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Why West UP Leave Alone High Court Has Not Even A Single High Court Bench?
High Court Benches in different States hinging on the population, size and pendency of casesHits: 12513 -
Bail In Marital Disputes Can’t Be Conditional On Payment Of Maintenance: SC
Srikant Kumar @ Shrikant Kumar vs Bihar that: When application for bail is filed, the Court is required to impose such bail conditions which would ensure that the appellant does not flee from...Hits: 13311 -
SC Calls For Separate Toilets For Men, Women, PwD, Transgender Persons In All Courts
Rajeeb Kalita vs UoI has passed a slew of most commendable directions to all the High Courts, States and Union Territories to construct proper toilets with proper facilities in all court premises...Hits: 16605 -
In my entire life till now, I had never expected that after reading in news in mobile phone about the death of one of the most eminent legal luminary that India has ever produced – Mr Iqbal M ChaglaHits: 13357
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Vaibhavi Rajendra Chalke vs Rajendra Ganpat Chalke that a wife filing a false complaint against her husband just for correcting his behaviour would not find place in harmonious relations a married...Hits: 15534
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Amit vs Maharashtra that a solitary instance of following a girl would not be sufficient to make out the offence of stalking.Hits: 16639
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J&K&L HC Very Rightly Quashes Preventive Detention Of Advocate Mian Muzaffar
Mian Muzaffar V/s UT of Jammu and Kashmir quashed the preventive detention of Advocate Mian Muzaffar who was detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978Hits: 16655 -
Mere Registration Of Will Won’t Make It Valid Unless Its Execution Proved As Per Evidence Act: SC
Leela vs Muruganantham that mere registration of a will would not make it valid unless the same is not proved as per the requirements of Section 63 of the Indian Succession Act and Section 68 of...Hits: 13369 -
Delhi HC Orders Immediate Construction And Repair Work Of Washrooms In District Courts
Smita Kumari Rajgarhia vs Govt of NCT of Delhi directed the immediate construction and repair work of washrooms in the district courts.Hits: 17745 -
Father’s Right To Visit Child Cannot Be At Cost Of Child’s Health And Well-Being: SC
Sugirtha vs Gowtham that in child custody cases, a father’s right to visit his child cannot be enforced at the cost of the child’s health and well-being.Hits: 12448 -
Interpretations by the Supreme Court in Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996
I am a first-year law student at Law Centre - II, University of DelhiHits: 81 -
Supreme Court Strongly Raps Punjab State Government
Bhagwant Singh Mann-led Punjab State Government of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for not complying with its order to shift to a hospital protestingHits: 14400 -
R.Varalakshmi vs The Government of Tamil Nadu taken very serious note of the deplorable language that has been used in the FIR with the tone of victim blamingHits: 16720
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Ex-Wives Can’t Demand Lifestyle Matching Husband’s Growth: SC
Rinku Baheti vs Sandesh Sharda that ex-wives can’t demand lifestyle matching husband’s growth. We thus see that on the vexed issue of permanent alimony in cases of matrimonial disputesHits: 13369 -
Cuttack vs Odisha firmly ordered the State Government of Odisha and the State police authorities to install CCTV cameras in all police stations as well as police outposts across the State by the...Hits: 15537
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It is definitely most shocking to see that inspite of so many big scams being unearthed one after the other so quickly in last few decades involving thousands of crores of rupeesHits: 12518
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Umesh Chandra Prakash vs Rajasthan has taken a very grim view of tendency of some litigants to file repeated identical petitionsHits: 13432
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Physical Relations Does Not Imply Sexual Assault: Delhi HC
Sahjan Ali Through Parokar Banu Khatun vs State Through SHO PS Madhu Vihar has acquitted a man serving life imprisonment on charges of rape and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl under the...Hits: 16676 -
Creating HC Bench In West UP Will Be Topmost Priority: Hon’ble Mr Narendra Sharma
Within 15 days of swearing in, we will call meeting of Central High Court Bench Establishment Action Committee and by consensus chalk out strategyHits: 16787 -
Rahul Mavai vs UOI We also disapprove the unwholesome practice of seeking to explain away inordinate delay and laches on approaching the Court on the mere ground that the Counsel who had been...Hits: 12829
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Shyamchand Mondal vs West Bengal the Trial Court to proceed expeditiously in a POCSO case and observed that bail is a rule and jail is an exception.Hits: 13446
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Judiciary Must Prioritize Maintenance Cases Of Destitute Women: Allahabad HC
XXX vs UP that the judicial system must prioritize the expeditious disposal of maintenance cases concerning destitute women who are left without support from their parents, in-laws or husbands.Hits: 17796 -
Best Legal Tribute Never Given To Chaudhary Charan Singh By Centre
We all know fully very well that Chaudhary Charan Singh was not a self seeking person whose soul will rejoice or dance in joy with Centre conferring Bharat RatnaHits: 17728 -
Here Is Definitely A Dire Need For Legal Right To Disconnect In India
Let me begin with a disclaimer: I am not the original thinker behind this most innovative and most laudable idea of introducing the dire need for legal right to disconnect in India.Hits: 17788 -
Ensure Trials Aren’t Delayed Due To Non-Production Of Accused: SC
Siddhant @ Sidharth Balu Taktode vs Maharashtra granted bail under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA) citing prolonged incarceration and delay in trial due to the failureHits: 12749 -
Rinku Baheti vs Sandesh Sharda has expressed its serious concerns about the misuse of domestic violence and dowry laws by disgruntled wives and cautioned women most unequivocally not to abuse the...Hits: 13628
