High Courts
Refund For Canceled Tickets Done, Compensation To Stranded Passengers To Be Paid At Earliest: Indigo Tells Delhi High Court
Indigo Airlines informed the Delhi High Court on Thursday that refund of tickets recently canceled by it amid the chaotic disruption of flights has been done and compensation to stranded passengers will be done at the earliest. A division bench comprising Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia asked the airlines to furnish an affidavit detailing the manner of compensation to be...
Kerala High Court Closes Law Aspirant's Plea For Transgender Reservation In Law Colleges After She Secures Admission
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (22 January) closed the plea by a law aspirant seeking reservation under the transgender category for admission to the Integrated Five Year LL.B Course in Government Law College, Kozhikode.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, closed the petition when it was informed that the petitioner has acquired admission at the Government Law College, KozhikodeThe petitioner, in...
'Foundation Has Vanished': Karnataka High Court Stays ED Probe Against Gameskraft Citing Closure Report In Predicate FIR
The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Thursday (January 22) stayed ED's investigation against Gameskraft Technologies after a closure report was filed in the FIR registered for the predicate offence, noting that once FIR is closed the foundation for ECIR had vanished. The plea seeks quashing of ED's November 2025 Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) and all...
NDPS Act | Calcutta High Court Suspends Conviction After Noting Raiding Officer Mixed Seized Contraband
The Calcutta High Court, on Thursday (January 22), suspended the conviction of two men under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, noting that the Raiding Officer/ Office making inventory had mixed the seized contraband packets even though the law does not authorise the same. The bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray observed,"There is no material to...
No Requirement To Issue Pre-Cognizance Notice U/S 223 BNSS To Accused In Cheque Bounce Complaint: Gauhati High Court
Relying on the Supreme Court's decision in Sanjabij Tari vs. Kishore S. Borcar 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 952, the Gauhati High Court has held that a Magistrate is not required to issue notice to the accused at the pre-cognizance stage in a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act. The Court clarified that issuing such notice by invoking the first proviso to Section 223(1) of...
Student With Benchmark Disability Entitled To Fee Waiver Despite Not Being Admitted Under PwD Quota: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently came to the aid of a law student with chronic schizophrenia by directing the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University to provide fee waiver, as long as the student was within the 40% benchmark disability. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy noted that the Tamil Nadu Government and the university had introduced the welfare scheme, providing a fee waiver for...
Staff Crunch In Govt Schools: MP High Court Asks State To Place Teachers Vacancy Data On Record
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Tuesday (January 20), directed the State Government to file an affidavit showing the number of teaching posts lying vacant in government schools, in a public interest litigation claiming that about 600 government schools were inadequately staffed or had no teaching staff. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf...
Allahabad High Court Quashes Summons Against Directors Of Larsen & Toubro In Air Pollution Case
The Allahabad High Court recently quashed the summons against M/s Larsen & Toubro and its directors in case registered for violation of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, on grounds that the Magistrate failed to apply his mind on the documents placed before it.Applicants include Whole-time Director & Sr. Executive Vice Presidents for different branches of...
Aspirant Solely Responsible To Check Recruitment Exam Updates: MP High Court Refuses To Relax Mandatory Timelines On Medical Grounds
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that candidates participating in a recruitment process are solely responsible for regularly monitoring the official exam website for updates and instructions.The bench of Justice Jai Kumar Pillai thus dismissed the plea of a candidate, aspiring for the post of Assistant Professor, whose candidature was cancelled due to her failure to submit the...
Tender | Common Site Photograph By Bidders Not Proof Of Cartelisation; Integrity Commitment Must Be Breached: Gauhati High Court
The Gauhati High Court while refusing to interfere with the award of a Public Works Department contract for construction of a Circuit House at Udalguri, held that an allegation of cartelisation raised by an unsuccessful bidder based solely on a common photograph enclosed with site-visit certificates of two competing bidders cannot be accepted in the absence of any concrete material showing...
Families Of Disabled Combat Personnel Deserve Liberal Approach In Compassionate Appointment Claims: Orissa High Court
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to suffer violence on their behalf,” the Orissa High Court quoted George Orwell as it upheld the direction of a Single Bench, which ordered compassionate appointment as Head Constable in favour of the wife of a former Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan who sustained grave injuries and disability in a...
Promotees Occupying Direct Recruit Slots Temporarily Can't Claim Seniority Over Them: Andhra Pradesh High Court
The Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the revision of a 2007 seniority list of Prohibition & Excise staff, holding that promoted officers cannot claim seniority over direct recruits who subsequently joined service simply because they temporarily occupied the slots meant for the latter.A Bench of Justice Cheekati Manavendranath Roy and Justice Tuhin...