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POLITICAL adversaries Arun Jaitley and A. B. Bardhan joined hands on Saturday against the Centre’s proposal to make certain
changes with regard to the judiciary.

Former chief justice of India J.S. Verma on Monday asked the Supreme Court not to appeal against the Delhi High Court judgment on implementation of Right to Information Act in the judiciary, since it would amount to "conflict of interest."

Express News Service Posted online: Saturday , Jan 30, 2010 at 0251 hrs Chandigarh : The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association has unanimously decided to file a protest petition against the closure report filed by the CBI in the ‘cash-at-judge-door’ case.

New Delhi : In a rare outburst, a sitting High Court Judge has alleged that “a vocal and aggressive Executive Government is attempting to regulate and take over Judiciary, even by corrupting the Judiciary.”

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today said it will consider on March 25 the plea for taking suo motu cognizance of contempt action against noted advocate Prashant Bhushan who was issued with a notice for allegedly casting aspersions on a senior apex court judge and previous chief justices of India.

Top jurists on Monday opposed the inclusion of senior Supreme Court lawyer P.P. Rao in the three-member probe panel to inquire into the corruption allegations against Karnataka High Court Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran.

It was no coincidence that three independent inquiries conducted by the police, the CBI and an in-house judges’ panel into the cash-at-judge’s doorstep case had a common conclusion: Justice Nirmal Yadav of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had received an unaccounted cash packet of Rs 15 lakh in mid-August of 2008.

The Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, on Sunday said he was not opposed to the Right to Information (RTI) Act and did not want any exemptions from it. Also, the Supreme Court had not yet decided if it should challenge the Delhi High Court judgment on the issue.

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court judge V.S. Sirpurkar will head a three-member committee that will investigate the grounds for impeachment of Karnataka Chief Justice P.D. Dinakaran whose removal from office has been sought jointly by 75 Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha on corruption and land-grabbing charges.

New Delhi, Jan. 16 (PTI): The Chief Justice of India today defended his decision to seek a daily allowance for his wife when the couple recently went on a foreign tour, saying it was being provided for several years.