‘Ardhangini’ has legal significance too: Andhra Pradesh HC permits wife to access ailing husband’s bank accountThe Andhra Pradesh High Court has permitted Smt Nagamma to operate her husband's bank account. Her husband is in a persistent vegetative st...
Husband claimed wife wasn't doing household work; HC orders him to pay Rs 20,000/month as wives not ‘deemed maids’The husband, a Chartered Accountant (CA) by profession, had in 2004 filed for a divorce on the ground of cruelty, claiming that “wife was n...
National Commission for Women seeks time-bound probe into Jodhpur sisters' suicide caseThe National Commission for Women is investigating a grave case in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Two sisters allegedly faced repeated gang rape, blac...
BCI urges CJI to take action against Andhra HC judge for sending young lawyer to 24-hour custodyThe Bar Council of India has approached the Chief Justice of India. This follows a disturbing incident where an Andhra Pradesh High Court j...
Justice Lisa Gill becomes first woman chief justice of Andhra HCJustice Lisa Gill has made history as the first woman to lead the Andhra Pradesh High Court. The Supreme Court Collegium recommended her el...
Why Andhra Pradesh High Court refused to raise retirement age from 60 to 62 yearsThe Andhra Pradesh High Court has rejected pleas to increase the retirement age of employees from state corporations from 60 to 62 years. T...
SC collegium recommends transfer of 7 high court judgesThe Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the transfer of seven high court judges, including four from the Karnataka High Court. These tr...
Haryana case fallout: Supreme Court to examine all domicile quota lawsThe Haryana law had set aside 75% jobs, with less than ₹30,000 salary, for 'locals.' The law states that the person would have to be a resi...
In big shakeup, 15 judges of high courts transferredThe Calcutta High Court Justice Arindam Sinha stands transferred to the Orissa High Court. Kerala High Court Justice A M Badar has been sen...
Govt likely to take call on SC collegium's recommendations to transfer HC CJs by ThursdayIn a major reshuffle, the SC collegium had recently recommended to the government the transfer of four Chief Justices (CJs) of high courts ...
HC seeks Andhra Pradesh and Centre views on probing phone tapping chargesResponding to a petition filed by lawyer AN Grace on Tuesday, the court based in Amaravati asked the petitioner to furnish evidence that ph...
Five high courts get new chief justicesThe appointments were made in courts in Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Calcutta, Gauhati and Bombay.
Telangana judges quit en masseApart from protesting against allotment of Andhra-origin judges to Telangana courts, judges have also been targeting the policy to choose t...
ESL Narasimhan sworn in as Governor of TelanganaAndhra HC Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta administered oath to Narasimhan, common governor to Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh.
SC dismisses plea for removal of Andhra HC judgeSC rejects a plea challenging the appointment of Justice N V Ramana as a judge of Andhra Pradesh HC since a criminal case is pending agains...
- Government to appeal against Andhra Pradesh HC quota order next week
Law minister Salman Khurshid had earlier said the government would move the SC in July after the summer break, and not approach the vacatio...
SC gives half-nod to quota for 'backward' MuslimsThe Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court will study legality of the law in August.