In a landmark move, the Supreme Courts of India and Russia signed an MoU in Moscow to strengthen judicial cooperation, focusing on technology-enabled court administration, exchange of best practices, and professional capacity-building through structured training and collaborative programmes.
The Calcutta High Court held that authorities cannot insist on a trade licence for registering a partnership firm formed solely for legal practice. The court directed the Registrar of Firms, Societies and Non-Trading Corporations, West Bengal, to register M/s Pinava Legal’s application within two weeks.
The Kerala High Court dismissed a plea over a coconut tree on a neighbour’s land, calling it a classic case of unnecessary litigation driven by ego clashes between neighbours. Remarking that the tree itself might laugh at the dispute, the Court said its quiet existence had unnecessarily become the subject of valuable judicial time.
The Supreme Court stayed a Delhi High Court order directing the premature release of Mohammed Rashid Khan, convicted in the 1993 Bowbazar bomb blasts that killed 69 people in Kolkata. The Court issued notice on West Bengal’s plea challenging the release, while granting an interim stay on the order concerning the TADA convict.
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Assam Government on the bail plea of Shyamkanu Mahanta, an accused in the case linked to the death of Assam music icon Zubeen Garg. Mahanta, organiser of the North East India Festival in Singapore, approached the apex court after the Gauhati High Court rejected his bail plea.
