Karnataka High Court Quashes Case Over Instagram Post After Puneeth Rajkumar's Death, Warns Student To Be Careful On Social Media

The court said that timing, context of the post brought it within S.67 IT Act, but showed leniency considering student's age & future.

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Suspend Death Sentence Of Man Convicted For Wife's Murder Over Property Dispute

The Karnataka High Court on Friday (September 18) dismissed an plea seeking suspension of sentence and bail filed by a man convicted of murdering his wife with a machete for objecting to the sale of a property, considering the overwhelming evidence against him including CCTV footage as inferred by the trial court.The Division Bench of Justice Mohammad Nawaz and Justice B Pramod was hearing...

S.173 BNSS Mandates FIR Registration When Cognizable Offence Disclosed, Even If Allegations Are Against Police: Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court has held that Section 173 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) mandates registration of an FIR where a complaint discloses cognizable offences, even when the allegations are directed against police personnel. The court made the observation while directing registration of a complaint alleging misappropriation of gold ornaments and gold bars following...

Grievousness Of Injury Not Necessary For Attracting Section 307 IPC : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the grievousness of the injuries sustained to an injured victim is not a necessary ingredient to attract an offence of an attempt to murder under Section 307 IPC. “We are of the opinion that the grievousness of the injuries or the possibility of injury which could have led to death, is not a necessary ingredient to attract Section 307.”, observed a bench...

Bombay High Court Quashes Food Safety Case Against Britannia Dairy Over Allegedly Unsafe Cheese Cubes

The Bombay High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against Britannia Dairy Private Limited over allegations concerning unsafe Britannia Cheese Cubes, holding that the company was denied statutory safeguards under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The Court observed that the delay in issuing notice, non-supply of the laboratory testing report and consequent deprivation of...

Common NDPS Search Notice Does Not Establish Accused Was Individually Informed Of His Rights: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has set aside a man's conviction in a cocaine possession case, after finding that the police had served a common notice to the appellant and other accused and the State had failed to establish that he was individually and meaningfully informed of his right under Section 50 NDPS Act before his personal search.[2026 LiveLaw (AP) 152]Section 50 pertains to conditions...

'Very Sorry State Of Affairs': Gujarat High Court Laments IOs' Absence With Case Papers, Failure To Properly Assist State Counsel

The Gujarat High Court has lamented the absence of Investigating Officers with investigation papers of the concerned matter as well as failure in giving proper instructions to the State's counsel to assist the court. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 249]Granting regular bail to a man booked in a murder case, the court further observed that if where IO is present they do not have knowledge about...

HP High Court Directs DGP To Issue Guidelines On Proving Age Of Child Victims, Cites Repeated Investigative Lapses

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has directed the Director General of Police, Himachal Pradesh, to circulate Section 94 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 along with necessary guidelines to all Investigating Officers, after observing that prosecution cases have failed due to lapses in collecting evidence relating to the age of child victims.A Division Bench...

Scolding Minor & Refusing To Return His Ball Which Damaged Shop Not Abetment Of Child's Suicide U/S 305 IPC: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that refusal by a shopkeeper to hand back a playing ball to a minor and asking him to bring his father to take back the ball after which he allegedly got upset and died by suicide, does not amount to abetment of suicide of a child under Section 305 IPC. Section 305 concerns the offence of abetment of the suicide of a child or an insane person. To establish...

Absence Of Railway Ticket No Bar For Bona Fide Passenger To Claim Accident Compensation: AP High Court

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that the absence of a railway ticket from a deceased passenger's belongings, by itself, does not mean that he was travelling without a ticket. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 216]In doing so, a Single Judge Bench of Justice Balaji Medamalli allowed an appeal filed by the parents of a deceased passenger and set aside the Railway Claims Tribunal's order dismissing...

'Sad State Of Affairs': Allahabad High Court Slams SP, DM Over Failure To Display Fairness In Gang Chart Approval

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday slammed the Superintendent of Police (SP) and District Magistrate (DM) posted in Bahraich district for being 'unmindful' of Constitutional Court Judgments requiring application of mind and display of fairness while approving gang charts under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986.A bench of Justice Manish Mathur...

Orissa High Court Alters Murder Conviction Of 72-Yr-Old To Culpable Homicide, Applies 'Transfer Of Malice' Rule

The Orissa High Court has recently modified a Sessions Court's order convicting a man for commission of murder of his sister-in-law in 2008 by altering the same to one for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 111]For partially upholding the guilt of the appellant, the Bench of Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak (now transferred) and Justice Sashikanta Mishra applied...