The Punjab and Haryana High Court has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking directions to prevent free entry and passage of lawyers and the public through electronic security gates installed at the High Court premises. The petitioner prayed for the issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing respondents to…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday pronounced a split verdict on the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by AIMIM candidate and accused in the 2020 Delhi riots Tahir Hussain, seeking interim bail to campaign for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. The verdict was delivered by the two-judge Bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah….
The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur has disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) taken up suo motu regarding the alleged misuse of railway resources. The PIL was based on a news item published on December 25, 2024, which highlighted the negligence and inefficiency of the Railways in allowing padded seats made for sitting…
The Allahabad High Court has allowed a petitioner, Ankit Agrawal, residing in the United States of America, to appear virtually in divorce proceedings under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. A Single Bench of Justice Neeraj Tiwari passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Ankit Agrawal. The petition has been filed seeking following…
The Patna High Court has recently dismissed a petition filed by a resident of Begusarai, Bihar, seeking to restrain the respondents from shifting the children’s home at Begusarai to Jamui. The petitioner’s sole contention was that the decision to shift the home was unilateral. However, upon examining the petition, the court found that it failed…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday extended the stay on the Allahabad High Court verdict ordering a survey of the Shahi Eidgah Mosque by a Court Commissioner. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Viswanathan recorded in its order that the interim stay order would continue, while listing…
The Supreme Court will hear on February 11, a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to include the checking and verification of burnt memory of EVMs in their Standard Operating Procedures. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar Datta ordered to list the matter for hearing…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday orally remarked that it could not allow the State to make arguments endlessly in the matter related to the 2020 North-East Delhi riots case. The Bench of Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur made the oral observations after hearing arguments from the Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) for over…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking directions to the Election Commission of India to justify the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) under Section 61A of the Representation of People Act, 1951. Terming the petition a luxury litigation, which intended to take the election process back to the stone age, the…
The High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur has taken note of the measures taken by the State Forest Department to protect tigers in the state. In a suo motu Public Interest Litigation, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal had directed the State to take steps to curb the deaths…