The plea sought quashing of the order of appointment of Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the Chief Justice of India with effect from October 3.

A CJI-led five-judge constitution bench has already delivered a landmark verdict decriminalising section 377 of IPC to legalise gay sex. Th...

The court will also pronounce whether reservations in promotions should be automatic for the socially and educationally backward, an assess...

Justice Gogoi is expected to take oath on October 3. He is slated to retire on November 17, 2019.

At present, judicial officers retire at the age of 58 years, HC judges at 62 years and SC judges at 65 years.

Chelameswar, who turns 65 tomorrow, was part of the nine-judge bench that gave the historic verdict declaring right to privacy a fundamenta...

The existence of this law relegates us to second-class citizens and has subjected many of us to mental trauma, illnesses such as clinical d...

Despite orders of the ADM cancelling the allotment in 1985, he surrendered the land only in 2012, when he was elevated to the Supreme Court...

Though no right was absolute, there should be no fetters which "destroy the central dogma of the constitution", the CJI said at the functio...

"There has to be a regulatory framework. There has to experts. They have to be more intelligent than those nuisance makers. The nuisance th...

"Great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln, who were lawyers first, advocated and supported the culture of settlement," CJI Mis...

The newly-appointed CJI is known not just for landmark judgments but also the use of discursive language.

He was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind and is succeeding Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar.

Though Justice Khehar will formally demit office on Sunday, Friday was his last working day. CJI-designate Dipak Misra will take over on Mo...

"When the position of a speaker is under challenge, it'd seem just that the Speaker first demonstrates his right to continue...by winning s...

Patnaik today said the government is determined to constitute Law Commission and take other welfare measures for advocates, including setti...

A bench comprising justices Dipak Misra and P C Pant also asked the respondent, RSS activist Rajesh Kunte, to file his response within four...