Taking strong displeasure over Punjab’s low forest cover, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered the immediate suspension of all tree-cutting activities across the state, directing that no tree of any species or age shall be cut without prior permission from the Court until further orders. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu…
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over Mumbai’s deteriorating air quality, holding that the civic body failed to discharge its statutory and constitutional obligations to safeguard public health and the environment. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad indicated that, as an interim…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council to urgently deliberate upon the issue of reduction or complete exemption of GST on air purifiers, in view of the persistent deterioration in air quality across the National Capital Region. The Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice…
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted interim protection to Anil Ambani, founder and chairman of the Reliance Group, by staying all present and future coercive measures initiated against him by the Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank and the Indian Overseas Bank on the basis of a forensic audit report prepared by BDO India LLP…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed its strong displeasure over the Union government’s failure to effectively address the recurring air pollution crisis in the national capital, indicating that at the very least, fiscal relief should be extended to citizens compelled to rely on air purifiers for basic respiratory safety. The Division Bench of Chief…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday rejected a petition seeking a stay on the scheduled release of the web series UP 77, which claimed that the programme allegedly drew from the life of slain gangster Vikas Dubey, who was killed in a police encounter in Uttar Pradesh in July 2020. The single-judge Bench of Justice…
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,…