High Courts
'Scant Regard' For Judicial Orders By Police Delays Justice, Floods High Court With Petitions: Orissa High Court Asks DGP To Intervene
The Orissa High Court has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to pass necessary instructions to the Superintendents of Police (SPs) all across the State to ensure regular and strict execution of judicial orders by police officials, especially at the level of Inspectors In-Charge (IICs). [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 56]While deciding a suo moto contempt proceeding initiated against an IIC...
Bombay High Court Restores Dismissal Of Employee For Vulgar Remarks Against Koli Women
The Bombay High Court has upheld the dismissal of a man from his service, on the ground that he used filthy language against his employer and also the fisher women while he was tasked for driving the Koli community women and transporting their fish to market on a daily basis. [2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 291]Single-judge Justice Sandeep Marne said that an employee who has become incalcitrant and...
Madhya Pradesh High Court Lifts Stay On Arrest Warrant Against TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee In BJP Leader's Defamation Case
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday (June 17) lifted an interim stay on execution of arrest warrants issued by the trial court against TMC National General Secretary and Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee in a defamation case, after no one appeared on his behalf in the matter. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 215]Banerjee had moved a plea challenging arrest warrants issued by the trial court in...
Jharkhand High Court Designates 10 Lawyers As Senior Advocates
The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday (June 17) notified designation of 10 lawyers as senior advocates. The notification issued by the Registrar General states:"In exercise of powers conferred by Section 16(2) of the Advocates Act, 1961 read with the High Court of Jharkhand (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2025, Hon'ble the Chief Justice and THЕ Hon'ble Judges of the High Court...
Confirmation Of Accounts Signed By Debtor Sufficient To Sustain Summary Suit Under Order XXXVII CPC: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that a confirmation of accounts signed by a debtor acknowledging a loan transaction and the applicable interest terms constitutes a written contract and can form the basis of a summary suit under Order XXXVII CPC.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna dismissed an appeal filed by a chartered accountant challenging a decree passed in favour of a company for recovery of...
Advocate Entitled To Adjust Unpaid Professional Fees From Compensation Recovered For Client If Such Adjustment Was Agreed: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that where a client and advocate had agreed that professional fees would be adjusted from the compensation amount recovered in litigation, the advocate would be entitled to such adjustment if the client failed to prove payment of the agreed fees.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upheld a decree allowing an advocate's counterclaim for recovery of ₹36,000...
Madras High Court Dismisses Plea To Ensure Only Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists Contest From Constituencies Earmarked For SC Category
The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea seeking directions to all Returning Officers involved in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections to ensure that only those professing Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism are permitted to contest in elections from constituencies earmarked for the Scheduled Caste community. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 265]The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul...
POSH Act | ICC Can't Adjudicate Sexual Harassment Complaint Over Incident In Transport Not Provided By Employer: Bombay High Court
An alleged act of sexual harassment if occurring in a mode of transport not provided by the employer of either the accused or the victim, cannot be entertained under the provisions of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (POSH Act), held the Bombay High Court. [Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 290]It therefore quashed the proceedings against...
Conviction For Forest Offence Not Necessary For Confiscation Of Vehicle Used In Illegal Transport Of Forest Produce: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has held that a conviction for a forest offence is not a pre-condition for confiscation of a vehicle under Section 61-A of the Indian Forest Act, 1927, as applicable in Maharashtra. The Court observed that the statutory scheme under Sections 61-A to 61-G empowers the authorised officer to confiscate forest produce and vehicles used in the commission of a forest...
Can't Detain Foreign Seafarers Indefinitely Pending Maritime Accident Probe: Kerala High Court Permits Repatriation Of MV Wan Hai 503 Crew
The Kerala High Court in a recent decision allowed two foreign crew members of MV Wan Hai 503, which was involved in a maritime accident last year near to Azheekal, to leave India for their home countries. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 332]Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas allowed the writ petition filed by Taiwanese national Wei, Chun-Ju and Chinese national Tao Peng, who respectively the Master and...