The Bombay High Court at Goa disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed alleging that trees have been cut without any permissions under the Goa Preservation of Trees Act, 1984. The Advocate General clarified before the High Court that no trees have been cut without any permissions under the Goa Preservation of Trees Act, []

While hearing the bail application, the Allahabad High Court has granted interim bail to the accused under POCSO Act to marry the victim. A Single Bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Dhiraj. Counsel for applicant has stated that the applicant is in jail []

The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Central government on a public interest litigation seeking omnibus measures for the welfare of farmers, including formulation of a national farmer policy and a price stabilisation fund. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice KV Viswanathan passed the order on Friday on a petition filed through []

The Delhi High Court has sought the response of both the Union of India and the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) over a petition seeking appropriate government residential accommodations for district court judges of the national capital. The Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora on []

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) took Suo Motu cognizance of the matter relating to an explosion at a firecracker factory in Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh claiming lives of seven persons and leading to injury of several others. The Petition is registered suo-moto on the basis of the news item appearing in the daily newspaper dated 26.02.2024. []

The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to the son accused of murdering his father. A Single Bench of Justice Gautam Chowdhary passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Kallu. It has been averred in the F.I.R that on 30.10.2023 at about 05:00 a.m the informant was telephonically informed []

The Bombay High Court held that PSBs dont have the power to request issuance of Look Out Circulars against defaulting borrowers as the fundamental right to personal liberty cannot be compromised

Student protests about the Palestine-Israel conflict may interrupt numerous college and university graduations that usually symbolize spring in America. The Gaza conflict has taken centrestage, with Columbia University in New York being the hub of protests. Fifty six years ago, also in a national election year, the focus of discontent was American involvement in the Vietnam War

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At one time, he was a phenomenon a yoga teacher-turned-entrepreneur who built a massive empire on his Patanjali Ayurvedic drugs and potions and was feted by the rich and powerful. Now, the legal cases and strictures are piling up faster than he created his spiritual business

HD Revanna, Karnataka MLA and Janata Dal (Secular) leader today withdrew his anticipatory bail plea in the sexual abuse case involving his son and Hassan Lok Sabha MP Prajwal Revanna. HD Revanna withdrew his plea after Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) BN Jagadeesha told the special court that the rape charge under Section 376 of Indian []

The Supreme Court today told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that it may consider the question of interim bail for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal due to elections. The court asked the ED counsel to come prepared on this aspect when it takes up the matter on Tuesday. A bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Dipankar []

The Allahabad High Court while allowing the petition said that to constitute an offence under Section 494 I.P.C, it is necessary that the second marriage should have been celebrated with proper ceremonies and in due form. The Saptapadi ceremony under the Hindu Law is one of the essential ingredients to constitute a valid marriage. A []

The Bombay High Court issued notice on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed challenging the legality of the amended rule wherein proviso is added after Sub-Rule (5) to Rule 4 of the Maharashtra Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Rules, 2011 wherein the rider is provided to the local authorities not to identify []

The Patna High Court dismissed a Petition filed seeking striking down of Rule-7(iii)(d) of Chapter-4 of the Senior Resident/Tutor and Bihar Medical Education Service Recruitment, Appointment and Promotion Rules, 2008. The objectionable rule prescribes the maximum age limit for appointment to the post of Assistant Professor to be 45 years for unreserved category, 50 years []

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions to bar namesake or duplicate candidates who deliberately contest elections as independent candidates in an effort to ruin the chances of other candidates. The plea sought directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to scrutinise the background of namesake candidates and []

The Jharkhand High Court on Friday dismissed former Chief Minister Hemant Sorens plea against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the land scam case. A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Navneet Kumar dismissed his plea 4 days after the Supreme Court, posting Sorens plea against ED Arrest in the []

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) took Suo Motu cognizance of the matter relating to the massive fire which has erupted at Bandhwari landfill in Gurugram. The Petition is registered suo-moto on the basis of the news item appearing in the daily newspaper dated 24.04.2024. The news item discloses that the combustion of methane gas []

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Professor Hany Babu, an accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case, to withdraw his bail petition on grounds of change in circumstances. The Counsel appearing for Babu apprised the Bench of Justice Bela M Trivedi and Justice Pankaj Mithal, which was slated to hear the matter today, that []

The Allahabad High Court has granted conditional bail to Sachin Sharma and Subham Gurjar, accused of attempting to murder on MP Asaduddin Owaisi by firing near Meerut Delhi Highway Toll Plaza. A Single Bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Sachin Sharma and Another. The []

The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on pleas lodged by former Deputy Chief Minister and AAP leader Manish Sisodia seeking bail in the money laundering and corruption cases related to the liquor policy case. A single judge bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma []

The Supreme Court today stayed a Punjab and Haryana High Court order for the opening of the road to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Manns house on experimental basis from May 1. Notably, the road in front of the Chief Ministers residence was blocked for security purposes during the Khalistani terrorism of the 1980s. Staying the []

The Supreme Court recently dismissed the Special Leave Petition (SLP) lodged by the State of Kerala against a 2019 judgment of the Kerala High Court which ordered the state to grant Rs 1 lakh compensation to a man who was illegally detained by the police on suspicion of being a Maoist. A bench of Justice []

A special court in Uttar Pradesh postponed hearing in a 2018 defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged objectionable remark targeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah to May 14 as no judge was assigned to the MP-MLA court. Rahul Gandhis counsel Kashi Prasad Shukla said that the hearing was scheduled for Thursday []

