Congress, CPI Move Bombay High Court Against Maharashtra Special Public Security Act; Allege Chilling Effect On Free Speech

The Indian National Congress (INC) has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Maharashtra Special Public Security Act, 2025 arguing that it violates the fundamental guarantees enshrined in the Constitution of India including principles of reasonableness and proportionality, freedom of speech and expression, etc.Notably, the MSPSA is being said to be...

Delhi High Court Says Centre Can Issue Directions To Intermediaries Over Fake Posts On CJI's London Visit

The Delhi High Court on Friday observed that the Central Government can issue appropriate directions to social media intermediaries under the Information Technology Act to address the circulation of false and misleading posts claiming that the Chief Justice of India, several judges and Union Ministers had participated in a badminton tournament in London.Vacation judge Justice Tejas Karia made...

Motive Loses Significance When Crime Proved By Ocular Evidence: Allahabad High Court Upholds Conviction In 2015 Murder Case

The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the prosecution's case cannot be thrown out on the ground that the motive is not proved or that there is some doubt about it, if the occurrence is proved by ocular evidence. A bench of Justice Rajnish Kumar and Justice Zafeer Ahmad thus upheld the conviction and life sentence awarded to appellant-Hareram Chaudhary for the...

S.69A IT Act Empowers Centre To Block Entire Intermediary Platform, Not Just Specific Content: Delhi High Court In Telegram Case

While dismissing Telegram's challenge to the temporary blocking of its platform, the Delhi High Court has upheld the Central government's power under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act to block an entire intermediary platform, and not merely specific content hosted on it.Vacation judge Justice Tejas Karia held that the expression "information" under Section 2(1)(v) of the IT Act...

Dental Student Suicide: Kerala High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To College HOD Dr. Kodanda Ram In Abetment Case

The Kerala High Court on Friday (June 19) dismissed the criminal appeal filed by Dr. M. Kodanda Ram seeking pre-arrest bail in the suicide abetment case of dental college student Nithin Raj. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 329]Justice A. Badharudeen opined that there was prima facie commission of offence under Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and...

Delhi High Court To Hear Salman Khan's Plea Against Film Inspired By Blackbuck Case On July 1; No Interim Relief For Now

The Delhi High Court on Friday deferred consideration of Bollywood actor Salman Khan's plea seeking to restrain the release of the proposed film "Kala Hiran: The Battle for Legacy", which is stated to be inspired by his 1998 blackbuck poaching case and his alleged rivalry with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.A vacation bench comprising Justice Madhu Jain directed that a complete copy of the plaint...

Safe Kerala Project: High Court Orders Release Of Quarterly Payments Due To Contractor Who Installed AI Cameras

The Kerala High Court on Friday (June 19) passed an interim order directing the State and the Motor Vehicles Department to release to Keltron the amounts due for the instalment and maintenance of AI traffic camera, as part of the 'Automated Traffic Enforcement' for Safe Kerala Project.Justice Ziyad Rahman A.A. further directed Keltron to forthwith release the amounts due to SRIT India Ltd.,...

Child Of Present Indian Citizen Eligible For Citizenship By Registration U/S 5(1)(f): Telangana HC Rejects Centre's 'Former Citizen' Interpretation

The Telangana High Court has held that the phrase “was earlier citizen of independent India” under Section 5(1)(f) of the Citizenship Act, 1955 is not confined only to former Indian citizens, but also includes persons who presently continue to hold Indian citizenship. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 89]Section 5 pertains to citizenship by registration and 5(1)(f) states that the Central Government...

Govt Employees' Participation In Yoga Day Program Optional, No Punitive Action For Non-Attendance: State Tells Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Friday disposed of a petition challenging the West Bengal Government's notification calling upon government employees to participate in the International Yoga Day event to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Kolkata's Red Road, after the State clarified that participation was purely voluntary and that no coercive or punitive action would be taken against...

Plaintiff With Better Possessory Title Can Recover Property From Occupant Without Better Right: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has held that a plaintiff who establishes a better possessory title over a property is entitled to recover possession from an occupant who fails to prove any superior or lawful right to remain in occupation.The bench of Justice Neena Bansal Krishna cited the maxim “Possessio contra omnes valet praeter eum cui ius sit possessionis”, i.e. possession is good against...

Warning Against Filing Frivolous Petitions Doesn't Make Interlocutory Order Revisable: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has held that the cautionary observation of a Magistrate, while rejecting a plea seeking cancellation of bail, asking parties not to file “frivolous and vexatious petitions in future” is interlocutory in nature, which cannot be challenged in revision under Section 397 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 58]Reversing the findings of the...

'Don't Play These Tactics': Kerala High Court Warns IAS Officer Of Arrest Over Repeated Absence In Cashew Corporation Contempt Case

The Kerala High Court on Friday (June 19) expressed extreme displeasure at the non-appearance of Mohammed Hanish, the Principal Secretary, Industries Department of the State government inspite of positive direction to do so.The Court also ordered the present officer in charge of Cashew Development department, K. Biju IAS, to pass sanction order to prosecute the alleged corrupt ex-officials of...