Teacher's Challenge To Termination By Private Unaided Trust Not Maintainable In Writ, Dispute Is Contractual: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a writ petition challenging the termination of a teacher by a private unaided educational institution run by a trust is not maintainable under Article 226 of the Constitution. It held that the dispute being a purely contractual one between employer and employee.Distinguishing between the amenability of a private body to writ jurisdiction and...

That Trafficking Victim Is A Bangladeshi Immigrant Is No Defence : Bombay High Court Upholds Brothel Owner's Conviction

Labels 'illegal immigrant' or 'sex worker' will not deprive a person of the right to dignity, the Court said.

Freedom Of Speech Does Not Protect Defamatory, Abusive Or Malicious Social Media Content: Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court has refused to quash FIRs and charge sheets against a content creator accused of making allegedly derogatory remarks against the Prime Minister, the Mayor of Agartala and Mata Tripureswari on social media. The Court observed that while freedom of speech is a fundamental right, it is subject to the reasonable restrictions under Article 19(2) of the Constitution,...

Kerala High Court Allows Couple To Continue IVF Treatment After Crossing ART Act Age Limit Upon Undertaking To Bear All Risks

The Kerala High Court, in a recent decision, permitted a married couple to continue IVF treatment even though one of them had crossed the statutory age limit prescribed by Section 21(g) of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 537]Justice Harisankar V. Menon took note of Punjab and Haryana High Court decision relied on by the couple wherein in a...

Pakistani National Married To Indian Citizen Has No Vested Right To Seek Visa: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that a foreign national does not have a right for consideration of her visa application to India merely because she is married to an Indian citizen. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 535]Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas dismissed the writ petition filed by a married couple, one of whom was a Pakistani national, who wanted to enter India to attend her...

Plea Before Kerala High Court Challenging Centre's TV Rating Policy Clause On Landing Page Viewership Withdrawn

The Kerala High Court on Monday (September 28) permitted the petitioners to withdraw a plea challenging the proviso to Clause 5.4.1 of the TV Ratings Policy 2026 issued by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (MIB). [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 529] According to this clause, viewership arising out of Landing Page shall not be counted in the viewership measurement and that Landing Page can...

Preventive Detention | Not Informing Detenu Of Right To Represent To Central Govt Violates Article 22(5) Safeguard: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that the failure to inform a detenu of their right to make a representation to the Central Government under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1988 seeking revocation of detention order, violates safeguard under Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India. A Division Bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna and Justice...

Centre Can Invoke S.100 Patents Act To Make Exorbitantly Priced Patented Drugs And Sell On Non-Commercial Basis: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Monday (September 28) held that Section 100 of the Patents Act can be invoked by the Central government to use a patent to manufacture the medicine covered by it and sell it to a person, including a needy patient, on a non-commercial basis. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 528]The court ruled the provision may be invoked where government intervention is required, including when...

Know The Law | Consequences Of Not Furnishing Written Grounds Of Arrest : Supreme Court Explains

The Supreme Court recently reiterated that an accused has a fundamental and statutory right to be informed of the grounds of arrest in writing, and the written grounds must be furnished to the arrested person as a matter of course and without exception.A bench of Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Atul Chandurkar stressed that the requirement under Article 22(1) of the Constitution is not a...

Intervenor With Prima Facie Interest In Disputed Property Can Be Added As Party To Avoid Multiplicity Of Proceedings: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has held that a person claiming a prima facie interest in disputed property can be impleaded as an intervenor in a title suit where such intervention is necessary to avoid multiplicity of proceedings.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi was hearing a petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution challenging an order dated 24.02.2014 passed by...

Accused Entitled To Cloned Copy Of CCTV Footage Relied By Prosecution, Victim Privacy Can Justify Inspection Instead: Rajasthan High Court

While underscoring right to fair trial under Article 21, Rajasthan High Court held that if the prosecution was relying upon the contents of a DVD/pen drive which were also submitted along with the charge-sheet, the accused had to be mandatorily given a cloned copy of the DVD/pen drive, to enable him to present an effective defence during the trial. “…all documents including...

Successive Habeas Corpus Plea Can't Reopen Grounds Already Available But Not Raised In Earlier Petition: AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that a second writ of habeas corpus challenging the same preventive detention order under Article 226 of the Constitution can be maintained only when there is a change in circumstances or a new ground becomes available after the earlier petition was decided. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 222]The Court clarified that this is not an application of res judicata...