The Kerala High Court has recently laid down detailed guidelines on the very limited scope of cases where DNA test of children born to rape can be carried out. This is to protect the child in the future, said the Court

Last year, the tech industry lost 2,60,000 jobsmore than in the dotcom meltdown two decades ago. There is little evidence that this will let up in 2024. The technology field is shifting in a direction that is not a good trend for Indian technology workers in the USA on H-1B visas

The Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal government to cooperate with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Sandeshkhali violence case. The CBI is investigating the allegations of mass sexual assault of women and grabbing of tribal lands in Sandeshkhali by Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh and his men. A Bench []

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Supreme Court Bar Association to reserve at least one-third of posts in the executive committee elections of SCBA for female advocates. The Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice KV Viswanathan ordered the SCBA to include six women lawyers in its executive committee this year, including three as []

In the Chitrakoot jail case, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail plea of MLA Abbas Ansari, son of mafia Mukhtar Ansari. A Single Bench of Justice Jaspreet Singh passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Abbas Ansari. The applicant before the Court is a []

The Gujarat High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking for a direction to the Respondent to take action against the private Respondent for misappropriateion of MGNREGA funds alloted to Deroli Group Gram Panchayat in the year 2017 to 2022 and registered First Information Report against the private Respondent at the police station []

The Delhi High Court today refused to pass any directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to stop the circulation of deepfake videos amid the Lok Sabha elections. A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora said that the Court cannot pass such directions during the elections and []

The Delhi High Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking directions to the Centre to form a legal education commission to ascertain the feasibility of having a four-year LL.B course. A Division Bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora stated that the issue does not fall within the Courts []

The Delhi High Court will hear on Friday, a bail petition filed by senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia, who was arrested last year in connection with irregularities in the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy 2020-21. The petitioner sought bail in the two cases registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the []

The Supreme Court has set aside a judgment of the High Court that permitted a complainant in a cheque dishonour case to amend the date of the cheque mentioned in the complaint. The top court mentioned that the amendment application was moved after the evidence stage was over. It underlined that the date of the []

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Gujarat government, state Animal Welfare Board, and the Director of Animal Husbandry on a public interest litigation alleging non-implementation of the ban on the manufacture, sale, and use of glue traps. Glue traps are boards coated with adhesives. It is used to trap rodents such []

The Madras High Court disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed challenging Entry 39 of Table 3 of the Passport Rules, 1980 and Entry 7 under Section E of Table 2 of the Passport Rules, 1980 with regard to the production of documents. B.Poongkhulali , the counsel for the petitioner submits that the main []

The Supreme Court nine judge Constitution Bench reserved its judgement on Wednesday on a vexed legal question that whether private properties can be considered material resources of the community under the Article 39 of the Constitution and consequently, taken over by state authorities to subserve the common good. A bench of Chief Justice of India []

The Allahabad High Court has taken strict action against the advocates who beat up the litigants in the courtroom and has restrained them from practising in any court of UP. The Division Bench of Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Mohammad Azhar Husain Idrisi passed this order while acting on a reference sent by the []

The Supreme Court Registrar recently refused to receive the application filed by the Centre seeking clarification of the 2012 judgment in the 2G Spectrum case. The central government sought a clarification that the verdict does not bar the allocation of spectrum through means other than public auction in certain situations. Mentioning that the application was []

The Rajasthan High Court closed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed seeking directions to the State Government to implement and take steps related to computerization of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) and various Societies at other level. In the reply filed by the Cooperative Department following statements have been made with regard to the status []

The Delhi High Court today issued notice on a petition against the irregularities between the figures reported by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and the data provided by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the seizure of heroin during the years 2018 and 2020. A single judge bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad issued []

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) took Suo Motu cognizance of the matter of collapse of a NMDC mine in Kirandul, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh has resulted in death of four labourers. The Petition is registered suo-moto on the basis of the news item appearing in the daily newspaper dated 28.02.2024. The names of the victims have also []

The Supreme Court has termed a Hindu marriage as a samskara or sacrament, which cannot be recognised under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 unless performed with ceremonies in the proper form. The order was passed recently by the Bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Augustine George Masih. The Apex Court urged young men and []

The Allahabad High Court while allowing the petition said that unless cogent material and evidence exist, such suspicion may never result in penal or harsh consequences such as cancellation of another license. The Division Bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Sandeep Singh. []

A plea has been lodged in the Supreme Court seeking directions to study the possible side effects of Astrazenecas Covishield vaccine, one of two vaccines that was administered in India against COVID-19. The petition was lodged after Astrazeneca admitted before a court in the United Kingdom that Covishield has the potential to cause a rare []

The Delhi High Court today rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to formulate a mechanism to ascertain that arrested political leaders and candidates can campaign in elections through video conference. A division bench comprising Acting Chief Justice (ACJ) Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora stopped []

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the procedure of including the words Socialist, Secular and Integrity in the Preamble through the 42nd Amendment of the Constitution in 1976 is manifestly arbitrary and against the due process of law. The plea lodged through Advocate Ashwani Kumar []

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday listed for hearing on Thursday, a Public Interest Litigation petition seeking directions to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to stop the circulation of deepfake videos in view of the upcoming General Elections 2024. The petition was mentioned by Senior Advocate Jayant Mehta before the Bench of Acting Chief []

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by editor-in-chief of online news portal NewsClick, Prabir Purkayastha, challenging his arrest and remand by the Delhi Police in connection with a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The Bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice Sandeep Mehta, while reserving the judgement, []