SC restores governors power to appoint interim vice-chancellors

A bench comprising Justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai perused the committee's report which said none of the six cases qualify as encounters and they are fake. The committee, comprising of former Supreme Court judge Santosh Hegde, ex-chief ...

The Supreme Court's directive to the SIT probing the post-Godhra Gujarat riot cases to approach the Gujarat High Court with its plea that the transfer of metropolitan magistrate B.J. Ganatra be put on hold may create an uncomfortable situation for ...

The Supreme Court has directed all criminal and family courts dealing with cases of dowry harassment and matrimonial disputes to refer, before they take up a complaint for hearing, the parties to mediation centres if they feel that elements of ...

They are meant to save people. But the men in khaki often forget their primary duty and it is then that they turn on the very people they are meant to protect.Now, the Supreme Court - having taken suo motu cognisance of police brutality in the ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday termed as an "eyewash" the explanation given in the affidavits filed by Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh government in connection with the police brutality on a young girl and a woman protesting the rape of minors ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday imposed an exemplary cost of Rs five lakh on Maharashtra government for delay in filing its affidavit relating to compliance of apex court's directions on police reforms and constituting (SSC). The apex court ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday said it would take a very serious view of another incident of police violence against a woman, and the person involved would have to bear the wrath of the court. Referring to the rising frequency of incidents ...

The Supreme Court has constituted a committee to draft rules, guidelines and procedural framework to be adopted by the sexual harassment complaint committee, while dealing with complaints relating to sexual harassment of women lawyers and staff of ...

All eyes are now on Raj Bhavan over the appointment of ad hoc vice-chancellors (VCs) of various a day after the Supreme Court allowed the Bihar governor to make appointments. The court had earlier stayed these appointments on the state governments ...