The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that in cases where two consenting adults remain in a long-standing live-in relationship, the law raises a presumption that their physical relationship was consensual and, therefore, a subsequent refusal to marry cannot attract criminal liability for the offence of rape on the grounds of a false promise of marriage….
The Gujarat High Court has held that a Hindu marriage cannot be treated as legally valid merely because a marriage certificate has been issued if the mandatory Hindu rites and ceremonies required under the Hindu Marriage Act (HMA), 1955, such as Saptapadi, have not been performed. The Division Bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and…
The Gujarat High Court has refused to grant regular bail to a man accused of illegal cow slaughter and transportation of beef, observing that his repeated involvement in similar offences despite being granted bail earlier reflected a recurring pattern of criminal conduct that outweighed his claim for liberty. The single-judge Bench of Justice Hasmukh D…
The Delhi High Court has set aside an order granting bail to a school caretaker accused of aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a three-year-old nursery student in a Janakpuri school, holding that the trial court failed to properly appreciate material evidence and applied an erroneous approach at the stage of bail consideration. The single-judge Bench…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed maintenance of the status quo with respect to ethanol supply allocation for the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025-26 in a dispute arising from judicial intervention in the implementation of the national Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) programme. The Vacation Bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Sheel Nagu passed the…
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the State of West Bengal to file a comprehensive action-taken and compliance report detailing the preventive, remedial, and law enforcement measures adopted in relation to alleged incidents of assaults, including egg-pelting, on political workers, MPs, and MLAs of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). The Division Bench of…
The Delhi High Court has upheld the selection of India’s Dressage team for the 2026 Asian Games, declining to exercise judicial review under Article 226 of the Constitution to interfere with the decision-making domain of the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI). Dressage, an Olympic equestrian discipline, requires horse–rider combinations to execute prescribed movements in a…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to grant interim bail to self-styled godman Asaram Bapu in a 2013 sexual assault case involving a minor devotee in Jodhpur, observing that it would only consider the request if a life-threatening medical emergency arose. The Bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice Sheel Nagu clarified that it was…
The Calcutta High Court has refused to grant an urgent hearing to a petition filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), alleging that a debit freeze had been imposed on three bank accounts of the party, which reportedly held funds worth approximately Rs 440 crore. The matter was mentioned by Senior Advocate Kishore Datta…
The Bombay High Court has lambasted the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over its continued failure to address the issue of pothole-ridden and poorly maintained roads in Mumbai, observing that the civic body had failed to resolve the problem for nearly two decades despite repeated judicial interventions. The Division Bench of Justice Ajay Gadkari and Justice…