The Bombay High Court lambasted the Maharashtra government over the continuing drinking water crisis in the tribal regions of Melghat and Dharni in Vidarbha, observing that it was deeply disturbing that citizens were still compelled to approach constitutional courts for access to safe drinking water, even after 75 years of Independence. The Division Bench of…
The Karnataka High Court has directed major Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), including Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Indian Oil Corporation Limited, to examine and decide on a representation submitted by a distillery seeking enhancement of its ethanol allocation for the Ethanol Supply Year (ESY) 2025–26. The single-judge Bench of Justice N…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined an urgent request to entertain a writ petition challenging the alleged linkage between welfare benefits and the exclusion of individuals from electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal. The Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Joymalya Bagchi advised the petitioners to approach the…
The Tamil Nadu government has approached the Supreme Court, challenging a Madras High Court judgment that permitted the lighting of the Karthigai Deepam at the Deepa Thoon, a stone lamp pillar situated atop the Thiruparankundram Hill in Madurai district near a dargah. The Special Leave Petition (SLP) was filed on June 11 after the new…
The Supreme Court has questioned the stand taken by the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) in opposing the adoption and relocation of a minor girl to the United States by her maternal aunt and uncle, expressing concern over what it described as bureaucratic obstacles in family-based adoptions involving close relatives residing abroad. The Bench of…
A court in Hyderabad has granted interim bail to Bandi Sai Bageerath, son of Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, and relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, to appear for his Bachelor of…
The Supreme Court has declined to interfere with an order of the Allahabad High Court directing a high-level inquiry into allegations that government doctors attached to Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Prayagraj, were engaging in private medical practice despite a statutory prohibition and operating a parallel healthcare system outside the government hospital framework. The Bench…
The Delhi High Court has restrained Cartel Bros, a company backed by actor Sanjay Dutt, from manufacturing, marketing and selling whisky under the trademark “Godfather” during the pendency of a trademark infringement suit filed by Devans Modern Breweries. The single-judge Bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed an interim injunction in favour of Devans Modern…
The Calcutta High Court will hear on June 25 a petition filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) challenging the freezing of debit operations in three of its bank accounts by the Bidhannagar Police and seeking quashing of the FIR registered in the matter. The single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya is scheduled to…
The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of a writ petition filed by a Class XII private candidate after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Union Government informed the Court that a fresh national assessment policy had been formulated to evaluate private candidates whose examinations were cancelled in several Gulf countries due to…