Calcutta High Court Closes Defamation Case Against TV Show Which Called CESC 'Big Thief', Depicted Employees As Osama Bin Laden

The Calcutta High Court has accepted unconditional apologies from the makers and anchor of the investigative TV show Khoj Khabar in a 22-year-old defamation suit filed by CESC Limited, imposing only token damages and costs. The Court, presided over by Justice Krishna Rao, noted that the 2004 broadcasts had used highly inflammatory language—branding CESC as indulging in...

Manamadurai Custodial Death: Madras HC Expresses Anguish Over Deceased Body Being Used As Means Of Protest, Cites Right To Decent Burial

The Madras High Court recently expressed anguish over the body of 26-year-old Akash, who died due to alleged custodial violence in Manamadurai, being used as a "means of protest". The bench of Justice N Sathish Kumar and Justice M Jothiraman said that providing a decent burial is also a facet of the fundamental right to life guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. The...

Kerala High Court Directs ECI To Consider Plea Against BJP's B Gopalakrishnan Over Alleged Communal Remarks

The Kerala High Court on Friday (27 March) directed the Chief Election Commission of India to consider a representation filed against BJP leader B.Gopalakrishnan for making alleged communal remarks during a campaign in Guruvayur constituency amid the upcoming State assembly elections.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas directed the ECI to decide the representation in two months.The Court was...

Kerala Panchayat Raj Act | No Disqualification For Failure To File Election Expenses Without Notice, Hearing: High Court

The Kerala High Court has recently held that the State Election Commission (SEC) must mandatorily issue a show-cause notice and afford an opportunity of hearing, before disqualifying candidates for failure to file election expense accounts under Section 33 of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994.Justice P.V. Kunhikrishnan delivered the common judgment in a batch of writ petitions...

Judicial Orders Of Criminal Courts Can't Be Challenged U/Art 226: Allahabad High Court Relies On SC's 'Neeta Singh' Ruling

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a judicial order passed by a criminal court cannot be challenged by filing a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Relying on the Supreme Court's recent judgment in Neeta Singh 2024, a bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi dismissed a plea filed seeking the quashing of a February 2026 order passed by the Special Chief...

Gujarat High Court Upholds Husband's Conviction For Strangulating Wife, Staging Death As Suicide

The Gujarat High Court recently upheld a trial court order convicting a husband for his wife's murder by strangulating her with a rope but staging it to look like suicide by hanging. In doing so the court held that the prosecution had proved its burden establishing homicidal strangulation as the cause of death, adding that the accused's defence of wife committing suicide was only an...

Delhi High Court To Pass Interim Order Protecting Personality Rights Of Actor Mohanlal

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pass interim orders protecting the personality rights of Malayalam actor Mohanlal. Justice Jyoti Singh allowed the actor's application seeking to implead new defendants as party in the suit seeking protection of personality rights. This was after the Court had permitted the actor in the previous hearing to withdraw his interim application...

Allegations Of Police Shielding Gangster Raise 'Alarming Systemic Failure': Rajasthan High Court Seeks DGP's Intervention

While terming it a “systemic failure”, Rajasthan High Court expressed concern over the allegations of a gangster operating under the instructions of a Police officer and threatening the Petitioner who had lodged a complaint against the cop for abuse of official authority by detaining and assaulting her and her family.The bench of Justice Farjand Ali observed that when the protector became...

Bombay High Court Refuses CBI Probe Against Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries For Allegedly Stealing Gas From ONGC Fields

The Bombay High Court on Friday (March 27) dismissed a petition seeking CBI probe against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its director Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani for allegedly stealing over USD 1.55 billion worth of natural gas from neighbouring Oil and Natural Gas Corporations (ONGC) wells in the Krishna Godavari Basin, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.The petition was filed by Jitendra...

Plea Filed In Karnataka High Court Against MHA Circular On Vande Mataram, Claims It Imposes 'Religiously Loaded' Version On Students

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (March 26) said that it shall hear next month a plea challenging Ministry of Home Affairs' protocol over singing of all six stanzas of national song 'Vande Mataram' in all schools wherein one of the stanzas allegedly invokes Hindu deities. The plea challenges the constitutional validity of the protocol titled 'Orders Relating to the National Song of...

Does Fundamental Right To Reproductive Health Extend To Menstrual Leave? Can Executive Power Mandate It? Karnataka High Court Asks

The Karnataka High Court, on Thursday, heard extensive arguments in a batch of writ petitions challenging the State Government's notification directing one day of paid menstrual leave per month for women employees in industrial establishments.While hearing the counsel for the workforce/women associations at length, the single judge bench of Justice Anant Ramanath Hegde enquired whether...

Pension Can't Be Withheld On Basis Of Single Instance Of Irregularity; Entire Service Must Be Found Thoroughly Unsatisfactory: Jharkhand HC

A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court comprising Chief Justice M. S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar held that the pension of an employee cannot be withheld based on a single instance of irregularity, it requires that employee committed grave misconduct and his entire service was thoroughly unsatisfactory. Background Facts The employee (Respondent) joined the...