State Obligated To Rehabilitate 1984 Operation Blue Star Oustees: P&H High Court Slashes Shop Allotment Rates

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the State of Punjab to allot shop sites to shopkeepers displaced from around Sri Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, during Operation Blue Star in 1984, at ₹1,000 per square yard. This is the rate given in 1988 to oustees of the later Galiara beautification scheme. The State had fixed a rate of ₹38,400 per square yard in 2012.A Division Bench of...

Employer Can't Convert Duly Selected Employee Against Sanctioned Post Into 'Perpetual Contractual Employee' By Nomenclature: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where a person is selected through an advertisement for a regular vacancy against a sanctioned post under the applicable service rules, the employer cannot later treat him as a contractual employee merely by describing his engagement as ad hoc or contractual in successive orders. It held that an employee who accepts consolidated remuneration out of...

Lawyer Urges Madras High Court To Urgently Hear Plea Seeking CBI Probe In POCSO Case Involving Granite Baron R Veeramani

The Madras High Court, on Friday (September 25), said that it will hear the plea seeking a CBI probe into the POCSO case involving industrialist R Veeramani, widely known as Gem Granites Veeramani. The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan made the statement on an urgent mention made by Senior Advocate NL Rajag, seeking a CBI probe into the case. The...

Delhi High Court Agrees To Hear Today Woman's Plea Accusing CJP Activists Of Morphing, Circulating Her Images With PM Modi

The Delhi High Court on Friday allowed urgent listing for today of a plea filed by a woman alleging that Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) leaders Saurav Das, Abhijit Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Ratna Singh posted and circulated an alleged deepfake picture of her alongside Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia said...

Decide Bank Unions' Plea To Hold Peaceful Protest At Site Other Than Jantar Mantar: Delhi High Court Tells Police

The Delhi High Court on Friday asked the Delhi Police to decide a plea filed by Delhi State unit of the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) seeking permission to hold a peaceful protest at any alternate site other than Jantar Mantar on September 28, 29 and 30.Justice Amit Mahajan directed the police to consider the request of the Bank Unions to hold the demonstration at an alternative site...

State Can't Cancel Finalised Tender Due To Its Own Error In Mentioning Performance Bank Guarantee: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a tendering authority cannot cancel a tender at an advanced stage merely because it had wrongly fixed the Performance Bank Guarantee (ePBG) in the bid document. It held that the ePBG is a performance security with no bearing on a bidder's eligibility or ranking, and an error in it can be corrected without re-tendering.The bench of Justice Shekhar B....

Order V Rule 20 CPC | Locked House, Incomplete Address Not Enough To Resort To Newspaper Publication For Summons: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court held that when the process server's report reflected a locked house or an incomplete address, it did not by itself justify adopting the substituted service under Order V Rule 20 CPC, unless the Court was satisfied that the defendant was deliberately evading service and ordinary service was impracticable. “The Court must apply its mind to the process server's report...

Gujarat High Court Denies Pre-Arrest Bail To Journalist Accused Of Posing As Pollution Control Board Officer, Seeking Bribe

The Gujarat High Court denied anticipatory bail to a "journalist" who was accused of impersonating himself as an officer of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board and demanding money from a factory owner to delete photos and videos of contaminated water which was allegedly found there. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 256]The allegation against the applicant was that he along with other accused,...

Delhi High Court Directs DLSA To Hand Over Trial Court's 'Encouraging' Message To POCSO Survivor With Compensation

The Delhi High Court has directed the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) to print and hand over to a 10-year-old POCSO survivor a message penned by the trial court judge who had convicted the accused, along with the compensation awarded to her family.A division bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Dinesh Bhatt directed the Secretary, DLSA, to comply with the...

Seriousness Of UAPA Predicate Offence Can't Justify Prolonged PMLA Custody, Article 21 Not Eclipsed: Delhi High Court Grants Bail

The Delhi High Court has observed that the seriousness of allegations in a predicate case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act cannot, by itself, justify prolonged incarceration in a separate proceedings under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).“Seriousness cannot be the complete answer to the length of custody in the PMLA case,” Justice Sanjeev Narula observed. The...

General Allegation That In-Laws Supported Husband Not Enough To Invoke Domestic Violence Act: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has quashed domestic violence proceedings against a husband's parents, holding that a general allegation that they supported their son, without any specific allegation or overt act of domestic violence, cannot justify continuation of proceedings against them. The case against the husband, however, will continue. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 379]Justice Venkatesh Naik T was...

Criminal Law No Tool To Stifle Legitimate Political Dissent: Madras High Court Quashes Case Against Annamalai For Alleged Provocative Speech

The Madras High Court on Thursday (September 24) quashed a case against former IPS officer and President of We The Leaders Foundation, K Annamalai, for his alleged provocative speech involving freedom fighter Muthuramalinga Thevar. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan noted that there was no material to show that Annamalai had intended to promote communal disharmony through his speech. The court...