New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Over 4.76 crore cases are pending across various courts in the country, including more than 63.66 lakh cases in High Courts and 92,101 cases in the Supreme Court of India, the Union Ministry of Law and Justice informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. Replying to an unstarred question, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal said that, as per data available on the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), a total of 4,76,57,328 cases were pendin…
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Mumbai, Feb 12 (IANS) UK-based businessman and alleged financial defaulter Vijay Mallya, on Thursday, got one last chance from the Bombay High Court to return to the country and submit to its jurisdiction if he wants Indian authorities to drop his “fugitive economic offender” tag. A bench led by Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar pulled up the fugitive businessman for seeking relief from an Indian court while remaining abroad.”If you do not return, we cannot hear your petition. You are evading t…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Minister of State (MoS) for Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, said on Friday that as many as 116 women judges are currently serving in the Higher Judiciary which has a working strength of 814, with Punjab and Haryana High Court having the maximum number of 18. Replying to a query in the Lok Sabha, MoS Meghwal shared data on the working strength and number of women judges in the Supreme Court and High Courts showing that at present, of the 33 Supreme Court judges, only o…
Mumbai, Feb 3 (IANS) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to grant emergency parole to gangster Abu Salem to visit his native place in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh, after he declined to bear the cost of security and travel arrangements, estimated at around Rs 17 lakh.The court had earlier made it clear that if Salem wished to avail parole, he would have to pay the entire expenditure, including police escort and security logistics, given the sensitivity surrounding his movement.During T…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to entertain the defamation suit filed by Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd and OTT platform Netflix over his alleged defamatory portrayal in the web series ‘The Ba**ds of Bollywood’*. Holding that the Delhi HC lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit, a single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kaurav return…
New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) The Delhi High Court is set to pronounce on Thursday its verdict in the defamation suit filed by Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sameer Wankhede against Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt Ltd and OTT platform Netflix over his alleged defamatory portrayal in the web series ‘The Ba**ds of Bollywood’*. As per the causelist published on the official website, a single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kaurav will deli…
Mumbai, Jan 24 (IANS) Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led MahaYuti government over the alleged sexual abuse of a four-year-old girl by a school bus driver in Badlapur, near Mumbai, calling it a grave failure of both the school administration and the state machinery to protect children.In an editorial published in the party mouthpiece Saamana, the Thackeray camp criticised the state leadership, remarking that while senior officials, inc…
Mumbai, Jan 19 (IANS) Bollywood multi-hyphenate Karan Johar has joined the social media trend of sharing the fondest memories of 2016. On Monday, KJo took to his Instagram, and shared a series of pictures from 2016, a definitive year that brought him joy and growth. He shared BTS picture from his directorial ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’, images from season 5 of his chat show ‘Koffee With Karan’, ‘India’s Got Talent’ and IIFA Awards.He also penned a long note in the caption, as he wro…
Mumbai, Jan 6 (IANS) Underworld don Abu Salem has approached the Bombay High Court seeking emergency parole following the death of his elder brother, Abu Hakim Ansari. Abu Salem has requested permission to travel to Uttar Pradesh’s Azamgarh to participate in family and religious rituals.According to the petition filed on his behalf, Abu Salem’s elder brother, Abu Hakim Ansari, passed away on November 14, 2025. Describing his elder brother as a father figure, Salem said he wishes to attend the …
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) The Centre on Friday notified the appointment of Bombay High Court judge, Justice Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak, as the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court, following the retirement of the incumbent Chief Justice on January 8. A notification issued by the Union Ministry of Law and Justice said that the President, in exercise of powers conferred by the Constitution of India and in consultation with the Chief Justice of India (CJI), was pleased to appoint Justice Sonak a…