'Belies All Logic': MP High Court Restrains Institutes Recognized In 2025 From Conducting Paramedical Course For 2023-24 & 2024-25 Sessions

The Madhya Pradesh High Court in an interim order on Wednesday (July 16) restrained institutes offering paramedical course which were granted recognition by the State Paramedical Council in 2025 to conduct academic sessions for years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. Observing that the institutes offering paramedical course for 2023-24 when they themselves came into existence in 2025 belied logic,...

Criticism Aimed At 'Vilifying' Institution Unacceptable: Kerala High Court Sentences Man To 3 Days Imprisonment For Derogatory FB Posts On Judges

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday sentenced P.K. Suresh Kumar to three days' simple imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹2,000 for making a series of Facebook posts containing "contemptuous and intemperate remarks" against sitting judges of the High Court.The proceedings, initiated suo motu by the Court, were presided over by Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V and Justice Jobin Sebastian. This...

Collector Can Review Its Administrative Orders Even Without Express Provisions Conferring Such Power: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that the Collector has inherent power to review administrative orders even in the absence of an express statutory provision, so long as the decision relates to administrative, not quasi-judicial, functions. The Court upheld a 2013 order restoring the names of two partners in a country liquor licence, which had earlier been deleted after the death of the...

Delhi High Court Orders Wipro To Pay ₹2 Lakh To Employee For Defamatory Remarks In Termination Letter

The Delhi High Court has expunged defamatory remarks made against the character of an employee working with Wipro Limited from his termination letter. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav also awarded Rs. 2 lakh compensatory damages in favour of the employee to redress the reputational harm, emotional hardship and loss of his professional credibility. “Further, a fresh termination letter shall...

Husband Can't Compel Wife To Share Mobile Or Bank Passwords: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court has observed that a husband cannot compel his wife to share private information, communications, personal belongings and even passwords of mobile phones and bank accounts.The Bench of Justice Rakesh Mohan Pandey also observed that any such compulsion by the husband shall amount to infringement of privacy and would also potentially lead to invocation of the...

Vipanchika Death Case: Family Moves Kerala High Court Seeking Diplomatic Engagement With UAE For Fair Probe, Repatriation Of Remains

Maternal aunt of Vipanchika Maniyan, who along with her daughter was found hanging in their residence in Sharjah, UAE, has approached the Kerala High Court seeking a direction to the Central government to diplomatically engage with the competent authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and ensure a comprehensive, fair and transparent investigation.The petitioner has alleged that the...

'Reservation In PSU Contracts For SC/ST Contractors Does Not Violate Article 14': Bombay High Court Upholds BPCL Tender Conditions

The Bombay High Court has upheld the validity of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.'s (BPCL) tender conditions that provide for reservations and concessions to Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) bidders in petroleum transport contracts, holding that affirmative action need not be restricted to public employment alone.A division bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep...

Penalty U/S 122(1A) GST Act Can Be Imposed Retrospectively Even If SCN Was Issued After Its Enactment: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has made it clear that Section 122(1A) of the Goods and Services Tax Act 2017 can be imposed retrospectively, provided the show cause notice had been issued to the assessee when the provision was introduced.Section 122 contemplates penalties for certain offences under the GST Act, including fraudulent availment of input tax credit.Section 122(1A) was introduced by the...

MP High Court Mandates Photography Of Victims' Injuries To Combat Trend Of Invoking 'Petty' Sections Even In Serious Cases

While noting a "recurring pattern adopted by police officers" across Madhya Pradesh where even in serious injuries to complainants cases were stated to be lodged under "petty sections", the High Court directed that in "all cases of injuries" police officers and doctors shall take photographs of the injured parties. The court passed the order while hearing an anticipatory bail plea of...

Party Cannot Be Compelled To Undergo Medical Examination To Facilitate Adversary In Proving Case: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has rejected a request to conduct a medical examination of the elderly woman defendant on the ground that the Court cannot direct a party to undergo a medical examination unless the Court finds it absolutely necessary to determine the core question in controversy. The Court held that when there are serious disputes and conflicting allegations over a defendant's...

Direction Of Disclosure Or Attachment Of Assets Cannot Be Passed Against A Person Who Is Not A Party To The Arbitral Award: Bombay HC

The Bombay High Court has held that a foreign arbitral award cannot be enforced against a person who was not a party to the arbitration proceedings. It ruled that forcing such a person to disclose assets or face coercive enforcement would be without jurisdiction under Part II of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan passed the ruling while allowing two...

Judicial Institution May Evolve But Its Integrity And Independence Must Remain Constant: Justice Vibhu Bakhru Bids Farewell To Delhi High Court

Justice Vibhu Bakhru on Wednesday bid farewell to the Delhi High Court on his elevation as the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court.In his farewell speech, Justice Bakhru said that the judicial institution evolves but the integrity, empathy and independence, which is its core, must remain constant.“The institution evolves, but at its core, integrity, independence and empathy must...