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Introduction: The Bombay High Court has delivered an important ruling on the scope of remedies available under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, holding that an Internal Complaints Committee’s decision to reject a complaint at the threshold without conducting an inquiry can still amount to a “recommendation” under […]
Introduction: The Jharkhand High Court has held that the benefit of continuation in office granted by the Supreme Court to certain Presidents and Members of Consumer Commissions cannot be restricted through an artificial cut-off date based merely on the date on which the Supreme Court delivered its judgment. In Umesh Singh v. Union of India […]
Introduction: The Orissa High Court has clarified that the regulatory framework under the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act and the Rules framed thereunder cannot be interpreted to impose an unwarranted restriction on a qualified Radiologist merely because he seeks to conduct ultrasonography at medical establishments situated in two different districts. […]
Introduction: The Jharkhand High Court has reaffirmed the importance of the principles of natural justice in matters involving public employment, observing prima facie that regular appointments cannot be disturbed or terminated without following due process of law. In Saurav Singh & Ors. v. State of Jharkhand through the Chief Secretary, Government of Jharkhand & Ors., […]
Introduction: The Rajasthan High Court has reaffirmed that a minor child’s constitutional right to travel abroad cannot be defeated merely because one parent refuses, or is unavailable, to provide consent for the issuance of a passport. In Riddham Deora v. Union of India, S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 17014/2026, Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand directed the […]
Introduction: The Jharkhand High Court has reiterated an important principle of service jurisprudence: even where serious allegations of corruption surround a recruitment process, regularly appointed employees cannot ordinarily be removed or have their appointments cancelled without adherence to the principles of natural justice and due process. In an interim order passed in Saurav Singh & […]
Introduction: The Supreme Court has significantly recalibrated the framework governing entry into the lower judiciary, retaining the principle that candidates should ordinarily possess prior exposure to the legal profession while substantially reducing the earlier requirement of three years of practice. In Bhumika Trust v. Union of India and connected cases, W.P.(C) No. 001110/2025 and connected […]
Introduction: The Gujarat High Court has reaffirmed an important principle governing insurance disputes: an insurer cannot escape liability for a covered loss merely by advancing a technical interpretation of a proposal form or policy condition without producing evidence to support its defence. In The Oriental Insurance Company Limited v. Pooja Paper Tube Industries, R/First Appeal […]
Introduction: The Kerala High Court has clarified the jurisdictional consequences that follow once a civil court is designated as a Commercial Court under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. The Court held that where the State Government has issued a notification constituting a particular court as a Commercial Court for disputes involving a specified value, an […]
Introduction: The Telangana High Court has delivered an important ruling on local candidature for admission to medical and dental courses, holding that children of Central Government employees, Central Government Corporations and Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) who are compelled to pursue their education outside Telangana because of their parent’s official posting cannot be treated differently […]
Introduction: The Allahabad High Court has reiterated an important principle governing constructive criminal liability under Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, holding that mere participation in a common occurrence is not sufficient to fasten liability upon every participant for every offence committed during that occurrence. The Court emphasised that, for Section 34 IPC […]
Introduction: The Bombay High Court has refused to interfere with the cancellation of a student’s provisional admission to a B.Tech course after finding that the scorecard submitted by him to the university materially differed from the authentic scorecard available with the Maharashtra Health and Technical Common Entrance Test (MHT-CET) Cell. The Division Bench comprising Justice […]
Introduction: The Kerala High Court, in Ahamed Junaid P.S. v. Union of India and Anr., 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 460, has upheld the requirement that a second girl child must receive the prescribed vaccinations within the stipulated period for the lactating mother to claim the monetary benefit of ₹6,000 under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana […]
Introduction: The Supreme Court of India, in Patel Joshnaben Pravinkumar Patel & Ors. v. State of Gujarat & Anr., reported as 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 835, has reaffirmed that the mere initiation of criminal or other legal proceedings against a person cannot, by itself, constitute abetment of suicide merely because the person subsequently takes his own […]
Introduction: The Allahabad High Court has held that prolonged service in an aided educational institution does not, by itself, create an enforceable right to receive salary from public funds when the underlying appointment has not been established as legally valid. In Ved Pati Tripathi and 2 Ors. v. State of U.P. through Secretary, Secondary Education […]
Introduction: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed two writ petitions challenging the promotion process conducted by Coal India Limited (CIL), holding that the decision to award marks uniformly to all candidates for questions subsequently found to be erroneous or outside the prescribed syllabus did not amount to an impermissible alteration of the selection criteria after […]
“While the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.” – Andrew Carneige The tussle between Epic games and Google started way back in the U.S., wherein the biggest gaming giant on August 2020, approached the […]
The Supreme Court today issued a notice on the petition filed by the top woman wrestlers of India seeking registration of FIR against a BJP MP as well as the wrestling federation of India’s president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for alleged sexual harassment. Advocate Kapil Sibal appearing for the petitioners stated that the woman wrestlers […]
“The sovereignty of scriptures of all religion must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.”– Dr. B.R Ambedkar In the case of Farhan Tasaddukhussain Barodawala v. Onali Ezazuddin Dholkawal, Allahabad High Court imposed cost of rupees 25,000 on petitioners who were objecting on the fact that how a […]
Reported By: Ankita Bhardwaj The case of KUSH KALRA v. UOI & ANR has brought forward the interesting notion of barring the entry of married men and women in Judge Advocate General (JAG) claiming it in the benefit of public interest and national security. A PIL is filed against the policy by Kush Kalra seeking the […]
“We direct all High Courts to establish online RTI portals within 3 months from today. High Courts can formulate adequate provisions to facilitate the supply of adequate information. Information is to be passed onto the secretary generals of High Courts for administrative directions from the Chief Justices (of High Courts). The same directions are to […]
Introduction: The Calcutta High Court recently upheld an industrial tribunal’s ruling that an accountant, Dulal Chatterjee, was a ‘workman’ under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, dismissing a writ petition filed by Swarnakshar Prakasani Pvt. Ltd. The case arose when Chatterjee was terminated from employment in July 2013, leading to a legal dispute over whether his […]
The Madras High Court in the case of G Sundararajan v The Secretary held that the exemption from payment of entertainment tax is just a concession by the government and cannot be claimed as a right. The court thus refused relief to the producer and distributor of the 2015 Tamil film, “I” which was claimed […]
The Karnataka Appellate Authority of Advance Ruling (AAAR), in the case of Myntra Designs Private Limited modified the decision of AAR, has observed, “input tax credit (ITC) is not available on the vouchers and subscription packages procured by Myntra from third-party vendors.” They relied on the judgement of the Karnataka High Court in the case […]
