'Non-Payment Of Salaries To Employees Violates Fundamental Rights Under Articles 14, 19(1)(g) & 21': Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that non-payment of salaries directly breaches the fundamental rights guaranteed to employees under Articles 14, 21 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution. The Court observed that no institution can function in a manner prejudicial to or exploitative of its employees by withholding their salaries, which constitute their basic source of livelihood and survival.A...

Should Intra-Court Appeals Be Denied Just Because Writ Petition Dealt With Criminal Issue? Supreme Court Refers To Larger Bench

The Court doubted the 2017 precedent in 'Ram Kishan Fauji'

Writ Petition Not Maintainable Once Statutory Revision Against Same Order Is Withdrawn As 'Not Pressed': Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a writ petition under Article 226 is not maintainable where the petitioner had already challenged the same order in a statutory revision and then got the revision concluded as “not pressed”. Such a withdrawal, it held, amounts to abandonment of the claim and attracts the Rule of Public Policy.The Rule of Public Policy, as the Court explained it, bars...

Father Can't Seek Child's Custody Through Habeas Corpus Without Exceptional Circumstances: AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a father's plea seeking custody of his four-year-old son from the mother through a habeas corpus petition. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 246]In doing so, the Court held that the child's custody with his biological mother could not be considered illegal and found no exceptional circumstances warranting a change of custody.The Division Bench comprising Justice...

Limited Grounds For Judicial Review, 20-Year Delay: High Court Rejects Challenge To Ambedkar Nagar Constituency Delimitation

The Allahabad High Court today dismissed a petition challenging the delimitation of Assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district, including the reservation of the Alapur constituency for Scheduled Castes.The bench said the plea failed to establish grounds for judicial interference and was filed nearly two decades after the delimitation order was passed. A Bench of...

Sreekrishnapuram Double Murder: Kerala High Court Directs Comparison Of Fingerprints In Aadhar Database To Trace Culprits

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (October 14) gave a direction for comparison of the fingerprints of the suspects of the Sreekrishnapuram Double Murder case with those stored in the Aadhar database. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 579]Case refers to the brutal assassination of a middle-aged couple in Sreekrishnapuram in Palakkad in 2016 allegedly with a motive of robbing them. The local police and...

NEET-UG: AP High Court Rejects Telangana ST Certificate For Reservation In State MBBS Quota

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has denied Scheduled Tribe (ST) reservation benefits under the Andhra Pradesh State quota for MBBS admissions to a NEET-UG aspirant holding a Telangana-issued ST certificate, observing that recognition of the same community as a Scheduled Tribe in both States does not entitle her to reservation benefits in Andhra Pradesh. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 244]Article 342 of...

No 'Intelligible Differentia' In Excluding Same-Sex Couples From Spousal Gift-Tax Benefits: Karnataka High Court Told

A same-sex couple challenging the denial of gift-tax exemption available to married couples under the Income Tax Act, 1961 has told the Karnataka High Court that the test of “intelligible differentia” under Article 14 of the Constitution cannot justify their sex-based exclusion, and the same would attract anti-discriminatory provision of Article 15.The submission was made before Justice B...

Freedom Of Religion Does Not Entitle Christian Community To Seek Specific Plot For Housing Cemetery: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the right to freedom of religion, including the right to perform last rites in accordance with religious beliefs, does not entitle a community to claim a specific plot of land belonging to a local body for establishing a cemetery. A Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Indrajeet Shukla made the observation while dismissing a writ petition filed by...

'50% Ceiling Breached' : Karnataka High Court Strikes Down Law Raising SC/ST Reservation In Education & Govt Jobs

The Karnataka High Court on Monday struck down the provisions of the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Seats in Educational Institutions and of Appointments or Posts in the Services under the State) Act, 2022, which had increased reservations for Scheduled Castes (SCs) from 15% to 17% and for Scheduled Tribes (STs) from 3% to 7%.A Division Bench of Chief...

After Bombay High Court Orders Release Of CJP Members, Goa Police Justifies Detention Citing Past Violations, 'Patronising Umar Khalid'

A day after the Bombay High Court in a special and urgent Sunday sitting ordered the release of seven Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) members for staging protest in Panaji, the Goa Police on Monday (October 12) through an affidavit justified its move to detain the CJP members citing the 'past history' of the said outfit, wherein it was found to be 'patronising' Umar Khalid.The Goa Police...

Seafarers Too Have Right To Live With Dignity: Orissa High Court Directs Centre To Repatriate Foreign Crew Of Abandoned Vessel

The Orissa High Court has recently ordered repatriation of 23 foreign crew members of an abandoned cargo vessel, which has been anchored at the Paradip Port since May this year upon issuance of arrest orders by the Court for keeping security in maritime suit. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 116]While providing relief in the writ petition filed by the Master of the Vessel, the Bench of Justice Radha...