The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court order that imposed a statewide blanket ban on the slaughter of cows and calves. The Division Bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayanan passed the order on May 27 on a Public Interest Litigation filed by K Surya Prasanth,…
The Madras High Court has held that an American woman who embraced Hinduism cannot be denied temple entry or any associated rights of a Hindu devotee merely on the basis of her foreign nationality or non-Hindu name, emphasising that religious identity under Hindu law is determined by faith, belief and conduct rather than birth, citizenship…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to vacate the interim injunction granted in favour of Saregama India Limited in its ongoing dispute with veteran music composer Ilaiyaraaja over copyright in sound recordings and the underlying literary and musical works forming part of 134 cinematograph films. The single-judge Bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela declined…
In a landmark constitutional ruling, the US Supreme Court has held that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born on US soil, irrespective of whether their parents are unlawfully present in the country or hold only temporary immigration status. By a 5-4 majority, the Court struck down President Donald…
The Attorney General has rejected media reports claiming that the Union Government informed the Supreme Court that its E20 ethanol-blended petrol initiative was an “ongoing experiment.” In an official statement, the Attorney General’s Office said such reports are factually incorrect and clarified that no submission describing the E20 programme as an experiment was made during…
The Delhi High Court has observed that criticism directed at a politician over a political decision cannot automatically be treated as a violation of personality rights. While hearing BJP MP Raghav Chadha’s plea seeking the removal of allegedly defamatory online content, the single-judge Bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad distinguished between political commentary and unlawful commercial…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that in cases where two consenting adults remain in a long-standing live-in relationship, the law raises a presumption that their physical relationship was consensual and, therefore, a subsequent refusal to marry cannot attract criminal liability for the offence of rape on the grounds of a false promise of marriage….
The Gujarat High Court has held that a Hindu marriage cannot be treated as legally valid merely because a marriage certificate has been issued if the mandatory Hindu rites and ceremonies required under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), 1955, such as Saptapadi, have not been performed. The Division Bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and…
The Gujarat High Court has refused to grant regular bail to a man accused of illegal cow slaughter and transportation of beef, observing that his repeated involvement in similar offences despite being granted bail earlier reflected a recurring pattern of criminal conduct that outweighed his claim for liberty. The single-judge Bench of Justice Hasmukh D…
The Delhi High Court has set aside an order granting bail to a school caretaker accused of aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a three-year-old nursery student in a Janakpuri school, holding that the trial court failed to properly appreciate material evidence and applied an erroneous approach at the stage of bail consideration. The single-judge Bench…