Allahabad High Court Grants Relief To University Employee Terminated After Accusing Registrar Of Sexual Harassment

The Allahabad High Court has recently granted relief to the Private Secretary to the Vice Chancellor of Gautam Budh University, who was terminated from service after she filed a complaint of sexual harassment against the Registrar of the University.After the petitioner challenged her termination before the High Court, it was set aside, and the matter was remanded. Thereafter, the petitioner...

Kerala High Court Flags Hygiene Issues, Lack Of Maintenance In Chottanikkara Temple

The Kerala High Court recently suo motu impleaded Executive Director (Suchitwa Mission), Executive Engineer of Maramath Wing, Cochin Devaswom Board and Assistant Engineer, Chottanikkara Devaswom as additional respondents in a petition concerning lapses in cleanliness and maintenance in Chottanikkara Temple.The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar...

Rajasthan High Court Pulls Up State, Election Commission Over Delay In Conducting Municipal Polls

The Rajasthan High Court has criticised the State Election Commission and the State Government for failing to conduct timely elections to urban local bodies, holding that such delay undermines the constitutional mandate of democracy.Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand, while dismissing a batch of writ petitions filed by former Sarpanchs who were made Chairpersons of Municipalities after the merger of...

Kerala High Court Asks Litigant Alleging Corruption In Lotteries Dept To 'Follow Up' Remedy Under RTI Act

A PIL was moved before the Kerala High Court alleging large-scale corruption and lack of transparency in the State Lotteries Department. The PIL was preferred by Babu K.M., a retired government official and mandalam president (Vytilla) of Indian National Congress.The petitioner had, in 2024, sought various information for the financial year 2023-24 from Public Information Officer of...

Police Cannot Refuse Missing Persons' Complaints Citing Lack Of Jurisdiction: Karnataka High Court Issues Guidelines

The Karnataka High Court has said that police shall not refuse to register any missing persons complaint on the ground that the concerned Police Station does not have the jurisdiction to deal with the same and issued a slew of directions to be followed by police in missing persons cases. A division bench of Justice S G Pandit and Justice C M Poonacha said:"No complaint should be refused to...

Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: September 15 - September 21, 2025

Citations: LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 149 – LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 155Nominal Index:Yemu Kondal Rao v. The State Of AP and Others: LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 149V.D. Moorthy v. The State of AP and Others: LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 150Shaik Masthan Vali v. Kummaru Durga and Batch: LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 151Realme Mobile Telecommunications v. State of AP: LiveLaw 2025 (AP) 152Nakul Chandra Biswal v. Badaru Srinivasa Rao...

Bombay High Court Weekly Round-Up: September 15 - September 21, 2025

Nominal Index [Citations: 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 369 to 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 381]Asian Paints Ltd. vs Competition Commission of India, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 369Rajan Baburao Vichare vs Naresh Ganpat Mhaske, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 370Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd. vs State of Maharashtra, 2025 LiveLaw (Bom) 371Rahul Pittu Savalkar vs Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, 2025...

'Police Tough On Poor, Toothless Before Affluent': Chhattisgarh High Court On Road Hooliganism & Rash Driving

In yet another incident of reckless hooliganism on roads, the Chhattisgarh High Court has taken suo-motu cognisance of news reports published in two Hindi dailies, detailing the act of some youngsters who, while travelling to a farmhouse to celebrate a birthday, were rashly and negligently driving their cars and performing stunts by hanging on the windows and sunroof, while endangering the...

Rajasthan High Court Directs DGP To Implement Law Prohibiting E-Cigarettes, Seeks Detailed Action Plan

In furtherance to its order dated May 6, 2025, in the matter of PIL filed in relation to the menace of e-cigarettes, Rajasthan High Court has directed the DGP to prepare a team of officers representing various range headquarters to implement the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes Act, 2019 (“the Act”) in its entirety.The division bench of Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice...

UAPA Provides Complete Mechanism For Adjudication, NIA Act Cannot Be Invoked To Bypass Its Statutory Remedy: J&K High Court

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has held that once such a statutory forum is available under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA), an appellant cannot bypass it by invoking the appellate jurisdiction of the High Court under Section 21 of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act.The Court emphasised that the UAPA provides a complete mechanism from seizure...

No Social Media For 3 Years: Rajasthan High Court Imposes Unique Bail Condition On Youth Accused Of Circulating Explicit Content

The Rajasthan High Court granted bail to a 19-year-old, charged with the offence of circulating sexually explicit material against the respondent-complainant and intimidating her on social media, by imposing a unique condition that the accused shall not use social media platforms for a period of 3 years in any form either in his name or any fictitious name.The bench of Justice Ashok Kumar...

'Unfortunate And Painful': Madhya Pradesh High Court Orders Verification of Father's Income in Daughter's Battle For Maintenance

The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore has expressed anguish over the plight of a young woman compelled to approach the courts repeatedly for her maintenance from her father.A Division Bench comprising Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Binod Kumar Dwivedi was hearing an appeal filed by father against his daughter, who is pursuing her graduation in Mumbai.“It is very unfortunate and painful...