Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh high court in Hyderabad has been appointed as chief justice of the Gujarat high court, according to the government’s PIB . Three judges have been transferred between high courts, according to the government’s PIB , while 12 additional judges of...

Today’s judgment in Sachchidanand Gupta “Sachchey” vs State of UP through Chief Secretary and Others showed that the chief justice of the Allahabad high court had also opposed Justice Sanjay Misra’s name, which was proposed by the chief minister.

The Supreme Court appointed ex-Allahabad high court judge Sanjay Mishra as Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh, reported Mint , after the court had ordered ex-judge Virendra Singh to take up the post in December but admitting that the state government had not shared with the about reservations about the inte...

Court No 7 of Supreme Court was witness to a suspenseful hearing on 20 January as counsel after counsel told the Bench comprising justices Ranjan Gogoi and Prafulla C Pant that it had been misled by the Uttar Pradesh Government that Justice Virendra Singh, a former judge of the Allahabad high court, whom it appointed as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh under Article 142 of the Constitution, which gives the Court extraordinary powers to do complete justice in a case, was in the list of names being considered by the selection panel.

The Allahabad high court on Wednesday restrained the state government from going ahead with a departmental inquiry against suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Amitabh Thakur. The inquiry, the Lucknow bench of the court said, could only be held if the government provides the official with t...

In the Additional District and Sessions Judge, ‘X’ v. Supreme Court of India Through Secretary General And Anr., which came up before the bench comprising justices JS Khehar and Rohinton Nariman on 16 December, the petitioner’s counsel, Indira Jaising raised the relevance of the in-house committee report in establishing the misconduct of a judge.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday appointed Justice Virendra Singh, - former judge of the Allahabad high court - as the Lokayukta of Uttar Pradesh and expressed its disapproval of the way constitutional authorities mandated to appoint the ombudsman failed to discharge their responsibilities. Noting tha...

The Allahabad high court asked the state government to notify ‘heritage guidelines’ for the entire state including Varanasi in a Public Interest Litigation alleging illegal construction on heritage structures, reported Times of India . The division bench comprising Chief Justice Dr Dhananjaya Yeshwa...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has released its final list of candidates, after the phase of withdrawal of names is over.

Allahabad high court has in a landmark judgment ruled that a child born out of rape will have inheritance rights over the property of the the biological father reported NDTV . The court also discussed the need for rehabilitation of victims of rape and their children while adjudicating a matter where...

GNLU Gandhinagar will reward five of its most recent alumni each year with Rs 7500 each, monthly, as scholarship to practice in courts as a litigation lawyer. The GNLU Litigation Assistance and Support Scholarship (GLASS), launched by the law school this year, aims to support the litigation career o...

education?”)The Allahabad high court has passed an order taking away the freedom of children of public functionaries in Uttar Pradesh to enrol in private schools.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Nithari killings’ convict Surender Koli on an Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking restoration of death sentence in Rimpa Haldar case - one of the 14 cases of rape and killings in the village in Noida bordering Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Nithari killings’ convict Surender Koli on an Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking restoration of death sentence in Rimpa Haldar case - one of the 14 cases of rape and killings in the village in Noida bordering Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 question paper and answer key was published on the exam’s official website yesterday, following a 25 May Allahabad high court order in a writ praying for directions to the CLAT 2015 convenor to publish the question paper o CLAT’s website. Clarification : RML...

The Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015’s first university allotment list will be released tomorrow (2 June), according to a notification on CLAT’s website, after having originally been scheduled to be released yesterday (31 May). The notification stated: “Due to some technical reasons, publicatio...

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence of a couple for killing all seven members of a girl’s family, holding that the “couple indulged in such debased act of multiple murders driven by infatuation and exhibited no remorse”. Upholding the death sentence of Shabnam and her partner Salim, a...

A seven-judge Allahabad high court bench led by chief justice DY Chandrachud served notices on the Bar Council of India (BCI), the Uttar Pradesh bar council and district bar associations about the strike by the local bar against the alleged murder of an advocate by a policeman on district court prem...

A seven-judge Allahabad high court bench led by chief justice DY Chandrachud served notices on the Bar Council of India (BCI), the Uttar Pradesh bar council and district bar associations about the strike by the local bar against the alleged murder of an advocate by a policeman on district court prem...

The Allahabad high court quashed the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) age limit and directed CLAT 2015 convenor RMLNLU Lucknow to allow anyone interested in appearing for the test to appear.