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 […]
“Cannot, by itself, be treated as a conclusive ground”: that is how the Rajasthan High Court has described the nature of a woman’s employment when maternity leave is at stake, quashing a Pollution Control Board’s refusal to a contractual consultant. Jodhpur: A contractual consultant of the Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board must be given 180 […]
A conjugal rights plea under Muslim law cannot, by itself, wipe out a wife’s cruelty FIR, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held, even as it freed the husband’s mother and two sisters from the case. Jabalpur: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has refused to quash a cruelty and dowry harassment FIR against a husband […]
Archived court recordings cannot be claimed by a litigant as of right unless the Bench specifically orders it, the Karnataka High Court has held while dismissing a 72-year-old man’s challenge to the refusal of copies of recordings of his appeal hearing. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has dismissed a writ petition seeking copies of archived […]
The West Bengal government has constituted a Chorbagan stampede SIT of six members under retired Justice Anindita Roy Saraswati, in consultation with the Calcutta High Court, with a three-month deadline to report on the October 17 tragedy. Kolkata: The West Bengal government has constituted a six-member Special Investigation Team headed by retired Justice Anindita Roy […]
Non-Nullity Objections To Arbitral Award belong in a petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, and not in an application under Section 47 of the Code of Civil Procedure during execution, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held; the objector keeps his remedy, as the time spent on the wrong route […]