Pakistan's opposition politician Siraj ul Haq shows victory sign outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan. The court asked the government to investigate corruption allegations against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family, delaying for two months a decision that could have jeopardized his political future.
President Donald Trump watches as Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administers the judicial oath to Judge Neil Gorsuch during a re-enactment in the Rose Garden of the White House, in Washington. Gorsuch's wife Marie Louise hold a bible at center.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
President of India Pranab Mukherjee, along with Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister of Law and Justice Ministry Ravi Shankar Prasad along with the Chief Justice JS Khehar pose for a photo after the swearing-in ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
Out going Chief Justice of India T.S.Thakur greets Chief Justice of India Justice JS Khehar after being sworn-in, at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Justice JS Khehar taking oath as the new Chief Justice of India, during a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
President Pranab Mukherjee administers the oath of office to the new Chief Justice of India, Justice Justice JS Khehar during a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.
Case: Known for filing a series of applications before BCCI ombudsman “All changes are good and should be accepted. If the court has taken cognisance, I am happy.”
A government lawyer speak to media inside the Supreme Court complex in New Delhi. India's top court has allowed Italian marine Salvatore Girone to return home while international arbitration takes place over a 2012 fatal shootings of two Indian fishermen in which he and a fellow marine are implicated.
A view of the Supreme Court of India. The Apex Court on Wednesday said the stay on the Uttarakhand High Court order on President’s rule in Uttarakhand would continue.
Chief Justice of India Justice T S Thakur, Justice Anil R Dave and other dignitaries at a welcome function in the honour of Chief Justices of all the High Courts, at the Supreme Court.
Senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Tirath Singh Thakur being sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi.
Senior-most Supreme Court judge Justice Tirath Singh Thakur being sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India by President Pranab Mukherjee at a function in Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi.
Yakub Memon, the lone 1993 Mumbai serial blasts convict facing gallows, was hanged to death after his last ditch attempts to get a reprieve failed early this morning in the Supreme Court. Memon was hanged shortly before 7 am at the Nagpur Central Jail.
Media persons standing outside Supreme Court during the hearing on the Yakub Memon's petition, in New Delhi.
Security outside Supreme Court during the hearing on the Yakub Memon's petition, in New Delhi.
Security outside Supreme Court during the hearing on the Yakub Memon's petition, in New Delhi.
Chief Justice of India H L Dattu paying his last respects to former President APJ Abdul Kalam at his residence at Rajaji Marg in New Delhi.
Jubeda arrives in Nagpur to meet with her father Yakub Memon who is on death row in 1993 Mumbai blast case.
Yakub Memon, the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict whose curative petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court, submitted a mercy petition for the Maharashtra Governor, in the last-ditch effort to prevent execution of his death sentence on July 30.
In this June 4, 2013, file photo, Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan gets inside a car after he was granted bail by a Mumbai court for spot fixing in cricket, in Mumbai. A Supreme Court committee has recommended Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals be suspended for two years from the Indian Premier League and an official from each of the clubs be banned for life from all cricket matches in the wake of corruption scandal in the franchise-based competition, The three-member committee headed by former chief justice Rajendra Lodha proposed the sanctions.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist, pledge her eyes after death to Eye Bank Association of India as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement during programme to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist, pledge her eyes after death to Eye Bank Association of India as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement during programme to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist, pledge her eyes after death to Eye Bank Association of India as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement during programme to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist, pledge her eyes after death to Eye Bank Association of India as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement during programme to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Transgender people from across the country congregating to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender and decided to pledge their eyes as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Transgender people from across the country congregating to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender and decided to pledge their eyes as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Transgender people from across the country congregating to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender and decided to pledge their eyes as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, transgender rights activist, pledge her eyes after death to Eye Bank Association of India as a thank you gesture to justices who passed the judgement during programme to mark the one-year anniversary of historic Supreme Court judgment recognizing Transgender and Transsexuals as the third gender at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon seeking review of award of death penalty to him in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case,
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter Daman Singh comes out of the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The Supreme Court stayed the trial court order for summoning the former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and others in the coal block allocation case.
Chief Justice of India, H L Dattu addressing the 'International Conference on Global Environment Issues' organised by National Green Tribunal, in New Delhi.
Combo: BCCI chief N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan (L) and Rajasthan Royals’s co-owner Raj Kundra. The Supreme Court concluded that both Meiyappan and Kundra were involved in betting.
