The Gujarat High Court has called the Surat Corporation’s reversal on housing for demolition victims prima facie criminal contempt and has summoned the Municipal Commissioner and the Standing Committee Chairman to explain it in person. Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court on Friday (October 23) said that the “change of stand” by the Commissioner of the […]
Misconduct upheld, removal undone: the Allahabad High Court has found the removal of a court employee over a single incident outside working hours, after more than two decades of service, shockingly disproportionate, and has set aside the penalty while leaving the findings of misconduct undisturbed. Lucknow: Setting aside the removal from service of a Deputy […]
Timing alone does not prove mala fides, the Central Administrative Tribunal has held in refusing to quash disciplinary proceedings against an IPS officer accused of involvement in a plot to impersonate a former Patna High Court Chief Justice. The State has been asked to try to finish the inquiry within six months. Patna: A charge […]
Seven FIRs over one incident, and a news report reposted on X: the Karnataka High Court has issued six guidelines against mechanical arrests and repeat FIRs over social media posts, saying that registration of a crime must not automatically lead to arrest, and has quashed the Puttur case against the account’s administrator. Bengaluru: Crime No. […]
Police cannot compel adult woman to return home, and neither can her parents: that is the Kerala High Court’s holding, which still lets the police record her presence in a missing person case. Ernakulam: A missing person complaint filed by a mother had led to a registered crime, and the Kerala High Court has ruled […]
The Delhi High Court has held that cash in lieu of school uniforms for students admitted under the EWS and DG categories stands, dismissing a review petition against its January 2026 judgment that accepted the Delhi Government’s policy. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has dismissed a review petition filed by the NGO Justice For […]
Extramarital Affair Not 498A Cruelty Unless Likely To Drive Wife To Suicide: the Madras High Court has held that a husband’s illicit relationship, though proved, is not by itself cruelty under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, and upheld the acquittal of a man in a wife’s suicide case. Chennai: The Madras High Court […]
“An allegation bearing upon national security calls for close scrutiny; it does not place the matter beyond the Court’s bail jurisdiction,” the Delhi High Court said, and then refused bail to a man held for more than three years in an Official Secrets Act case. It asked the trial court to hurry and the jail […]