No Vested Right To Construct Hotel In Shimla's Green Belt Without Municipal Building Permission: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that a planning sanction granted by the Town and Country Planning Department does not create any vested right to undertake construction when the mandatory building permission from the Municipal Corporation has not been obtained. The Court observed that once an area is declared a green belt/core area, the restrictions imposed in public interest...

Goa SIR | Bombay High Court Orders ECI To Restore Names Of 6 Deleted Family Members Who Filed Form 8

The Bombay High Court on Thursday (November 5) ordered the Election Commission of India (ECI) to include the names of six members of a family which were deleted from the final voter list during the recently concluded Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in Goa.A division bench of Justice Valmiki Menezes and Justice Amit Jamsandekar said:"We allow the petition... We have rejected the contention of...

Employed Wife Earning Enough To Maintain Herself Not Entitled To Maintenance: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court recently set aside a family court order granting Rs 20,000 to an estranged wife, saying that gainful employment, financial independence and self sufficiency are good grounds to reject the claim of maintenance of the wife.A single judge bench of Justice Dr Chillakur Sumalatha in its order said “When the wife is well educated, well placed and earns income which...

Sabarimala Ghee Supply Allegations Not Enough To Supersede Milk Union Committee Without Notice: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (04 November) set aside the supersession of the Managing Committee of the Thiruvananthapuram Regional Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd., and ordered the reinstatement of the elected members. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 615]The Court held that the Sabarimala ghee supply allegation was not enough to supersede the committee by dispensing with the...

P&H High Court Allows Common Bail Bond For Woman Facing 120 Cheque Bounce Cases

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed a woman facing about 120 cheque bounce complaints under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act to furnish one set of bail and surety bonds for all the remaining cases against her. The cases are pending in courts at Kaithal, Kurukshetra and Karnal. She says she was only an employee of the accused company, authorised to sign the...

Plea In Madras High Court Seeks Uniform Police Safeguards In Cases Over Social Media Posts, Political Criticism

A plea has been filed in the Madras High Court asking the Director General of Police to issue a Police Standing Order or Circular prescribing uniform, lawful safeguards for police stations, cybercrime units and investigating officers while dealing with complaints relating to social media posts, political criticism, satire, and online speech. The plea has been filed by an Advocate, H...

Woman, Lover Challenge Death Sentence In Allahabad High Court For Strangling Husband, Staging Death As Snakebite

A woman and her alleged lover, sentenced to death by a Meerut court last month for strangling her husband and placing a live snake beside his body to make the murder appear to be a snakebite death, have approached the Allahabad High Court challenging their conviction and sentence.Additional Sessions Judge Jaiveer Singh Nagar had awarded the death penalty to the 2 accused, holding that the...

Allahabad High Court Rejects Challenge To Varanasi Court's Refusal To Order FIR Against Rahul Gandhi Over Remarks On Sikhs

The Allahabad High Court today dismissed a plea challenging a Varanasi Court order rejecting an application seeking registration of an FIR against Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi over his remarks concerning the Sikh community during his September 2024 US visit. A Bench of Justice Vikram D Chauhan dismissed the petition filed by Nageshwar Mishra and another under Section 528...

Bombay High Court Protects Actress Ananya Panday's Personality Rights, Directs Removal Of Objectionable Content

The Bombay High Court passed an interim order on Thursday (November 5) protecting the personality rights of actress Ananya Panday, thereby directing deletion of objectionable content violating the actress's right to privacy. The actress had moved a plea for protection of her personality rights claiming that several products and outlets have been using her photos and AI generated images and...

J&K High Court Refuses To Reopen 2011 BSF Land Acquisition, Says Mere Allegations Of Irregularities Cannot Undo Concluded Proceedings

Mere allegations of irregularities in land acquisition proceedings or disbursement of compensation, without anything more, cannot justify reopening an acquisition that culminated in a final award years ago, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held.The Court observed that a challenge brought more than 12 years after the award, without demonstrating any legally sustainable ground...

Mere Presence At Brothel As Customer Does Not Amount To Inducing Or Procuring Persons For Prostitution: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has quashed criminal proceedings under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (PITA Act), against a man found at a brothel as a customer, holding that his mere presence there did not amount to causing or inducing any person to engage in prostitution. The Court observed that there was no material to show that the applicant had procured or...

Kerala High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Judge Whose Son Allegedly Caused Fatal Accident, Says 'He Will Cooperate'

The Kerala High Court on Thursday (November 5) granted anticipatory bail to the District Judge accused in the Kochi-Mercedes Benz accident that occurred on October 25 in Cheranalloor. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 611]The prosecution allegation is that the accused judge's 17-year-old son took the car, which rammed into the scooter driven by late Jayabalakrishnan.Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath passed...