Delhi High Court Bar Association Hosts Third Edition Of 'Fight For Justice Awards 2025' To Honour Litigants

The Delhi High Court Bar Association hosted the third edition of “Fight for Justice Awards 2025” to honour litigants for their cases which have resulted in landmark rulings.The awards were presented by Supreme Court judge, Justice N Kotiswar Singh as the Chief Guest of the function. The award ceremony was hosted at The Stein Auditorium, Indian Habitat Centre. The organizers of the event...

'Serious Threat To Nation': Rajasthan High Court Rejects Pleas Of Life Convicts Seeking Premature Release In 1993 Train Bomb Blast Case

Rajasthan High Court dismissed the petitions filed by four convicts of the December 1993 serial train Bomb Blast cases presently serving life sentence, who had sought premature release and had challenged the rejection of their representations by the State Government. The division bench of Justice Sudesh Bansal and Justice Bhuwan Goyal observed that while exercising power of judicial review,...

If Not Punished, Sociopaths Like Him May Repeat Offence: Karnataka High Court Convicts Man For Making False Allegations Against Judges

The Karnataka High Court recently convicted one K. Dhananjay, for criminal contempt and sentenced him to four month imprisonment along with fine of Rs. 2,000 for making scandalous and unfounded allegations against judges and judicial institution as a whole. The court directed him to be taken into custody forthwith.The accused was convicted for making false and unsubstantiated allegations...

Fresh Arbitration Notice is Mandatory For Second Round Of Arbitration After Earlier Award Is Set Aside: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that a fresh arbitration notice under section 21 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act) is mandatory for initiating a second round of arbitral proceedings after an earlier arbitral award has been set aside even when the award was declared as a nullity due to invalid appointment of the arbitrator. Justice S. Manu while...

Termination Of MNIT Lecturer For Consensual Relationship With Student 'Shockingly Disproportionate': Allahabad High Court

Recently, the Allahabad High Court has set aside a 19 year old dismissal order of a professor of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad who was accused of emotional and physical harassment by an ex-student.Observing that the case could at best be of a false promise to marriage as the complainant had been in a relationship with the professor for 3 years after leaving...

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...