Odisha lawyers strike work over impeachment move against CJI

The Orissa High Court has directed that the Sriram Maha Yajna Samiti of Bhadrak shall be permitted to perform rituals for Ram Navami and take out the Kalass Sobhayatra' and procession in the same manner and through the same route as was permitted in 2017.The ...

The Orissa High Court has granted bail to the former head of the department of clinical hematology in the SCB Medical College here who was arrested by state vigilance sleuths in December last year on corruption charges.Justice Sangam K Sahoo granted bail to ...

In a setback to the Congress in Odisha, the Orissa High Court on Tuesday declared Sundargarh MLA Jogesh Kumar Singh's election null and void for submitting a fake caste certificate during the 2014 assembly election.The disqualification comes in response to a ...

'No judge can take up a matter on its own unless allocated by the CJI as the CJI is master of the court,' the top court said.   The tussle within top judiciary on Friday came to the fore with the Supreme Court overturning the order of a two-judge bench to set up a larger bench to hear a graft case allegedly involving judges, asserting that Chief Justice of India was the 'master of the roster'. The showdown was over the issue of supremacy of constituting a bench in which the authority ...

Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Thursday put in place a roster system for allocation of cases in the Supreme Court in what could be a move to address the grievances by four-senior most judges over assigning matters that sparked an unprecedented judicial crisis. Justice Misra has kept to himself the public interest litigation cases under the roster system that will come into effect from February 5.   Previously, the cases in the apex court were assigned by the CJI in his capacity as ...

The Supreme Court has restrained all deemed-to-be universities from taking any admission to engineering courses without prior approval from the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). A bench of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel, R F Nariman and U U Lalit ...

Judicial work in Balasore district sessions court was hit today as members of Balasore Bar Association held a cease work demanding a permanent Orissa High Court bench in north Odisha.Agitating lawyers submitted a memorandum to the chief justice of Orissa High ...

Actor-turned-politician and TMC MP Tapas Paul, whose comments in 2014 on rape created nationwide outrage was granted bail by the Orissa High Court, 13 months after his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

Activist advocates, who pressed hard for a special investigation team probe into an alleged case of bribery in the name of judges, on Monday faced a barrage of questions from the Supreme Court which said they were indulging in 'forum shopping' and 'impropriety'. The apex court said it would pronounce its order on Tuesday whether such a plea was maintenable or not. The plea claims that allegations of bribery were levelled for securing settlement of cases relating to medical colleges in which a ...