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Exceptional Case: Kerala Govt Objects To Ex-DGP Tomin J Thachankarys Sentence Suspension Plea In DA Case

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (September 22) granted 2 days' time to the State to object to former Director General of Police Tomin J. Thachankary's plea to suspend his 4-year sentence in a disproportionate assets case.When the matter came up before Justice A. Badharudeen today, the public prosecutor submitted that he seeks to file a counter objecting to the sentence suspension plea...

Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Reporter TV MD Anto Augustine Arrested In Alcohol Possession Case

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (September 22) granted regular bail to Reporter TV Managing Director Anto Augustine, who is booked in an excise case for illegal possession of large quantities of alcohol in his residence in Wayanad. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 519]Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath noted that recovery was effected in the case already and that Augustine was also handed over to...

Defection | Tenth Schedule Disqualification Is For Being A Member, Not For Contesting Fresh Election: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a legislator who voluntarily gives up membership of his political party incurs disqualification under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution is only in respect of the House of which he is then a member, and is not thereby barred from contesting an election to Parliament. It held that Article 102(2) of the Constitution disqualifies such a person only...

Rajasthan High Court Quashes Termination Of Cooperative Bank Employees, Says Registrar Cant Undermine Societys Autonomy

The Rajasthan High Court has held that while exercising powers under Section 125 Rajasthan Cooperative Societies Act, 2001 (the “Act”), the Registrar cannot make such interference that curtails or undermines the autonomy of the society. The bench of Justice Anand Sharma was hearing a petition challenging the orders by which the petitioner's regularisation as a Class IV employee of the...

Para Asian Games 2026: Karnataka High Court Directs Reconsideration Of Womens Doubles Table Tennis Selection

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) to reconsider the team selection process for the women's doubles events in table tennis for the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games after finding the selection method “ex-facie contrary" to well known norms of selection for double events.The Asian Para Games are set to take place between October 18 -24,...

Preventive Detention Cannot Become Dead Letter Due To Admin Inaction: J&K&L High Court Quashes PSA Order Over Inordinate Delay

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed a detention order passed under Section 8 of the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978, holding that the respondents had failed to explain the inordinate delay in executing the order and had not placed on record any material to substantiate their plea that the petitioner was evading execution.The Court observed that the existence...

Rajasthan High Court Grants Last Chance To Lead Evidence In Land Acquisition Case After 12 Years, Directs Planting Of 25 Trees

The Rajasthan High Court has granted a last opportunity to a woman to lead her evidence in a land acquisition case pending for over 12 years, subject to her depositing Rs. 10,000 in the Junior Advocates Welfare Fund and planting 25 shade-bearing trees in a public area.A bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand was hearing a petition challenging an order of the Senior Civil Judge, Jaipur...

Karnataka High Court Mandates Admitting, Marking Of Undisputed Documents Under S.330(3) BNSS To Ensure Speedy Trial

The Karnataka High Court has mandated all the trial courts in the State to adhere to Section 330 BNSS, corresponding to Section 294(3) CrPC, to ensure the fundamental right to a speedy trial. Under Section 330(3) of the BNSS, if the genuineness of a document is undisputed, it can be admitted as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under BNSS without formally proving the signature...

In Sunday Special Hearings, Rajasthan High Court Protects Councillors From Arrest Ahead Of Municipal Chairperson Polls

In two hearings held on Sunday, the Rajasthan High Court granted interim protection from arrest to two ward members booked in separate FIRs ahead of elections to two separate Municipal Councils. In the first case, the petitioner therein had been elected as a Ward Member of the Municipal Council, Shri Vijaynagar, District Sri Ganganagar, on September 14, 2026. He was subsequently declared...

Promotion Cant Be Withheld If Complaint Against Employee Does Not Result Into Departmental Inquiry, Other Action: Karnataka High Court

The Dharwad Bench of the Karnataka High Court has ruled that promotion of a government employee cannot be withheld merely on the grounds that a complaint has been filed against the employee, if it has not resulted in any departmental inquiry or other action as contemplated under the Service Law. Justic T.M. Nadaf observed, “In that view of the matter, withholding the promotion of the...