A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Delhi High Court challenging the alleged continuous and intrusive surveillance of peaceful protesters at Jantar Mantar by the Delhi Police during an ongoing sit-in protest and hunger strike organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). The petition alleged that the blanket surveillance violated the fundamental…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed serious concern over a recent Patna High Court judgment which held that allegations of confining a woman, pressing her chest and attempting to remove her salwar did not constitute the offence of attempt to rape, but only amounted to outraging her modesty under the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed an order of the Uttarakhand High Court directing a referendum among advocates and litigants on whether the High Court should continue to function from Nainital or be shifted to another location, holding that such directions could not have been issued in the exercise of judicial powers under its writ…
The Supreme Court has directed the Odisha government to ensure that the State Sentence Review Committee takes a final decision on the remission application of Ravindra Pal alias Dara Singh, who is serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of Australian missionary Graham Stuart Staines and his two minor sons, before the next date…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the Kolkata Police to grant permission to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to hold its Shahid Diwas (Martyrs’ Day) rally on July 21 at Cathedral Road near Birla Planetarium, subject to strict conditions to ensure maintenance of law and order, crowd management and smooth vehicular movement. While disposing…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition seeking directions to curb the circulation of allegedly derogatory remarks made by a social media influencer against Prophet Muhammad and a comprehensive regulatory framework governing the publication, dissemination and circulation of such content on digital and social media platforms. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and…
The Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court has ruled that the State is liable to pay Rs 30 lakh as compensation for deaths caused by manual scavenging, even when the deceased workers were employed by private individuals and not by government authorities. The Division Bench of Justice Nitin Suryawanshi and Justice Vaishali Patil-Jadhav relied…
The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) has informed the Supreme Court that it is fully competent to investigate the June 12, 2025 Air India Flight AI171 crash in Ahmedabad, which claimed 260 lives, and has opposed petitions seeking an independent, court-monitored inquiry. In a counter affidavit, the AAIB stated that it is a specialised statutory…
The Supreme Court has questioned the constitutional validity of laws that disqualify individuals with more than two children from contesting Panchayat and other local body elections, observing that such policies may no longer be justified in light of India’s declining fertility rate. The Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe passed the order…
The Karnataka High Court has set aside a decision by an apartment owners’ association that prohibited children from playing in the apartment’s designated play area, highlighting the importance of playing games in a child’s physical and mental development. The single-judge Bench of Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar held that children have a fundamental right to play and…