University Cannot Forcibly Evict Retired Employees From Quarters Without Due Process: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has clarified that a university cannot forcibly evict alleged unauthorised occupants from its quarters with the help of the police administration without following due process of law, while dealing with a notice issued to retired employees of Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya asking them to vacate university quarters.A Division Bench of Justice Sabyasachi...

Firecracker Shop Owner Must Comply With Fire Safety Norms Despite Having License Under Explosives Act: Telangana High Court

The Telangana High Court has held that an Explosives Act licence to run a wholesale firecracker shop does not exempt its premises from fire safety requirements under the Telangana Fire Services Act, 1999. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 150] It upheld the State's power to regulate the trade for public safety, but held that traders could not be required to obtain another licence under the Fire Services...

Karnataka High Court Flags Massive Illegal PG Operations In Bengaluru, Issues Sweeping Safety Guidelines

The Karnataka High Court has issued a comprehensive set of guidelines to regulate, inspect, and enforce safety norms for Paying Guest (PG) accommodations across Bengaluru, expressing grave concern over the large-scale operation of illegal establishments in the city. The single judge bench of Justice Suraj Govindaraj was informed by B S Karthikeyan appearing for Greater Bengaluru Authority...

Muslim Law Giving Mother Custody Of Daughter Till Puberty Does Not Make Paternal Family's Custody Illegal: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court has held even though Muslim Law entitles a woman to have her minor daughter's custody until she attains puberty, the child's custody with her paternal family cannot be termed as illegal confinement. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 248]The petitioners were the paternal grandmother and paternal aunts of the minor having her custody, whereas the respondent no.2 is the minor's...

'Enough Is Enough': Delhi High Court Raps Authorities Over Failure To Tackle Violence In DUSU Polls, Warns Of Staying Results

“Enough is enough,” the Delhi High Court remarked on Thursday while pulling up the Delhi University, Centre and the Delhi Police over their failure to control incidents of violence and vandalism during the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) elections, despite repeated judicial orders and Lyngdoh Committee recommendations. The DUSU elections are scheduled for September 18. The results...

Deceased Passenger's Negligence In De-Boarding Moving Train Not Ground To Deny Compensation: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that mere negligence on the part of a passenger while boarding or de-boarding a train cannot be treated as a “self-inflicted injury” so as to deny compensation under Section 124A of the Railways Act, 1989.Justice Biswaroop Chowdhury made the observation while allowing an appeal filed by Sukumar Mondal, whose wife died after falling from a train...

LiveLaw Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Roundup: September 07 - September 12, 2026

Nominal Index [Citations : 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 313 - 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 326]Inderjit Kaur v. State of Haryana and another; Gurjit Singh and others v. State of Haryana and another 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 313Kaushalya Rani v. Union of India through the office of Narcotics Control Bureau 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 314State of Haryana and Another versus Sanjeev Batish and Another 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 315STATE OF...

Plea Filed Before Karnataka High Court To Restore PIL Challenging Aadhaar Contracts With Foreign Private Companies

The Karnataka High Court has sought the Union's response in a plea to restore a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a 82 -year-old retired Army officer and defence missile scientist challenging the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) contracts with foreign private companies for biometric technology. The original petition, filed by one Mr. Mathew Thomas, alleges that...

Allahabad High Court Allows Women Lawyers Nominated After Bar Association Polls To Continue, Directs Bye-Law Amendment For 30% Representation

The Allahabad High Court has declined to quash the elections to the executive body of the Civil Bar Association, Bulandshahr, in which no woman lawyer was elected as an office bearer, holding that the requirement of 30% representation for women stood fulfilled by the nomination of four women advocates to the body within four days of the poll.The public interest litigation, filed by an...

Woman Living On Her Own Earnings From Prostitution Can't Be Booked For Illegal Trafficking: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that a woman accused of living on her own earnings from prostitution cannot be booked for illegal trafficking under Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956. In doing so the court quashed charges framed against the woman under the Act who had originally lodged a gang-rape FIR but was subsequently made an accused during probe.The woman was charged...

Disciplinary Action Can't Rest On Unrecorded Oral Directions: Allahabad High Court Quashes UP Tax Officer's Punishment

The Allahabad High Court has set aside the penalty of censure and withholding of one salary increment with cumulative effect imposed on a State Tax officer, holding that a charge of not complying with oral directions issued in video conferencing meetings cannot be sustained where neither the dates of those meetings nor their minutes were placed on record. It held that such an order rests...

No Presumption Of Joint Hindu Family Merely Because Brothers Inherited Property Jointly From Father: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that merely because children inherit some property jointly from their father, it cannot be presumed that they constitute a joint Hindu family or that every property subsequently acquired by them would be joint family property. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 370]The bench of Justice Vivek Jain observed that holding inherited property is distinct from the experience of...