A sessions court in Nashik on Monday granted regular bail to Nida Khan and co-accused Tausif Attar in the alleged Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Nashik BPO sexual harassment and religious coercion case, while rejecting the bail application of another accused, Mohammad Danish Sheikh, citing the gravity of the allegations against him. Additional Sessions Judge Kedar…
The Supreme Court has declined to interfere with a Bombay High Court order directing the removal of a statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj installed on land belonging to the Mormugao Port Authority in Goa, while granting the petitioners liberty to seek appropriate relief before the High Court. The partial working day Bench of Justice MM…
The Office of the Attorney General for India (AGI) has issued an official clarification denying media reports claiming that the Union Government described its 20% Ethanol Blended Petrol (E20) Programme as an “ongoing experiment” during proceedings before the Supreme Court in the ethanol allocation dispute involving Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). The clarification was issued…
The Delhi High Court has expressed serious concern over the manner in which the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) has been regulating Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservations, observing that a series of poorly-worded notifications, circulars and official communications, coupled with ambiguously worded recruitment advertisements, has created “utter chaos” for candidates as well…
The Delhi High Court has quashed a series of orders passed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) debarring several toll collection contractors, terminating certain toll collection contracts and directing the encashment of their performance securities over allegations that they had deployed parallel software systems to siphon toll revenue, holding that the impugned actions…
The Delhi High Court has granted interim protection to the personality rights of actor-politician Ravi Kishan and directed the removal of online content allegedly involving the unauthorised commercial exploitation of his identity, including AI-generated obscene, derogatory and defamatory material circulating on websites and social media platforms. The single-judge bench of Justice Jyoti Singh passed an…
The Delhi High Court on Monday sought clarity regarding the continued legal representation of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya in a criminal appeal filed by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), after counsel appearing in the matter informed the Court that they no longer had instructions to represent him despite their vakalatnama continuing to remain on record….
The Allahabad High Court on Monday issued notice to the Union government and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on a petition challenging orders of the Agra courts refusing to appoint an Advocate Commissioner to conduct a survey, inspection, photography and videography of the Taj Mahal in connection with a civil suit claiming that the…
Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Ashok Bhushan has demitted office as the Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), bringing to an end a tenure of nearly five years during which the appellate tribunal delivered several landmark judgments under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and the Competition Act. Justice Bhushan assumed charge…
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that an accused facing criminal proceedings cannot be denied permission to travel abroad merely because the proposed visit is for a social or celebratory purpose rather than an urgent or fundamental necessity, observing that the right to travel abroad is a basic human right forming an integral part…