The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that courts must follow a strict “zero-tolerance” policy against the use, citation or reliance on AI-generated judicial precedents unless their authenticity has been thoroughly verified. A Bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe made the observation while setting aside orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal…
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that courts must follow a strict “zero-tolerance” policy against the use, citation or reliance on AI-generated judicial precedents unless their authenticity has been thoroughly verified. A Bench comprising Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe made the observation while setting aside orders passed by the National Company Law Tribunal…
The Delhi High Court has emphasised that matrimonial litigation should not descend into a battle of “mutual humiliation” through the use of private photographs or intimate material exchanged between estranged spouses. Justice Sachin Datta made the observation while hearing a petition filed by a woman who alleged that her husband and his legal representatives had…
The Delhi High Court has referred the defamation dispute between journalist Anjana Om Kashyap, TV Today Network and educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as Khan Sir, along with several other defendants, to mediation after observing that the parties appeared willing to explore an amicable settlement. A Single Bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela directed the…
In a significant ruling, the Delhi High Court has held that private media organisations can be subjected to writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution if they perform public functions and are accused of violating fundamental rights. The Court observed that although a media house may be privately owned, its role in informing the…
The Supreme Court has clarified that the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RPA), cannot be applied to elections held for municipal bodies, as the law is specifically meant to govern elections to Parliament and State Legislatures. The ruling came in a case involving a woman candidate who contested the 2015 municipal…
The Tamil Nadu government has moved the Supreme Court challenging a Madras High Court order that imposed a statewide blanket ban on the slaughter of cows and calves. The Division Bench of Justice GR Swaminathan and Justice V Lakshminarayanan passed the order on May 27 on a Public Interest Litigation filed by K Surya Prasanth,…
The Madras High Court has held that an American woman who embraced Hinduism cannot be denied temple entry or any associated rights of a Hindu devotee merely on the basis of her foreign nationality or non-Hindu name, emphasising that religious identity under Hindu law is determined by faith, belief and conduct rather than birth, citizenship…
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to vacate the interim injunction granted in favour of Saregama India Limited in its ongoing dispute with veteran music composer Ilaiyaraaja over copyright in sound recordings and the underlying literary and musical works forming part of 134 cinematograph films. The single-judge Bench of Justice Tushar Rao Gedela declined…
In a landmark constitutional ruling, the US Supreme Court has held that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born on US soil, irrespective of whether their parents are unlawfully present in the country or hold only temporary immigration status. By a 5-4 majority, the Court struck down President Donald…