A Supreme Court Division Bench, in appeals stemming from judgments of Telangana, Gujarat, and Bombay High Court, rendered crucial judgments on the validity of VAT Amendment Acts in these states. They also addressed key issues related to Section 19 of...
A judicial officer stationed at one of the special courts established under the National Investigation Agency Act (NIA Act) in Assam has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, requesting the removal of specific comments made against him in a judgme...
The faith of the public in the judiciary is declining, and the solution to restore this faith, according to former Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, is to appoint judges of high quality to the bench. Justice Ahmed highli...
The Calcutta High Court recently denied the State's request to register an FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari for his alleged altercation with a police officer in August. The State had sought permission to register the FIR after Adhikari had...
The interim anticipatory bail previously granted to Srinivas BV, the president of the Indian Youth Congress, in a case filed against him for allegedly outraging the modesty of a fellow Congress worker, has been made absolute by the Supreme Court on F...
The recent observation by the Kerala High Court highlights the limitations of Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in relation to women in live-in relationships. Justice Sophy Thomas emphasized that in order for a woman to seek protection unde...
The Delhi High Court has issued an order to music composer AR Rahman, instructing him to provide the raw recording of the song 'Veera Raja Veera' from Ponniyin Selvan Part-2. This comes after Indian classical singer Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar fi...
The petition filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and his subsequent remand in the money laundering case related to the Delhi Excise Policy scam case was rejected ...
Aditya Thackeray has approached the Bombay High Court, seeking its intervention in a public interest litigation (PIL) that calls for his arrest in connection with the deaths of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his former manager Disha Sa...
The plea filed by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader DK Shivakumar to dismiss the first information report (FIR) registered against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with a disproportionate assets case ha...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of India took action in response to the petitions filed by Prabir Purkayastha, the founder of NewsClick, and Amit Chakraborty, the human resources head of the news website. \ The petitions were filed against their po...
The district judge managed to break free and escape with his family, but not before the attacker had caused significant damage to their car. The judge has alleged that the incident was a premeditated attempt on his life, and has demanded a thoroug...
In a recent lecture, retired Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman expressed the belief that all individuals responsible for war crimes should be held accountable in post-war trials, regardless of their affiliation with the victorious or vanqu...
The Madras High Court issued a directive on Tuesday to the Tamil Nadu government, urging them to review a request made by Seven Screen Studios, the producers of the film Leo starring Vijay. The request was to allow the screening of five shows of t...
The recent ruling by the Calcutta High Court states that the act of a teacher touching a student's shoulder to prevent her from cheating during exams does not constitute molestation and should not result in disciplinary action against the teacher...
Furthermore, Chief Justice Chandrachud highlighted the importance of recognizing the rights of marginalized communities, such as the LGBTQ+ community, and ensuring their equal protection under the law. He stated that the Constitution guarantees th...
On Tuesday, Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Mahua Moitra filed a defamation suit against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey, Advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai, and various media organizations before the Delhi High Court. The de...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has lodged a petition with the Bombay High Court on Tuesday, contesting an order issued by a Mumbai court that acknowledged a defamation complaint against him. The case was presented before Justice SV Kotwal, who adjou...
The Supreme Court reprimanded the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Friday for the delay in reaching a decision on the disqualification proceedings against rebel Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) from the former Shiv Sena party....
The Supreme Court, on Friday, dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition challenging the validity of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution and Albert Einstein's widely accepted mass-energy equivalence equation (E=MC²). The P...
A Delhi court has ordered the detention of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh for 14 days in judicial custody in connection with a money laundering case related to the Delhi excise policy. The decision was made by Special Judge MK Nagpal after Sin...
The Delhi High Court, on Friday, declared that the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India & Ors does not directly apply to arrests made under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). In the ...
The Supreme Court has granted an extension of three months to the temporary medical bail previously granted to Nawab Malik, the former Maharashtra minister and leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in connection with a money laundering case...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court deliberated whether the judgment in the Bangalore Water Supply case of 1978 should be reconsidered, despite its 45-year tenure. This matter was briefly discussed while addressing the State of UP v. Jai Bir Singh case...
On Thursday, the Delhi High Court commuted the death penalty that had been awarded by a trial court to Ariz Khan, the convict in the 2008 Batla House encounter case, in which Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma was murdered. A Division Bench...