The Delhi High Court has held that courts cannot interfere with a decision to exclude an athlete from a particular category at the Asian Games when the decision has been objectively taken by the concerned authorities and subject experts. Justice Amit Mahajan made the observation while dismissing a petition filed by athlete Muskan Rathi challenging…
The Supreme Court on September 21 ordered a fresh investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the 2012 rape and murder of a 17-year-old girl in Dharmasthala, Karnataka, observing that the manner in which the case was investigated by the local police, Karnataka CID and CBI “shocks the very conscience of the court.” A…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice on a plea filed by former Mumbai Mayor and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vishakha Raut challenging her disqualification as a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) councillor following the invalidation of her Other Backward Class (OBC) caste certificate. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta directed that…
The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition filed by Cauvery Nadhi Rakshna Samiti seeking reallocation of 70 TMC of Cauvery river water from Tamil Nadu’s share to Karnataka, observing that the inter-State dispute is already being litigated by the two States before the appropriate forums. A Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta…
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….