Madras High Court Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Using AI Videos Of CM Joseph Vijay To Scam Public

The Madras High Court, on Friday (October 23), granted bail to a Rajasthani man who allegedly created fake AI videos of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Joseph Vijay and scammed people by collecting money in his name. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 510]Justice N Ramesh granted conditional bail, directing the applicant to report to the jurisdictional police daily until further orders. The court also asked...

Red Sanders Smuggling: AP High Court Upholds Preventive Detention, Says Delay In Deciding Detenu's Representation Satisfactorily Explained

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has upheld the 12-month preventive detention of a man accused of involvement in multiple cases of smuggling red sandalwood, holding that a satisfactorily explained delay in deciding a representation against preventive detention does not vitiate the detention order. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 258]In examining the delay, the Court found that the authorities had...

Motor Accident | Vehicle Owner's Lack Of Personal Assets Can't Be A Ground To Deny 'Pay And Recover' Relief: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that the financial incapacity or lack of personal assets of an offending vehicle owner cannot be a ground to deny the equitable doctrine of “Pay and Recover” to an innocent third-party victim of a motor accident. “The legal proposition in this regard is well settled: even where a fundamental breach of policy conditions is established, such as the...

'Highly Condemnable': Allahabad High Court Slams UP Authorities Over 'Arbitrary' Eviction Of Shopkeepers For Govt Hospital Project

High Court questions eviction of 6 shopkeepers without determining leases or proposing rehabilitation or compensation for them.

Husband's Extramarital Affair By Itself Not Cruelty To Wife Under S. 498A IPC: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court recently held that a husband's illicit relationship with another woman, by itself, is not cruelty under Section 498A of the IPC. Justice Sunder Mohan thus refused to interfere with the acquittal of a husband, who was charged under provisions for cruelty and dowry harassment after his wife committed suicide along with their child. “In this case also,...

Delhi High Court Upholds Cash Assistance In Lieu Of School Uniforms For EWS Students, Rejects Review Plea

The Delhi High Court has held that the decision of the Delhi Government to provide cash assistance to students belonging to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and Disadvantaged Group (DG) categories in lieu of school uniforms cannot be said to be “completely arbitrary, whimsical or capricious.”A Division Bench comprising Justice Subramonium Prasad and Justice Renu Bhatnagar observed...

Doctor Must Correct Educational Records Before Applying For Medical Officer Post Under Changed Name: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has held that a doctor seeking to participate in the Medical Officer Direct Recruitment Examination, 2026, under his changed name must first get his name corrected in his educational documents.The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand observed that the relief sought by the petitioner could not be granted until his name was corrected in his school and college records....

Jharkhand High Court Quashes 'Preordained' Rejection Of Convict's Premature Release Plea, Says Review Board Failed To Analyse Reports

The Jharkhand HC has held that the State Sentence Review Board cannot reject a convict's plea for premature release through a mechanical order without considering the relevant reports concerning his conduct, age, propensity to commit crime and prospects of rehabilitation.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Rongon Mukhopadhyay was hearing a writ petition filed by a life convict...

Allahabad High Court Upholds Murder Conviction Of Husband, In-Laws Based On Dying Declaration Despite Witnesses Turning Hostile

Observing that the dying declaration could not be disbelieved in toto merely because all prosecution witnesses of fact had turned hostile, the Allahabad High Court recently upheld the murder convictions of a husband and his parents in a case involving the death of a woman from burn injuries.A Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and Justice Jai Krishna Upadhyay observed that there are...

50 Years After State Acquired Land, Patna High Court Says Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Entitled To Compensation Under 2013 Act

The Patna HC has held that former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is entitled to compensation under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 for land acquired by the State in 1976, after finding that the Collector had no jurisdiction to initiate proceedings under Section 4(h) of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 without...

AP High Court Sets Aside Order Allowing Wife To Reopen Ex-Parte Divorce After Husband Remarried; Cites 680-Day Delay

The Andhra Pradesh High Court has quashed an order setting aside ex-parte divorce decree which was challenged by the wife after 680-day delay, noting that the trial court failed to assign reasons for condoning delay and did not consider the consequences of the husband's subsequent remarriage. [2026 LiveLaw (AP) 257]In this context, Section 15 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, deals with the...

'No Mechanical Arrests': Karnataka High Court Issues Guidelines For Police To Curb Unwarranted FIRs Over Social Media Posts

The Karnataka High Court has recently quashed an FIR registered against the administrator of an X (formerly Twitter) account, for allegedly promoting communal disharmony by sharing a news report about an incident of stalking in Puttur. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 425] The single judge bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna also censured the police for registering multiple FIRs on the same incident. The...