The Delhi High Court has suspended the life sentence of expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the 2017 Unnao sexual assault case involving a minor survivor on the grounds that the offence of aggravated penetrative sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012, was not prima facie…
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has termed young members of the Bar as custodians of the constitutional project, observing that they were not mere practitioners engaged in case-building, but participants in the larger enterprise of nation-building. Addressing the seventh convocation ceremony of the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL) in Patiala, Punjab on…
A district court in Uttar Pradesh has rejected an application filed by the state government seeking withdrawal of criminal proceedings against the accused in the 2015 mob lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq. Additional Sessions Judge Saurabh Dwivedi of the Gautam Buddha Nagar district court on Tuesday held that the petition, filed under Section 321 of the…
The Union government has appointed Senior Advocates Davinder Pal Singh, Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar and Anil Kaushik as Additional Solicitors General of India to represent the Centre before the Supreme Court. As per a notification issued by the Department of Personnel and Training under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions on December 22, 2025,…
The Delhi High Court has ordered the removal of social media posts and online listings that falsely attribute statements to former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar and sell merchandise using his name without authorisation. The direction was issued by Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora while hearing a personality rights suit filed by Gavaskar. He alleged that…
The Gujarat High Court has reserved its order on a plea filed by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal, seeking to be tried separately in a criminal defamation case arising out of remarks related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualifications. The matter was heard by Justice M.R. Mengdey, who considered Kejriwal’s challenge to a…
The Calcutta High Court has refused to interfere with the ongoing investigation into the violence and disorder reported during an event linked to football icon Lionel Messi in Kolkata, allowing the West Bengal Special Investigation Team (SIT) and a state-appointed inquiry commission to continue their work. A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul…
The Madras High Court has directed the Indian Patent Office to allow an inventor to demonstrate his invention, despite the earlier rejection of his patent application. The Court underlined that innovative ideas should not be dismissed solely on theoretical assumptions when a working model is available for evaluation. The case arose from a patent application…
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered an immediate halt on all ongoing construction activities on forest land in the hill districts of Uttarakhand. Taking took suo motu cognisance of unauthorised occupation and alleged illegal alienation of protected forest land in Uttarakhand, the Vacation Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi…
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court questioning the practice of sending a ceremonial chadar on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Ajmer Sharif Dargah during the annual Urs of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. The plea contends that participation by the Prime Minister or the Union government in a religious…