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Making Minor Touch Private Part With Sexual Intent Amounts To Aggravated Sexual Assault Under POCSO Act: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has held that making a minor child touch the private part with sexual intent amounts to aggravated sexual assault under Section 10 of the POCSO Act.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna upheld the conviction and seven years sentence of a man for committing aggravated sexual assault upon a minor girl aged 3 years and 11 months. However, the Court set aside his conviction for...
Kerala High Court Satisfied With SIT Probe Into Sabarimala Gold Theft, Grants Six-Week Extension
The Kerala High Court on Monday (January 5) expressed satisfaction regarding the manner in which the Special Investigation Team (SIT) is conducting investigation into the Sabarimala gold theft case.The SIT had submitted a report regarding the progress into the investigation before the Court today and after examining the same, the Division Bench comprising Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V....
Rajasthan High Court Lawyers Abstain From Work Over Working Saturdays, Bar Bodies To Meet Acting Chief Justice Tomorrow
Lawyers at the Rajasthan High Court, Jodhpur abstained from work on Monday (January 5) to protest against High Court's decision declaring the second Saturday of every month as a working day.A press release issued by the Rajasthan High Court Advocates Association, Jodhpur and Rajasthan High Court Lawyers Association, Jodhpur states that in a joint meeting held on January 3 a resolution was...
Delhi High Court Rejects Plea Challenging Patiala House Courts Bar Elections 2025
The Delhi High Court has rejected a plea seeking to declare the New Delhi Bar Association (NDBA) Elections, 2025, for Patiala House Courts as null and void and for conducting fresh polls. Justice Mini Pushkarna said that the election process of the NDBA cannot be said to have any public character, and cannot be decided in writ proceedings. The Court said that the election process of NDBA or...
Madras High Court Sets Aside GST Demand For Not Considering CBIC Circulars Cited By Taxpayer
The Madras High Court has set aside a GST demand on a corporate guarantee after finding that the tax department failed to consider CBIC circulars relied upon by the taxpayer while raising the assessment.Allowing the writ petition, Justice G R Swaminathan held that an assessment order cannot survive if the tax department fails to consider the defence raised by the taxpayer. The court...
Centre Notifies Appointment Of 4 Advocates As High Court Judges
The Central Government of Monday (January 5) notified the appointment of four advocates as judges of Patna, Allahabad and Uttarakhand High Courts. Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal took to X (formerly Twitter) to notify the appointments. The appointees are : 1. Advocates Ritesh Kumar and Praveen Kumar have been appointed as judges of Patna High Court. 2. Advocate Jai Krishna Upadhyay has...
'High-Handed Action By Officer': Gujarat High Court Directs Status Quo On Demolition Without Measurement Of Land
The Gujarat High Court on Monday (January 5) directed status quo over action of removal of alleged encroachment in Palanpur, observing that the Taluka Development Officer had acted in a high-handed manner when the area in question had not been measured and the petitioners were in possession of allotment document. The court also observed that the officer had placed reliance on a December 23,...
Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: December 2025
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 430 NOMINAL INDEX Adnan Haider Bhai v State of Rajasthan, and other connected petition; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 Ravi v State of Rajasthan; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 402 Sayed Sarfaraj v Reserve Bank of India & Anr.; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 403 Rajasthan High Court Advocates' Association & Anr. v State of Rajasthan & Anr.;...
Madras High Court Rejects Minister I Periyasamy's Plea Against ED Probe, Tells Him To Approach PMLA Adjudicating Authority First
The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea filed by Tamil Nadu Minister for Rural Development I Periyasamy and his family members challenging an ECIR registered against them by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case. The bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan noted that the parties had filed the plea without...
Mere Apprehension of Business Loss In State Does Not Confer Writ Court Territorial Jurisdiction: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has recently held that a petitioner's mere apprehension of business loss in West Bengal is not enough to invoke the court's territorial jurisdiction in a writ petition. A single-judge bench of Justice Om Narayan Rai, while dismissing a plea filed by a Kuwait company said that it is the infringement of a legal right that gives rise to a cause of action."The lis before...
'Prima Facie Discloses Fund Siphoning': Rajasthan High Court Refuses To Quash Cheating FIR Against Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt, Others
The Rajasthan High Court rejected pleas filed by filmmaker Vikram Bhatt and other persons seeking quashing of a cheating FIR lodged against them, observing that the FIR at this stage "prima facie" disclosed allegations of siphoning, diverting and misappropriation of funds which cannot be treated as "mere breach of contract". The matter related to a FIR being filed against the...
Mandatory Pre-Deposit For Customs Appeal Cannot Be Waived For Financially Sound Appellant: Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court has held that the mandatory pre-deposit required to pursue a customs appeal cannot be waived for a financially sound appellant/importer. In a recently uploaded order pronounced on November 7, 2025, Justice M. Nagaprasanna said the pre-deposit under Section 129-E of the Customs Act does not deny access to justice. “It is a statutory discipline that applies uniformly...