MP High Court Directs State To Address Grievances Of Families Displaced By Sardar Sarovar Dam Project In Medha Patkar's PIL

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State to address concerns raised by social activist Medha Patkar in the public interest litigation concerning the land allotment process for families displaced by the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project. The PIL sought proper resettlement and rehabilitation of the displaced families and primarily concerns allotment of house plots and the legal rights of...

Surprising That NHRC Orders Inquiry Into UP Madrasas But No Suo-Moto Action On Lynchings, Vigilantism: Allahabad HC's Justice Atul Sreedharan

Justice Atul Sreedharan of the Allahabad High Court has strongly criticised the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for prima facie stepping outside its jurisdiction by directing an inquiry into allegations made against 558 aided Madrasas in the State of UP. Justice Vivek Saran, who was also part of the bench, however, disagreed with Justice Sreedharan's remark.For context, Justice...

No Prior Permission To Pursue Regular Course: Telangana High Court Refuses To Validate Employee's LLB Degree

The Telangana High Court has held that a court employee who pursued a regular three-year LL.B. course without prior permission cannot later seek ratification of that degree for entry in his service register, particularly after his earlier writ petition seeking the same relief had been withdrawn without liberty to re-agitate the issue. A Division Bench of Justice P. Sam Koshy and Justice...

S. 24 HMA | No Maintenance If Qualified Wife Refrains From Working Just To Burden Husband: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the Courts can deny maintenance under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act [Maintenance Pendente Lite] if a qualified wife capable of earning, refrains from working, only to impose a 'burden' upon her husband.A division bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Vivek Saran made this observation while dismissing a first appeal filed by the wife,...

Not All Content On Public Figures Can Be Restrained Unless Derogatory: Delhi High Court Remarks In Arjun Kapoor's Personality Rights Suit

Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court seeking protection of his personality rights against AI misuse and pornographic content.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela heard Advocate Pravin Anand appearing for the actor who took the Court through defendants who are indulging in sale of merchandise using Kapoor's personality traits, including his photos, without his consent.He...

Madras High Court Orders CBI Probe Into Alleged ₹397 Crore Transformer Procurement Scam During Senthil Balaji's Tenure As Electricity Minister

The Madras High Court has ordered an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into allegations of Rs 397 crore scam in procuring transformer tenders during the tenure of Senthil Balaji as the Minister for Electricity and Prohibition and Excise from 2021 to 2023. The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan has ordered the Tamil Nadu Directorate of...

'No Time With Mother': Punjab & Haryana High Court Declines Custody To Working Mother Living In PG

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declined custody of a minor child to a working mother residing as a paying guest, holding that she had no sufficient time or support system to care for the child, while reiterating that shared parenting best serves the child's welfare.Justice Gurvinder Gill and Justice Ramesh Kumari said, "in the case in hand, both wife and husband are working...

LARR Authority Has Jurisdiction To Examine Limitation In Land Acquisition References Under 2013 Act: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that the Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority, which replaces the reference court under the 2013 Act, has jurisdiction to decide the question of limitation in reference proceedings. The Court observed that since the Authority exercises powers akin to the reference court, it necessarily has the jurisdiction to determine whether a reference...

Karnataka High Court Quashes Case Against TV9 Channel Over 2012 Court Violence, Says Decriminalization Of Cable TV Act Is Retrospective

Quashing proceedings against TV9 Karnataka Pvt. Ltd. and its ex-correspondents in the 2012 City Civil Court complex violence case, the Karnataka High Court said that offence under Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act 1995 was decriminalised by a 2023 central amendment and its beneficial effect must be applied retrospectively.A single-judge bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna allowed...

MP High Court Asks Authorities To Examine Road Safety Suggestions By Former RAS Officer

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued notice on a public interest litigation concerning road safety issues, filed by a retired officer of the Rajasthan Administrative Service. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf, after recording the submission, allowed the petitioner to file detailed suggestions regarding potential measures to improve road safety....

Statutory Amendments Can't Be Applied Retrospectively To Deny Regularisation Of Long-Serving Employee: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that statutory amendments cannot apply retroactively to defeat the accrued rights of an employee who was serving continuously for decades. The bench of Justice Jai Kumar Pillai observed;"However, this Court finds that the petitioner entered service in 1989 and completed his qualifying period for regularization long before the 2016 amendment came...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 20 to April 26, 2026

Nominal Index [2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 197 to 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 211]Tridoss Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. vs Union of India, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 197M/s Ascent Ventures vs The State of Maharashtra, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 198Bina Ramnik Chawda vs Cherag Balsara, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 199Lalan Kishore Singh vs Union of India, 2026 LiveLaw (Bom) 200Narsing Ganpatrao Ankushkar vs Balaji Pandharinath Thorat, 2026...