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Assisting Courts An Essential Duty: Delhi High Court Allows Advocates, Court Staff To Ply Vehicles Amid Pollution Curbs

Observing that assisting courts in the discharge of judicial work is an essential duty which can sometimes be emergent in nature, the Delhi High Court has permitted advocates and court staff residing in NCR to use their vehicles to commute to the national capital during pollution-related restrictions.Justice Amit Mahajan passed the order on while hearing a plea filed by the Delhi High Court...

72-Year-Old Landowners 15-Year Legal Battle: J&K High Court Quashes Orders Setting Aside His Land Mutation Without Examining Limitation

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed orders of the Divisional Commissioner and Financial Commissioner setting aside a land mutation attested in favour of 72-year-old Prem Singh in 2011, after nearly 15 years of litigation.The Court found that the revenue authorities had overturned the mutation without first deciding whether the appeal challenging it was filed within...

Kerala High Court Allows Digital News Platform NoCaps Editor To Operate Facebook Page After Deleting Comments Flagged By Police

The Kerala High has ordered to lift the blocking of independent Malayalam digital news organisation NoCap's Facebook page, after deleting certain comments notified by the Director General of Police and State Police Chief. Justice Ziyad Rahman A.A passed the direction in a petition preferred by journalist Hyder Ali K, the Chief Editor of NoCap who challenged the blocking of the Facebook page...

Isolated Sales Invoices Cannot Establish Territorial Jurisdiction In Patent Infringement Suit: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that mere production of invoices showing the sale of an allegedly infringing product by a retailer is insufficient to establish territorial jurisdiction in a patent infringement suit unless it is prima facie established that the manufacturer supplied the product to the retailer for sale within the State. The Court observed that four isolated purchases...

Ministers Cannot Arrogate Functions Entrusted To Statutory Authorities: Bombay High Court Quashes Ministers Order Converting Land

The Bombay High Court has quashed a State Minister's order converting Devsthan Inam Class III land into Class I Old Tenure, holding that a Minister cannot assume statutory functions entrusted by law to designated authorities. The Court observed that even the State Government cannot take over the powers of a statutory authority or compel it to exercise its discretion in a particular...

Fixed Sentence Of 20 Years Can Ordinarily Be Suspended During Appeal: Sikkim High Court Grants Bail To POCSO Convict

The Sikkim High Court has suspended the sentence of a 24-year-old man convicted under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and granted him bail pending appeal, observing that where a sentence is for a fixed term, the appellate court may ordinarily exercise its discretion to suspend its operation liberally, unless exceptional circumstances exist.Division Bench...

J&K&L High Court Denies Bail To Juvenile Tried As Adult In Terror Case; Says Alleged Links With JeM Handler Raise Concerns Of Danger

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the alleged association of a child in conflict with law with persons connected to a terrorist organisation can be considered while examining whether his release would expose him to moral or psychological danger under Section 12 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.Dismissing an appeal filed by a youth...

Judicial Recruitment | Deemed 1-Year Practice Exemption Restricted To Law Graduates Who Passed Out Before August 22, 2025: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has upheld the Maharashtra Public Service Commission's (MPSC) corrigendum restricting the benefit of deemed completion of one year of active legal practice in the Civil Judge Junior Division and Judicial Magistrate First Class recruitment process to law graduates who obtained their degrees before August 22, 2025. The Court observed that the Supreme Court's directions...

Meghalaya High Court Quashes POCSO Case Against Man, Cites Survivors No-Objection As They Live Together With Their 6-Year-Old Son

The Meghalaya High Court has quashed a POCSO case registered against a 25-year-old man after finding that the 22-year-old survivor had given her informed consent to quashing the proceedings and was voluntarily living with him along with their six-year-old son. The Court observed that in exceptional cases involving consensual adolescent relationships resulting in marriage or cohabitation...

Campus Election Row: Kerala High Court Asks Sree Sankaracharya University To Produce Observers Email Cited To Postpone Polls

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (05 November) directed the Sree Sankaracharya University to produce the email of the impartial observer that has been relied on by the varsity's Registrar to postpone the 2026-27 Campus Union and University Council elections.Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan issued the direction in a plea moved by a student of the University challenging the university's decision...