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Forcing happily-married couple to face trial would be irony of fate: HC
"Compelling a lady in such matters to visit court premises for months and years for the purpose of getting her own husba...
Jharkhand High Court orders surprise checks of prison food
The court was also informed by the government that a committee has been prepared to run the canteen in the jail....
India Gate protest: Court sends four agitators to 2-day police custody
Judicial Magistrate Monga was hearing the case registered against the 17 accused, including 11 women, at the Sansad Marg...
Delhi HC protects Ajay Devgn's personality rights, orders takedown of objectionable contents
The right to publicity, popularly known as personality rights, is the right to protect, control and profit from one's im...
How long will police conduct inquiry into death of celebrity manager Disha Salian, asks Bombay HC
The bench posted the matter for further hearing on December 11 by when Deshmukh would have to clarify the police's stand...
Do not blame volcanic ash from Ethiopia for Mumbai's poor AQI: High Court
The bench, while referring to the situation in Delhi, which is witnessing alarming levels of AQI, asked what effective m...
Cal HC asks school service commission to publish OMR sheets of SLST 2025 candidates
The petitioners contended that a list has been published by the SSC containing the names of candidates who have an OMR m...
1984 anti-Sikh riots: Delhi HC grants time to govt to reply to convict's plea for furlough
The case dates back to November 1, 1984 when five Sikh individuals were killed and a gurdwara in Ghaziabad's Raj Nagar w...
Tribunal awards Rs 16 lakh compensation to motorcycle rider injured after being hit by car
The tribunal said, "As per the evidence on record, the offending car came towards the wrong side of the road by crossing...
2009 violence: HC quashes chargesheet against 28 advocates
Following a ruckus between advocates and police over hurling of rotten eggs on then Janata party leader Subramanian Swam...
India Gate protest: 6 accused sent to 3-day police custody as cops claim link with radical group
The FIR was registered against the protesters under relevant sections of BNS including 79 (word, gesture, or act intende...
Remove all 1,102 liquor outlets located within 500 m of national, state highways: HC directs Rajasthan govt
The court said these tragedies illustrate how the combination of alcohol misuse and negligent driving is endangering the...
Charges framed in Salman Khan residence firing case
Thereby, each of the accused allegedly committed an offence under IPC provisions for criminal conspiracy, attempt to mur...
NIA court rejects Anand Teltumbde's plea to visit Kochi litfest
"The present applicant/accused might be a scholar and academician in his field; however, the high court, with specific i...
Jharkhand HC orders govt to ensure cough syrups are not sold to those without prescriptions
The court also ordered the drug controller to conduct frequent raids and check the stocks of medicines of stores and pha...
No prosecutor for CBI's corruption case against Anil Deshmukh for over 6 months; court sees red
According to the CBI, Deshmukh, an NCP (SP) leader and then home minister, collected Rs 4.7 crore from various bars and ...
Chhattisgarh liquor scam: Ex-excise commissioner got Rs 50 lakh per month from syndicate, claims EOW
The ED had arrested Chaitanya Baghel, son of former CM Bhupesh Baghel, in July this year, and apprehended former ministe...
Indian Constitution not merely a legal document, but a living promise: SC judge
"We stand today in a new age, a new age of freedoms and equality, a new age of technology, unlike all other earlier mach...
Constitution Day: CJI Kant seeks national judicial policy to minimise unpredictable verdicts
According to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, it is the beauty of the Constitution that the three wings - the judiciary, ...
CJI Kant bats for uniform national judicial policy, says time ripe to reinforce predictability
The CJI said "the Indian Constitution has guided us" from the uncertain steps of a young nation finding its footing to t...
2018 Kathua rape-murder: Prime accused withdraws revision bail plea
Besides the two cases, she has handled numerous matters in various courts including the Supreme Court, high courts of Ja...
Defamation case against Rahul: Hearing in UP court deferred to Dec 8 due to lawyer's death
The court then directed the plaintiff to present evidence. Witnesses have been presented continuously since then. So far...
Unregulated online gaming apps have links to terror financing, money laundering: Centre to SC
The top court had in September transferred to itself all matters from the high courts across the country challenging the...
SC summons Delhi DoE secretary on plea seeking closure of schools due to pollution
During a brief hearing, the bench was informed that the schools were closed for longer periods in 2022, 2023 and 2024 ke...
Wankhede's plea against web series lacks Delhi jurisdiction: Red Chillies to HC
The plea submitted that the series disseminates a misleading and negative portrayal of anti-drug enforcement agencies, e...
Court rebukes CBI for decade-long delay in returning seized cash after closure of case
On the CBI's prayer that the cash should be deposited with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the court said "there is no ...
SC seeks HMT response on Kerala’s plea for taking possession of 27 acres for Judicial City
The high court had ruled that the land allotted to HMT could not be subjected to ceiling proceedings under the Kerala La...
Pathetic, you uprooted 40 fully-grown trees for access road to BJP office: SC to Haryana govt
The court had called the chief administrator of the HSVP and asked him to remain personally present before it with the e...
Actor Shilpa Shetty moves HC seeking protection of her `personality rights'
"The misuse of the actor's image and identity has reached a point where legal intervention became imperative," advocate ...
Plea that SIR of electoral rolls wasn't held earlier not ground to challenge: SC
The CJI responded that Assam is a unique case with foreigners tribunals established under special statutes, and that suc...
Man sentenced to 25 years in jail for raping minor in UP's Ballia
Superintendent of Police Omveer Singh said after hearing the arguments of both sides, Special Judge (POCSO) Pratham Kant...
HC grants interim injunction in favour of US-based Tesla, bars Indian firm from using trademark
The court also found that the Indian company appeared to be leveraging Tesla Inc’s reputation, particularly by adopting ...
DNA tests cannot be directed in routine manner: Allahabad HC
According to the petitioner, he was married to the woman in April 2008 and she lived at her matrimonial house for only o...
Kerala HC issues guidelines on display of treatment rates, providing aid in pvt hospitals
The court also directed the state government to publicise the effective content and directions in the judgement through ...
Allahabad HC slams GST authorities for cancelling registration without assigning reasons
Underlining the severity of cancelling a trader's GST registration, the court described such an action as virtually anno...
SC asks CEC to conduct on-ground survey of Hauz Khas Deer Park to ascertain its carrying capacity
"Instead, DDA may develop and implement a non-commercial public outreach programme, which shall include periodic educati...