Karnataka High Court Seeks Rehabilitation Status Of Families Displaced In Kogilu Demolition Drive

The Karnataka High Court has asked the Amicus Curiae to file a detailed report about the rehabilitation status of the families affected by the 'Kogilu Demolition Drive' undertaken for constructing a Waste Management Plant in December, 2025.During the hearing before the principal bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C.M. Poonacha, State submitted that a few affected families...

Delhi High Court Stays Trial Against Bina Modi In Case Over Alleged Assault On Samir Modi

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday stayed the trial court proceedings initiated against industrialist Bina Modi and senior lawyer Lalit Bhasin in connection with an alleged assault of Godfrey Philips India (GPI) executive director Samir Modi during a board meeting in 2024.Justice Saurabh Banerjee passed the interim order in the pleas filed by Modi and Bhasin challenging a trial court...

Vague Medical Opinions In Criminal Cases Undermine Fair Trial: Rajasthan High Court Directs State To Formulate Medico-Legal Guidelines

The Rajasthan High Court has directed the State Chief Secretary to issue directions for preparation and implementation of comprehensive and uniform medico-legal guidelines to be followed by all the government medical officers, while furnishing medical opinions in criminal cases for ensuring their clarity, legibility, completeness, and unambiguity. The bench of Justice Chandra Prakash...

Govt School Teacher's Bigamous Marriage Prior To Appointment Not Misconduct But Strikes At Root Of Eligibility: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a woman, who entered into a bigamous marriage before being appointed as a government school teacher, cannot be punished for misconduct on this ground under U.P. Government Servant Conduct Rules and U.P. Government Servants (Discipline and Appeal) Rules. It however held that the candidate, who contracted marriage in 2009 with a person whose first marriage...

Meta Moves Delhi High Court Against CCPA Order Imposing ₹10 Lakh Fine Over Alleged Illegal Sale Of Walkie-Talkies On Facebook Marketplace

Meta Platforms on Wednesday moved the Delhi High Court against an order of the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) imposing Rs. 10 lakh penalty over alleged unauthorised sale and listing of walkie-talkies on Facebook Marketplace.Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav asked Meta to satisfy how the impugned decision could be termed to be without jurisdiction and listed the matter for hearing...

S.94 BNSS Permits Furnishing Existing Records, Not Collating Info: Kerala HC Directs Customs To Provide Duty Register In Drug Smuggling Probe

The Kerala High Court recently passed an order whereby it directed the Deputy Commissioner of Customs to furnish the duty register of customs officers on duty at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport to the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) to facilitate investigation into a crime relating to smuggling of methamphetamine from Muscat to India.Justice C.S. Dias observed that in...

Animal Cruelty | Gujarat High Court Asks State To Explain Inaction Over Proposed Amendment To Ban Rat Glue Traps

The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (March 18) directed the State home department's Principal Secretary to file a personal affidavit explaining inaction for over 7.5 months regarding proposed amendment to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act prohibiting sale, manufacture and use of glue trap method to catch rodents.The court was hearing a PIL seeking to prohibit the usage of glue trap...

Gujarat High Court Laments 'Stereotyped Orders' By Registrar Refusing To Make Changes To Birth Certificates

The Gujarat High Court has directed the State Government to take appropriate steps to ensure that court orders on power of the Registrar to make changes to entries in the register of births and deaths are brought to the notice of the competent authorities. This, after the court lamented that even though there were a "plethora of judgments" setting aside orders where the Competent Authority...

Limitation For Amendment Of Pleadings Must Be Decided In Reference To Stage Of Suit, Not Date Of Filing Of Suit: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that limitation for filing amendment application in a suit must be decided in reference to the stage at which the suit is, rather than from the date on which the suit was instituted. Observing that the jurisdiction to allow amendments at any stage is provided under Order VI Rule 17 of CPC, Justice Manish Kumar Nigam held,“Such amendments as are directed...

Kerala High Court Brings Regulations To Curb Sexual Harassment Of Women At High Court

The Chief Justice of Kerala High Court has notified the Gender Sensitisation & Sexual Harassment of Women at the High Court of Kerala (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Regulations, 2026.The Regulations will come into effect from March 23, 2026. Definition of Sexual HarassmentAs per Regulation 2(m), sexual harassment includes any one or more of the following unwelcome acts or...

Magistrate Cannot Direct Police To Conduct 'Inquiry' U/S 175(3) BNSS; Must Assess Grounds Before Ordering Probe: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court has held that under Section 175(3) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, a Magistrate cannot direct the police to conduct an “inquiry” and must himself undertake such inquiry before ordering investigation. Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee clarified that the statutory scheme mandates application of judicial mind, and the expression “inquiry” as defined...

LPG Shortage: Karnataka High Court Seeks Centre's Response To Plea For Uninterrupted Cylinder Supply To Hotels, Restaurants

The Bengaluru Hotels Association and its functionaries have knocked on the doors of the Karnataka High Court seeking a solution for the ongoing scarcity of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders, which has threatened to shut down thousands of eateries across Bengaluru.The matter was posted for a preliminary hearing before the single judge bench of Justice Sachin Shankar Magadum yesterday....