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Compromise Not a Basis to Quash FIR in Serious POCSO Act Offence: Kerala High Court
Akhil Mohanan vs Kerala that serious offences under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) cannot be quashed on the basis of a compromise.Hits: 15634 -
Illegal Constructions Can’t Be Regularised Irrespective Of Long Occupancy And Investments: SC
Rajendra Kumar Barjatya vs U.P. Avas Evam Vikas Parishad that illegal structures, irrespective of their investment or age cannot be regularized.Hits: 15827 -
SC: High Courts Cannot Direct Trial Courts To Write Bail Orders In A Specific Manner
Ayub Khan vs Rajasthan that Constitutional Courts (High Courts and Supreme Court) do not have the authority to direct Trial Courts to adopt a specific format or manner for writing orders in bail...Hits: 14505 -
Pride And Dignity Is Not Only To Woman But To Men Also: Kerala HC
Balachandra Menon vs Kerala that had been filed by a well-known Malayalam director, actor and script writer Balachandra Menon in a 2007 sexual assault caseHits: 14409 -
Neema Sanjay Rangari vs Maharashtra that there is no justification for slapping an MP belonging to a Scheduled Caste in public view and uttering derogatory words.Hits: 14505
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Government Sanction Not Needed To Prosecute Cops Who File False Cases: SC
Om Prakash Yadav v. Niranjan Kumar Upadhyay that a police official who lodges a false case against an individual cannot claim immunity from prosecution under the guise of official duty.Hits: 17781 -
Jharkhand HC Stays Law Mandating 75% Reservation For Locals In Private Jobs
Jharkhand Small Industries Association vs Jharkhand the implementation of a State law reserving 75% of private jobs for local candidates. It must be laid bare that the Jharkhand State Employment of...Hits: 14491 -
Suspecting Citizen After Honourable Acquittal Militates Rule Of Law: Allahabad HC
Pradeep Kumar vs UP has very rightly directed the State Government to issue an appointment order for the petitioner who was honourably acquitted of being an alleged spy for an enemy nation as an...Hits: 16732 -
Pabitra Adak vs West Bengal that: The allegation in both the cases arise out of the matrimonial dispute between the parties.Hits: 12834
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Section 498A IPC, news is pouring in all newspapers and so also in news channels and in media that Atul Subhash who was a 34-year-old techie and automobile company seniorHits: 11773
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SC Issues Guidelines On Death Penalty Executions And Mercy Petitions To Avoid Delay In Process
Maharashtra vs Pradeep Yashwant that after an order of rejection of mercy petitions by the President or Governor is communicated to a death row convict, the sword of Damocles cannot be kept hanging...Hits: 17889 -
Arrest Must Be Rational, Fair And Based On Admissible Evidence: MP HC
Asif Hanif Thara vs Enforcement Directorate that: The arrest should be rational, fair and as per law and shall not be merely based upon guilt of accused established from inadmissible evidence....Hits: 9971 -
Sher Singh vs Punjab refused to grant bail to a man who is accused of illicit trafficking of 50 grams of heroin underscoring that where 50 grams of heroin have been seized from the petitionerHits: 12687
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Cow Smuggling Hurts Religious Sentiments, Threatens Public Order: J&K HC
Shakeel Mohd vs UT of Jammu and Kashmir that the act of smuggling bovine animals such as cows and calves can hurt religious sentiments and is, therefore, a threat to public order.Hits: 14026 -
Khimjibhai Harjivanbhai Patadia vs MCGM the exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction has not only dismissed the petition but in addition has also imposed a cost of Rs 5 lakhs observing...Hits: 17837
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Bail Cannot Be Denied When Evidence Lacks Cogency: Allahabad High Court in Dowry Death Case
Rupesh Kushwaha has granted bail to Rupesh Kushwaha in a dowry death case.Hits: 16739 -
Juvenile Offenders Should Be Brought Back Into Mainstream of Society: Madras HC
X vs The State of Tamil Nadu We need to note that the Madurai Bench was most forthcoming and forthright in suggesting the expansion of reformative initiatives to be undertaken all across Tamil Nadu...Hits: 18930 -
Delivering Child In Jail Affects Mother And Child: Bombay HC
While displaying compassion, humanity, magnanimity and so also taking into account a very holistic view of the deleterious impact of a pregnant woman delivering child in jailHits: 9921 -
Police Cannot Claim Exemption Saying Assault Of Accused Is Part Of Official Duty: Kerala HC
Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab nor with rapists or gang rapists or dacoits or murderers which is definitely a matter of profound concern was witnessed by all as news channels flashedHits: 16731 -
Karnataka HC Sets Aside Rs 2.9 Crore Fine Imposed By NGT On Indian Army
UoI v/s Karnataka has set aside the order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) which in May 2022 had imposed a penalty of Rs 2.94 crore ex parte on Bengaluru-based Madras Engineers Group &...Hits: 15545 -
Chandini Singh v/s UP To underscore the cruelty of making a heavily pregnant woman sit at a police station for hours without justification, particularly when no male member was present at her...Hits: 12945
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Whatsapp Message Expressing Opinion On Caste Reservation No Offence Under SC/ST Act: Bombay HC
VW vs Maharashtra upheld the closure of a case against a woman who had been booked under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (SC/ST Act)Hits: 15847 -
Right to Legal Aid is Fundamental; SC on Fair Trials, Public Prosecutors, and Legal Aid Lawyers
Ashok vs Uttar Pradesh that right to get legal aid is the fundamental right of the accused. It is also made clear that the legal aid must be effective.Hits: 13450 -
Soldier's Widow Should Not Have Been Dragged To Court: SC
Union of India vs Saroj Devi The exercise of its civil appellate jurisdiction has while striking the right chord taken the right step to dismiss the appeal of the Union of India against the order...Hits: 16619
