Karnataka High Court Quashes Case Over Instagram Post After Puneeth Rajkumar's Death, Warns Student To Be Careful On Social Media

The court said that timing, context of the post brought it within S.67 IT Act, but showed leniency considering student's age & future.

P&H High Court Pulls Up States For Non-Implementation Of Mental Healthcare Act, Directs Institutions To Be Made Functional

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a PIL on the implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, has directed the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Chandigarh Administration to ensure that all institutions contemplated under the Act are made functional, after finding that the formation of the State Mental Health Authority, despite being a statutory obligation has largely remained...

Fresh Direct Appointment Confers No Promotional Increment Or Past-Service Benefits Absent Statutory Entitlement: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that past service rendered on a lower post cannot be counted towards service on a higher post for claiming service benefits unless the applicable Recruitment and Promotion Rules expressly permit such counting. The Court made the observation while dismissing a plea by a former Dai seeking to club her service as Dai with her subsequent service as...

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Suspend Death Sentence Of Man Convicted For Wife's Murder Over Property Dispute

The Karnataka High Court on Friday (September 18) dismissed an plea seeking suspension of sentence and bail filed by a man convicted of murdering his wife with a machete for objecting to the sale of a property, considering the overwhelming evidence against him including CCTV footage as inferred by the trial court.The Division Bench of Justice Mohammad Nawaz and Justice B Pramod was hearing...

Delhi High Court Grants 30-Day Custody Bail To Alleged ISIS Operative For Surgery At Private Hospital Of Choice

The Delhi High Court has granted custody bail for 30 days to an alleged ISIS operative to undergo surgery for an umbilical hernia at a private hospital of his choice in Delhi-NCR. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 868]A Division Bench comprising Justice Prathiba M Singh and Justice Vikas Mahajan, however, declined Farhan Ansar Suse's request to travel to Bombay for treatment, citing the alleged network he...

Datia Fort Property Dispute: MP High Court Bars Alienation, Creation Of Third-Party Rights

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has issued notice on an appeal filed by Hemlata Singh and her son challenging the rejection of their application for temporary injunction in a property dispute concerning Datia Fort, an estate associated with the former Majaraj of Datia. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 374]The bench of Justice Amit Seth observed,"At this stage, Shri Visoriya appearing on caveat on behalf...

Calcutta High Court Quashes Defamation Case Against Republic Editor, Reporter Over Alleged Phone Call With Singer Kabir Suman

The Calcutta High Court has quashed criminal defamation proceedings against Republic Media Network Senior Executive Editor/Editor-in-Chief Abhishek Kapoor and reporter Bittu Chowdhury, arising out of a telephonic conversation with singer Kabir Suman, holding that continuation of the complaint amounted to an abuse of the process of law. Justice Uday Kumar was hearing two criminal...

State Can't Invoke 3-Month Deadline After Wrongfully Rejecting Landowners' Timely Pleas For Enhanced Compensation: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has held that the three-month deadline for seeking re-determination of land acquisition compensation under Section 28-A of the Land Acquisition Act, cannot defeat the claims of landowners whose timely applications for a court reference for compensation enhancement under Section 18 were wrongly rejected. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 153]Section 18 of the Land Acquisition Act,...

S.173 BNSS Mandates FIR Registration When Cognizable Offence Disclosed, Even If Allegations Are Against Police: Tripura High Court

The Tripura High Court has held that Section 173 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) mandates registration of an FIR where a complaint discloses cognizable offences, even when the allegations are directed against police personnel. The court made the observation while directing registration of a complaint alleging misappropriation of gold ornaments and gold bars following...

Godown Independently Approved In Sanctioned Plan Qualifies As A 'Flat' For Housing Society Membership: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that a godown separately sanctioned in the development permission qualifies as a “Flat” under Section 154B-1(13) of the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960, and its owner is entitled to membership of a cooperative housing society. The Court observed that the statutory definition of “Flat” includes a godown and that the godown in the present case...

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Entertain PIL Against Exclusion Of Urdu Teachers From 2026 Recruitment, Relegates Petitioners To KSAT

The Karnataka High Court on Friday [September 18] refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation challenging the State Government's recruitment notification for 15,000 school teachers on the ground that it allegedly excludes Urdu-medium and other linguistic-minority teaching posts, relegating the petitioners to the Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (KSAT).[2026 LiveLaw (Kar)...

Bombay High Court Quashes Food Safety Case Against Britannia Dairy Over Allegedly Unsafe Cheese Cubes

The Bombay High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against Britannia Dairy Private Limited over allegations concerning unsafe Britannia Cheese Cubes, holding that the company was denied statutory safeguards under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. The Court observed that the delay in issuing notice, non-supply of the laboratory testing report and consequent deprivation of...