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Punjab & Haryana High Court Issues Notice To Google, Centre On Students Plea For Recovery Of Locked Gmail Accounts

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notice on a writ petition filed by a 19-year-old engineering student who has been locked out of his Google accounts since his mobile phone was stolen in August 2024. He says Google has not complied with a Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC) order directing it to help him recover his data.Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya issued notice of motion, and notice...

Denial Of Study Leave To Staff Nurses For M.Sc. Nursing Course Despite Medical Officers Being Given Leave Is Discriminatory: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that denying Staff Nurses study leave to pursue postgraduate courses in Nursing, while allowing Medical Officers to pursue postgraduate studies as in-service candidates, is discriminatory. The Court remarked that if postgraduate qualifications obtained by Medical Officers are considered beneficial to public interest, the same rationale would apply...

Jharkhand High Court Sets Aside Mutual Consent Divorce Decree, Says Appeal Lies When Consent Or Statutory Safeguards Are In Question

The Jharkhand HC has held that although a decree of divorce passed by mutual consent under Section 13B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 is ordinarily not appealable, an appeal can be maintained where the genuineness of consent is disputed or mandatory statutory safeguards have not been followed. The Court set aside a mutual consent divorce decree after finding that the Family Court had failed...

Convict Sentenced To Life Without Parole Must Get Condition Modified Before Seeking Temporary Release: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused parole to a convict sentenced to imprisonment for the whole of his biological life without parole. The Court held that so long as this condition in the sentencing order stands, granting parole would run against the trial court's sentence.A Division Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara and Justice Harmeet Singh Deol dismissed the writ petition. The...

Absence Of Suicide Note Alone No Ground To Discharge Accused If Material Raises Grave Suspicion Of Abetment: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed an accused's plea challenging the framing of charges under Sections 306 (abetment of suicide) IPC, observing that the mere absence of a suicide note cannot by itself be a ground for discharge when the material on record raises grave suspicion of abetment of suicide.The bench of Justice Pushpendra Yadav observed:"Mere absence of a suicide note, by...

Direction To Register FIR Doesnt Determine Guilt; Prior Hearing Of Potential Accused Not Necessary: Madras High Court In KN Nehrus Case

The Madras High Court has dismissed a review petition filed by former Tamil Nadu Minister KN Nehru against an order directing registration of FIR against him, based on materials supplied by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an alleged corruption case.While dismissing the plea, the bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan observed that a direction to...

Veeramani POCSO Case | Chargesheet In First FIR Will Be Filed In 3 Weeks: Police Tells Madras High Court

The Tamil Nadu police has informed the Madras High Court that the chargesheet in the first FIR that was registered in connection with the POCSO case involving granite baron Veeramani would be filed within 3 weeks, likely before November 10.State Public Prosecutor John Sathyan made the submission before Justice V Lakshminarayanan when the latter enquired about the progress of the...

Absence Of Application Doesnt Prevent Court From Granting Interim Maintenance Suo Motu Under Hindu Marriage Act: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand HC has held that a court can grant interim maintenance suo motu under Section 24 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, even where the financially dependent spouse has not filed a formal application seeking such relief. The Court observed that procedural technicalities cannot defeat the statutory right to maintenance, particularly where a spouse lacks the means to contest...