District Judges Recruited Directly From Bar With Postgraduate Law Degrees Entitled To Three Advance Increments From July 1996: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that District Judges directly recruited from the Bar with a postgraduate degree in Law are entitled to three advance increments with effect from July 1, 1996, and set aside the State Government's decision to restrict the benefit prospectively. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 612]A Division Bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran and Justice Basant Balaji delivered...

Rajasthan High Court Orders Complete Ban On Parties, Marriages, Restaurants At Monument In Reserved Forest Area

The Rajasthan High Court has placed a complete prohibition on activities like marriages, private functions or any other commercial uses of Vidhyadhar ka Bagh, a heritage monument historic garden located in a reserved forest area in Jaipur, to prevent loud music, laser lights, fireworks and other alike activities for which the premises was being allegedly used.The division bench of Chief...

Aravalli Hills Must Be Preserved: Punjab & Haryana High Court Seeks Report On Mining Lease

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said it must be satisfied that the public interest in preserving the Aravalli Hills is being protected before it rules on a challenge to a mining lease in Charkhi Dadri, Haryana. A drone survey placed before the Court prima facie showed that the mining area is part of the Aravallis.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice...

Delhi High Court To Hear On Friday PIL Seeking Action Against ACP Manasvi Vashistha Over Alleged Threats To Advocates

The Delhi High Court has agreed to hear on Friday a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking action against ACP Manasvi Vashistha and certain other Delhi Police personnel over alleged threats, intimidation and derogatory remarks directed at lawyers amid the ongoing police-advocates dispute.The matter was mentioned today for urgent hearing by a counsel before a division bench comprising...

Family Court Lacks Jurisdiction To Decide Maintenance Modification Pleas Under Domestic Violence Act: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that a Family Court cannot decide an application under Section 25(2) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act), seeking modification of maintenance and rent orders originally passed by a Magistrate. The Court ruled that Section 26 of the DV Act, which enables Civil and Family Courts to grant reliefs under Sections 18 to 22, does not...

₹1 Lakh Compensation Too Meagre For Minor POCSO Victim Who Became Pregnant, Suffered Abortion: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that a minor sexual assault survivor under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) is entitled to maximum compensation as per the National Legal Services Authority's Victims Compensation scheme. Consequently, Justice Tyagaraja N. Inavally enhanced the compensation from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 7 lakh.The High Court was hearing an...

Poor Class 10th Results Alone Can't Justify Penalising Teacher Without Finding Of Misconduct: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside the penalty imposed on a government teacher over poor Class 10th results in Mathematics, opining that there were no specific allegations against the petitioner that the results dropped due to commission or omission on his part. The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that there might be several reasons for which the results remained below the...

'Love Of Both Parents Is Child's Basic Right': Jharkhand High Court Upholds Father's Visitation, Declines To Disturb Mother's Custody

The Jharkhand HC has held that children require the love, affection, care, company and protection of both parents for their proper upbringing, and that this is not merely a requirement but their basic human right. The Court upheld a Family Court order declining temporary custody of a minor child to his father while granting him monthly visitation rights and telephonic interaction with the...

Mere Presence Of Another Person In Matrimonial Home Can't Prove Adultery: Madras High Court

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has held that the mere presence of another person in the matrimonial home, without reliable evidence of an adulterous relationship, cannot sustain a decree of divorce under Section 13(1)(i) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 529]The Division Bench of Justice G.R. Swaminathan and Justice M.D. Sumathi made the observation while...

Does Parole Temporarily Suspend Sentence? Rajasthan High Court Refers Key Questions To Larger Bench

The Rajasthan High Court has referred three questions concerning the applicability of parole rules to a larger bench for authoritative determination.The first question is whether parole applications should be considered under the Rajasthan Prisoners (Release on Parole) Rules, 1958, which were in force on the date of conviction, or under the 2021 Rules, which are in force when the application...

Appeals Against Urban Land Ceiling Orders Abated After 1999 Repeal: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an appeal under Section 33 of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976 can neither be filed nor continued after the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 came into force, and that the right of appeal is not saved by Section 6 of the General Clauses Act, 1897.Section 33 of the Act of 1976 allowed a person aggrieved by an order of...

Uploading Photo On Social Media Not Consent For Others To Use It In Obscene Material: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that uploading a photograph on social media for ordinary and legitimate purpose does not imply consent for others to use it in obscene material or to circulate such material. Accordingly, Justice Suraj Govindaraj refused to quash criminal proceedings against five men, charged for the Sections 66C (identity theft) and 67 (publishing or transmitting...