Law Ministry

Don't presume what SC will say on Article 370 restoration, Omar Abdullah tells Ravi Shankar Prasad

Even as the SC is hearing multiple pleas on the matter, Prasad, the Union law minister, on Saturday said the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 "will not be restored"

Centre exploring possibility of single voter list for LS, Assembly, local body polls to avoid discrepancies

An official said this development is not linked to simultaneous polls, as the latter refers to holding Lok Sabha and Assembly polls together in the Indian context

40 electoral reforms pending, EC tells law ministry; asks for false affidavits to be made electoral offence, linking of Aadhaar with voters list

A statement by the Election Commission said CEC Sunil Arora reminded the law ministry brass that there are more than 40 different proposals of electoral reforms which are 'pending since long'

Law ministry appoints Justice Vikram Nath as Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court; post was vacant since last November

Justice Vikram Nath, who is currently a judge in the Allahabad High Court, has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, the Law Ministry said on Sunday

Days after CJI Ranjan Gogoi wrote to Narendra Modi, Cabinet increases strength of Supreme Court judges from 31 to 34

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved increasing the number of judges in the Supreme Court from the present 30 to 33, excluding the chief justice.

INX Media case: Indrani Mukerjea requests Delhi court for lawyer so she can turn approver

Indrani Mukerjea appeared through video conference from Byculla jail where she is lodged in Sheena Bora murder case

Law ministry grants CBI sanction to prosecute P Chidambaram in INX media money laundering case

On 25 January, the investigative agency told the Delhi High Court that it wanted to carry out custodial interrogation of P Chidambaram in the case, in which the court had reserved its judgment.

Budget 2019: Law Ministry gets additional Rs 666.66 crore for conducting Lok Sabha polls

The Law Ministry has been allocated an additional sum of over Rs 666 crore for conducting Lok Sabha elections due this summer.

Nearly 4,500 cases pending per high court judge, shows law ministry data; pendency caused by delay in judicial appointments

Each high court judge is saddled with nearly 4,500 pending cases, according to the law ministry. At the same time, each judge of the subordinate judiciary has nearly 1,300 cases pending, the same data shows.

Election Commission to ask Law Ministry to make false declarations grounds to disqualify candidate, push for more electoral reforms

The Election Commission (EC) will make a fresh push for electoral reforms with the government, including making filing of false declaration a ground for disqualification and putting a cap on expenditure by candidates in legislative council polls, in the coming days.