Kerala High Court Closes Plea Seeking Conduct Of Enrollment After Bar Council Of Kerala Enrols New Batch Of Advocates

The Kerala High Court has closed a plea seeking to conduct enrollment of law graduates to the Bar Council of Kerala.Justice N Nagaresh closed the matter after the counsel for the petitioner told the court that the enrollment for the new batch of advocates had been conducted on 11 and 12th October 2025. The Court has previously invoked Section 58 of the Advocates Act to protect the interests...

Habeas Corpus Plea Cannot Routinely Be Filed On Being Dissatisfied With Probe In Missing Persons Cases: Rajasthan High Court

While dismissing a habeas corpus writ petition, Rajasthan High Court held that the writ jurisdiction in the case of a missing person could not be invoked as a matter of routine to know the status of investigation or being dissatisfied with the manner of such investigation.The division bench of Justice Avneesh Jhingan and Justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu opined that the scope of Habeas Corpus...

'Business Can Be Curtailed But Environment Shouldn't Suffer': Punjab & Haryana High Court In Plea Against Cap On Green Cracker Sale-Purchase

While hearing a plea challenging restrictions on sale and purchase of green crackers, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today remarked that "business can be curtailed, but the environment should not suffer."In 2017, the High Court in order to curtail the environmental damage had directed that, "The Union Territory, Chandigarh, the States of Punjab and Haryana shall be entitled to issue...

'Police Can't Test Veracity Of Witness Statements': MP High Court Slams IO For Trying To Discredit Testimonies, Summons SP

In a tragic accident that led to the death of a 3-year-old boy, the Madhya Pradesh High Court reprimanded the police over the conduct of the IO who instead of conducting an investigation, questioned the complainant and witnesses in a manner trying to discredit their testimonies. Directing the Superintendent of Police to be personally present on the next date of hearing, the high court stayed...

General Clauses Act | Notice Is Deemed To Be Served Once Properly Addressed & Dispatched: J&K&L High Court Reiterates

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has upheld the dismissal of a Border Security Force (BSF) Constable while reaffirming that once a notice is properly addressed and dispatched by registered post, it is deemed to have been duly served under Section 27 of the General Clauses Act, 1897. The burden lies on the addressee to prove non-receipt, and courts cannot presume non-service...

Delhi High Court Dismisses Police's Plea To Recall Witness In 2020 Riots Arson Case Involving Tahir Hussain

The Delhi High Court on Monday (October 13) dismissed a plea moved by the Delhi Police against a trial court order rejecting its application seeking recall of a prosecution witness in the trial pertaining to an arson case in connection with 2020 North-East Delhi Riots, wherein one of accused is former AAP leader Tahir Hussain. After hearing the matter for some time, Justice Neena Bansal...

Rajasthan Govt Defends In High Court Classification Of Transgender Persons As OBCs, Says Reservation Policy Falls In Executive Domain

Rajasthan government's Department of Social Justice and Empowerment has defended before the High Court its circular classifying transgender persons as Other Backward Classes (“OBCs”), instead of providing horizontal reservation to them.The government in its response to a plea challenging the January 12, 2023 circular has said that the domain of policy making, includes the reservation...

Karnataka High Court Issues Notice On Appeal By Company Linked To Kerala CM's Daughter Challenging SFIO Probe Order

The Karnataka High Court on Monday issued notice on appeal filed by Exalogic Solutions Private Ltd, a company of which Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's daughter Veena Vijayan is a director, challenging dismissal of its plea to quash SFIO (Serious Fraud Investigation Office) probe against it.Exalogic Solutions had challenged direction of Corporate Affairs Ministry asking SFIO...

Scope Of S.482 BNSS Is Limited, Subsequent Anticipatory Bail Plea Not Maintainable After Rejection Of Earlier Plea: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has explained that Section 482 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)— which provides for anticipatory bail, is limited in scope, as opposed to Section 483, which provides for regular bail and is unlimited in scope, in as much as Section 482 does not envisage a revival of “reasons to believe” or apprehension of arrest once an earlier application...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: October 06 - October 12, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 330 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 341Nominal Index: Nishat R Kolyal AND Union of India & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 330Channappar AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 331U Mamatha AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 332Lokanna & Others AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 333Gurunath Vadde AND State...

'Apathy Of Highest Order': Orissa High Court Criticizes Arbitrary Dropping Of RTI Proceeding By Information Commission

The Orissa High Court has come down heavily on the State Information Commission (SIC) for its apathetic and arbitrary attitude in denying/dropping a plea made under the Right to Information Act ('RTI Act') way back in 2018.While highlighting the contradictory stand taken by the Commission in order to avoid providing information, the Bench of Justice V. Narasingh observed –“In the...

Delhi High Court Raps Authorities For Not Providing Reservation To Transgender Persons In Public Employment

The Delhi High Court has directed the authorities to take appropriate decision for providing relaxation of 5 years age and qualifying marks to the extent of 5% to transgender persons in public employment concerning recruitment to various posts in the Court establishment.A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela said that despite the 2014 judgment...