The Kerala High Court held that a single sufficiently grave act can constitute cruelty under Section 498A IPC, while quashing proceedings against six relatives of a husband on the ground that the allegations against them were vague and omnibus. Proceedings against the husband continue.
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 […]
The Karnataka High Court set aside a royalty demand against cement major ACC Limited, holding that the State cannot assess royalty on limestone using a “notional conversion factor” where the company’s actual weighment data is credible and unrebutted, and where a technical body had physically verified the consumption. Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has quashed […]
The Bombay High Court quashed an FIR against two men booked for drunkenly shouting at each other on a public street, holding that mere loudness, without obscenity or disturbance to a third party, does not attract the Prohibition Act, while using the occasion to lay down that criminal law cannot be a “bargaining chip” and […]
The Bombay High Court declined to hand interim custody of a girl to her biological parents from a neighbour couple who had raised her since infancy, holding that the welfare of the child, not the rights of the rival claimants, is paramount, and that uprooting a settled ten-year-old from the only home she has known […]
The Bombay High Court has declined to discharge the man accused of abetting the 2004 suicide of former Miss India Universe Nafisa Joseph, holding that at the discharge stage it could not be conclusively said that the ingredients of the offence were absent, and clearing the way for the long-stayed trial to proceed. Mumbai: The […]
The Bombay High Court set aside a Family Court order that had handed a child’s custody to the father after sermonising on the “pious duties of a wife,” holding the reasoning “regressive,” rooted in “stereotypical and erroneous notions” of marriage, and irrelevant to the only question that mattered: the welfare of the child. Mumbai: The […]
The Allahabad High Court quashed a “Goonda” declaration and six-month externment, holding that a single pending case cannot establish the “habitual” criminality the law requires, that the police “deliberately portrayed a false picture” by relying on a case in which the man had been acquitted years earlier, and calling it “a glaring example of the […]
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Delhi High Court seeking the removal of the song “Shoorveer” from the climax of “Mirzapur: The Movie,” the petitioner contending that a track originally composed as a tribute to Maharana Pratap has been used over gangster scenes in a way that glorifies criminals and hurts public […]
The Patna High Court has quashed the State Bank of India’s decision treating a long-serving officer as having “voluntarily resigned” for staying away on medical grounds, holding that absence compelled by illness is not wilful abandonment and that the Bank acted arbitrarily and in breach of natural justice. Patna: The Patna High Court has set […]