Gujarat High Court Upholds Judge's Dismissal For Associating With Practicing Advocate, Accepting Phone From Her

The Gujarat High Court has held that a judicial officer found assoicating/communicating with a practicing advocate, accepting a phone from the latter and using the same would amount to improper conduct. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 268]In doing so the court upheld the removal of a judicial officer over various charges including the charge that he was in touch with a practicing advocate and...

Reviewing Officer Must Give Specific Reasons For Departing From Reporting Officer's APAR Assessment: Meghalaya High Court

The Meghalaya High Court has held that where a Reviewing Officer differs from the assessment of the Reporting Officer in an Annual Performance Assessment Report (APAR), such departure must be supported by specific and cogent reasons. The Court accordingly directed the authorities to reconsider the petitioner's APAR in accordance with the applicable DoPT instructions and guidelines, after...

Public Authorities Can't Shift Burden To Citizens: Karnataka High Court Directs Information Commission To Maintain RTI Implementation Data

The Karnataka High Court has issued a slew of directions to the State Information Commission to prescribe a uniform format for the collection, maintenance and disclosure of information relating to the implementation of the RTI Act by public authorities in the State. The petitioner an RTI applicant had sought names of the Public Information Officer or Public Information Officers against...

Authority Cannot Proceed Without Bidders Consent After Making Bid Validity Extension A Condition For Evaluation: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court has held that a tendering authority, after expressly making extension of bid validity a condition for consideration of a tender, cannot proceed to evaluate the bid where the bidder has not consented to such extension.A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Sudhir Singh and Justice Rajesh Kumar Verma was hearing a writ petition filed by M/s Universal Agro Corporation...

No Public Interest In Disclosing Prime Minister's Educational Qualification, Degree Is Personal Information: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has observed that there is no public interest in disclosure of the Prime Minister of India's educational degrees, as he is an elected representative of the people and his educational qualifications have no bearing on his election to the Constitutional post. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 263]The court made the observation in its order rejecting Kejriwal's appeal against an...

PDS Godown | 20% Rent Hike Ceiling Can't Be Applied Indirectly Where Government Order Held Inapplicable: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an authority which itself holds a government order inapplicable to a party cannot then fix rent on the strength of justification certificates founded on the very clause of that order. It held that what cannot be done directly cannot be permitted to be done indirectly.Clause 14 of the Government Order dated 02.05.2018 caps enhancement of rent at 20% of...

Unregistered Partnership Firms Can Claim Statutory Tenancy Rights Under Bombay Rent Act: High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that an unregistered partnership firm in occupation of premises as a licensee on February 1, 1973, can claim the benefit of Section 15-A of the Bombay Rent Control Act, 1947. The Court observed that the right conferred by Section 15-A is statutory in nature and the bar under Section 69(2) of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 applies to enforcement of...

UP Tenancy Act | Sixty-Day Timeline To Decide Rent Case Is Directory, Not Mandatory: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the sixty-day timeline for disposal of cases by the Rent Authority and the Rent Tribunal under Section 33(2) of the Uttar Pradesh Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 is directory and not mandatory in nature.Section 33(2) of the Act requires the Rent Authority or the Rent Tribunal to endeavour to dispose of a case as expeditiously as possible...

Jharkhand High Court Directs Hazaribagh Authorities To Operationalise Traffic Signals At 20 Major Intersections Within 4 Months

The Jharkhand High Court has issued a series of directions to the State authorities and Hazaribagh Municipal Corporation for improving traffic management in Hazaribagh, including operationalising an Automated Traffic Light Management System at 20 major intersections within four months.A Division Bench of Chief Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar was hearing a public interest...

CIC Could Not Have Directed Suo-Motu Disclosure Of PM Modi's Degree, Outside Scope Of RTI Act: Gujarat High Court

Court further held that Arvind Kejriwal should not have used RTI proceedings for political motives.

Delhi High Court Directs Bank To Reverse Amount Inadvertently Transferred To Wrong Beneficiary With Similar Name

The Delhi High Court has directed ICICI Bank to reverse a transaction of ₹3,89,981 which was inadvertently transferred by a business entity to a wrong beneficiary having a similar name.The Petitioner, a company, had intended to transfer ₹3,89,981 to M/s V.K. Enterprises towards payment for goods purchased from the firm. However, while making the transaction through internet/mobile...

O. 2 R. 2 CPC | Omitted Relief Remains Barred Despite Order 23 Liberty To File Fresh Suit : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (September 29) has observed that an injunction suit simpliciter filed without the Court's leave under Order 2 Rule 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, while omitting the relief of specific performance, cannot be withdrawn to file a fresh suit seeking that omitted relief under Order 23 Rule 1 of the CPC. The Court held that even where leave to file a fresh suit...