A retired Bombay High Court judge and his family have allegedly been subjected to a prolonged campaign of threats, intimidation and violence across India and the United Kingdom following his 2024 judgment in the long-running Dawoodi Bohra succession dispute. According to reports, the alleged incidents have continued for nearly 10 months and are linked to…
The Supreme Court has held that the absence of a Test Identification Parade (TIP) does not automatically weaken the prosecution’s case where an accused is identified for the first time in court through dock identification, provided there are sufficient surrounding circumstances supporting the identification. The Bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Prasanna B Varale…
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has issued a show cause notice to Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU), Lucknow, alleging that the varsity’s public statements regarding the status of its approval were factually incomplete, legally unsustainable and materially misleading. The regulatory body stated that the lapse in approval was not attributable to…
Aaj Tak journalist and Managing Editor Anjana Om Kashyap and TV Today Network, which owns the news channel, have filed a defamation suit before the Delhi High Court against Bihar-based educator and YouTuber Faizal Khan, popularly known as Khan Sir, over his alleged derogatory remarks against them in connection with a controversy surrounding “star teachers”…
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has said that while the Supreme Court of India is rapidly embracing technological innovation and artificial intelligence to improve the justice delivery system, the country’s judicial future must remain anchored in a distinctly Indian or “Swadeshi” jurisprudential framework rooted in constitutional values, social realities and institutional needs. Delivering…
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Saturday remanded former Trinamool Congress MLA Saokat Molla to 14 days of NIA custody in connection with the Bhangar bomb blast of West Bengal, which claimed the life of a woman and left several others injured. The NIA informed the court that Molla, a former MLA from…
A major woman has the fundamental right to live according to her own wishes and cannot be subjected to illegal detention by the police. However, she cannot be permitted to reside as the wife of a man who has not attained the legally prescribed age for marriage, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held. A…
The Delhi High Court on Saturday declined to order a fresh election for the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD), holding that the alleged irregularities detected during the counting process did not justify setting aside the entire electoral exercise. The Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetarpal and Justice Tejas Karia held that the petitions challenging the…
By Inderjit Badhwar Justice is often imagined as a grand constitutional ideal—blindfolded, balanced and impartial. Yet, for millions of Indians navigating the legal system, justice is experienced in a far less abstract form: as waiting. Waiting for a hearing. Waiting for a trial. Waiting for a verdict. Waiting for closure. This week’s cover package examines…
By Sujit Bhar The electoral setback suffered by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the recent assembly elections in West Bengal has opened up a crisis far deeper than a simple defeat at the ballot box. Political parties recover from electoral reverses all the time. What they find much harder to recover from is a crisis…