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…
The Karnataka High Court on Monday refused to stay criminal proceedings initiated against a Bengaluru-based dermatologist accused of disseminating allegedly misleading and defamatory content about Nandini dairy products through social media posts and Instagram reels. The single-judge Bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna declined to grant interim protection to dermatologist Dr Sharanya Padma, a medical practitioner…
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday refused to grant an urgent out-of-turn hearing to two public interest litigations seeking an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of donations and valuables at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya. The Vacation Bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia and Justice Amitabh Kumar Rai orally observed…
The Supreme Court on Monday stayed an Allahabad High Court direction requiring the Uttar Pradesh government to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to a man who was allegedly kept in illegal detention by the state police for more than three months. The Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva passed the interim…