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...

'Litigant Can't Dictate How Judge's Children Live': Justice Sharma On Kejriwal Citing Her Children's Appointment As Govt Counsel

Delhi High Court's Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma while dismissing AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's plea seeking her recusal from the liquor policy case on the ground that her children are central government panel counsel, observed that a litigant cannot dictate how children of judges live their lives in absence of any proof that the office of the judge has been misused. Kejriwal had argued that a number of cases were marked to Justice Sharma's children by the Solicitor General, who appeared for...

'Politician Can't Be Allowed To Judge Judicial Competence' : Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma Rejects Arvind Kejriwal's Recusal Plea

The Delhi High Court on Monday rejected the applications filed by Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and other accused seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma from hearing the liquor policy case. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that merely because her children are central government panel counsel, it cannot be presumed that she carries any bias against Kejriwal.The judge added that a politician cannot be permitted to judge judicial competence."The competence of a judge is...

DNA Test Cannot Be Ordered Routinely To Prove Adultery; Presumption Of Legitimacy Of Child Must Prevail: Uttarakhand High Court

The Uttarakhand High Court has held that a direction for DNA examination of a child cannot be issued as a matter of course to substantiate allegations of adultery, particularly in the absence of pleadings and material to rebut the statutory presumption of legitimacy under Section 112 of the Evidence Act. The Court observed that permitting such testing without foundational facts would...