Kerala High Court Monthly Digest: July 2025 [Citations: 372 - 472]

Nominal Index: [Citations: 2024 LiveLaw (Ker) 372 - 472]Geetha K.K v. Assistant Commissioner, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 372XXX v. State of Kerala and Ors., 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 373Asgar Ali v. Union of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 374Ison George v. State of Kerala, 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 375Dr. Kanthanathan R. v. State of Kerala and Ors., 2025 LiveLaw (Ker) 376Suresh M. V. v. State of Kerala and Others,...

Gujarat High Court Slams Vadodara Jail Authority For 'Illegally' Detaining Convict, Orders Recalculation Of Set-Off Period For All Convicts

The Gujarat High Court on Friday (August 1) pulled up the Vadodara Jail Authority for "illegally" detaining a convict for 2 months and eight days while failing to rectify the error in calculating the set off period the convict was entitled to, observing that the authority acted arbitrarily and in complete disregard of the convict's fundamental rights. Quoting Mahatma Gandhi who had said,...

Trying To Influence Court Through Media Trial? : Uttarakhand HC Raps Advocate Over Facebook Posts On Nainital Rape Case

The Uttarakhand High Court on Friday strongly objected to an advocate's conduct for making public remarks (on Facebook videos and posts) about the accused in the 2025 Nainital child sexual assault case, including comments on the proposed potency test and the medical report, while the trial is still pending, which the court said, had chances of prejudicing the case.It may be noted that the case...

'Influenced Witnesses While In Custody, Many Antecedents': Gujarat High Court Denies Bail To Mahesh Langa In Money Laundering Case

The Gujarat High Court dismissed the regular bail plea of journalist Mahesh Langa in a money laundering case lodged in connection with two FIRs which included the offence of cheating, observing that he had a number of antecedents and that while being in custody he had influenced witnesses. For context, a sessions court had in November last year granted anticipatory bail to Langa in a cheating...

Delhi High Court Quashes FIR Against Employer Over 'Sexual Harassment', Asks Him To Do 6 Months Community Service At Govt Hospital

The Delhi High Court on Friday quashed an FIR registered against an employer over allegations of sexually harassing and stalking a female employee, while asking him to do community service at a government hospital in the national capital every Sunday for the next six months.Justice Ravinder Dudeja quash the FIR registered by the woman after the parties entered into a compromise in July...

Reliefs Requiring 'Additional Adjudication' Not Permissible Under Section 33 Of Arbitration Act: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court Bench of Justices Anu Sivaraman and Justice K Manmadha has observed that an order under Section 33, Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“ACA”), even of an interim nature, amounts to an arbitral award and not an interlocutory order. The Court highlighted that the scope of Section 33, ACA was limited to a correction of a clerical or similar mistake or...

Centre Appoints 10 Judicial Officers As Additional Judges Of Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Central Government today appointed 10 judicial officers as additional judges of the Punjab & Haryana High Court.Following are the judicial officers:Virinder Aggarwal, Judicial OfficerMandeep Pannu, Judicial OfficerAmarinder Singh Grewal, Judicial OfficerParmod Goyal, Judicial OfficerRupinderjit Chahal, Judicial OfficerShalini Singh Nagpal, Judicial OfficerSubhash Mehla,...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of Advocate As Patna High Court Judge

The Central Government on August 1 notified the appointment of Advocate Ajit Kumar as a Judge of the Patna High Court.The Supreme Court Collegium, on July 1, had recommended the elevation of Advocate Ajit Kumar, along with another Advocate, to the Patna High Court....

Delhi High Court Suspends Sentence Of Company Official In Coal Block Scam, No Suspension Of Conviction

The Delhi High Court on Friday suspended the sentence of one Ramesh Kumar Jayaswal, former Director of Abhijeet Infrastructure Private Limited (AIPL) in an alleged case of irregularities related to the allocation of three coal blocks in Jharkhand.Justice Amit Sharma partly allowed the plea filed by Jayaswal seeking ad-interim ex-parte stay of the trial court order convicting him in the case...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of Advocate As Additional Judge Of Andhra Pradesh High Court

The Central Government on Friday notified the appointment of Advocate Tuhin Kumar Gadela as an Additional Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended his elevation on July 2....

Only Civil Courts Can Decide Disputes Regarding Cancellation Of Voidable Sale Deed Concerning Agricultural Land: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that in case allegations in a plaint make out a case of the transfer of a property being voidable, only the civil courts shall have jurisdiction, and not the revenue courts, irrespective of the disputed property being an agricultural land and a bar on the same under Section 207 of the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (“the Act”).Section 207 of the Act lays...

Sanction Granted To Projects Worth ₹49 Crores Out Of Funds Given By Centre For Wayanad Relief: State Tells Kerala High Court

The Additional Secretary, Disaster Management department of the State government has submitted an affidavit before the Kerala High Court upon its direction to file a report regarding the manner of utilisation of the amount of Rs. 120 crores, which was permitted to be utilised in connection with the rehabilitation works in Wayanad.The Division Bench of Dr. Justice Jayasankaran Nambiar and...