The Calcutta High Court has sought the response of the West Bengal government on a petition challenging the alleged mandatory participation of state government employees in the International Yoga Day programme scheduled to be held in Kolkata on June 21, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lead the national celebrations. The single-judge Bench…
Senior Advocate and All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader Kalyan Bandopadhyay has written a letter to the Secretary of the Calcutta High Court Bar Association (CHCBA) raising objections over a call made by an officer of the West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID), alleging improper interference in a matter where he is currently appearing as…
The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the counting of votes in the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) elections to continue, but restrained the declaration of results without its prior approval, amid allegations of procedural irregularities in the electoral process. A vacation Bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice V Mohana passed the…
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the Union government, the Bar Council of India (BCI), State Bar Councils and the University Grants Commission (UGC) on a writ petition filed by the Bar Association of India (BAI) seeking creation of a nationwide digital mechanism to verify advocates and curb fake legal practitioners, along with…
The long-pending ownership dispute involving Delhi’s iconic Ambassador Hotel has now reached the Delhi High Court, with the hotel owners challenging an eviction notice issued by the Central government under the Public Premises (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Act, 1971. Sir Sobha Singh & Sons Private Limited, which owns the hotel, has challenged the June 9,…
The Central government on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform Telegram has effectively become a “new dark web,” allegedly functioning as a conduit linking threat actors and enabling large-scale coordination of unlawful activities while masking user identities. The submission was made in a counter-affidavit filed by the Ministry of Electronics and…
A Bengaluru civil court has directed social media intermediaries X Corp (formerly Twitter), Google LLC, and Meta Platforms to restrain publication, circulation and dissemination of allegedly defamatory online content concerning Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena Party president Konidala Pawan Kalyan. The interim order was passed on June 11 by the XVI Additional…
The Delhi High Court has refused to relax the mandatory 30-day notice period prescribed under the Special Marriage Act, observing that personal hardship or individual inconvenience, however genuine, cannot justify bypassing a statutory mandate. The single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav dismissed a plea filed by a couple seeking waiver of the notice period…
The Supreme Court has held that candidates whose names appear in a select list do not acquire any vested or indefeasible right to appointment when a fresh recruitment process is ordered to ensure equal opportunity for candidates who were earlier excluded from consideration. The Bench of Justice JK Maheshwari and Justice Atul S Chandurkar upheld…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a writ petition filed by an alleged cyber fraud accused seeking consolidation of multiple criminal cases and protection from arrest, observing that cyber criminals who defrauded innocent citizens were “parasites,” who posed a serious threat to society and must be dealt with firmly under the law. The…