DMK president MK Stalin has told the Madras High Court that merely heading a political party does not make him legally liable for every social media post published by its various wings or functionaries. Stalin made the submission in a counter-affidavit opposing interim relief applications in a Rs 1 crore defamation suit filed by Tamil…
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Centre’s review petition challenging its earlier judgment holding that Special Courts cannot take cognisance of certain fraud-related offences under the Companies Act, 2013 on the basis of private complaints. A Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice K Vinod Chandran and Justice Joymalya Bagchi declined to…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court to examine allegations made by Advocate Prashant Bhushan against the trial judge hearing the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case and submit a report in a sealed cover. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi and…
The Delhi High Court has granted four weeks’ interim bail on medical grounds to Lovkesh Bajaj, the owner of the Malviya Nagar property where a fatal fire in June claimed multiple lives. Justice Sachin Datta passed the order after taking note of Bajaj’s recent major abdominal surgery and the medical condition reported by the jail…
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Anto Augustine, Managing Director of Malayalam news channel Reporter TV, in an Abkari case concerning the alleged seizure of liquor beyond the permissible limit from a property in Wayanad. Justice Kauser Edappagath passed the order on Augustine’s bail plea in Anto Augustine v. State of Kerala….
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Centre’s response to a petition challenging the constitutional validity of the 2026 amendment to the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, which makes intentionally preventing the singing of Vande Mataram or disrupting an assembly engaged in its singing punishable with imprisonment of up to three years….
The Law and Society Committee (LawSoc) of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru, has decided to call off the proposed screening of filmmaker Lalit Vachani’s documentary Prisoner No. 626710 is Present, centred on jailed activist Umar Khalid. The student committee communicated the decision to the NLSIU student community after discussions with the…
The Supreme Court has directed private universities across the country to place extensive financial and operational information on record, making it clear that institutions imparting higher education cannot be operated as profit-making entities. A Bench comprising Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice N.V. Anjaria, in an order passed on September 17, directed the Union Government, States…
The Election Commission of India has informed the Supreme Court that more than 22 lakh appeals have been filed by individuals challenging their exclusion from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal. In an affidavit submitted before the Court, the poll panel stated that 38,31,429 appeals have been filed…
President Droupadi Murmu has underscored the imperative of coordinated global action to address the increasingly complex challenges of climate change and environmental degradation, while commending the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for providing an international platform for dialogue on the future of environmental governance. She was addressing the valedictory session of the two-day International Conference on…