, for obstructing advocate Sam Varghese from attending court during the 11 and 12 July all-India strike called by the BCI [TOI]

Subroto-Roy’s Sahara group is facing a writ petition in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad HC for its 17 March full-page advertisement “denigrating” SEBI and retired SC justice BN Agrawal [Moneylife]

SC sentences Bollywood actor and 1993 Bombay blasts accused Sanjay Dutt to five years imprisonment under the Arms Act, after he was acquitted under the now defunct anti-terror law TADA [ET]