Reverse Burden U/S 139 NI Act Strengthens Fair Trial Rights: Rajasthan High Court Orders FSL Exam Of Disputed Cheque Signatures

The Rajasthan High Court has held that since Section 139 of the Negotiable Instruments Act creates a presumption in favour of the cheque holder and places the burden on the accused to rebut that presumption, the right to a fair trial assumes greater significance. The Court observed that where the accused is required to disprove liability, fair and adequate opportunities to defend oneself must...

Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Allu Arjun, Restrains AI Misuse & Objectionable Content

The Delhi High Court has passed an ex parte ad-interim order protecting the personality rights of Telugu actor Allu Arjun, restraining multiple entities from unauthorised commercial exploitation of his personality, including misuse through artificial intelligence tools, deepfakes and sale of infringing merchandise.Justice Tushar Rao Gedela observed that the actor's name, image, voice, dialogue delivery, gestures and other distinctive attributes are exclusively identifiable with him and...

Karnataka High Court Bars Midway Shift To Grading System For SSLC Exams, Orders Evaluation Of Third Language As Per Existing Rules

The Karnataka High Court on April 15 (Wednesday) directed the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) to evaluate the March 2026 SSLC exams in line with the rules applicable at the time of issuing the exam notification. This development takes on prominence in light of the recent statement by the Karnataka Education Minister that a grading system will be implemented instead...

Gujarat High Court Warns Of 'Reverse Bias' Against Accused In POSH Cases; Says Misuse May “Create More Glass Ceilings” For Genuine Employees

The Gujarat High Court upheld a report by a cooperative society's Internal Complaints Committee which had rejected a woman employee's sexual harassment complaint against two officials–including a woman, as false and baseless. In doing so the court found that the ICC was unbiased and had complied with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act....

Karnataka High Court Monthly Digest: March 2026

Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 89 to 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 128 Nominal CitationsNaveen R & Anr. v/s State of Karnataka & Anr. 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 89Geetha R v/s State of Karnataka & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 90Manjappa v/s State of Karnataka 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 91State v/s Ashraf @ Ballary Ashraf & Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 92Mohammed Haris Nalapad v/s State By SGWF Post P.S. (RPF)...

Rajasthan High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 13 to April 19, 2026

NOMINAL INDEXDeepa Ram Meghwal v/s State of Rajasthan & Others and Batch; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 131Prashant Kaushik & ors. v State of Rajasthan & Anr.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 133S d/o A v State of Rajasthan & Ors.; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 134Hema v Mohit Bhardwaj; 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 135Jhalkan Singh Rathore & Ors. v the State of Rajasthan & Ors., and other connected petitions;...

Forest Rights Act Recognizes Existing Rights, Supersedes Prior Court Orders: Allahabad HC Grants Relief To Tharu Community

The Allahabad High Court recently observed that the authorities cannot short-circuit the existing statutory rights of the forest dwellers by blindly relying on court orders issued before the enactment of the Forest Rights Act, 2006.A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary thus quashed a 2021 order passed by the District Level Committee, Lakhimpur, refusing to finalise the claims of 107 'Tharu' community members for forest rights, specifically the right to collect...

Cow Slaughter Disturbs 'Even Tempo Of Life', Spontaneously Evokes Violent Reactions: Allahabad High Court Upholds NSA Detention

The Allahabad High Court last week upheld the detention of a person under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, who has been accused of slaughtering a cow and two calves in the jungle around the time of Holi in 2025.A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Sanjiv Kumar observed that the slaughtering of a cow spontaneously evokes strong emotions and violent reactions for obvious injury to the religious beliefs of a large section of society.The Court added that such an act has immediate...

Karnataka High Court Defreezes School's Bank Account Frozen Over ₹5 Lakh Fee Payment Linked To Cybercrime Probe, Calls It 'Drastic' Measure

The Karnataka High Court has granted relief to an International School in Bengaluru by ordering defreezing of its bank Account, and by quashing a final notice issued against it by the Varanasi Police over a five-lakh fee payment made by a student's parent, allegedly linked to a cybercrime probe.Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum stated that the freezing of the entire bank account of the school was...

Bombay High Court Asks Centre To Decide Plea For Posthumously Conferring Padma Vibhushan On Olympian Khashaba Jadhav

The Bombay High Court last week ordered the Central Government to decide if it would confer the Padma Vibhushan Award on former wrestler Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, posthumously, by May 4.Jadhav is the first Indian athlete to win a medal in Olympics in individual category. He had bagged a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics.A division bench of Justice...

Madras High Court Seeks IT-Dept's Reply On Plea Alleging Discrepancies In BJP Leader Tamilisai Soundararajan's Election Affidavit

The Madras High Court, on Monday (20 April), admitted a plea seeking directions to Income Tax and election authorities to probe alleged irregularities in financial declarations made by BJP's Tamilisai Soundararajan in her election affidavits filed in 2024 and in 2026 The division bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan issued notice on a plea filed by Goutham Siva, a resident of Chennai. Notice has been issued to the Returning Officer (Mylapore Constituency),...

Madras High Court Dismisses DMK MP's Plea Seeking Registration Of ED Case Against 9 AIADMK Leaders

The Madras High Court on Monday (April 20) dismissed a batch of pleas filed by DMK MP R Girirajan, seeking registration of an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) against nine leaders of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in connection with the corruption and disproportionate assets case against them. The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G...