Calcutta High Court Notifies Mandatory Child Access & Custody Guidelines Along With Parenting Plan

On 26 September 2025, the Calcutta High Court formally approved and published the Mandatory Child Access & Custody Guidelines on its official website.According to the document, the State of West Bengal and the Union Territory of Andaman & Nicobar Islands presently lack appropriate guidelines on custody that would assist the Courts.In the above factual matrix, a Public Interest...

Commercial Courts Act Envisages 'Marked Difference' Between Specified Value & Pecuniary Value: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court Division Bench comprising of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya and Justice Gadi Praveen Kumar while hearing a Civil Revision Petition (“CRP”) observed that specified value forms the foundation of a commercial dispute for admission into the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 (“CC Act”). The pecuniary value, on the other hand, highlights the competence of the Court...

'Election Petition Takes 5 Yrs Only When Ruling Party Involved': MP High Court On State's Alleged Refusal To Send Info On Minister To ECI

In a petition alleging State's inaction in providing information to Election Commission on a complaint claiming suppression of properties by a sitting state minister in his 2023 election nominations, the Madhya Pradesh High Court orally cautioned the State against justifying delay by claiming that election petitions usually take 5 years to be decided. The court orally remarked that...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Weekly Round Up: September 22 - September 28, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 194 to 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 199Nominal IndexM/s Aaratrika Traders v the State of Madhya Pradesh 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 194LSB v SK 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 195Ku Alka Singh v State of Madhya Pradesh 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 196M/s Hindustan Unilever Ltd. v. Commercial Taxes Department 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 197Sangita v State of Madhya Pradesh 2025 LiveLaw (MP) 198Ashok Kumar Tripathi v...

POCSO FIR Can't Be Quashed Only Because Victim And Accused Have Married And A Child Is Born: Bombay High Court

Just because a minor girl has fallen in love with an adult man and their families have got them married and she has given birth to a child does not mean that the offences under the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act are not made out, the Bombay High Court held on Friday (September 26).A division bench of Justices Urmila Joshi-Phalke and Nandesh Deshpande refused to quash...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: September 22 - September 28, 2025

Nominal Index [Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 382 to 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 390]NHS vs ANS, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 382Surendra vs Agrofab Machineries Pvt. Ltd., 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 383Yashwant Anna Bhoir vs State of Maharastra, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 384State Of Goa vs Unique Identification Authority of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 385Khyyum Khadir Patwari vs State of Maharashtra, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom)...

[S.50 MV Act] Registered Owner Of Offending Vehicle Liable To Compensate For Accident, Can Recover Amount From Transferee: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently held that the registered owner of a vehicle involved in an accident can recover the compensation paid from the transferee of the offending vehicle, if the transfer, which occurred prior to the accident, was not in accordance with Section 50 of the Motor Vehicles Act.Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen reiterated the finding of the Apex Court in Naveen Kumar v....

Wife In Voidable Marriage Not Disentitled To Maintenance Unless Decree Of Nullity Is Passed: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that wife's right to claim maintenance cannot be denied merely because the marriage “could” be annulled when there is no decree of nullity shown to the Court.Justice Rajiv Lochan Shukla held,“Unless and until, a marriage, which is voidable, has been declared a nullity by a decree, the status of the revisionist as the legally wedded wife of the...

Delhi High Court Restores Increment Stoppage Penalty On Tihar Jail Superintendent Over Alleged Ill-Treatment Of Prisoners, Extortion

The Delhi High Court has restored the penalty of stoppage of two increments imposed on an Assistant Superintendent of Tihar Jail in 2005 over allegations of ill-treatment of jail inmates and extortion of money.A division bench comprising Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Madhu Jain allowed the plea filed by the Director General of Tihar Jail and set aside an order passed by Central...

Magistrate Can't Keep Adult Woman In Shelter Home Against Her Will, Violative Of Her Fundamental Rights: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has said that while a magistrate has the power to pass an order to protect the safety of a woman–who had lodged a rape complaint, and send her to a shelter home after she refused to go to her own home, however she cannot be kept there indefinitely against her will. It also said that once a woman who is a major makes a request to leave the shelter home, the magistrate...

Public Prosecutor Seeking Time To Prepare Brief Does Not Call For 'Disparaging' Remarks, Court Must Be Tolerant: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has emphatically observed that courts are expected to be tolerant, magnanimous and largehearted in dealing with minor lapses of public servants, holding that merely because a public prosecutor is unable to argue a matter or seeks time to prepare the brief, it does not warrant the passing of strictures.Justice Sanjay Dhar made the remarks while...

Jharkhand High Court Blames Corruption, Poor Infrastructure For Non-Implementation Of Plastic Ban; Suggests Reforms

The Jharkhand High Court has held that corruption, lack of infrastructure, and weak enforcement have rendered the State's ban on plastic carry bags and single-use plastics ineffective.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Justice Rajesh Shankar were hearing a PIL filed by one Dr. Santanu Kumar Banerjee over lack of serious enforcement of the plastic ban by...