The President of India appointed six Additional Judges of the Bombay High Court as Permanent Judges, exercising powers under Article 217(1) of the Constitution. This step follows the recommendation made by the Supreme Court Collegium on 25 August 2025, under the leadership of Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, after assessing the performance and suitability…
A Delhi court has reserved its order on a criminal complaint seeking action against Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, alleging that her name was included in the voters’ list in the national capital even before she formally acquired Indian citizenship. The matter came up before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaibhav Chaurasia at the Rouse…
Families of six victims of the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast have approached the Bombay High Court, challenging the recent acquittal of seven accused, including BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit. The appeal comes in response to the verdict delivered on July 31, 2025, by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court,…
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University student leader Umar Khalid has once again knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court of India, filing a Special Leave Petition to challenge the Delhi High Court’s September 2, 2025 order refusing him bail in the “larger conspiracy” case tied to the 2020 North East Delhi riots. His move follows…
The Delhi High Court on 10 September 2025 raised serious concerns over a notification issued by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi that permitted police officers to testify from police stations through videoconferencing. A bench led by Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela remarked that the move prima facie compromises the concept of…
Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan has moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights against the unauthorised use of his name, image, voice, and likeness by third parties. The plea highlights that several online platforms, including websites, YouTube channels, and e-commerce sites, have been misusing his identity for commercial gain through merchandise sales,…
The Delhi High Court has become the new battleground for a high-profile inheritance dispute after the sudden passing of industrialist Sunjay Kapur.On September 9, 2025, two of Kapur’s children from his marriage with Bollywood actor Karisma Kapoor Samaira and Kiaan filed a petition asserting their rights as Class I legal heirs to contest the division…
The Supreme Court of India was informed this week that the Chhattisgarh Police has filed a closure report in the case against yoga guru and Patanjali Ayurved founder Swami Ram Dev, who had faced criminal proceedings for his controversial comments on allopathic medicine during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The update was conveyed to…
The Delhi High Court on 9 September 2025, seeking immediate judicial intervention against unauthorized exploitation of her image, persona, and likeness including AI-generated and manipulated content. The court, responding to her plea, verbally intimated that an ad-interim injunction would likely be issued to restrain the offending entities from further misuse. Senior Advocate Sandeep Sethi, representing…
The Supreme Court of India has taken upon itself the task of deciding the constitutional validity of the newly enacted Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, after ordering the transfer of all related cases from three different High Courts to its own docket. The move came on 8 September 2025, when a bench…