A stay, and then an invitation to chambers: the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has put the CAT Jammu order imposing Rs 10,000 costs on Senior Advocate Jahangir Ganai on hold, and has called the Tribunal members and the petitioners to meet it and explore a settlement. Jammu and Kashmir: Until the next […]
Delhi High Court Imposes Rs 10,000 Costs On Advocate: a garden walk and a weak connection during a virtual arbitration hearing breached the Court’s Electronic Evidence and Video Conferencing Rules, 2025. New Delhi: Counsel for the petitioner in an arbitration petition must pay costs of Rs 10,000 and appear in person on the next date, […]
Rs 1,03,382 a month, paid voluntarily, has weighed against a husband in the Karnataka High Court, which held that a man who supports his wife without any court order cannot later claim inability to pay, and dismissed his writ petition with costs of Rs 2 lakh. Bengaluru: Dismissing a husband’s challenge to an interim maintenance […]
The Calcutta High Court’s Circuit Bench at Port Blair has dismissed a contempt petition against a Joint Civil Judge, holding that contempt is not a substitute for an appeal or revision and that a litigant has no licence to make reckless allegations against a judicial officer’s personal integrity. Port Blair: The Calcutta High Court on […]
A Division Bench of the Gujarat High Court has dismissed Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against Rs 25,000 costs in the PM Modi degree case, refusing to expunge the Single Judge’s remarks and adding that a political leader cannot use statutory proceedings for political motives, and has held on merits that the CIC’s 2016 direction to disclose the Prime Minister’s degrees was outside the RTI Act and hit by Sections 8(1)(e) and (j).
The Gujarat High Court has dismissed Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal against a March 2023 single judge order that quashed the CIC’s 2016 direction on disclosure of information about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degrees and imposed costs of Rs 25,000 on him, saying it found no error in the judgment, and has also dismissed the stay application.
The Delhi High Court has imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh on counsel for the decree holders in proceedings to enforce an arbitral award against NHAI, for appearing in a virtual hearing from a moving car, holding that this violates the Court’s Electronic Evidence and Video Conferencing Rules, 2025 and disrupts proceedings.
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 […]
On May 31, 2018, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) imposed significant penalties on several individuals and entities, including Rs 10.65 crore on Lalit Modi. The Bombay High Court later fined Modi Rs 1 lakh for filing a frivolous petition against the BCCI, ruling that no writ could compel the BCCI to pay his penalty.