File: Former Supreme Court judge, Justice V R Krishna Iyer dies at a private hospital in Kochi.
Twelve days before his retirement, CBI Director Ranjit Sinha suffered a major blow when the Supreme Court removed him from the 2G scam case, saying the allegations against him of protecting some accused appears to be "prima facie credible".
Women who underwent sterilisation surgeries receive treatment at the District Hospital in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The Supreme Court refused to take suo motu cognisance of news reports relating to death of 11 women due to alleged medical negligence in sterilisation surgeries at Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh.
A village woman walks past a Bollywood film poster outside a cinema hall in New Delhi. Supreme Court ordered the lifting of a ban on women working as makeup artists in the movie industry, ending a decades-long discriminatory practice.
File Photo: Actress Kareena Kapoor retouches her makeup before a photocall to promote her film, in New Delhi. Supreme Court ordered the lifting of a ban on women working as makeup artists in the movie industry, ending a decades-long discriminatory practice.
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy talks to the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The Court stayed proceedings on criminal defamation cases filed against Swamy by AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, briefly loses his balance as he walks back after addressing the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The Centre placed a list of names of 627 Indian account holders in HSBC bank, Geneva in blackmoney case before the Supreme Court which asked SIT to go through the list and take appropriate action in accordance with law.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, center, addresses the media outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. The Centre placed a list of names of 627 Indian account holders in HSBC bank, Geneva in blackmoney case before the Supreme Court which asked SIT to go through the list and take appropriate action in accordance with law.
Radha Timblo, director of Timblo Private Ltd who has been named in the affidavit filed by the Centre in the Black money case, talking to the media in Panaji.
Combo image: The government disclosed before the Supreme Court eight more names including that of Pradip Burman, one of Dabur India promoters, a bullion trader and Goa miners against whom it has started prosecution for allegedly stashing blackmoney in foreign banks. Rajkot-based bullion trader Pankaj Chimanlal Lodhya and Goa-based mining company Timblo Private Limited and its five Directors were among the names that figured in the list which was filed in the Supreme Court by the government.
AIADMK supporters pour milk over the portrait of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court at AIADMK Headquarters, in Chennai.
Supporters of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha celebrate after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court, in Chennai.
AIADMK Party workers pour milk on the statue of party founder M G Ramachandran after the Supreme Court granted bail to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha at the party's headquarters in Chennai.
Supporters of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha celebrate after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court, at AIADMK Headquarters, in Chennai.
A supporter pours milk over a portrait of former chief minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalitha, as he celebrates with others the news of bail being granted to her, outside their party office in Chennai.
Jayalalitha's supporters celebrate after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court, near the Central jail, in Bengaluru.
Jayalalitha's supporters celebrate after she was granted bail by the Supreme Court, in Bengaluru .
File: In a major relief to jailed AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa, the Supreme Court granted her bail in a disproportionate assets case in which she was sentenced to four-year jail term.
The NDA govt plans a fresh bill in winter session to repeal over 1,000 arch aic laws— some dating back to the 19th century—in the financial, land, social, infrastructure sectors.
Chief Justice of India Justice HL Dattu along with his wife Gayathri offers prayers at Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.
After 18 years and SC intervention, the Kerala HC finds 24 of the 36 accused in the Suryanelli rape case guilty, prime accused Dharmarajan gets life. State to appeal.
Rule gay Brittanica. Same sex marriages now legal in England and Wales after long gay rights campaign. Scotland had come through in Feb. N Ireland still a no-go area.
The SC-appointed amicus curiae points to major gold pilferage from the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure find; gold-plating machine found, “highest echelons” of admn, royal trustees involved.
The SC acquits the six Muslim men convicted in the ’02 Akshardhamam temple attack case. Accused spent 11 years in jail; court picks holes in case, pulls up Gujarat home minister for “non-application of mind”.
Rajat Gupta, 65, the ex-Goldman Sachs boss and Indian-American icon convicted for insider trading, loses SC appeal. To be jailed till ’15-end, faces $14 mn civil suit as well.
IPL renegade Lalit Modi on the upswing, BCCI says he’s ‘won’ the Rajasthan Cricket Assssn elections but asks SC not to “open results”. Says if results declared, it’ll have to suspend rca, state’s players.
