Civil Courts Cannot Grant Ex-Parte Injunction In Shareholder Disputes Due To Bar U/S 430 Companies Act: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court bench presided over by Justice Aniruddha Roy, has observed that a civil court cannot grant an ex parte ad interim injunction in a shareholder dispute, in light of the bar under section 430 of the Companies Act, 2013. The plaintiff filed a civil suit before the Civil Judge, Senior Division, Alipore, alleging that his shares in the Power Tools and Appliances...

Kerala High Court Pulls Up Travancore Devaswom Board Over Financial Mismanagement; Orders Immediate Digitisation Of Accounts

The Kerala High Court has ordered immediate digitisation of accounts of Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) while observing that the continued reliance on archaic manual record-keeping and failure to conduct timely audits revealed gross administrative indifference by the board. The division bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V and Justice K V Jayakumar passed the order in a matter...

Cohabitation With Adult Husband To Invite POCSO: Allahabad High Court Directs Minor Mother To Stay In Shelter Home Till She Turns 18

The Allahabad High Court recently declined to release a 17-year-old girl, who is both a minor and a mother of two-month-old child, from a government shelter home as it said that she must remain there until she attains majority on October 5, 2026. A Bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Sanjiv Kumar passed the order on a habeas plea filed on behalf of the minor girl and her child as...

Wife Entitled To Reside In Shared Household Even If Husband Disowned By Parents: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the wife residing in the house immediately after her marriage constitutes “shared household” under the Domestic Violence Act and is entitled to reside in the same despite the husband being disowned by his parents later. Justice Sanjeev Narula said that such a residence where she lives along with her husband and in-laws after marriage is a household...

Allahabad High Court Bars Commercial Use Of Educational Institutions' Properties Across UP, Directs Govt To Issue Circular

In a significant order, the Allahabad High Court this week held that immovable properties belonging to educational institutions across state, including their playgrounds, cannot, under any circumstances, be used for 'commercial' purposes such as exhibitions, trade fairs, melas or sales. Emphasizing that such infrastructure must remain exclusively devoted to educational...

'Big Corporations Must Adopt Reasonable Litigation Policy Against Small Enterprises': Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court dismissed an appeal under section 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act) filed by Mahindra Defence Systems Ltd. challenging an arbitral award passed by the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Facilitation Council in favour of Rajana Industries holding that the award was reasoned, fair and free from...

Allegation Of Deliberately Enhancing Suit Valuation Insufficient For Case Transfer: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that merely because a party alleges that the other side deliberately enhanced the valuation of the suit to ensure that the mattwrs comes out of jurisdiction of the concerned court is not sufficient ground to allege bias and seek transfer.“Merely because one of the parties, in its pleadings (that too before a court other than the court where the subject suit...

Kerala High Court Quarterly Digest: July - September, 2025 [Citations: 372 - 616]

Nominal Index: [Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 372 - 616]Geetha K.K v. Assistant Commissioner, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 372XXX v. State of Kerala and Ors., 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 373Asgar Ali v. Union of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 374Ison George v. State of Kerala, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 375Dr. Kanthanathan R. v. State of Kerala and Ors., 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 376Suresh M. V. v. State of Kerala and Others,...

Retirees Completing 12 Months Service By 30th June Entitled To Annual Increment For Pension Revision: P&H HC

A Division bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rohit Kapoor held that employees retiring on 30th June are entitled to the benefit of annual increment if they completed 12 months of satisfactory service. Background Facts The petitioners were employees of the State of Haryana. They sought quashing of Rule 10 of the...

No Coercive Action Against Protesters Opposing SC's Stray Dog Order: Delhi Police To High Court

The Delhi Police has informed the Delhi High Court that no coercive action will be taken against the individuals who protested and expressed dissent against the Supreme Court order directing the civic authorities to clear localities of stray dogs. The police told Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma that no coercive action is being contemplated against nine individuals against whom FIR was registered...

Chhattisgarh High Court Takes Suo Motu Cognisance Of Blocking Of Bridge Pathway, Says Encroachers' Posing Direct Challenge To State

The Chhattisgarh High Court has taken suo-motu cognisance of a news item published in a Hindi daily which reported that the Dayalband Bridge— under which 15 families were living for 40 years, along with a demarcated footpath, was blocked by few people, who, having failed to initially purchase the land, erected an iron gate and boundary wall with a threatening note stating that those...

State Should Conduct Itself In Transparent Manner, Not Show Bias In Public Employment: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently observed that State, as an employer, should conduct itself in a fair and transparent manner and give an opportunity to all candidates to fulfil their aspirations of securing a government job. Justice T Vinod Kumar highlighted that the State should not show favouritism and bias in favour of any candidate by altering the records. Noting that the State...