Karnataka High Court Rejects Plea Seeking Release Of Congress MLA KC Veerendra Arrested In 'Illegal Betting' Case

The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday (October 15) dismissed the petition filed by wife of Congress MLA KC Veerendra for declaring his arrest in an alleged illegal betting case under PMLA as illegal, arbitrary and violative of his fundamental rights and to release him.Justice MI Arun said, "It is only on the ground that one FIR is alive in which 'B' report is filed that allows them (ED)...

INX Media Case: Delhi High Court Relaxes Karti Chidambaram's Bail Condition, Allows Foreign Travel With Prior Intimation To CBI

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday relaxed the bail condition imposed on Karti Chidambaram in relation to the INX media corruption case, requiring him to obtain trial court's permission for foreign travel.The Congress MP is now required to give prior intimation to the Court as well as CBI, two weeks prior to his travel. He will also be required to share his full travel itinerary.Justice...

Akshay Kumar Moves Bombay High Court To Protect His Personality Rights

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar has approached the Bombay High Court seeking to protect his personality rights from being illegally commercialised by unknown entities by using deepfake images, videos, misuse of his voice and obscene blogs and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated content.Single-judge Justice Arif Doctor on Wednesday morning, heard the submissions advanced by Senior Advocate...

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre's Stand On Plea To Fill Vacancies In National Commission For Minorities

The Delhi High Court has sought stand of the Union Government on a plea seeking to fill the vacancies in the National Commission for Minorities, including the Chairperson. Calling the issue “very very important”, a division bench comprising of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the Central Government's counsel to obtain instructions on the vacant posts. The...

Motor Accident Tribunal Can Grant Compensation To Deceased's Cohabitant Who Lived Like Spouse: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal may award compensation to a cohabitant who lived with the deceased like a spouse, provided that the claimant can establish a long-term stable relationship, financial dependency and that the relationship had the character of marriage, even if not formalized.In doing so, the court set aside an order of the Motor...

Delhi High Court Issues Summons To Newslaundry In Defamation Suit By Eduquity Career Technologies

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued summons to digital news platform Newslaundry in a defamation suit filed by Eduquity Career Technologies, a company specializing in examination solutions for corporate, government, and educational sectors.Eduquity has filed the suit over an article published by Newslaundry last year titled “Years before NEET row, NTA contracted 2 exam firms with...

Rajasthan High Court's Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma Inaugurates State Bar Council's Extension Counter At Jaipur

Bar Council of Rajasthan (“BCR”) opened its extension counter in Jaipur which was inaugurated by the High Court's Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Chairman of Bar Council of India (BCI) Manan Kumar Mishra on Friday (October 10) 2025, in the premises of the High Court. The Jaipur bench of the Rajasthan High Court began functioning on January 30, 1977. However, despite the...

Karnataka High Court Restrains 'Strip Search' Of Persons For Transgender Survey

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday restrained the State government and persons conducting the 'Transgender survey', from conducting any identification by using the "strip and search" method.A division bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Poonacha further directed that the information collected during the survey, which commenced on September 15, be kept strictly confidential...

Will Protect Personality Rights Of Singer Kumar Sanu: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday orally stated that it would pass an interim injunction order in a plea by Indian playback singer Kumar Sanu Bhattacharjee, seeking protection of his personality rights.Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora was hearing the plea. Advocate Sana Raees Khan appeared for Sanu.Court stated that the counsel for one of the defendants stated that the plaintiff had raised...

Sex With Wife Above 16 Years Of Age Before 2017 Not Rape: Allahabad High Court Sets Aside 2007 Conviction Order

The Allahabad High Court has held that a man can be convicted for having sexual intercourse with minor wife of over 15 years age, only after Supreme Court's judgment in Independent Thought vs Union Of India (2017), and not prior to that.In Independent Thought case, the Supreme Court read down the exception 2 to Section 375 (rape) IPC, which provided that sexual intercourse with wife above...

MP High Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging RBI's Ombudsman Scheme Prohibiting Filing Of Complaints Through Advocate

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Monday (October 13), issued notice on a petition challenging the vires of clause 10(2)(f) and 16(1)(a) of the RBI's Integrated Ombudsman Scheme 2021, which prohibits lodging of a complaint through advocate. For Context, Clause 10(2)(f) states that a complaint under the scheme shall not lie unless the complaint is lodged by the complainant personally or through...

Delhi High Court Protects Actor Hrithik Roshan's Personality Rights, Refuses To Take Down Fanpages For Now

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the removal of certain links and listings on various internet and e-commerce websites, which allegedly infringed the personality rights of Actor Hrithik Roshan.The court, however, declined to grant ex-parte relief against Instagram pages and fan clubs of the Bollywood actor, who had approached the court seeking protection of his personality...