Judicial Orders Of Criminal Courts Can't Be Challenged U/Art 226: Allahabad High Court Relies On SC's 'Neeta Singh' Ruling

The Allahabad High Court has observed that a judicial order passed by a criminal court cannot be challenged by filing a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Relying on the Supreme Court's recent judgment in Neeta Singh 2024, a bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi dismissed a plea filed seeking the quashing of a February 2026 order passed by the Special Chief...

Gujarat High Court Upholds Husband's Conviction For Strangulating Wife, Staging Death As Suicide

The Gujarat High Court recently upheld a trial court order convicting a husband for his wife's murder by strangulating her with a rope but staging it to look like suicide by hanging. In doing so the court held that the prosecution had proved its burden establishing homicidal strangulation as the cause of death, adding that the accused's defence of wife committing suicide was only an...

Delhi High Court To Pass Interim Order Protecting Personality Rights Of Actor Mohanlal

The Delhi High Court on Friday said that it will pass interim orders protecting the personality rights of Malayalam actor Mohanlal. Justice Jyoti Singh allowed the actor's application seeking to implead new defendants as party in the suit seeking protection of personality rights. This was after the Court had permitted the actor in the previous hearing to withdraw his interim application...

Allegations Of Police Shielding Gangster Raise 'Alarming Systemic Failure': Rajasthan High Court Seeks DGP's Intervention

While terming it a “systemic failure”, Rajasthan High Court expressed concern over the allegations of a gangster operating under the instructions of a Police officer and threatening the Petitioner who had lodged a complaint against the cop for abuse of official authority by detaining and assaulting her and her family.The bench of Justice Farjand Ali observed that when the protector became...

Bombay High Court Refuses CBI Probe Against Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries For Allegedly Stealing Gas From ONGC Fields

The Bombay High Court on Friday (March 27) dismissed a petition seeking CBI probe against Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and its director Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani for allegedly stealing over USD 1.55 billion worth of natural gas from neighbouring Oil and Natural Gas Corporations (ONGC) wells in the Krishna Godavari Basin, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.The petition was filed by Jitendra...

Plea Filed In Karnataka High Court Against MHA Circular On Vande Mataram, Claims It Imposes 'Religiously Loaded' Version On Students

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday (March 26) said that it shall hear next month a plea challenging Ministry of Home Affairs' protocol over singing of all six stanzas of national song 'Vande Mataram' in all schools wherein one of the stanzas allegedly invokes Hindu deities. The plea challenges the constitutional validity of the protocol titled 'Orders Relating to the National Song of...

Does Fundamental Right To Reproductive Health Extend To Menstrual Leave? Can Executive Power Mandate It? Karnataka High Court Asks

The Karnataka High Court, on Thursday, heard extensive arguments in a batch of writ petitions challenging the State Government's notification directing one day of paid menstrual leave per month for women employees in industrial establishments.While hearing the counsel for the workforce/women associations at length, the single judge bench of Justice Anant Ramanath Hegde enquired whether...

Pension Can't Be Withheld On Basis Of Single Instance Of Irregularity; Entire Service Must Be Found Thoroughly Unsatisfactory: Jharkhand HC

A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court comprising Chief Justice M. S. Sonak and Justice Rajesh Shankar held that the pension of an employee cannot be withheld based on a single instance of irregularity, it requires that employee committed grave misconduct and his entire service was thoroughly unsatisfactory. Background Facts The employee (Respondent) joined the...

Compassionate Appointment Can't Be Denied On Ground Of Delay When Initial Application Was Timely: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has set aside rejection of compassionate appointment to the petitioner on the grounds of the second application being time barred, opining that since no negative or positive order was passed by the State on the previous application by the petitioner that was filed within the time frame, rejection of second application was contrary to the settled norms. The bench...

'Weakens Public Trust In Healthcare': Bombay High Court Cancels Bail Of Accused For Supplying Fake Medicines To Govt Hospitals

The Bombay High Court has held that the circulation of spurious drugs poses a serious threat to public health and weakens public trust in healthcare systems. The Court observed that offences involving the supply of fake medicines to government hospitals are grave in nature and cannot be treated lightly at the stage of grant of bail.Justice M.M. Nerlikar was hearing an application filed by...

Calcutta High Court Upholds KMC's Power To Revise Property Valuation For Levying Property Tax In ₹11.24 Crore Dispute

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the constitutional validity of Section 3 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022, which expanded and retrospectively validated the Corporation's power to revise annual property valuation. Justice Gaurang Kanth held that the amendment—introduced to cure defects noticed in earlier litigation—falls squarely within the State...

Halting The Pendulum: Imperative Of Finality In Judicial Eligibility

The seat of a Civil Judge (Junior Division) is not merely a bureaucratic rung on the administrative ladder; it is the foundational bedrock of the Indian adjudicatory machinery. It is within the austere, often overburdened walls of the mofussil courts that the common citizen first encounters the formidable apparatus of the State. Consequently, the criteria for occupying such a profound constitutional office must be rooted in unshakeable clarity. Yet, for over three decades, the...