Justice Ujjal Bhuyan To Deliver Keynote At Launch Of Judicial Transparency Index Report

The Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and JALDI (Justice, Access & Lowering Delays in India) will launch the report titled 'Judicial Transparency Index: Assessing Disclosure of Information by the Supreme Court and the High Courts' on August 1, 2026, at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi. The event will bring together judges, senior advocates and legal researchers to deliberate...

Delhi Court Cancels Arrest Warrant Against SFI Leader Aishe Ghosh In 2021 Protest Case

A Delhi court on Thursday cancelled the non-bailable warrant issued against Students' Federation of India (SFI) leader Aishe Ghosh in connection with a 2021 case relating to a protest held outside Bangla Bhavan.Judicial Magistrate First Class Vijayshree Rathore of Patiala House Courts cancelled the NBW after she physically appeared before the Court today.The court has cancelled the...

Delhi Court Stays Arrest Warrant Against SFI Leader Aishe Ghosh In 2021 Protest Case

A Delhi court on Wednesday stayed the execution of a non-bailable warrant issued against Students' Federation of India (SFI) leader Aishe Ghosh in connection with a 2021 case relating to a protest held outside Bangla Bhavan.The FIR pertains to a demonstration organised in front of Bangla Bhavan in 2021. Ghosh has been booked for offences including alleged disobedience of an order promulgated by...

MP Court Acquits 11 Accused of Communal Violence In Khargone During Ram Navami 2022

An MP Court has acquitted 11 men accused of committing communal violence during the Ram Navami Procession on April 10, 2022, in Khargone. The Fourth Additional Session Judge Mukesh Nath noted that the prosecution failed to prove the alleged offences against the men beyond reasonable doubt. Per the prosecution, a group of Muslim men had attacked Hindu Homes with stones and petrol bombs,...

Twisha Sharma Dowry Death Case: MP Court Denies Bail To Former Judge Giribala Singh

A Bhopal Court, on Saturday (July 25), denied the bail application filed by the retired Judge Giribala Singh, who is booked in a case involving dowry harassment and the death of model-actress Twisha Sharma, her daughter-in-law. First Additional Sessions Judge Ram Pratap Mishra, noting that the case diary contained sufficient material to indicate her involvement in the alleged offence and that...

Telangana State Legal Services Authority Holds Sensitisation Programme For Teachers Appointed As Child Protection Officers

The Telangana State Legal Services Authority (TSLSA) on Friday conducted one-day sensitisation programmes for 608 teachers nominated as Child Protection Officers in Government High Schools across Yadadri Bhuvanagiri, Sangareddy, Ranga Reddy and Mahabubnagar districts under "Mission Bal Suraksha, Shiksha and Nyay, 2026".The programmes were organised as part of the implementation of the...

Delhi Riots: Police Seek Death Penalty For Tahir Hussain, Others In IB Staffer Ankit Sharma Murder Case

The Delhi Police on Monday told a Delhi Court that it is seeking death penalty for former Aam Aadmi Party Councillor Tahir Hussain and other men in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 North-East Delhi riots.The submission was made before Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh of Karkardooma Courts, who was hearing arguments on the quantum of...

DLSA Durg Begins Community Mediation Training Programme Under NALSA's Litigation-Free Rural India Initiative

The District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Durg, on Saturday inaugurated a five-day Community Mediation Training Programme under the National Legal Services Authority's (NALSA) Community Mediation Towards a Litigation-Free Rural India Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), 2026. The programme, being held from 25 to 29 July 2026 at the District & Sessions Court, Durg, aims to...

Bengaluru Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To KPSC Chairperson's Daughter In 'Fake' Family Income Certificate Case

A Session Court in Bengaluru granted anticipatory bail to Suma S Sahukar, daughter of Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) Ex-Chairman Shivashankarappa S. Sahukar, for allegedly creating fake income certificate to claim reservation benefits. LXII Additional City Civil and Sessions Judge Raghavendra S. Channabasappa, on Friday made absolute an earlier interim anticipatory bail granted...

"Advocates' Protection Bill Ready": Chief Minister VD Satheesan Announces At KHCAA Felicitation Programme

The Chief Minister of Kerala V.D. Satheesan has assured that adequate protection would be given to lawyers in the State and announced that the Advocates' Protection Bill is ready to be introduced in the Assembly soon."We will protect the interest of the lawyers also...the Advocate Protection Bill is also ready. I think it will be passed, don't worry. We will give sufficient protection to...

NTA Has 24 Of 39 Permanent Posts Filled, Relies On 73 Contractual & 124 Outsourced Staff: Centre Tells Rajya Sabha

The Union Government has informed Parliament that the National Testing Agency (NTA) has only 24 of its 39 sanctioned permanent posts filled, with the remaining 15 lying vacant, even as the agency continues to conduct large-scale national entrance examinations across the country.In a written reply to an unstarred question in the Rajya Sabha on July 22, 2026, Minister of State for Education...

AILET 2027 To Be Held On December 13, NLU-Delhi Opens Applications From August 7

The National Law University (NLU), Delhi has announced that the All India Law Entrance Test (AILET) 2027 for admission to its Five-Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M. programmes for the academic session 2027–28 will be conducted on December 13, 2026 (Sunday).As per the notification, the entrance examination will be held from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at centres across India.The university has...