The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals mostly validated a scalding contempt order issued in A...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea next week regarding BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's criticism of the court and CJI Sanjiv Khanna. Dube...

Morris Christian was arrested in Gujarat for operating a fake arbitration tribunal without a valid law practice licence. He fraudulently pa...

The Allahabad High Court has directed that advocates and district administration officials should be kept away from managing temples, sugge...

Earlier, the high court had framed civil contempt charges against various broadcasters including BBC, Discovery and Netflix in a case where...

In 2014, Dhoni filed a civil suit to permanently restrain Sampath Kumar, who was the then Inspector General of Police, from making any stat...

Subpoenas are writs issued by government agencies, usually courts, to compel people to appear before them or provide documents they may hav...

Based on an earlier petition by Mohammed Iqbal, the High Court had directed the State to provide burial grounds in villages that do not hav...

The apex court said Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 explains civil contempt to mean willful disobedience of a decision of the Court, and there...

In a fresh plea filed through lawyer Kamini Jaiswal, Prashant Bhushan has sought a declaration that a "person convicted for criminal contem...

Such dilution, the Commission has held, “would not be a meaningful exercise and would not be in larger public interest”.

Justice Lalit asked Vijay Mallya’s lawyer what he had done to purge himself of contempt after the previous bench had issued a contempt noti...

A bench held that a single judge of the court has correctly dismissed Bharti's plea seeking contempt action against police officials.

Ram Jethmalani, appearing for a Sahara firm facing contempt for not refunding the amount, submitted that redemptions have already been made...

Ottavio Quattrocchi stands "discharged" as he could not be extradited even after 20 years of registration of the case, Defence Minister A K...

The Supreme Court’s action in restraining the Italian envoy from leaving the country could set the stage for a conflict between the Vienna ...

The apex court has been pressuring the Pakistan People's Party-led government to reopen the cases against Zardari since December 2009, when...