The Allahabad High Court accepted that conversion does not automatically extinguish Scheduled Tribe status, which remains a question of fact, but dismissed a woman’s petitions after finding she had not produced material showing continuing Bhuiyan customs, community participation and acceptance on the dates of three land purchases.
The Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition by the master licensee of the VIMAL brand challenging a show cause notice issued by the Maharashtra FDA to three brand ambassadors, holding that neither the location of FSSAI in Delhi nor the petitioner’s own base there could confer territorial jurisdiction. The merits were left untouched.
Six years after Disha Salian’s death was closed as an accidental death, the CBI has registered an FIR on the Bombay High Court’s direction. The Court directed a fresh investigation while expressly protecting persons whose names have surfaced, holding that nobody is to be treated as an accused on that basis alone. Nothing has been established.
The Allahabad High Court declined to examine the charges against a suspended in-charge headmaster at the writ stage, holding that his explanation must be raised as a defence in the departmental enquiry. The suspension order was kept in abeyance and the enquiry directed to be concluded within 15 days.
The Karnataka High Court at Dharwad held that the availability of a remedy before the Waqf Tribunal does not bar writ jurisdiction where the challenge is to the legality of the Waqf Board’s own action, and quashed an official memorandum constituting an eleven-month ad-hoc committee in place of the mechanism under Rule 54 of the Karnataka Wakf Rules, 2017.
Being an advocate does not place a person above the law, the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court held, while directing the police that any assistance sought from a lawyer in connection with an investigation must be sought strictly in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law. Srinagar: The High Court of Jammu and […]