In last week’s Tales from the Coffeeshop, Patroclos asked rhetorically: is everyone who publicly repeats some wild allegation about the courts investigated for contempt? To which the answer is a very ...

Litigants cannot change the plain meaning of words as it suits them, especially when conveying a court’s clear and ...

The Supreme Court has heard a clutch of petitions challenging Waqf Amendment Act of 2025. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has taken exception to the Centre's move to activate the Waqf ...

No contempt if Parliament, legislatures simply make laws: Supreme Court "Every State Legislature has plenary powers to pass an enactment and so long as the said enactment has not been declared to ...

The AIMPLB contends that at a time when petitions challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 are under consideration of the Supreme Court such a move is tantamount to contempt of court June 4 ...

Jeff Feldman, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, wrote via email: "T hat language, on its face, would not eliminate the court's ability to enforce contempt charges against ...

The Supreme Court has halted contempt proceedings initiated by the Calcutta High Court against seven police officers, ...

The Supreme Court has initiated criminal contempt proceedings against YouTube journalist Ajay Shukla for making defamatory remarks against Justice Surya Kant. Shukla's video attributed motives and ...

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday issued an order barring a lady identified as Favour from attending proceedings in the ongoing terrorism trial of Nnamdi Kanu, the self-acclaimed leader of ...

Flagging ‘blatant breach’, SC closes contempt against DDA. By Abraham Thomas . May 29, 2025 05:46 AM IST ... The court was hearing a contempt petition filed by Delhi resident Bindu Kapurea.

The Supreme Court on Friday initiated suo motu contempt proceedings against Chandigarh-based journalist and YouTuber Ajay Shukla for his "scandalous", defamatory and contemptuous remarks against a ...

The Supreme Court on Friday initiated suo moto contempt proceedings against Chandigarh-based journalist and YouTuber Ajay Shukla for his "scandalous", defamatory and contemptuous remarks against a ...