The Supreme Court questioned the West Bengal government's opposition to a CBI probe into the Sandeshkhali case, involving land grabbing and...

The apex court said that the nature of offence under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act, which relates to the dishonour of ...

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

Crimes committed in the late 1960s or early 1970s and some of the appeals in the HC in the late 1970s against decisions of trial courts con...

The service will be for those in prison for more than five years and the advocates will argue appeals during priority hearings.

According to figures compiled by the ministry, the apex court had 62,791 pending cases at the end of 2014. The figures went down to 59,272 ...

Judges come and go, yet the cases continue tiring litigants physically , mentally and financially . No one sheds a tear for a good CJI who ...

Six months after the matter was discussed at the last advisory council meeting, only eight chief justices have shown interest and responded.

With trial courts having around 2.75 crore pending cases, the total backlog of the judiciary mounts to 3.25 crore cases.

The court-specific data will help the NJAC set judges' performance standards and could be key in determining promotions of judges to higher...

However, even six months after the SC deadline passed, the government has not received information from any HC on the completion of trials.

Modi government is giving incumbent additional high court judges a three-month extension to address the massive case pendency and large-sca...

Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr Arun Chaturvedi said over 5 lakh scholarship cases were pending since 2009.

Pendency of over five-year-old cases has significantly increased in high courts, with 30-40% of such cases in many of them.

SC bench said, "a person's access to justice is a guaranteed fundamental right under the Constitution and particularly Article 21.

Delay in settling cheque bounce cases will now cost the defaulter dear, up to 20% of the cheque amount.

The judicial reform ship floated by the govt three months ago with law minister Veerappa Moily as captain has had a smooth sailing till now.