The Gujarat High Court has disposed of a petition filed by 169 occupants of Bapunagar Shamshan, Jangleshwar, Ekta Colony, and Shala No. 70 in Rajkot. The petitioners, mostly poor and illiterate, challenged notices issued under Section 260(1) of the Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, for alleged illegal constructions. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Sunita…
Since the Code of Criminal Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Act 2018 bars the grant of anticipatory bail in cases where the offence is punishable by a death sentence, the Allahabad High Court has said courts cannot entertain pre-arrest bail pleas concerning such cases. The Division Bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Narendra Kumar Johari…
The Patna High Court has dismissed a petition filed seeking to quash an e-tender notice and issue a fresh tender. The petitioner’s counsel sought withdrawal, citing a supplementary affidavit. However, the respondents’ senior counsel objected, highlighting the petitioner’s failure to disclose a similar, previously dismissed petition of 2024. The bench of Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran…
The Kerala High Court has quashed a criminal case against filmmaker Sreekumar Menon on the grounds that mere utterances of unpleasant or abusive words without an intention to insult the modesty of a woman did not constitute an offence under Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The single-judge Bench of Justice S Manu…
The Bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandracuhd, Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra further set aside the Allahabad High Court order, which had struck it down earlier. The top court of the country further held that the Madarsa Act, to the extent it regulated higher education in relation to ‘fazil’ and ‘kamil’ degrees, was…
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that all private properties could not form part of the ‘material resources of the community,’ which a State was obliged to equitably redistribute as per the Directive Principles of State Policy under Article 39(b) of the Constitution. The nine-judge Constitution Bench, led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud,…
The Delhi High Court slammed Wikipedia for claiming itself to be an encyclopedia and standing in the way of the Asian News International (ANI)’s demand for takedown of the defamatory edits made to Wiki page about ANI. A single bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad further observed that Wikipedia might not be entitled to defend the…
The Supreme Court directed the Delhi government and the Police Commissioner of Delhi to file affidavits stating steps taken to enforce ban on firecrackers in the national capital as well as proposed steps to ensure compliance with ban next year. The court observed that there cannot be any dispute that the ban was hardly implemented….
The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to Chhakkan Lal Patel, who is the accused in a case where one person died and four others were injured in a fight. A Single Bench of Justice Nalin Kumar Srivastava passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Chhakkan Lal Patel. This…
The Kerala High Court closed proceedings in a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which sought the appointment of an administrator to oversee the affairs of the Cheruvally Estate, currently in possession of Gospel for Asia, represented by K.P. Yohannan. The PIL was filed due to a staff strike at the estate in 2017. However, the petitioners’…