Essar to negotiate payment of sales tax to Guj govt; Essar to approach SC if talks fail [ Livemint ] Justice Mukta Gupta grants bail to Kalmadi after spending 9 months behind bars for playing games with CWG funds [ ET ] No place for NLS in Maharashtra? Tug-of-war between Nagpur, Mumbai & Aurang...

Gujarat HC upholds constitutionality of Lokayukta appointment by governor, dismissing state government’s plea opposing governor Kamla Beniwal. Modi government to approach apex court [ Indian Express ] Ministry of defence today filed caveat in SC against ex-army chief’s writ contesting the ministry’s...

Gujarat govt to work out repayment schedule with Essar Oil regarding Rs 9,100 crore of sales tax deferment benefit after SC directed Essar Oil that it could not longer defer the tax [ Mint ] [Correction: The original report by moneycontrol is understood to have contained errors. The Legally Wired it...

Internet censorship case: Google counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul says govt. is “blaming the land lord for what a tenant does”; Delhi HC Justice Suresh Cait lashes out, says land lord liable if tenant performing illegal activity [ ET ] What motivated the case against Google and Facebook by a journalist? [...

Represented by KTS Tulsi, Delhi HC blesses Subramaniam Swamy with interim protection against arrest; Delhi Police accuses Swamy of fuelling communal passions through article; Swami says he will write no more [ Indian Express ] Chief Justice Kapadia with Justices Jain, Nijjar, Khehar and Desai to dec...

“Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait tells Facebook’s and Google’s counsel in the Delhi High Court [ Firstpost (via @courtwitness1 )] Ex-SG Gopal Subramanium points out challenges that have crippled the CBI to Tehelka, says Bureau should be given a facelift, modern equi...

Centre sensitive to judges’ predicament: to spend Rs 35 crore for five-year study on psychological impact of 2.77 crore pending cases; work to be taken up by National Mission For Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms [ TOI ] 10-member panel relieves Pune District Court of 45,000 ‘stale & ineffecti...

Log jam? Civil judge’s bigger value jurisdiction from 16 January will cause 50,000 property disputes to be transferred from Bombay High Court to district courts [ Indian Express ] Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju faces PwC’s suit in AP High Court for Rs 14,000 crore accounting fraud [ Business Today ] Lawyer...

Indian private banks must raise trillions of rupees of capital by April 2017, as per Basel III compliant RBI guidelines [ Mint ] SEBI welcomes ‘qualified foreign investors’ to Indian equity market [ Business Standard / Press Release ] Telecom operators: DoT scuffle over 3G licensing and TDSAT jurisd...

RTI on judicial appointments must be answered by Supreme Court, overrules CIC [ Indian Express ] Law ministry blames chief justices’ slacking in filling 285 vacant judiciary seats in high courts [ TOI ] Luthra & Luthra secures majority verdict in SAIL v Jindal Steel at Competition Commission, c...

Press council chairman Katju clarifies, tempers controversial criticism of media: he is “well-wisher” not in favour of “harsh measures” against media [ Hindu ]. Katju adds that courts’ decision were incorrect against Times Now to deposit Rs 100 crore before allowing appeal against accidental defamat...

Supreme Court rejects Times Now TV channel petition argued by Harish Salve to pay Rs 100 crore deposit into court before being allowed to appeal against ‘accidental’ 15 second Justice Sawant defamation [ India Today ]; Editors Guild is upset [ TOI ] Andhra HC asks CBI to investigate assets of ex-CM ...

Madras HC judge CS Karnan complains to NCSC ostensibly for being victimised as dalit [ TOI ] via @mumbaicentral / @emkay456 Make frivolous litigants pay Rs 1 lakh rather than Rs 3,000, proposes Supreme Court [ TOI ] via @DKMahant Ex-SC Justice Katju wants greater powers on Press Council to make edit...

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 pur...

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 p...

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 ] F...

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) [ Exp...

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 assaul...

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 prose...

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 ha...