All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora has approached the Delhi High Court challenging a police notice directing her to furnish a personal bond of ₹10,000 and undertake to maintain peace, following her detention ahead of a proposed protest in the national capital. The petition seeks the withdrawal of the notice and a stay…
The Kerala High Court has ruled that neither the State government nor the High Court can extend the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court for temples and Devaswoms to register with the District Committee under the Kerala Captive Elephant (Management and Maintenance) Rules, 2012. Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas made the observation while dismissing a petition…
The Bombay High Court will take up actor Imran Khan’s challenge to a directive requiring him to leave India on October 26, after the actor questioned the legality of the order issued by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO). The notice requires him to depart from the country by October 28. A Division Bench of…
The Delhi High Court has held that a voter whose name was deleted from the electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) need not apprehend legal action for making a false declaration merely because he seeks re-inclusion through Form 6, after the Election Commission of India (ECI) assured the Court that the application could…
A Supreme Court advocate-on-record (AOR) has sought the Attorney General’s consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph and those responsible for managing the party’s social media account over a post on X calling for Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to resign. In an application dated October…
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Sunday inaugurated the Ladakh Bench of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh at Melangthong in Leh, underscoring that access to justice must be measured by the proximity of judicial institutions to litigants, rather than their mere formal availability. Addressing the gathering at an altitude of…
Actor Imran Khan has approached the Bombay High Court challenging a directive issued by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) requiring him to leave India by October 28, alleging that the order was issued arbitrarily and in violation of procedural safeguards governing Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders. In his petition, titled Imran Khan Pal…
It was like a collage capturing contrasts. If there were scenes of chaos there were also celebrations: a tale of two C’s so to speak, the third somewhere lost in the din. But on that, a little later. To take the first of the two, if uniformed personnel guarded the city like a fortress spelling chaos,…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha On October 10, Delhi’s Jantar Mantar witnessed a massive protest led by CJP, drawing protesters, students and members of the general public. What followed soon made headlines. Police swung into action, lathi-charged protesters who were described as peaceful, and bundled them into vans for transportation to detention centres. In a parallel…
Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) founder Abhijit Dipke has been granted conditional bail by a Special Executive Magistrate in Delhi and asked to sign a bond before his release, following his preventive detention ahead of a planned protest in the national capital. Dipke was detained by Delhi Police on October 16 amid preparations for demonstrations linked…