Delhi High Court Full Bench To Decide If Armed Forces Tribunal Can Decide On Vires Of Legislations Other Than AFT Act

The Delhi High Court's full bench is set to decide whether the Armed Forces Tribunal is competent to adjudicate on the vires of statutory legislations other than the Armed Forces Tribunals Act. A division bench comprising Justice C Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla referred the question to be decided by a full bench, comprising three judges. The Full Bench will also decide if...

Karnataka High Court Allows Issuance Of Travel Documents For Deportation Of Russian Woman, Her Children Found Living In Gokarna Cave

The Karnataka High Court on Friday permitted the Union of India to issue necessary travel documents to enable a mother and her children, who were found living in a cave in the state's Uttara Kannada district (Gokarna), to travel back to Russia. Justice B M Shyam Prasad disposed of the petition filed by Dror Shlomo Goldstein, who claims to be the father of the children and had approached the...

Karnataka High Court Asks NLSIU To Accommodate Student With Learning Disability Struggling With Arithmetic If She Fails In Economics

Disposing of a plea by an National Law School India University (NLSIU) student seeking alternate subject/exemption from studying Economics in view of her disability, the Karnataka High Court asked the varsity to have a liberal approach enabling the student to pass her first year course in case is clears all other subjects except Economics.Justice R Devdas disposed the petition of a student who...

Cash For Query Row: Delhi High Court Declines Urgent Orders On Mahua Moitra's Plea To Stop Lokpal From Hearing BJP MP Nishikant Dubey

The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to pass urgent orders in a plea filed by Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra praying that complainant Nishikant Dubey be not heard in the proceedings pending against her before the Lokpal of India on October 06, in relation to the cash for query row.Moitra made the prayer alleging that Dubey leaked confidential information and documents related to...

Kerala High Court Directs State To Decide On Sanction For Vigilance Probe Into PP Divya's Alleged Benami Deals

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (September 25) directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the State to consider and pass orders for prior sanction to conduct vigilance inquiry into the alleged benami deals of former Kannur district panchayat president P.P. Divya.Justice A. Badharudheen was considering a plea by Kerala Students Union (KSU) Vice-President, Muhammed Shammas P., seeking a...

Kerala High Court Directs State To Notify Snakebite Management Guidelines For Schools, Says Anti-Venom Supply Is Govt Responsibility

The Kerala High Court has issued directions to the State government on the issue of snakebite management and basic healthcare in schools, while disposing of a writ petition filed in connection with the 2019 snakebite incident involving a school student.Delivering the judgment, the division Bench comprising Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen directed the State to issue...

Provisional Attachment Of Bank Accounts Cannot Be Done Merely Upon Issue Of Show Cause Notice U/S 74 GST Act: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that provisional attachment of bank accounts cannot be done merely upon issue of show cause notice under Section 74 of the Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017. Referring to the judgment of the Supreme Court in Radha Krishan Industries v. State of H.P. and its earlier judgment in R.D. Enterprises v. Union of India, the bench of Justice Shekhar B....

'Contemptuous': J&K&L High Court Raps Srinagar SSP For Objectionable Remarks Against Judiciary In Dossier

The Jammu & Kashmir High Court, while quashing a preventive detention order, observed that the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Srinagar had made objectionable and contemptuous remarks against the judiciary in the dossier prepared to justify the detention.A bench of Justice Moksha Khajuria Kazmi directed the Director General of Police (DGP), J&K to seek an explanation from the...

High Court Can Direct UIDAI To Share Last Location Of Missing Person's Aadhaar Use With Police: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that UIDAI can be directed to provide details of usage of Aadhaar card and the location where it has been used to the police for investigating a missing person's complaint.A single judge, Justice Suraj Govindaraj said,“When during the course of investigation by police authority or any investigating authority in the event of usage of Aadhaar card...

Allahabad High Court Denies Mutual Divorce Filed Within 6 Months Of Marriage Without 'Exceptional Depravity'

The Allahabad High Court has denied grant of divorce to a couple who had filed for the same jointly within 6 months of marriage on grounds that there was no exceptional depravity claimed by either party.Parties got married on 3rd March, 2025 and started living separately from 21st March, 2025. Subsequently, they filed for mutual divorce. However, their application was rejected vide order...

White Petroleum Jelly Classified As 'Drug', Not Cosmetic; Higher VAT & Entry Tax Not Leviable: Madhya Pradesh High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court stated that White Petroleum Jelly is classified as a 'Drug', not 'Cosmetic', and therefore is not liable to higher VAT and Entry Tax. Justices Vivek Rusia and Jai Kumar Pillai stated that a White Petroleum Jelly of IP grade manufactured and sold by appellant under a valid drug licence is liable to be classified as a category of drug and medicine under...

Suspending Public Representative On Suspicion Of Corruption Without Proof Will Be Detrimental To Those Who Elected Him: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court allowed a petition filed by the Chairman, Municipal Board, Jaitaran, against his suspension owing to an allegation of illegality in issuing pattas, and opined that the suspension of a public representative on mere allegations of irregularities would be detrimental to the public at large.Justice Kuldeep Mathur observed that a public representative was expected to work...