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Sunday, September 21, 2025
TopicHigh court

Topic: high court

Like Aarushi Talwar, no one killed Bibi Jagir Kaur’s daughter

The higher courts in both cases pointed out problems with trial court findings and reversed them.

New bill to be introduced in Parliament to change names of three high courts

The earlier bill ran into trouble as West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments disagreed with it.

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.

On Camera

Skin cancer is no more an ‘old person’s disease’

The sun isn’t acting alone—it has an accomplice in pollution. Environmental toxins weaken our skin’s natural barrier.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

60 yrs on, veterans recall lessons from 1965 India-Pakistan war. ‘Equipment alone doesn’t win battles’

A common thread runs through the memories of soldiers of the 1965 war—ingenuity, courage and camaraderie that withstood an apparently technologically superior foe.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.