A Supreme Court bench comprising Justices Kurian Joseph and Rohinton Fali Nariman set aside the Allahabad high court’s suo motu contempt proceedings against Outlook journalists, who had reported on the Ghaziabad provident fund (PF) scam in 2008, and in which article judges who were allegedly

8th July 2016 This is a landmark judgement by the Supreme Court to end impunity of the security forces for human rights violation under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, in which the Supreme Court laments the armed forces “license to kill” under the protective umbrella

Mr. Prashant Bhushan submitted before the SC that if this petition is dismissed, that would undermine the confidence of the people in SC and people would have the impression that the SC makes grand statements about transparency and RTI but when it comes to itself,

A three judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by CJI Thakur, referred to a Constitution Bench 11 questions related to the setting up of National Courts of Appeal. Justice Thakur observed: “It is common knowledge that the huge backlog of cases in the Supreme Court

Kerala High Court Judgment In this case before Justice Kemal Pasha, the issue was whether a Magistrate Court can reject a complaint merely by highlighting the reason that the relief sought for is one for forwarding the same to the police under Section 156(3) CrPC. The