The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Abhishek Banerjee to appear before the jurisdictional Magistrate on July 15 for recording of his voice sample in connection with a criminal case arising from his alleged remarks made during the campaign for the West Bengal Assembly elections. The single-judge Bench of…
The Supreme Court has held that a school official who receives a direct complaint of sexual assault from a child cannot evade the mandatory statutory duty to report the incident under Section 19 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, by conducting a private inquiry or verification and concluding that no…
The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice on Google’s appeal challenging a single judge’s judgment that restrained the company from allowing advertisers to use the registered trademark “HINDWARE” as a keyword trigger under its Google Ads programme and directed Google LLC and Google India to jointly pay nominal damages of Rs 30 lakh for…
The Madras High Court on Friday permitted the Tamil Nadu government to distribute appointment orders to the families of those killed in the 2025 Karur stampede, while clarifying that the appointments would remain purely temporary and subject to the final outcome of the pending proceedings. The Division Bench of Justice CV Karthikeyan and Justice R…
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 13 a batch of writ petitions seeking an independent investigation into the alleged theft of donations from the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. The petitions seek a court-monitored probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), along with a comprehensive forensic audit of the finances of the Shri…
The Allahabad High Court has refused to entertain two public interest litigations (PILs) seeking the constitution of a Judicial Commission and a court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe allegations of financial irregularities in donations received by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust for the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. A Division Bench comprising Justice Rajan…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Stock Exchange (NSE), Chitra Ramkrishna, challenging the constitutional validity of the definitions of “public duty” and “public servant” under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, holding that NSE performs functions of public importance and its…
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed further criminal proceedings against a man accused of forcing a family in Madhya Pradesh to convert to Islam while issuing notice on his appeal challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s refusal to quash the criminal case. The Bench of Justice Manoj Misra and Justice Shree Chandrashekhar passed the interim…
The Delhi High Court on Thursday approved the designation of 85 advocates as Senior Advocates following a Full Court meeting convened to consider the recommendations of the Committee for Designation of Senior Advocates. The decision was taken after the Full Court examined the recommendations submitted by the designation committee, which had assessed the eligibility and…
The Union government on Thursday informed the Kerala High Court that mandating cigarette manufacturers to disclose the numerical nicotine and tar content on cigarette packets without first prescribing statutory maximum permissible limits could mislead consumers and dilute the public health objective underlying the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade…