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The Madras High Court has set aside an order mandating a blanket statewide ban on temples acquiring or keeping elephants and observed that the conservation direction aimed at stopping any fresh depletion of the wild elephant population, whereas an elephant gen
Residents of Rustomjee Crown, the luxury residential project in Prabhadevi, have moved the Bombay High Court against the developer following the demolition of foyer areas in their apartments, by the BMC last week. They ask how hundreds of homeowners could have
The Bombay High Court has issued a contempt notice to Maharashtra s Law and Judiciary Department Secretary and Senior Legal Advisor after an outrageous and unpardonable outburst in a packed courtroom, after the officer allegedly blamed the court administration
A spot panchnama conducted more than nine hours after Disha Salian s death, police officers seen at the building before the death was officially recorded, unexplained discrepancies in the accidental death report and forensic samples, and the delayed seizure of
The Allahabad high court on Wednesday quashed the detention order against a 25-year-old Delhi University (DU) graduate who has been in judicial custody for around five months in connection with the Noida workers protest of April 2026, saying her detention was
Nearly four years after the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) attached a Dalibagh property belonging to the wife of Ghazipur MP Afzal Ansari under the Gangsters Act, the family regained possession of the property on Wednesday only to find its main access rou
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New Delhi: A Delhi court has observed that a person cannot be ordered to pay maintenance beyond his means even if the amount awarded to his estranged wife is insufficient to meet her basic needs, stressing that maintenance has to be assessed in light of the pa
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed the NSA detention of Aakriti Chaudhary, a 25-year-old Delhi University history graduate, in connection with the Noida workers protests which took place five months ago. Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves appeared for
A wife s remark that she could keep a thousand husbands like her own amounted to an indirect attack on his worth and dignity, the Madhya Pradesh High Court said as it reduced a man s life sentence for the killing of his wife to seven years. A Division Bench of
The Enforcement Directorate has for a third time sought registration of an FIR against a number of private persons and senior officials of Punjab government allegedly involved in corrupt practices. In a third letter, written to DGP Gaurav Yadav on August 31, t
Highlighting that the personal liberty of a citizen is not a plaything for the district authorities to flirt with , the Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed a preventive detention order against a man who was accused of terror links with the outl
The Patna High Court has directed state authorities in Bihar to reconsider a widow s claim for family pension after finding that officials had overlooked a crucial application made by her late husband seeking permission for his second marriage to her, holding
Kolkata: Questioning the maintainability of a PIL regarding TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's alleged comments on the murder of a Bangladesh activist, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday observed that public interest litigations were being used as a special tool or w
Nihar Mukherjee is Mamata Banerjee s maternal cousin and a regional Trinamool leader. The body has been sent for an autopsy and an investigation into her death has begun
The Karnataka High Court Tuesday rejected a plea by former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, his son Harshanand, and personal secretary Thipperudra seeking to scrap a chargesheet filed against them in the 2023 Aland 'vote theft' case. A bench directed the accused to a
The Bombay High Court has set aside the family court s award of Rs 10 lakh permanent alimony to the wife, finding it based on an unsupported assumption of the husband s income, and remanded the matter for fresh determination based on both parties earnings, nee
Observing that there was a clear and present threat to the life and property of the family of a man whom police had named as the principal accused in the murder of a young girl after his death, the Gauhati High Court has ordered the recall of a Mizoram Police
The Madras High Court has dismissed the appeal of an MBBS graduate who claimed that her medical degree was withheld following the NIA s allegations that her tuition fees were paid with funds raised for the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist). In its June
Insolvency petition filed this week, A&M appointed as liquidator of B2B commerce company. Ten year old co has seen valuations crash 70% as financials come under pressure
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday listed for hearing on July 9 the Indian Polo Association's petition against a sessions court's decision refusing to stay the Centre's May 20 order evicting it from the 15.20-acre Jaipur Polo Ground here.Justice Hari
The Calcutta High Court recently directed the West Bengal government to disclose the whereabouts of 21 captive elephants that were transported out of the state, including two elephants that were earlier with the Famous Circus but whose status remains unknown a
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked the petitioners and intervenors in a public interest litigation (PIL) on tree falls to share their findings and suggestions with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), after an intervenor disputed the civic body s
Holding that the movement of files cannot justify missing court deadlines, the Orissa High Court has dismissed the state government s appeal, filed after a delay of 303 days, against an order granting pensionary benefits to a retired employee. It also imposed
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection to the Mumbai branch of the Vadilal ice-cream business, observing that its decades-old rights to use the Vadilal brand across western and southern India are prima facie rooted in a 1993 family settlem
