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The Chhattisgarh High Court has dismissed a petition challenging a state government circular directing government schools to recite Saraswati Vandana, Gayatri Mantra, Guru Mantra and other prayers during morning assemblies, holding that the challenge was premature as there was no evidence that students were being compelled to participate.  A single Bench of Justice Amitendra Kishore…

The Bombay High Court has observed that Mumbai’s recurring monsoon flooding and chronic waterlogging cannot be attributed solely to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), holding that widespread illegal encroachments, blocked stormwater drains and the misuse of public infrastructure by citizens have substantially contributed to the city’s flooding woes. The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice…

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State government to conduct inspections of major dairy cooperatives, including Saras, Amul, Lotus and Mother Dairy, to examine the measures they have put in place to prevent the sale of synthetic milk and other adulterated dairy products. A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and…

The Tamil Nadu government has approached the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court judgment that struck down a 2024 Government Order allowing certain persons who convert to Islam to avail reservation as Backward Class (Muslim). The impugned judgment was delivered by a Division Bench of the Madras High Court comprising Justice G.R. Swaminathan and…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that the mere filing or circulation of an adjournment slip did not automatically entitle a party to the postponement of a listed matter, emphasising that the power to grant or refuse an adjournment vested exclusively with the Court and was to be exercised in its judicial discretion. The Bench…

A Delhi court has directed the Commissioner of Police to initiate departmental and disciplinary proceedings against police officials who allegedly treated a case of murder as one of rash and negligent driving, holding that serious lapses in the investigation resulted in the irreversible loss of crucial evidence and could adversely affect the prosecution during trial….

The Calcutta High Court has refused to grant an urgent hearing to a petition filed by All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MP Mahua Moitra seeking protection in connection with an FIR registered against her following an alleged attack during a political programme in Kaliganj, Nadia district. The matter was mentioned before Justice Sougata Bhattacharyya on…

The Bombay High Court has refused to quash an FIR and the consequential criminal proceedings against a printing press owner and his employee for allegedly printing and displaying a flex banner condemning the 2023 killings of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed. The single-judge Bench of Justice Neeraj P Dhote held that a…

The Allahabad High Court has held that no personal law, including Muslim personal law, can override the provisions of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA), 2006, or the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012. The Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Achal Sachdev made the observation while refusing to quash…

The Madras High Court has strongly condemned the import of municipal and hazardous waste into India, observing that knowingly bringing trash into the country is not merely an environmental violation but also an affront to the nation’s sovereignty. The Bench of Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy made the observations while hearing petitions filed by two paper…