Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts deserve death sentence: SC

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 21:06

Prisoners convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case deserve the death sentence, the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it refused to go into the merits of their conviction.

Retribution has no constitutional value in India: SC

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 21:45

Retribution has no constitutional value in India, the Supreme Court said while commuting to life term the death sentence awarded to 15 convicts over offences under penal and anti-terror laws.

CJI refuses to give his photograph for govt advertisement

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 15:00

Shunning personal publicity, Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam refused permission to publish his photograph in a government advertisement for a function related to the Supreme Court which carried snaps of ministers.

Sexual harassment: Supreme Court to hear law intern`s plea on Jan 15

Last Updated: Monday, January 13, 2014, 11:35

A law intern, who has accused former Supreme Court judge Justice Swatanter Kumar of sexual harassment, moved the Supreme Court seeking inquiry in the case.

No confidence in VC, seek CJI`s intervention: NUJS alumni

Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 18:52

The development comes at a time when there are reports of yet another former student of the university writing to the CJI alleging sexual harassment by a former judge of the Supreme Court.

Person not named in FIR, chargesheet can be tried: SC

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 13:40

Supreme Court said that someone whose name does not figure either in FIR or a chargesheet but whose role in an alleged crime surfaces during the course of a trial would be subjected to the said trial.

Palpable design to malign me: Justice Ganguly to CJI

Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2013, 15:53

Retired Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly, who is accused of sexually harassing a law intern, wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam, denying the accusation against him.

SC rejects PIL seeking direction for creating `Gandhi` caste

Last Updated: Thursday, December 19, 2013, 17:02

PIL by freedom fighter seeking direction to Centre and states that children born to couples having inter-caste marriages be recognised under one caste "Gandhi" has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.

Presence of law to protect copyright `not effectual`: CJI

Last Updated: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 20:57

Observing that the revenue of conventional record labels has plunged in recent years due to copyright infringement, Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam on Sunday said in spite of the existence of a law, its implementation was not "effectual" as envisaged.

No anticipatory bail to absconder or proclaimed offender: SC

Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 20:15

The Supreme Court on Friday held that anticipatory bail should be not given to an accused who has been declared as an absconder and not cooperated with the investigation.

Sexual harassment: Shocked, shattered by allegations, says ex-SC judge AK Ganguly

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 14:41

Justice AK Ganguly, who retired from the Supreme Court after handling a number of high-profile cases, has been accused by a young woman intern of sexual harassment, a charge he strongly denied on Friday.