The Supreme Court today upheld the Government’s decision on One Rank-One Pension, OROP, for defence forces as it did not find any constitutional infirmity on the OROP principle and the notification of 7th November, 2015. A bench comprising Justices D.Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Vikram Nath said,  the policy decision […]

The Bombay High Court has granted interim protection from arrest to BJP leader Prasad Lad in FIR against him by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in a cheating case pertaining to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation contract. A division bench of justices Prasanna Varale and SM Modak was hearing Lad’s plea yesterday […]

Bombay High Court has directed Maharashtra government to submit a report on current status of CCTVs installations at Police stations. The directive came after a division bench of Bombay High Court raised eyebrows on the functioning of the state government in relation to CCTV installations despite the orders of the […]

Supreme Court has accepted a review petition filed by Cyrus Mistry challenging the top court’s order last year that ruled in favour of Tata group. The petition was accepted by a 2:1 majority and it will be heard in an open court on March 9. The review petition was taken […]

In Tamilnadu, Chief Justice Munishwarnath Bhandari was sworn in as Chief Justice of Madras High Court today. State Governor R.N.Ravi administered the oath to him at Raj Bhavan this morning. Tamilnadu Chief Minister M.K.Stalin, State Ministers, Opposition leader Edappadi Palanisamy, former Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam, State Assembly Speaker Appavu, Justices of […]

In Gujarat, a special court in Ahmedabad will today pronounce the quantum of punishment against 49 convists in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blast case. Special Judge AR Patel yesterday convicted 49 persons in the case, while acquitted 28 accused. 19 bombs rocked Ahmedabad city on 26th July 2008, which had […]

Supreme Court today has agreed to hear a PIL seeking direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to deregister political parties that do not disclose details pertaining to criminal cases of their election candidates along with the reason for their selection. A bench of the Apex Court, headed by […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by the Maharashtra government seeking a direction to the Central government to disclose raw data pertaining to the 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC). In light of the submission that the data was not accurate or usable, the Bench of Justices […]

The Supreme Court today allowed an application filed by the Ministry of Defence for the double-lane widening of roads that are part of the 899-kilometer Char Dham project in Uttarakhand. A bench comprising Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice Surya Kant and Justice Vikram Nath pronounced orders in the application filed by […]