The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed the criminal appeal filed by Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti challenging his conviction in a decades-old cooperative bank fraud case, refusing to interfere with the findings and sentence recorded by the trial court. The single-judge Bench of Justice Manoj Jain passed the order in Rajendra Bharti vs State (NCT…
The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on the Maharashtra government over the slow progress of a murder trial, observing that while the State routinely opposes bail applications, it fails to ensure that criminal trials are conducted expeditiously. A Bench of Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah and Justice Sheel Nagu made the observations while hearing the…
The Bombay High Court has granted interim protection to actor Preity Zinta in her personality rights suit against Google LLC and several online intermediaries, directing the removal and blocking of AI-generated deepfakes, fake chatbot personas, manipulated images, GIFs and other unauthorised content exploiting her identity. The single-judge Bench of Justice Madhav J Jamdar held that…
The Supreme Court witnessed unprecedented scenes on Friday when a litigant appearing in person was forcibly removed from the courtroom after allegedly using abusive language against the Bench and hurling case papers during the hearing of his petition challenging an order of the Allahabad High Court. The incident took place before the Division Bench of…
The Delhi High Court on Friday sentenced Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav to three months’ simple imprisonment in a batch of cheque dishonour cases after upholding his conviction, holding that he had repeatedly failed to honour settlement terms, payment commitments and undertakings furnished before the Court despite being granted several opportunities to resolve the dispute. The…
The Central Government on Friday notified the appointment of Justice Sudhir Singh as the Acting Chief Justice of the Patna High Court following the retirement of Chief Justice Meenakshi M Rai. In a notification dated July 10, 2026, the President of India, exercising powers under Article 223 of the Constitution, appointed Justice Singh to perform…
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…