The Madras High Court has accorded legal personhood to the Thamirabarani River, recognising it as a legal entity entitled to protection, preservation and restoration. In a significant environmental order, the Court has also prohibited the immersion of idols and other materials, as well as dumping of waste into the river, with an exception for the…
The Supreme Court’s memory is not confined to its judgments alone but also to the lives that shaped its conscience, said Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant on Thursday while unveiling the portrait of former law minister and late Senior Advocate Ashoke Kumar Sen. At the event organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association…
A Delhi court stayed the execution of a non-bailable warrant issued against Students’ Federation of India (SFI) leader Aishe Ghosh in connection with a 2021 protest case registered over a demonstration outside Bangla Bhavan. Judicial Magistrate First Class-05 of the Patiala House Courts passed the order after Ghosh’s counsel submitted that she could not appear…
The Delhi High Court will hear on August 5 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking the formulation of a nationwide statutory framework to regulate and restrict social media access for children below the age of 13, following the recusal of Justice Tejas Karia from the case. The petition was listed before the Division Bench of…
A Delhi court has granted bail to two suspended Lucknow University law students arrested for allegedly disrupting proceedings inside the Supreme Court, observing that while their conduct was condemnable, continued pre-trial detention was unwarranted after completion of the investigation. Judicial Magistrate Ravi of Patiala House Courts granted bail to Prabal Pratap Singh and Chander Bhan…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the removal of online content found to be violating the personality rights of former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh, while declining to pass a blanket order for the takedown of future content at this stage. The single-judge Bench of Justice Jyoti Singh ordered the removal of the URLs specifically…
The Supreme Court has granted bail to two accused booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, after taking note of their prolonged incarceration for nearly 12 years and the slow progress of the trial. The Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta observed that continued detention, in circumstances where the trial was…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the Central Government has the legislative competence to introduce a mechanism for granting post-facto environmental clearances (ECs), but such a framework can only be created through a valid statutory notification issued under Section 3 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and not through an executive or administrative office…
The Supreme Court refused to interfere with its earlier order permitting the nationwide release of the animated film Mahaprabhu Jagannath, dismissing applications moved by the Odisha government and the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration seeking reconsideration of the decision. A Bench comprising Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice R Mahadevan reiterated that it would not curtail artistic…
The Bombay High Court has quashed externment orders issued by the Mumbai Police against two office-bearers of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), holding that the action failed to satisfy the statutory requirements under the Maharashtra Police Act and amounted to an unjustified restriction on the petitioners’ fundamental rights. The single-judge Bench of Justice…