SC Singhvi retires, leaves legacy The Supreme Court’s justice GS Singhvi, most famous for his stern treatment of the 2G and the land acquisition cases, retired today just after overturned the progressive Delhi HC judgment that had decriminalised homosexuality [ The Hindu ] Madras HC advocates for Ga...

BCI cozies up to NaMo A delegation led by Bar Council of India (BCI) chief Manan Kumar Mishra met Narendra Modi on Saturday, inviting him to address the valedictory function of the Gujarat bar Council. According to a Gujarat state press release, the BCI respected Modi’s nationalism, while Modi calle...

SC probes PwC accounts, FDI, FEMA fudging A Chief-headed bench will examine an NGO’s allegations of financial and accounting irregularities at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and its locally allied auditing firms. PwC and others “are apparently indulging in activities in violation of various statutes a...

SC wants life sentence for milk-tampering The SC has asked state governments to make laws that punish with life in prison the selling and production of adulterated milk injurious to humans [ TOI ] Kalam faces faulty voting machine Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was yesterday temporarily among the ...

Advocates PIL for Delhi HC sex harass cell Two practicing advocates have filed a PIL for the formation of a sexual harassment committee for the protection of women working in the Delhi HC [ TOI ] Tenndulkar’s Ratna challenge dismissed The Madras HC has dismissed a petition challenging the prestigiou...

Nokia $1bn tax settlement rejected Nokia faces tax liabilities as its offer to settle Rs 6,500 crore liability with Rs 2,250 crore has been rejected by the tax department [ NDTV Profit ] Delhi ‘11 HC blast accused claims wrongfully charged The accused in the September 2011 Delhi HC blasts asked the ...

A permanent office for the 11 year old IPAB (Intellectual Property Appellate Board) is now finally in the works in Kovalam, near Chennai, as the state has also invited applications to fill up its vacancies – after pressure from advocates pointing out its mounting workload [ Business Standard ] Judge...

Vodafone Rs 1300 cr TP writ sent to DRP : The Bombay HC said that the Vodafone transfer pricing tax writ petition of the department’s transfer pricing adjustment of Rs 1,300 crore, should be referred to the tax department’s dispute resolution panel (DRP) [ Mint ] CCI checks Ericsson-Micromax royalti...

SCBA for JudgeCam: SCBA president MN Krishnamani called for the installation of CCTV camera in judges’ chambers in his law day address. “Serious allegations are coming up against judges. The fixing of cameras inside judges’ chambers can be done,” he said. Others, including law minister Kapil Sibal, ...

Tejpal still bail less: Tehelka founding editor Tarun Tejpal’s bail hearing has been postponed till Friday – until then the Goa police could arrest him. [ Bail arguments summary NDTV / Deccan Chronicle ]. The Goa police was represented by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, as senior KTS Tulsi was on for...

Anon RTIs: A Right to Information application can now also be made using only a Post Box number instead of the applicant’s name and address, the Calcutta HC has ruled [ HT ] Loco Adalat: 300 benches of the National Lok Adalat on Saturday disposed of 3.44 lakh cases and disbursed a total compensation...

SC allows jailed candidates: The SC has approved an amendment in the Representation of People Act, which allows jailed politicians to contest elections while in police custody, unless they are held guilty and convicted by a trial court [ ANI ] Lawyers challenge DHCBA election bona fides: Delhi bar c...

SC examines death row pardon in extreme brutality : The Supreme Court will hear a PIL on whether the President can commute death penalties in cases of extreme brutality. The petitioner Pinki Virani’s plea referred to five death sentences of convicted rapists of children, which former President Prati...

Consti bench rules police must file FIR : A five-judge constitution bench of CJI P Sathasivam and justices B S Chauhan, Ranjan P Desai, Ranjan Gogoi and S A Bobde ruled in the Lalita Kumari case yesterday that action must be taken against police officers who do not register a First Information Repor...

Tamil lawyers want a break from 7-day week: Tamil Nadu lawyers fed up with the seven-day week imposed on them by setting up India’s first weekend family courts in the state in 2010, are of the view that lawyers and judges shouldn’t be made to slog extra without statutory sanction [ TOI ] CCI tamed b...

Protect courts’ ‘lady officers’ from hostility, SC: The Supreme Court told off Gujarat district and high court judges for not protecting a female junior judicial officer from unwarranted inquiry and getting her job terminated for extraneous reasons. Reinstating her, the SC held: “We would like to ta...

MP slayed RTI activist? The use of RTI by a Gujarat-based environment activist, against a member of parliament’s (MP) involvement in illegal mining in the Gir forest, led to his alleged murder by the MP and his aides. The MP has now been arrested after a CBI report [ NYT ] Menaka Guruswamy interview...

Death row worthiness: SC justices AK Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Mishra rendered a 33-page judgment ruling on the principle that courts should record “special” reasons while awarding death penalty and “must” take into account the crime and the character of the criminal which should reflect “extreme depra...

Lawyer myths: NLSIU Bangalore grad and Singapore’s Nanyang Tech B-school lecturer Krishna Udayasankar has penned down a mythological trilogy – the Aryavarta Chronicles. Interview by [ Bangalore Mirror ] TOI didn’t defame: The Times of India is off the hook for criminal defamation after the Madras HC...

Forced MP: Congress MP from Vijayawada L Rajagopal has petitioned the Delhi HC to rid him of his MP post, alleging that he is being forced to carry on as MP despite handing over a resignation on 2 August in protest against the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh [ India Today ] Infosys US soup: India’s se...