scorecardresearch
Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicHigh court

Topic: high court

What happens when corruption scandals hit the Supreme Court? Nothing

Indian courts deal with corruption charges against its judges in two ways: Transfers or looking away

CJI Gogoi’s no leave formula for judges: Fighting backlog in courts or mere rhetoric?

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has asked chief justices and high court judges to not take leaves on working days to tackle the...

Judges order lawyer’s Facebook account to be deleted for contempt of court

Comments by Shimla-based lawyer Vikas Sanoria against a district court judge, who is daughter of a HC judge, also lands him in jail for a month.

70 years after independence, J&K High Court finally gets first woman CJ

Gita Mittal administered oath of by governor Vohra in Srinagar. While ex-CMs Farooq Abdullah and Omar attended the ceremony, Mehbooba Mufti was missing.

Placed low in seniority list, Justice K.M. Joseph won’t have say in HC judges’ appointment

Supreme Court itself has created and carefully nurtured a hierarchy among the judges.

Despite HC order, MP government allows 3 former BJP CMs to retain official bungalows

Chouhan government says ex-CMs paying rent at market rates, insists they made a case to stay.  New Delhi: The Madhya Pradesh government’s decision to allow three...

Two Supreme Court benches. One case. Divergent views

The case — promotion of judges in lower judiciary — relates to a Punjab and Haryana HC order that the court itself has challenged.

Supreme Court must resist frivolous cases to check its mounting burden

Due to the growing tendency among our Hon’ble judges to remain in the limelight, the Supreme Court has started functioning more as a court of original jurisdiction rather than the court of last appeal.

Parched Shimla asks tourists to stay away as water protests enter fifth day

Besides severe water rationing by the administration, high court bans special supply to VIP homes, tells state to tap Army for help.

Govt must clear Justice Joseph’s elevation, not doing so is unconstitutional: Soli Sorabjee

Former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee says CJI should display leadership qualities but it was incorrect for the 4 judges to go public with their complaints. New...

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.