The Delhi High Court has announced that it will function on the first and third Saturdays of every month, marking a change in its existing working schedule. The decision has been taken to improve judicial efficiency and address the growing pendency of cases before the Court. According to the notification issued by the High Court…
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, State Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar, and other officials on petitions filed by the Enforcement Directorate alleging interference by the state in a money laundering probe related to political consultancy firm Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC). The Bench of Justice…
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved judgment on a petition seeking judicial authorisation for the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the case of a 32-year-old man who has remained in an irreversible permanent vegetative state for more than 12 years following a fall from a building. The Bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV…
The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a petition filed by the producers of Jana Nayagan, the Vijay-starrer awaiting certification, refusing to interfere with the interim stay granted by a Division Bench of the Madras High Court on the film’s release. A single-judge Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta rejected the plea moved by KVN…
The Supreme Court has been informed that an inter-departmental committee constituted by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is examining whether banks, telecom service providers and other intermediaries can be held liable for financial losses suffered by victims of so-called “digital arrest” scams, particularly where such losses arise from negligence, lapses or fraudulent conduct. The…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) whether the right to vote of a person could be taken away till the Central government determined the question of citizenship. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi made the constitutional query while hearing a batch of…
The Karnataka High Court has put a temporary halt on the investigation against spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in connection with an alleged land encroachment case, observing that there is no prima facie material linking him to the accusations at this stage. A single-judge Bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the interim order while…
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday indicated that the mere fact of governmental management or control did not, by itself, extinguish an entity’s entitlement to informational privacy under the Right to Information Act, 2005. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed that even assuming the PM CARES Fund…
Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp have approached the Supreme Court challenging the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT) judgment that upheld a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in connection with WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy. The petitioners challenged the NCLAT’s interpretation of alleged abuse of dominance under the…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it may soon fix liability on state authorities and dog feeders for injuries and deaths caused by stray dog attacks. The observations were made by the Bench of Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice NV Anjaria, while hearing suo motu proceedings over the escalating public safety…