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No Blanket Injunction In Personality Rights Suits: Delhi High Court Orders Takedown Of Obscene Content Against Actress Meenakshi Chaudhary

The Delhi High Court on Friday passed an ex parte ad interim injunction directing takedown of obscene and sexually explicit content posted against actress Meenakshi Chaudhary. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 865]Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani however clarified that it cannot pass any blanket injunction order in the actress' suit seeking protection of her personality rights qua other reliefs, at the ex...

Delhi High Court Grants Bail To British National Jagtar Singh Johal In Murder, UAPA Cases

The Delhi High Court on Friday granted bail to British national Jagtar Singh Johal in seven murder and UAPA cases being probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 864]A division bench comprising Justice Navin Chawla and Justice Ravinder Dudeja allowed the bail appeals filed by Johal in the UAPA cases alleging series of targeted killings during 2016-2017 in Ludhiana...

SBI Illegally Debits ₹19.90 Lakh From Widows FD For Husbands Loan: Allahabad High Court Orders Refund, ₹1 Lakh Compensation

The Allahabad High Court last week directed the State Bank of India (SBI) to refund ₹19,90,693 that it had debited from a widow's fixed deposit towards her deceased husband's outstanding personal loan and to pay ₹1 Lakh as compensation.The Court held that the Bank had no legal basis to recover the husband's dues straightaway from the wife's account. A Bench of Justice Shekhar B. Saraf...

Gauhati High Court Refuses To Halt Transfer Of 5 Captive Elephants To Tamil Nadu Temples, Finds No Prima-Facie Possibility Of Ill-Treatment

The Gauhati High Court refused to halt the transfer of five captive elephants belonging to private persons to Tamil Nadu for religious purpose, "prima-facie" observing that it finds no reason as of now to pass any restraint order unless it is shown that necessary clearances have not been obtained. The court thus asked Assam Government to file a detailed affidavit on an application...

Illegal Search Doesnt Automatically Warrant Quashing Of Criminal Complaint Under Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed petitions seeking quashing of a criminal complaint under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, holding that even if the underlying inspection was authorised by an individual officer rather than the collective three-member District Appropriate Authority, this does not automatically vitiate...

Attempt-To-Murder Accused Gets Short-Term Bail From Allahabad High Court To Take UP Home Guard Physical Test

The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) on Monday granted short-term bail to an attempt to murder accused lodged in jail to enable him to appear for the UP Homeguard recruitment physical test.The Court directed that he be released from jail at 4:30 AM and remain in police custody throughout the period. A bench of Justice Rajeev Bharti passed the order in a short-term bail application moved...

Creating WhatsApp Group Without Employers Permission Cant Be Ground To Compulsorily Retire An Employee: Bombay High Court

Merely creating a WhatsApp group by an employee without permission of the employer is not a ground to remove a person from his or her job, the Bombay High Court held on Wednesday (September 16) while quashing a voluntarily retirement order passed against a Professor, working with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), who was punished for creating a 'parallel' WhatsApp group. A division...

Sad State Of Affairs: Allahabad High Court Slams SP, DM Over Failure To Display Fairness In Gang Chart Approval

The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday slammed the Superintendent of Police (SP) and District Magistrate (DM) posted in Bahraich district for being 'unmindful' of Constitutional Court Judgments requiring application of mind and display of fairness while approving gang charts under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986.A bench of Justice Manish Mathur...

Father Lacking Moral Support From Son Who Acquires His Property Cant Claim Maintenance U/S 125 CrPC Unless Destitute: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently held that a son failing to support his father after obtaining his self-acquired property by itself was not a ground to claim maintenance under Section 125 of CrPC when the father is not living in vagrancy or destitution. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 449] “This is certainly a hard case when the son is accused of obtaining the self-acquired property of a father by...

Orissa High Court Alters Murder Conviction Of 72-Yr-Old To Culpable Homicide, Applies Transfer Of Malice Rule

The Orissa High Court has recently modified a Sessions Court's order convicting a man for commission of murder of his sister-in-law in 2008 by altering the same to one for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. [2026 LiveLaw (Ori) 111]For partially upholding the guilt of the appellant, the Bench of Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak (now transferred) and Justice Sashikanta Mishra applied...

Kanjhawala Hit-And-Run Case: Delhi High Court Denies Bail To Accused Amit Khanna, Cites Gravity Of Alleged Murder

The Delhi High Court has denied bail to Amit Khanna, an accused in the Kanjhawala hit-and-run case in which a 20-year old girl was killed after she was dragged under a car for around 13 km. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 863]Justice Girish Kathpalia said that the gravity and manner in which the alleged murder was committed dissuaded the Court from granting bail to Khanna. The Court dismissed the...