A Delhi court on Saturday granted bail to businessman Robert Vadra in a money laundering case being investigated by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) in connection with a 3.5-acre land transaction in Shikohpur village in Gurugram. Special Judge (PC Act) Sushant Changotra of the Rouse Avenue District Court granted bail to Vadra after he appeared…
The Telangana High Court has refused to grant interim protection from arrest to Bandi Sai Bageerathh, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a case registered under the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The single-judge Bench of Justice T Madhavi Devi passed the…
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Uttar Pradesh Police to present two men accused in connection with the recent workers’ protest in Noida before a local court, after serious allegations of custodial torture were raised by their families and legal representatives. The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan expressed concern over…
The Supreme Court on Friday introduced a series of administrative and procedural measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption and ensuring continuity of judicial functioning, including virtual hearings for miscellaneous matters and a limited work-from-home arrangement for Registry staff. The directions were issued through a circular released by the office of the Secretary General pursuant to…
By Vickram Kilpady When actor-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay launched the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), he positioned himself as the face of maatram—change. Young voters embraced him as an outsider capable of breaking Tamil Nadu’s exhausted political duopoly. But within days of scripting one of the most astonishing electoral breakthroughs in the state’s history, Vijay found…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg The Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Kumud Lall vs Suresh Chandra Roy & Ors marks a defining moment in India’s evolving jurisprudence on medical negligence, consumer protection, and succession law. In a carefully calibrated judgment, the bench of Justices JK Maheshwari and AS Chandurkar held that while personal claims against…
By Neeraj Mishra The average career span of an Indian public servant stretches across three decades. Most enter service in their mid-twenties and retire around the age of sixty. But for a batch of 147 officers recruited through the 2003 Chhattisgarh Public Service Commission (CGPSC) examination, the story has unfolded under an unrelenting legal shadow…
By Dr JP Singh As a witness, I state what I have seen unfold in the world and in India over the last two hundred years. Democracy, as it is imagined, is an ideal—a utopia not easily attainable except among a fully self-aware and spiritually awakened people—a people unwilling to be manipulated, a people who…
An acid attack does not merely burn skin—it melts identity. It invades memory and leaves behind not only shattered bodies, but shattered lives. In a country where more than 200 acid attack cases continue to be officially reported every year—with activists insisting the real numbers are far higher due to silence, fear and stigma—the Supreme…
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed serious concern over steep and unpredictable increases in airfares charged by private airlines during festive seasons, holidays and peak travel periods, and stressed the need for rationalisation in ticket pricing mechanisms. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta, while hearing a petition seeking the formulation of…