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Accurate Reporting Of Orally Dictated Order Before Signing Not Contempt : P&H High Court Drops Proceedings Against Media
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed criminal contempt proceedings initiated suo motu against editors and reporters of leading newspapers, holding that publication of a fair and accurate report of a judgment dictated in open court does not amount to contempt, even if the judgment had not yet been formally signed.Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri and Justice Amarjot Bhatti, referring...
Kerala High Court Rejects Jolly Joseph's Plea Against Order Allowing Examination Of Expert Who Gave Opinion On Allegedly Forged Will
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (June 4) upheld a trial court order which had allowed State's application to examine an expert witness who had given opinion regarding certain documents, including a Will, which was allegedly forged by the Jolly Joseph accused of murdering her family. The trial court had while allowing the prosecution's plea had issued summons to the witness. Against this...
Homestay Owner Moves Karnataka High Court In Plea For Quashing FIR Over Alleged Rape Of US Woman
The owner of a Homestay in Kodagu, booked in an FIR lodged over the alleged sexual assault of a female US national, approached the Karnataka High Court on Thursday (June 4) seeking quashing of the FIR. Along with the quashment, the owner also seeks a declaration that his arrest was illegal and that he should be compensated Rs 15 lakhs for the violation of his fundamental rights.Advocate...
Orissa High Court Refuses Interim Relief In Plea Against April 1 Cut-Off Date To Calculate 3-Yrs Practice For Judicial Services Exam
The Orissa High Court has refused to passed any interim relief in a plea challenging the Rule stipulating cut-off date to 1st April of the recruitment year to calculate three-years practice for advocates applying for Odisha Judicial Service (OJS) examination.Denying any interim relief to the aggrieved petitioners, a Division Bench of Justice Manash Ranjan Pathak and Justice Sibo Sankar...
Land Revenue Act | Revisional Powers U/S 15 Must Be Exercised Within Reasonable Time; Unexplained 20-Year Delay Impermissible: J&K&L High Court
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has quashed an order passed by the Financial Commissioner (Revenue) setting aside a mutation attested in the year 2004, holding that the revision petition filed in 2021 after a lapse of nearly twenty years was barred by unreasonable delay.Expounding on the mandate of Section 15 of the Land Revenue Act the Court reiterated that revisional...
Disability Developed After 14 Years Of Army Service Presumed Attributable To Service Absent Cogent Rebuttal: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld an order of the Armed Forces Tribunal granting disability element of pension to Army personnel after observing that the disability had developed during service after more than fourteen years of enrolment and that the subsequent denial of attributability lacked adequate reasoning.The Court was hearing a writ petition filed by the Union of...
Rajya Sabha Election Bribery Row | 'No Cognizable Offence Remains, S140(1) BNS Deleted': Accused Challenging FIR Tells Karnataka High Court
Four persons accused of attempting to bribe Odisha Congress MLAs to vote in favour of a BJP candidate during the Rajya Sabha elections conducted in March, told the Karnataka High Court on Thursday (June 4) that the FIR would not survive because the allegations at their highest attracted only non-cognisable offences.Advocate Angad Kamath appearing for the accused said that the police...
'Corruption Of Mind & Purse': Allahabad HC Tells UP CM Time Has Come To Make Top Bureaucrats Criminally Liable; Here's Why
In a significant order passed on Wednesday, the Allahabad High Court has urged the UP Chief Minister to recognize that the time has come to hold senior Bureaucrats and top administrative heads accountable, and even criminally liable, for the lapses of their departments or subordinates. A bench of Justice Vinod Diwakar said that the State must adopt a doctrine of "superior...
'If Procedure Not Satisfied Liberty Can't Be Sacrified': Gameskraft Founder Tells Karnataka High Court That ED By-Passed Arrest Procedure
Gameskraft founder Deepak Singh challenging his arrest and remand in a PMLA case, told the Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (June 3) that the ED had by-passed the arrest procedure alleging that the grounds of arrest appeared to be pre-typed even before the May 7 search, that led to his custody, was completed.The single judge bench of Justice M.Nagaprasanna was hearing three writ petitions...
Kerala High Court Monthly Digest: May 2026
Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 228 - 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 299Nominal IndexDanikutti Philip v. Johnykutty J. and Anr., 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 228Sudheer. S and Anr. v State of Kerala and Ors., 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 229Mini Sunny v. Thuravoor Grama Panchayat and Ors., 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 230Muslim Girls' Higher Secondary School v. State of Kerala and Ors., 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 231Sudeep K.T. v. Malabar...
J&K&L High Court Quashes FIR Over Alleged Encroachment On Evacuee Property, Says Cognisance Barred Without Complaint By Competent Authority
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed an FIR and all consequential proceedings against few persons who were charged under Sections 447 and 186 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 18 of the J&K State Evacuees (Administration of Property) Act, Svt. 2006, holding that the Trial Court had no jurisdiction to take cognizance of the said offences on the basis of a police report...