'Delhi Govt Can't Shirk Responsibility': High Court Orders Emergency Shelter Measures For Homeless Sleeping Outside Hospitals In Winter Cold

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said that the Delhi Government or its agencies cannot shirk away from their responsibility to provide shelter to patients, attendants and their family members forced to sleep outside city hospitals in the biting winter cold due to lack of shelter.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued urgent short term directions, after it recently took suo motu cognizance of the situation. The Court said that it is the bounden duty...

'Misused Public Office': Punjab & Haryana High Court Refuses Pre-Arrest Bail To Municipal Officials In ₹12 Crore Fake Work Orders Scam

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to two officials of the Municipal Corporation, Faridabad, observing that allegations of large-scale corruption, forgery of public records and misappropriation of public funds demand a cautious approach at the pre-arrest stage.Justice Sumeet Goel said,"The allegations against the petitioners pertain to offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 which by their very nature are serious and grave. Corruption by...

Can't Prosecute Doctors For Medical Negligence Without Independent Expert Medical Opinion: Punjab & Haryana High Court

Quashing criminal proceedings against doctors accused of medical negligence leading to the death of a woman after childbirth, the Punjab & Haryana High Court has cautioned against subjecting medical professionals to criminal trials without credible expert scrutiny.Justice Manisha Batra said, "The investigating officer and the private complainant could not always be supposed to have knowledge of medical science so as to determine whether the act of the accused medical professional...

'Can't Pave Way For Encroachers': Madras High Court Upholds Eviction Of SASTRA University From Govt Land Earmarked For Prison

The Madras High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by Shanmugha Arts, Science Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA), a deemed university, challenging a government order that refused an alternate land offered by the University for setting up a prison and a subsequent eviction notice issued by the Tahsildar, Thanjavur. The bench of Justice SM Subramaniam and Justice C Kumarappan noted that the government had decided to develop a prison in the government land where the university...

Intimacy Though Normal Between Married Couples Must Be Consensual; Unconsesual Sex With Spouse Causes Trauma: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has held that while marriage is seen as automatic grant of sexual consent and intimacy between married couples is normal however, it has to be consensual and mutually respectful, recognizing bodily freedom of spouse within marital relationship. In doing so the court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a man who was accused by his wife of sexual assault and...

Compassionate Appointment Can't Be Rejected Merely On Ground Of Delay If Financial Distress Is Established & Delay Is Explained: Andhra Pradesh HC

A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court comprising Justice Cheekati Manavendranath Roy and Justice Tuhin Kumar Gedela held that compassionate appointment cannot be denied solely on the ground of delay when the delay is due to lack of awareness of rules and the family's financial distress is established. Further it was directed that the authorities must make a balanced & objective assessment of financial and other conditions of the family while considering requests for ...

Concealing Age, Murder Conviction Before Marriage Amounts To Mental Cruelty: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has held that a person concealing material facts such as their age and conviction for life imprisonment in a murder case before solemnisation of marriage amounts to mental cruelty under the Hindu Marriage Act, warranting dissolution of marriage. The Court observed that such concealment, in this case by the wife, breaks the thread of trust between spouses, causing...

Termination Violating S.25F Industrial Disputes Act Doesn't Automatically Lead To Reinstatement: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has partly upheld the order of a Labour Court which directed monetary compensation to the petitioner, instead of reinstatement, despite ruling his termination to be in violation of Section 25F of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (“the Act”). The bench of Justice Anand Sharma observed that even though a violation of Section 25F rendered the retrenchment illegal, the nature of the relief was not automatically reinstatement but dependent on the facts...

'These Petitions Disturb Us': Delhi High Court Pulls Up NGO For Repeatedly Filing PILs Alleging Illegal Encroachment By Mosques

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 14) pulled up an NGO for repeatedly filing public interest litigations alleging illegal encroachments by mosques and dargahs in various areas in the national capital. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia noted that the petitions seeking similar relief were being listed every second day, calling it sheer misuse of PIL jurisdiction. The plea was filed by NGO Save India Foundation. It concerned alleged illegal...

Can't Allow Individual Requests To Hold Jallikattu, State Already Conducting Festival: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has refused to entertain a request made by an organisation for conducting the Jallikattu festival at Avaniyapuram after noting that the State was already conducting it. The bench of Justice G Jayachandran and Justice KK Ramakrishnan noted that, considering the international importance of the Jallikattu festival, the state itself was organising it and thus Court could not entertain any independent request seeking permission to conduct the festival. “Considering...

Delhi High Court Refuses To Entertain PIL To Extend Benefit Of CM Advocates Welfare Scheme To Lawyers' Parents

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (January 14) refused to entertain a PIL seeking extension of benefits of the Chief Minister Advocates Welfare Scheme to the eligible lawyers' parents.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said that a mandamus cannot be issued in the matter, while citing autonomy to contract between two parties, one of them being the Delhi Government. The Court disposed of a plea moved by First Generation Lawyers Association, raising the...

Institutional Coalitions and Constitutional Consequences

A Theory of 'Eidocracy'For centuries, political philosophy has grappled with the fragility of freedom—how power, even when born of the people, tends to turn inward and preserve itself. Much has been written about the tyranny of rulers, the indifference of citizens, and the illusions that sustain authority. Yet what has remained less examined is the silent transformation that takes place within lawful systems themselves: when obedience endures without conviction, and legitimacy survives without...