Mumbai Air Pollution: Bombay High Court Appoints Five-Member Team To Monitor Pollution Due To Construction Sites

The Bombay High Court on Friday constituted a five member team to conduct an independent inspection of two areas within Mumbai to check if the construction sites are duly complying with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC's) guidelines to bring down air pollution in the city.A division bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad said this team will verify...

Detained MP Amritpal Singh Moves Punjab & Haryana High Court After State Denies Parole To Attend Parliament's Winter Session

Amritpal Singh, a sitting Member of Parliament, has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the State's refusal to grant him parole to attend the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament.Singh, who is presently detained under the National Security Act (NSA), has filed a writ petition seeking a writ of certiorari to quash the State of Punjab's order by which his application...

Income Tax Act | Mechanical 'Rubber-Stamp' Approval U/S 153D Vitiates Entire Search Assessment: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that prior approval under Section 153D of the Income Tax Act is not a mere technical or procedural formality, and that mechanical, en masse sanction without application of mind vitiates the entire assessment under Section 153A. A Division Bench of Justice M.S. Sonak and Justice Advait M. Sethna, while deciding a batch of over 60 Income Tax Appeals filed...

'Counsel Didn't Even Read Basic Provisions': MP High Court Slams State For Mechanical Appeal In POCSO Case, Directs Departmental Enquiry

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday (November 28), dismissed an appeal filed by the State challenging the conviction granted to the accused, observing that the State had mechanically prepared the appeal without checking the provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.The appeal challenged the judgment of the Special Judge (POCSO Act), which convicted the accused...

'Factually Correct Reporting Not Defamation': Delhi High Court Quashes Case Against Journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick

The Delhi High Court has recently quashed a defamation case filed against journalist Nilanjana Bhowmick over an article published in 2010 in the Times Magazine, observing that factually correct reporting cannot be termed as defamatory. “The manner in which a Journalist or an Article Writer presents the facts, is his skill of writing, but when the reported matter is factually correct, then...

Bombay High Court Grants Interim Relief To 'JIO'; Restrains Taxi Operator From Using 'JIO Taxi' Mark

The Bombay High Court has barred a Jharkhand-based taxi operator from using the name “JIO TAXI” after finding that it prima facie infringes Reliance Industries Ltd.'s well-known “JIO” trademark. A single bench of Justice Sharmila U Deshmukh passed the order on November 24, 2025, granting an ad-interim injunction in Reliance's favour. The restriction will remain in force until...

'Teachers Must Maintain Safe Distance From Politics': Orissa HC Quashes Govt Order Empowering MPs/MLAs To Recommend Teachers' Transfer

The Orissa High Court has set aside a State Government order empowering Members of Parliament (MPs) and Members of State Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to recommend inter-district and intra-district transfer of teachers bereft of any statutory scheme to that effect.A Bench of Justice Dixit Krishna Shripad stressed that unnecessary nexus between politicians and teachers can have a devastating...

Delhi High Court Directs Tihar Jail Authorities To Provide Adequate Medical Treatment To Yasin Malik

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the Tihar Jail authorities to provide appropriate medical treatment to convicted Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik sentenced to life imprisonment in a terror funding case.Justice Neena Bansal Krishna took note of Tihar jail authorities report which said that Malik does not seem to be suffering from any life threatening ailment. The Court said that...

Sabarimala Gold Theft Case: Kerala High Court Reserves Verdict In Pre-Arrest Bail Pleas Of Former Devaswom Board Officials

The Kerala High Court on Friday (November 28) reserved its verdict in the anticipatory bail pleas of former Travancore Devaswom Board officials, S. Jayasree and S. Sreekumar, who are arraigned as the 4th and 6th accused in the Sabarimala Gold theft case. The interim protection from arrest would remain until the judgments are pronounced.Justice A. Badharudeen today conducted the...

Delhi High Court Restrains Knam Foods From Using 'AL-BUSTAN' Rice Packaging, Terms It 'Slavish Copy'

The Delhi High Court has barred Knam Foods Pvt. Ltd. from using the “AL-BUSTAN” brand name and its blue-and-yellow rice packaging after finding that the company had “slavishly copied” the design, layout, Arabic script, and even the mobile number printed on the bags of rival rice exporter Amir Chand Jagdish Kumar Exports Ltd. The ex-parte ad-interim injunction, passed on November 24...

Cancellation Of GST Registration Announces Economic Death Of Business Entity; Reasoned Order Needed: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the cancellation of GST registration of a business entity leads to it economic death and it is sine qua non that a reasoned order is passed by the authority for cancelling the registration of an assesee. The bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Indrajeet Shukla observed: “We are equally mindful that the order of cancellation...

Illegal Encroachment Over Pond: Gujarat High Court Dismisses Residents' Plea Challenging Notices To Vacate Govt Land

The Gujarat High Court on Friday (November 28) dismissed pleas by 77 individuals challenging notices to vacate possession of a premises stated to be water body in Ahmedabad, observing that the construction was unauthorized, done without any permission and the occupants lacked ownership. Justice Mauna M Bhatt in her order noted that the pleas were filed challenging notices dated 6-11-2025...