The Supreme Court has ruled that prior sanction is necessary to prosecute a public servant in criminal cases if they are ...

A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, on Tuesday saw ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday said prior sanction was a must to prosecute a public servant in criminal cases if they were discharging their official duties. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and ...

Ritu Raj Awasthi on Tuesday is learnt to have told the joint committee of Parliament examining the 'one nation, one election' ...

Justice Awasthi, who is now a member of anti-corruption watchdog Lokpal, is also learnt to have told the committee members ...

The Constitution also provides protection to HC judges similar to the protection for the President, SC judges, and Election ...

The court's stay on the Lokpal order asserting jurisdiction over HC judges has sparked a debate over anti-corruption ...

Lokpal, envisioned as India’s top anti-corruption watchdog, remains ineffective due to systemic flaws. Procedural dismissals dominate its workload, limiting meaningful action. Urgent reforms, ...

The Lokpal’s ruling that High Court judges are amenable to its jurisdiction and the Supreme Court order staying it on its own motion raise more than a mere question of law ...

The order received a strong reaction from a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court, which declared it “very, very disturbing” ...