Madras High Court Asks TN Ambedkar Law University To Permit Student With Chronic Schizophrenia To Write Exams

The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University to permit a student with chronic schizophrenia to write Semester Exams Justice Anand Venkatesh was hearing a plea by the student seeking exemption from paying the tuition fee as a person with disability. While allowing the student to write the exam as an interim measure, the court made it clear that it...

'Fraud Unravels All Solemn Transactions': Allahabad High Court Denies Relief To Compassionate Appointee Terminated After 27-Yrs Service

Holding that fraud vitiates everything else, the Allahabad High Court has denied any relief to the employee who had worked for 27 years as compassionate appointee, citing grounds of fraud committed by him in obtaining the appointment.Upholding the order declaring his appointment void ab initio with effect from the date of appointment, i.e., 31.03.1998, Justice Manju Rani Chauhan...

Matrimonial FIR Can't Be Quashed If Settlement Agreement Between Estranged Couple Not Executed: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that a matrimonial FIR cannot be quashed if the settlement agreement between the estranged couple is not executed.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna refused to quash an FIR lodged against a Dubai-based man in 2005, accusing him of dowry harassment by the wife. The same was done after the Court observed that the settlement agreement between the couple was never...

S.68F NDPS Act | Power To Seize Illegally Acquired Property Exercisable Only If 'Reason To Believe' Based On Cogent Materials: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently held that the power of seizure under Section 68F of the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act can be exercised by an officer only when there are cogent materials based on inquiry, investigation or survey leading to a reason to believe that the property was illegally acquired.Justice V.G. Arun clarified that the 'reason to believe' should not be merely...

Kerala High Court Directs Swift Action To Create Posts In Forensic Labs, Institutionalise Anti-Drug Groups In Schools

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (October 30) called for swift administrative action on the creation of additional scientific officer posts in the State Forensic Science Laboratory and the institutionalisation of anti-drug awareness groups within educational institutions.The Special Bench of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice C Jayachandran was considering a batch of petitions...

Waitlist Panel Can't Be Operated In Segregated Manner; Vacancies Must Be Filled From Valid Waitlist: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that the waitlist panel cannot operate in a segregated manner, especially when the selection process of recruitment involves provisional result. “… a waitlist panel cannot be permitted to operate in a segregated manner. Where a selection process involves a provisional result, followed by Supplementary or additional result, the waitlist panel cannot be...

Not Appropriate To Restrain Vigilance Inquiry, Says Punjab & Haryana High Court While Dismissing MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's Plea in DA Case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused to interfere with a vigilance inquiry initiated against Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in a disproportionate assets (DA) case, observing that it would not be appropriate to restrain the Vigilance Bureau from conducting its inquiry at this stage.The Court dismissed Khaira's petition, which sought to quash the vigilance inquiry initiated on...

Courts Must Consider Social Realities, Adopt Pragmatic Approach When Considering Accused's Plea To Travel Abroad: P&H High Court

Observing that "courts must not remain in an 'ivory tower', but must engage with and adjudicate in consonance with evolving social realities", the Punjab & Haryana High Court has said that Courts must take a pragmatic approach in considering an accused's plea to travel abroad.Justice Sumeet Goel said, “When seized of an application by an accused entreating for permission to travel...

Celebration 'Anti-National' : PIL In Allahabad High Court Opposes Fund Allocation For Oudh Bar Association's 125th Anniversary Event

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea has been moved before the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench), seeking a direction to restrain the authorities from allocating any fund or allotting the High Court's conference hall to the Oudh Bar Association (OBA) for its proposed program to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the society, scheduled on November 2, 2025. The plea has been filed...

Causing Injury To Public Servant On Duty Must Be Viewed Seriously; 6-Month Sentence Not Excessive: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that injury to a public servant while on official duty must be viewed seriously and a punishment of six months is not excessive in such cases.Justice Rakesh Kainthla remarked that: “a sentence of six months cannot be said to be excessive because a public servant was injured while discharging his official duties, and such acts are to be...

School Management Committee Is Statutory Body Under RTE Act; Recovery For Financial Irregularities Cannot Be Made From Single Teacher: HP HC

The Himachal Pradesh High Court held that the School Management Committee is a statutory body under Section 21 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, and recovery for financial discrepancies can't be imposed on a single teacher.The Court further remarked that it is the management committee that collectively monitors government grants, so fixing recovery solely on...

“Delay Not Fatal When Authority Erred”: Delhi High Court Orders Full Family Pension Arrears For Widow Of Soldier Who Died In 1978

The Delhi High Court has upheld an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal, directing the Central government to pay arrears of special family pension to the widow of an army personnel, who died back in 1978.Though the widow had challenged denial of special family pension only in the year 2015, the High Court observed that such delay would not be fatal when the Pension Sanctioning Authority...