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Allahabad High Court Orders SSP Meerut To Remain In Courtroom Till 4 PM Over Failure To Produce Accused Before HC Despite NBW

The Allahabad High Court last week directed the Meerut Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) BBGTS Murthy, to remain in court until 4 PM after an accused, against whom it had issued a non-bailable warrant, was not produced before the High Court.A bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal observed that although there appeared to be negligence on the part of the SSP's subordinates, the SSP...

Medical Termination Of Pregnancy Cant Be Restricted Solely By 24-Week Limit, Must Consider Womans Rights: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that the question of medical termination of pregnancy cannot be determined or restricted merely by the statutory gestational limit of 24 weeks under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, but must be examined in light of the facts and circumstances of each case, including the age of the pregnant woman, the circumstances leading to the pregnancy,...

Husband Insisting Wife Accept His Affair, Live With Other Woman As Younger Sister Is Cruelty Of Gravest Kind: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand HC has held that a husband insisting that his wife accept his extramarital relationship and live with the woman with whom he was having an affair as a “younger sister” amounts to mental cruelty of the gravest kind. The Court allowed the wife's appeal against the dismissal of her divorce petition and dissolved the marriage on the ground of cruelty.A Division Bench of...

Calcutta High Court Allows Migrant Workers Family To Prove Citizenship After Detention Over Illegal Bangladeshi Suspicion

The Calcutta High Court has allowed the parties in a petition concerning the citizenship of a migrant worker's family to file affidavits, granting them an opportunity to place their respective cases on record.The migrant worker, whose name was deleted during the SIR process with an appeal pending before the Appellate Tribunal, was picked up by Mumbai police under suspicion of being an...

Collection Amins Service Rules | Seniority Cant Override 70% Recovery Requirement For Regular Appointment: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a Seasonal Collection Amin who has failed to achieve the minimum recovery of 70% prescribed under the U.P. Collection Amins Service Rules, 1974 cannot claim regular appointment on the strength of seniority. It held that satisfactory work is a condition of eligibility under Rule 5 of the Rules and seniority becomes relevant only among those who...

Madras High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To Former Minister Anbil Mahesh In Alleged Corruption Case

The Madras High Court, on Monday (October 26), dismissed an anticipatory bail plea filed by former Education Minister Anbil Mahesh in connection with an alleged Rs 100 crore corruption case with respect to granting recognition to private schools.Justice V Lakshminarayan dismissed the plea. A detailed order copy is awaited.The FIR was registered based on a complaint by the former General...

Patna High Court Rejects Traders Plea For Better Railway Siding Infrastructure, Says Mere Allegations Of Deficiency Insufficient

The Patna HC has held that general directions for improving infrastructure at railway sidings cannot be issued merely on the basis of allegations regarding inadequate facilities, particularly when no specific order or action of the railway authorities has been challenged.A Single Judge Bench of Justice G. Anupama Chakravarthy was hearing a writ petition filed by wholesale food grain...

Dismissal Vitiated Where Employer Fails To Supply Documents Or Produce Original Inquiry Record Despite Courts Direction: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that disciplinary proceedings are vitiated where the employer does not supply the delinquent employee copies of the documents used against him and, despite a direction of the Court, fails to produce the original inquiry record on the plea that it has been misplaced. It held that the employer must establish from the inquiry record that a fair opportunity...

In Custody Case Before Gujarat High Court Mother Alleges Fathers Excessive ChatGPT Use Added To Marital Discord

The Gujarat High Court recently refused to interfere with a mother's custody over her minor daughter, who had alleged that her husband's extensive reliance on ChatGPT had contributed to their marital discord. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 295]The court passed the order in the father's habeas corpus plea seeking production of his minor daughter claiming that the child had been illegally detained by...

Motor Accident | Karnataka High Court Applies Notional Monthly Wage As Per Centres Notification, Grants ₹3.90 Lakh Compensation

The Karnataka High Court enhanced the accident compensation awarded to a tractor porter to Rs. 3,90,909, after noting that the Motor Accident Tribunal did not consider the notional monthly wage fixed by the Central Government in a 2010 notification for the purpose of calculation of compensation. As per a May 31, 2010 Government of India notification fixing monthly wages at Rs.8,000 for purpose...