High Courts
Delhi High Court Passes John Doe Order Protecting Personality Rights Of Singer Jubin Nautiyal
The Delhi High Court has passed a john doe order protecting the personality rights of singer Jubin Nautiyal.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela granted an ex-parte ad-interim injunction in favour of the singer restraining multiple AI platforms, websites and e-commerce intermediaries from unauthorized use and commercial exploitation of his personality and publicity rights.The Court passed the interim...
Himachal Pradesh High Court Monthly Digest : January 2026
Nominal IndexIndian Institute of Technology, Mandi (Kamand), H.P. Versus Central Public Works Department & another., 2026 LiveLaw (HP) 01Satish Kumar v/s Gurdial Singh.,2026 LiveLaw (HP) 02Indu Sharma v/s State of H.P. and others.,2026 LiveLaw (HP) 03Bhag Chand v/s State of Himachal Pradesh and others.,2026 LiveLaw (HP)04Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Ltd & another vs...
No Caste, No Religion Certificate Can't Be Issued Unless Person Relinquishes Religion As Per Rites: Madras High Court
The Madras High court recently rejected a man's request for a No Caste No Religion certificate, noting that the same could not be claimed without relinquishing the religion fiirst. Justice Krishnan Ramasamy of Madurai Bench noted that unless the religion was relinquished as per existing rites, there was no question of issuing a certificate. The court added that when there was no proof...
Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 16 To February 22, 2026
Citations 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 199 to 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 222NOMINAL INDEXSH. RAJPAL NAURANG YADAV & ANR v. M/S. MURLI PROJECTS PVT. LTD & ANR 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 199 Dinesh & Anr. v. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research through its Director General & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Del) 200 SANCHIT SETH v. NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATION IN MEDICAL SCIENCES & ORS 2026 LiveLaw...
'Bhago Police Aa Gayi; Haye Goli Lag Gayi': Allahabad High Court Again Slams UP Police Over 'Movie Script' FIR
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) has once again expressed serious dismay over an FIR lodged by the Uttar Pradesh Police, which the HC found to be heavily borrowed from movie scripts. Hearing a writ petition challenging an FIR lodged under the UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, the Court observed that state police personnel appear to be relying on a standard, highly...
Kerala High Court Admits State's Appeal Against Order Quashing Sabarimala Greenfield Airport Land Acquisition, Orders Status Quo
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (24 February) admitted an appeal preferred by the State against the judgment which set aside the government's preliminary notification and other steps taken for acquiring 2570 acres of the land for the Sabarimala Greenfield Project.The division bench comprising Justice Devan Ramachandran and Justice M B Snehalatha admitted the appeal and directed the...
'You May Be Ranveer Singh But You Can't Hurt Religious Sentiments': Karnataka High Court On 'Kantara' Movie Mimicry; Stays Coercive Steps
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (February 24) told Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh that he cannot, by virtue of being a celebrity, hurt religious sentiments of a community and that he must, when making public appearances, remain cautious of his words and actions.Justice M Nagaprasanna orally observed,"You being actor have influence on so many people. When you have that you shud be...
'Unnecessary Attempt To Rake Up Past': Delhi High Court Junks PIL Against 46-Year-Old Wakf Notification Listing Mosques
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a public interest litigation challenging a 46 years old Wakf notification listing certain mosques in the city's Jahangirpuri area, holding that the plea was an “unnecessary attempt to rake up the past” by reopening settled issues after several decades.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia observed that the...
Doctors Are Not Regular Workers, Hospitals Can't Restrain Them From Joining Other Hospitals: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has recently observed that a hospital cannot treat the doctors working with it as normal employees or restrain them from taking up employment at other hospitals post resignation. "A doctor is an independent professional, who cannot be stopped from rendering his services wherever he wants to and also cannot be stopped from attending to patients just because those...
2002 Gujarat Riots: High Court Upholds Murder Acquittal Of Two, Cites State's Failure To Prove Where Body Was Recovered From
The Gujarat High Court has upheld the acquittal of two in a murder case connected to the 2002 post Godhra train burning communal riots, finding that the prosecution's case was riddled with hearsay evidence, material contradictions in eyewitness testimony, as well as the failure to establish where dead body was recovered from. Pointing out these infirmities, the Division Bench comprising...
Retrospective Regularisation Shall Not Confer Seniority: Gauhati HC
A Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Kaushik Goswami held that seniority as a graduate teacher can be counted only from the date when the teacher possessed both the Graduate qualification and received the Graduate scale of pay. Further, the retrospective regularization cannot confer retrospective seniority. Background Facts...