The Madras High Court quashed an animal-cruelty case against a man accused of pelting a stone at a neighbour’s pet dog, holding that the offence is non-cognizable and carries a maximum fine of Rs 50, so the police were required to obtain the Magistrate’s prior permission before registering the FIR, and had not. Chennai: The […]
Granting regular bail to a man accused as a conspirator in a firing incident outside a Delhi club, the Delhi High Court reiterated that bail is the rule and jail the exception, noting that the investigation was complete, he had no antecedents, was not present at the spot, and had already spent eight months in […]
The Delhi High Court issued notice to OpenAI on ANI’s appeal against the single judge’s refusal of an interim injunction, in which AI training on news content was held prima facie to be fair dealing. The Division Bench declined to direct anything on an earlier scraping undertaking before hearing OpenAI, and listed the matter for December 5.
Instead of sending a payment aggregator’s suit for pre-litigation mediation under Section 12A of the Commercial Courts Act, the Delhi High Court requested the Reserve Bank of India to depute a senior officer to mediate within thirty days, and froze all interchange-related deductions from the plaintiff’s escrow account in the meantime.
Holding that liability under Section 82 of the BNS attaches to the spouse who already has a subsisting marriage and not to the person they marry, the Madras High Court granted anticipatory bail to a woman arrayed as the second accused, observing that on her case she and the complainant stand as two women wronged by the same man rather than as accused and victim.
Noting that the accused seen in the video and linked to DNA evidence had already been granted bail, and that the applicant had spent two and a half years in custody with only seven of thirty-one witnesses examined, the Delhi High Court held that his case prima facie stood on a better footing and granted bail despite his having been declared a proclaimed offender.
After the applicant was granted pardon and became an approver, the State argued that a regular bail application was no longer maintainable. The Delhi High Court treated the plea as one under its inherent jurisdiction and held that the statutory bar on releasing an approver under Section 343(4)(b) of the BNSS operates only against the Trial Court.
With 40 of 120 witnesses examined and the appellant in custody since December 2018, the Delhi High Court granted bail in an NIA case, holding that a High Court must decide on the law as it stands even though the interplay between Article 21 and Section 43D(5) of the UAPA has been referred to a larger Bench.
The Kerala High Court held that a formal extradition request through diplomatic channels is not a precondition for the immediate arrest of a fugitive criminal, and that on receiving an international arrest warrant through Interpol the nodal agency must forward it both to the Central Government under Section 34-B and to the jurisdictional Magistrate under Section 9 of the Extradition Act.
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.