The Supreme Court refuses to reconsider its verdict on Section 377, which had struck down an HC ruling decriminalising gay sex. lgbt community says won’t give up.
The SC frees all 12 accused in the 1993 Surat blasts case, says tada court verdict based on ‘confessional’ statements and no material evidence, won’t hold. A few of the 12 were in jail for a decade.
Yet another SC-Centre standoff likely after collegium resends Justice K.L. Manjunath’s name as their pick for Punjab & Haryana HC chief justice’s post. The law ministry had expressed reservations.
Kerala PDP Chairman and 2008 Bangalore serial blasts prime accused Abdul Nasser Madani after his release from jail in Bengaluru on health grounds. Madani was, on July 11, granted one-month bail by the Supreme Court while taking note that he is an under-trial prisoner who was already behind the bars for the last four years and was suffering from various ailments.
The NDA govt rejects the SC collegium’s choice of ex-SG Gopal Subramaniam for a seat on the judge’s bench, cites adverse cbi report of his role in 2G scam probe. Legal luminaries deride government move.
Pranab Mukherjee administers the oath of office to the new Chief Justice of India Rajendra Mal Lodha during a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi.
Outgoing Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam with Union Ministers Sushilkumar Shinde, Kapil Sibal, M Veerappa Moily and Rajiv Shukla at the swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Justice of India, Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Arputhammal , mother of Perarivalan, one of the seven life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, wailing upon hearing the Supreme Court verdict referring the issue of release of seven convicts to constitutional bench, during a press conferance in Chennai.
Asia Pacific Transgender Network founding member, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi (L) along with another member in New Delhi after the Supreme Court recognised transgenders or eunuchs as third category of gender and directed Centre and States to grant them all facilities, including voters ID, passport and driving licence.
Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam with wife Saraswathi at Lord Venateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.
Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam taking blessings from the sacred elephant of Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.
Sahara Chief Subrata Roy, with face smeared with ink thrown by a lawyer, walks to appear before the Supreme Court in New Delhi after a weekend in the UP police custody.
A lawyer from Meerut, Manoj Sharma, removes his shirt after throwing ink on Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar Subrata Roy outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. Sharma is the same person who had hurled a slipper at Congress leader Suresh Kalmadi in April 2010 when he was brought in custody in a Commonwealth Games graft case.
A lawyer from Meerut, Manoj Sharma, removes his shirt after throwing ink on Chairman of Sahara India Pariwar Subrata Roy outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi. Sharma is the same person who had hurled a slipper at Congress leader Suresh Kalmadi in April 2010 when he was brought in custody in a Commonwealth Games graft case.
Sahara Chief Subrata Roy, with face smeared with ink thrown by a lawyer, walks to appear before the Supreme Court in New Delhi after a weekend in the UP police custody.
TV Grab: Calling him a thief, a man from Gwalior threw ink on the face of Sahara chief Subrata Roy when he was brought to the Supreme Court amidst chaotic scenes.
Sahara Chief Subrata Roy is escorted by the police officials after he surrendered in Lucknow, two days after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him by the Supreme Court.
File: Sahara Chief Subrata Roy was arrested in Lucknow, after evading for two days a non-bailable warrant issued by the Supreme Court for his failure to appear before it in a case of non-refund of Rs 20,000 crore to investors.
Combo image: The Supreme Court stayed the release of three convicts, in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by the Tamil Nadu government, saying there have been procedural lapses on the part of the state.
Arputham Ammal, mother of Perarivalan, one of the convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assasination case, celebrates with supporters in Chennai after the Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of the three convicts in the case to life term.
MDMK Chief Vaiko offering sweets to senior lawyer Ram Jethmalani in New Delhi after the Supreme Court commuted the death penalty of the three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life term.
A gay rights activist protests against a recent Supreme Court verdict that upheld section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalizes homosexuality in New Delhi.
Chairman of West Bengal Human Rights Commission Justice Ashok Ganguly arrives at his office in Kolkata.
RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav offers prayers at the ancient Deori temple at Tamar, Jharkhand after being granted bail by the Supreme Court on Chaibasa fodder scam case.
File: The Supreme Court granted bail to RJD chief Lalu Prasad in a fodder scam case, in a relief to the politician who is behind the bars for the last two months after being awarded a five-year jail term.
LGBT activists protest against the Supreme Court verdict which validated the section 377 of IPC, in Mumbai.