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has held that protection granted in a predicate offence FIR does not mean it extends to distinct and independent proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act . The high court made the observation while denying antici
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has cancelled an order stopping the operations of a liquor vend in Jammu s Gandhi Nagar where residents alleged that intoxicated persons and rising criminal activity made it difficult for women to move freely in the
Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) spokesperson Saurav Das has moved the Delhi High Court with a civil suit against digital media portals, social media intermediaries, and political commentator Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, seeking damages for invading his privacy by circulati
A hallmark of Jawaharlal Nehru University s (JNU) admissions process is its decades-old deprivation points model. The system, unique to the varsity, aims to give a leg up in admissions to marginalised candidates such as those from backward regions, women and t
In a move favoring the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Bombay High Court on Friday rapped a Thane restaurant while denying it relief from the agency's action for serving banned analogue paneer. Highlighting the irony of the situation, the c
A bench of Justice Shalini Singh Nagpal issued the notice to the Punjab government and adjourned the case to September 15. The notice came on a petition filed by Gagandeep Singh through advocate Dinesh Mahajan
The Jharkhand High Court on Friday stayed the state government s decision to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) examination and the Child Development Project Officer (CDPO) examination. It was the cancellation of
At 10.30 am on a Monday, a public prosecutor at Delhi s Rouse Avenue Court was in a rush. Hastily adjusting his black blazer, he dashed into one courtroom, only to come out minutes later
The Gauhati High Court recently upheld the termination of a CRPF constable after he was found to be colour blind in 2016, nearly two years after he joined the force, noting that he had given an undertaking at the time of joining that he would accept such a con
The Calcutta High Court has asked the special intensive revision (SIR) appellate tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal filed by a woman whose name was allegedly deleted from the voter list, after she told the court that the issue was preventing her son
The Calcutta High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman teacher accused of pushing a disabled child and allegedly assaulting the child s mother with a knife, noting that the accused was a working woman and directed her to cooperate with the investigat
The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from taking any further steps to alter the reservation of the Neville D Souza football ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition centre. Miffed with
Travel time between Mumbai s Madh Island and Versova is set to be drastically reduced to just 10 minutes, with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) planning a Rs 2,395-crore cable-stayed flyover connecting the two areas. If everything goes as per plans
The Delhi High Court recently acquitted a man sentenced to life imprisonment for the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl, observing that merely because there is an observation of the trial court about the survivor becoming uncomfortable and perturbed when she
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed a punishment order withholding 50 per cent of a government employee s pension, holding that the disciplinary authority failed to consider his detailed reply and passed a non-speaking order. The court also quashed the a
Justice Rajiv Roy observed that the daughter and the grandson had breached the faith of the elderly woman, who was surviving on her late husband s pension and is now at the mercy of her children for her day-to-day needs. Taking into account the submissions and
The Allahabad high court has held that mere use of a caste name like Chamar does not automatically attract provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act unless there was an intent to humiliate the victim. Allowing a cri
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) decision to introduce minimum qualifying marks for interviews for recruitment to Assistant Professor posts in state s Government Medical Colleges, observing that the recru
An estranged spouse cannot take shelter under the norm of best interest of the child to unilaterally take custody of a minor from the other parent and transfer them to another school without a court order, the Karnataka High Court has held. Justice Dr Chillaku
Calling it a calculated assault on public health , the Karnataka High Court has refused to set aside a cheating case against a company accused of re-labelling expired food products and reselling them as fresh. It held that it was not merely a food-safety viola
The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld the conviction of a man who impersonated a police officer, threatened villagers with false liquor cases and extorted money. However, considering that the case had continued since 2016 and he had already spent 74 days in custo
The Jharkhand High Court has acquitted a head warden accused of facilitating an undertrial s escape from prison in 2006. The court ruled that internal Jail Manual rules cannot establish criminal liability without concrete proof of intentional facilitation, not
Mumbai, The Bombay High Court on Thursday expressed its displeasure with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation over its decision to approve a proposal to change the reservation of a football ground in Bandra to an exhibition centre. The HC was particularly mi
New Delhi, The Delhi High Court has said that a live-in relationship between consenting adults is akin to marriage and neither parents nor friends can interfere with their choice or threaten their life. Justice Saurabh Banerjee granted police protection to a l
In a rare occurrence, the Madhya High Court officially recorded an advocate s absence during a hearing as shock suffered following a defeat in the recently held bar association elections. The Madhya Pradesh Bar Election Association (2026 28) election results w