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Actor Ajay Devgn Moves Bombay High Court Against FDA Show Cause Notice Over Vimal Elaichi Ad

Bollywood Actor Ajay Devgn has moved the Bombay High Court challenging the show cause notice (SCN) issued by the Maharashtra Food & Drugs Administration (FDA) over him endorsing the Vimal Elaichi brand. Notably, in 2024, Devgn endorsed the brand Vimal Elaichi - a cardamom flavoured mouth freshner. However, on August 11, 2026, the Maharashtra FDA issued a SCN to Devgan and other two Bollywood Actors for promoting Vimal Pan Masala under the guise of promoting Vimal Elaichi. Responding to the...

Jagirdar Has No Title, Land Vests In Govt : Supreme Court Rejects Claims To 550 Acres Miyapur Land In Telangana

The Supreme Court on Thursday (29 October) dismissed appeals claiming title over lands in Miyapur, Telangana, and upheld the declaration that the government is the rightful owner. It also held that a jagirdar is not a title holder, that the lands vested in the State government when jagirs were abolished in 1949, and that the revenue entries relied on by one set of claimants were bogus and not genuine and a case of fraud “orchestrated by persons in collusion with the revenue officials.”A bench of...

MP High Court Gives State 3 Months To Complete Eviction Proceedings Over Encroachment At Ancient Temple In Jabalpur

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State authorities to conclude eviction proceedings over alleged encroachments at the ancient Shri Vishnu Barah Mandir in Majhauli, Jabalpur district, preferably within three months. The direction came in a PIL seeking the monument's conservation and protection. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 437]With the aforementioned directions, the Division Bench of...

Writ Court Cant Decide A Partys Eligibility On Oral Submission Made Across The Bar: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where a writ petition turns on disputed or unverified facts going to the eligibility of a third party, the Court must ordinarily call for a counter-affidavit before recording a finding of fact against a party who has had no opportunity to place his version on record. Setting aside a Single Judge's order to that extent, it held that the eligibility of...

Citing Victims Privacy, Kerala High Court Denies CCTV Copies To POCSO Accused, Allows Counsel To View Footage

The Kerala High Court, in a recent order, struck a balance between the accused's right to fair trial and the victim's right to privacy by permitting the accused's counsel to view a CCTV footage taken at the place of occurrence while refusing to give a copy of the same in order to safeguard a POCSO victim's privacy. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 609]Justice Jobin Sebastian directed the trial judge to...

Sentence To Reflect & Repent: P&H High Court Commutes Death Penalty Of Four To 30-Yrs Jail In Murder Case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has commuted the death sentences of four men convicted of murdering a doctor's wife during a robbery at their home in Kurukshetra in January 2023. In place of the death sentence, the Court imposed imprisonment for a minimum of 30 years without remission. It held that the case did not fall within the “rarest of rare” category and that the possibility of...