'Reprehensible Conduct': J&K High Court Directs Criminal Proceedings Against Dy Commissioner, Ganderbal For Filing False Pleadings Before Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed that appropriate criminal proceedings should be initiated against the former Deputy Commissioner, Ganderbal for having filed a false pleading before the learned District Judge.The court observed that this conduct of a responsible officer of the Government is reprehensible and shows that the said officer has no respect for the rule of law. The...

Delhi High Court Passes John Doe Order Against Rogue Websites Infringing Online Gaming Company Baazi Group's Trademark

The Delhi High Court recently issued a temporary injunction against 'rogue websites' from accessing and using the domain names infringing the trademark of Moonshine Technology Private Limited, the parent company of Baazi Group of Companies providing online gaming products and services.The rogue websites are operating under different names including baaziadda, baazi247, baazi365 and...

Delhi HC Grants Relief To Foreigner Whose Rolex Watch Was Seized By Customs, Says Waiver Of Show Cause & Hearing In 'Standard Form' Not Lawful

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that authorities making a traveller waive show cause notice before confiscation of goods, etc. under Section 124 of the Customs Act 1962, on a mere proforma, is not lawful.A division bench of Justices Prathiba M. Singh and Dharmesh Sharma thus granted relief to a permanent resident of Hong Kong, whose Rolex wristwatch valued at ₹30,29,400/- was confiscated...

Article 22(5) | Preventive Detention Order Unconstitutional If All Grounds Of Detention Are Not Communicated To Detenu: Orissa High Court

The Orissa High Court has reiterated that a preventive detention order shall be rendered unconstitutional for being violative of Article 22(5) of the Constitution if it does not specify each and every ground based upon which the order of detention was passed against the detenu.While setting aside a preventive detention order issued against the petitioner, who is accused of drugs-peddling,...

NDPS Act | Co-Accused Cannot Be Found Guilty On Mere Suspicion When Complicity Is Not Proved: Telangana High Court

While dealing with a criminal appeal filed under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, the Telangana High Court has reiterated that a co-accused cannot be found guilty on mere suspicion and/or assumption when complicity is not proved.In the case at hand, both accused (A1 and A2) were traveling together to Bangkok. However, when their check-in luggage was inspected by the...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 17 – February 23, 2025

2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 66 to 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 71Nominal Index:Swanubhuti Jain vs State of Maharashtra, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 66Sagar Dnyaneshwar Shinde vs. Secretary Maharashtra State Commission And Ors , 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 67Mirza Himayat Inayat Baig vs. State of Maharashtra, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 68Vijay Chand Dubey vs State of Maharashtra and Anr, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 69The Board of Control for...

Madhya Pradesh High Court Grants Interim Age Relaxation To EWS Candidates Filling 2025 UPSC CSE Form

In a plea on age limit relaxation for EWS category in UPSC Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2025, the Jabalpur bench of the Madhya Pradesh High court in an interim order permitted EWS candidates to fill the form and directed the UPSC to extend the age relaxation benefit to them, in view of the fact that the form submission window was closing on February 18. The petitioner sought to quash...

Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 17 To February 23, 2025

Citations 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 190 to 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 219NOMINAL INDEXDR. B.K. TIWARI ADVISER (NUTRITION) verus UNION OF INDIA & ANR 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 190 Gor Sharian v. The Commissioner Of Customs 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 191 Principal Commissioner, Central Tax Commissionerate, Gst Delhi West v. M/S Alkarma 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 192 JAN CHETNA JAGRITI AVOM SHAIKSHANIK VIKAS MANCH & ORS v....

[Summary Suit] Dismissing Application For Leave To Defend In Suit For Non-Prosecution Is Unsustainable In Law: J&K High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that if a trial court does not consider an application for leave to defend a suit filed by the defendant on merits, the impugned judgment and decree become unsustainable in law. The court held that the trial court is legally bound to consider the defence put up by the defendant in the application on its merits, notwithstanding the absence...

Section 149 IPC| 'Common Object' Needs To Be Established To Charge All Individuals For Being Part Of Unlawful Assembly: Telangana HC

The Telangana High Court has recently reduced the sentence of a few of the accused of an unlawful assembly who were convicted of an offense under section 302 of the IPC. The court held that the prosecution failed to prove the 'common object' amongst the mob and in such a situation, each individual is liable for their own actions. “It cannot be said that all the accused gathered...

'Presumption That Woman Engages In Intimacy Only To Marry Is Patriarchal': Orissa HC Questions Criminalising Sex On False Promise Of Marriage

The Orissa High Court has questioned the underlying presumption behind criminalisation of sex on 'false promise of marriage' and held that the assumption that a woman engages in acts of intimacy with a man only as a 'prelude' to marriage is a patriarchal thought and not a principle of justice. In a powerful observation against putting fetters on female sexuality and bodily autonomy,...

Designated Committee Under Sabka Vishwas Scheme May Reject Application For Compounding Tax Over Bogus Documents: Telangana High Court

A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by M/s Diwakar Road Lines challenging the rejection of an application to compound all previous service tax by way of a one-time settlement. The bench held that even though the statute does not prescribe for the rejection of any application, the committee may reject an application when the documents...