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Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Actor R Madhavan; Restrains Sale Of Commercial Merchandise, Obscene Material
The Delhi High Court on Monday (December 22) passed an interim injunction order protecting the personality rights of actor R Madhavan, including restrain on the sale of commercial merchandise using his image and likeness as well as takedown of obscene material. Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the ad interim injunction order protecting the actor's personality rights, and...
Successive Bail Plea Maintainable Even Without Change In Circumstances: J&K&L High Court
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has held that a change of circumstances is not a prerequisite for the High Court to entertain a successive bail application where earlier bail pleas have been rejected by an inferior criminal court.Emphasising that the High Court, as a superior court, is not fettered by such technical limitations, Justice Sanjay Dhar granted bail to an accused in...
Bombay High Court Quashes ₹173.72 Cr Arbitral Award Against Thermax, Holds Arbitrator's Findings To Be Based On Lack Of Evidence
The Bombay High Court has recently set aside an arbitral award that mandated engineering giant Thermax Limited to pay ₹173 crore in favor of Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (RCF). The award primarily directed payments towards the additional costs RCF incurred for power due to failure of gas turbine generators. Considering a challenge under Section 34 of the Arbitration...
Chairman's Power Of General Supervision Can't Override Service Rules: MP High Court Quashes Order For Clerk's Out Of Turn Promotion
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Friday (December 19), set aside the orders for out of turn promotion of a Lower Division Clerk, to the post of Assistant Secretary and subsequently Secretary of the MP State Bar Council, despite scoring low marks in the examination and being unqualified. In doing so, the court observed that she was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary and Secretary...
Mesne Profit Claims After IBC Resolution Can Proceed Only Against Former Management: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has recently held that proceedings to calculate mesne profits can continue only against a company's former management once a resolution plan is approved under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.Mesne profits refer to the claim arising from unlawfully occupying someone else's property. The court clarified that such proceedings cannot continue against the company itself...
Sabarimala Greenfield Airport: Kerala High Court Sets Aside Land Acquisition Steps For Non-Compliance With 2013 Act Safeguards
The Kerala High Court recently set aside the government's preliminary notification and other steps taken for acquiring 2570 acres of the land for the Sabarimala Greenfield Project.Justice C. Jayachandran allowed the writ petition preferred by the Ayana Charitable Trust and its Managing Trustee challenging the notification as well as the Social Impact Assessment report, Expert Group...
Right To Travel Abroad: Rajasthan High Court Quashes Trial Court Order Impounding Accused's Passport For Breach Of Bail Condition
The Rajasthan High Court granted relief to an accused whose passport was directed to be impounded for violating his bail conditions by travelling abroad without court's permission, opining that continued impounding of passport would violate his fundamental right to life and liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution.The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand highlighted that even though the...
Termination Of Employee Solely For Being HIV-Positive Is Arbitrary & Unlawful: Delhi HC
A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice C. Hari Shankar and Justice Om Prakash Shukla held that termination of an HIV-positive employee without compliance with safeguards under the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 is unlawful. Background Facts The petitioner was appointed as a...
Allahabad High Court Directs Criminal Contempt Against GST Official For Filing Misleading Personal Affidavit
On Thursday, Allahabad High Court directed initiation of criminal contempt proceedings against Additional Commissioner, Grade-2(Appeal) First, State Tax, Meerut for filing a misleading personal affidavit before the Court despite being given 2 opportunities. Noting that the impugned order did not show any consideration of the circulars and only quoted a report signed by an...
Karnataka High Court Weekly Roundup: December 15 - December 21, 2025
Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 426 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 433Nominal Index:CHARAN H V AND State of Karnataka & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 426ABC AND THE CHAIRPERSON HOSPITAL BASED AUTHORIZATION COMMITTEE & ANR. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 427M/S SREE GURURAJA ENTERPRISES PRIVATE LIMITED AND M/S CIMEC ENTERPRISES ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 428M A Hameed AND...
Ex-Servicemen In Special Auxiliary Police Force Cannot Claim Superannuation As Regular Govt Servant: Jharkhand High Court
The Jharkhand High Court recently held that ex-servicemen engaged on a contractual basis under the State's Special Auxiliary Police Force (SAP) battalions cannot claim continuation of service beyond the tenure prescribed under the governing scheme.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Ananda Sen was hearing a case wherein the petitioners were ex-servicemen appointed in terms of a scheme. The scheme...
Municipal Corporations Not Entitled To Unconditional Stay U/S 36 A&C Act; Treated At Par With Private Parties: P&H High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry has observed that being a statutory body does not entitle a party to claim unconditional grant of stay under Section 36, Arbitration and Conciliation Act (“ACA”) as a matter of right. And if a conditional stay is granted, a statutory body is to be treated at par with a private...