Vellayani Lake Acquisition: Kerala High Court Grants Interim Relief To 60 Farmers; Bars Dispossession Without Due Process

The Kerala High Court, on a recent occasion, passed an interim order granting relief to around 60 traditional farmers whose properties are located adjacent to the Vellayani Lake, which is stated to be marked for development by the State government.Justice C. Jayachandran directed the state government, its Water Resources, Agriculture and Revenue departments and the District Collector...

Madras High Court Strikes Down Wrongful Copyright Entry Over 'Sagar Homeo Stores' Logo

The Madras High Court has ordered the cancellation of a copyright entry that wrongly gave a rival businessman ownership of the artistic logo used by the long-established “Sagar Homeo Stores,” holding that the record had been incorrectly created despite the store's earlier trademark and copyright registrations. A single bench of Justice N Senthilkumar passed the order on November 28,...

Punjab & Haryana High Court Seeks Govt's Response On Alleged Open Sale Of Heroin In Bathinda Village After Youth's Overdose Death

The Punjab & Haryana High Court today sought a response from the Punjab Government on suo moto cognizance taken on a news item alleging that heroin is being sold openly in a village in Bathinda district.Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry sought a response from the State Government and listed the matter to December 22.As per the news reports, villagers have painted...

BCI Affiliation Absent In Several Legal Education Centres Across Kerala: GLC Kozhikode Principal Tells High Court

The Principal of the Government Law College, Kozhikode recently filed a statement before the Kerala High Court wherein it told that in addition to the government law colleges in Kozhikode, Thrissur and Thiruvananthapuram, several other legal education institutions do not possess affiliation from the Bar Council of India.The statement was filed in a plea preferred by an Idukki-based advocate,...

Delhi High Court To Hear Plea Seeking Urgent Measures To Control 'Hazardous' AQI Levels Tomorrow

The Delhi High Court will hear tomorrow a plea seeking a direction on the city authorities to take effective measures, both immediate and long-term, for controlling and reducing air pollution levels and Air Quality Index (AQI).The plea was listed today before Justice Sachin Datta who said that the nature of the plea is of a public interest litigation, and thus the matter should be heard by...

Revisional Power U/S 263 Income Tax Act Cannot Be Upheld By Tribunal On Grounds Not Taken By Commissioner: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that a tribunal cannot travel beyond the grounds not cited by the commissioner while exercising jurisdiction under Section 263 Income Tax Act.Justices A. Muhamed Mustaque and Harisankar V. Menon stated that only one reason was highlighted by the Commissioner for exercising the power under Section 263 of the Act and the Tribunal having found the said reason as not...

Statutory Remedy Under Cooperative Societies Act Inapplicable When Arbitration Clause Exists: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has reiterated that if an arbitration clause were to exist in an agreement between the parties and the dispute were required to be adjudicated by way of arbitration, then the statutory requirement under the Cooperative Societies Act would not apply.Justice Suraj Govindaraj said this while allowing the petition filed by Ramakrishna House Building, which had approached...

'People With Malice Can't Hide Behind Satire': Sameer Wankhede Tells Delhi High Court In Defamation Suit Against 'Ba***ds of Bollywood'

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (December 2) reserved order in the interim injunction plea filed by IRS officer Sameer Wankhede in his suit over his allegedly defamatory portrayal in the Netflix series “Ba***ds of Bollywood” directed by Aryan Khan. Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav reserved the order after hearing in detail Wankhede, Red Chillies Entertainment and Netflix. The Court...

NEET-PG 2025: MP High Court Issues Notice On Plea Against Notification Barring Participation Of Non-State MBBS Graduates In Counselling

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Monday (December 1), issued notice on a plea by two MBBS graduates challenging the notification and advisory that bars candidates who completed MBBS outside the State from participating in the first round of NEET-PG 2025 counselling for admission in the Government Medical College. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay...

Police Must Show Arrest & Remand Of Accused In All Connected Cases: Telangana High Court Grants Doctor Bail In Surrogacy-Fraud FIRs

Granting bail to a doctor booked for surrogacy-related offences, the Telangana High Court said that once an accused is in judicial custody in the first case, then it is necessary for the investigating authorities to show the arrest and remand of the accused in all connected cases, from the respective dates of registration of FIRs.The petitioner contended that she was implicated in several...

Himachal Pradesh High Court Weekly Round-Up: November 24, 2025 To November 30, 2025

Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (HP) 240 to 2025 LiveLaw (HP) 245 Nominal Index: Shrinjana Buddha v/s State of Himachal Pradesh.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 240 Lalita Devi v/s State of H.P. & Ors.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 241 UCO Bank and another v/s Smt. Manjana Verma Sahni and another.,2025 LiveLaw (HP) 242 Madhu Joshi and another v/s Rajesh Kumar alias Sonu and others.,2025 LiveLaw...

'Utter Mockery': Allahabad High Court Pulls Up DGP Over Man Missing From Police Custody Since 2018; Says 'If Eliminated, SP Can't Be Spared'

In a scathing indictment of the Uttar Pradesh Police, the Allahabad High Court has termed the disappearance of a man from police custody since 2018 as nothing short of an "utter mockery" of the justice system. A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Sanjiv Kumar issued a stern warning to the state DGP saying that if the detenue/corpus has been 'eliminated', the responsibility...