High Courts
Delhi High Court Quashes Case Against Bina Modi Over Alleged Assault On Samir Modi Following Settlement
The Delhi High Court on Monday quashed a case registered against industrialist Bina Modi and senior lawyer Lalit Bhasin in connection with an alleged assault of former Godfrey Philips India (GPI) executive director Samir Modi during a board meeting in 2024.Justice Saurabh Banerjee passed the order after being informed that the matter has been settled between the parties. Samir Modi, appearing...
Advocate AK Preeta Sworn In As Additional Judge Of Kerala High Court
Advocate Preeta Aravindan Krishnamma has sworn in as an Additional Judge of the Kerala High Court on Monday (April 27).The Centre had notified her appointment last week. Chief Justice Soumen Sen administered the oath for the newly appointed judge.Justice Preeta expressed her gratitude to all her family members, mentors, the members of the Collegium, classmates, colleagues, teachers,...
Gujarat High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 20 - April 26, 2026
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 125 to 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 131Nominal IndexPremjibhai Hirabhai Gohil v/s State of Gujarat, 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 125GEB v/s Nirmal Rajendra Madela ,WD/O Rajendra Sitaram Mandela & Ors., 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 126X v/s Y & Anr., 2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 127Sant Shri Asharam Ashram through Trustee and Authorized Signatory Rajeshkumar Shadilal Bharti v/s State of Gujarat...
WB Polls: Plea In Calcutta High Court Flags Alleged 'Serious Misconduct' By Police Observer Who 'Unofficially' Met BJP Candidate At Hotel
A writ petition has been moved before the Calcutta High Court alleging serious misconduct by an IPS officer appointed as Police Observer for the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Elections 2026, after he allegedly held a private and undisclosed meeting with a BJP candidate within the constituency under his charge.The petition contends that such conduct by an Election Commission-appointed...
Madras High Court Dismisses Fresh Plea Seeking ECI Probe Into Assets Declared By TVK Chief Vijay
The Madras High Court, on Monday (April 27) dismissed a fresh petition seeking an enquiry by the Election Commission of India, into the assets declared by actor and Chief of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) Party Joseph Vijay for the 2026 TN Assembly Elections.The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan dismissed the plea and said that it would pass detailed orders...
Unexplained Delay In Recording Eye-Witness Statements Renders Testimony Suspect: J&K&L High Court Acquits Three In Murder Case
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that the conviction of co-accused cannot be sustained merely on account of their association with the principal accused, especially when the testimony of alleged eye-witnesses suffers from unexplained delay in recording, material contradictions with medical evidence, and the witnesses themselves admit that the principal witness was...
High-Rise Buildings Lacking Fire NOC Can't Risk General Public: Karnataka High Court Upholds Demolition Of Construction Blocking Driveway
The Karnataka High Court has upheld a single judge's order directing demolition of construction on the driveway space adjacent to a residential block in Bengaluru's Rajarajeshwari Nagar, after noting that the sanction plan did not conform to the fire safety norms. In doing so the court observed that high rise buildings regardless of the luxury they provide cannot stand at the risk of...
'Partial Penetration Suffices Under POCSO': Sikkim High Court Upholds Conviction Of 60-Year-Old Man For Sexually Assaulting 5-Yr-Old
The Sikkim High Court upheld the conviction of a 60-year-old accused for committing aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a five-year-old child under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act) Division Bench of Justice Meenakshi Madan Rai and Justice Bhaskar Raj remarked that: “...having prima facie found that, the Appellant, aged about sixty years, had...
'Sinister Motive To Gain Popularity': Orissa High Court Dismisses PIL Seeking To Rename 'Cuttack' As 'Katak', Imposes ₹10K Costs
The Orissa High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking to rename the city of 'Cuttack' as 'Katak'. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Harish Tandon and Justice Murahari Sri Raman found the case to be a publicity driven litigation and imposed a cost of rupees ten thousand. “Once a litigation of such nature has already been dismissed with categorical finding that it...
POSH Act | Internal Complaint Committee's Report & Recommendations Are Mandatory In Nature: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that report of the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) under Section 13 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 is mandatory in nature. It held that once the ICC holds the delinquent guilty of sexual harassment, the employer/ district officer must treat sexual harassment as misconduct and...
Orissa High Court Upholds Conviction, Reduces Sentence In Attempt To Murder Case After Over 3 Decades
The Orissa High Court has recently reduced the sentence of imprisonment imposed upon a man who was found guilty for attempt to murder of a lady whom he stabbed multiple times in the year 1992, causing serious abdominal injuries including protrusion of intestines.A Bench of Justice Sibo Sankar Mishra though upheld the order of conviction handed down by the trial Court, due to passage of almost...