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Delhi HC Grants Temporary Injunction To Famous Logistics Company Agarwal Packers & Movers Against Trademark Infringement By Fake Website
The Delhi High Court has issued a temporary injunction in favour of the logistics company, Agarwal Packers and Movers Ltd, against trademark infringement by a business offering goods packaging and transportation services.Agarwal Packers and Movers Ltd (plaintiff) sought a permanent injunction against the fraudulent website 'aggarwalmoverspackers.in' using its name for providing similar...
No Coercive Action Against Hotel Le Meridien On License Issue: Delhi High Court To Authorities
The Delhi High Court has restrained the city authorities from taking any coercive action against Hotel Le Meridien, which sought to renew its eating house and lodging license. Justice Sachin Datta directed the authorities to process the hotel's application for renewal of the eating house and lodging license, without insisting on a health trade license. “Further, in the meantime, till the...
Man Allegedly Given Electric Shock In Police Custody, Recorded Naked: P&H HC Seeks Response From SSP, Directs Formation Of Medical Board
Taking note of serious allegation of custodial violence and brutal torture, the Punjab & Haryana High Court has sought response from Punjab's Mohali Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and directed the PGIMER Chandigarh to from a medical board to examine the alleged injuries inflicted by Punjab Police.It was alleged that the a man was illegally detained, subjected to custodial torture,...
Punjab & Haryana HC Sets Aside Enhanced Punishment Imposed On Cop For Alleged Misconduct In Stopping Minor's Bike
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has set aside the enhanced punishment imposed on a Punjab Police official for alleged misconduct in stopping a minor boy's vehicle. The boy was found with condoms and later died by suicide after being scolded by his father, who had been called by the police.Justice Jagmohan Bansal said, "the petitioner committed alleged misconduct while discharging his...
Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: April 14 To April 20, 2025
Citations 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 443 to 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 454NOMINAL INDEXEpiphany Hospitality Pvt Ltd v. The Commissioner Excise Entertainment And Luxury Tax Department Govt Of Nct Of Delhi & Anr. 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 443 Sandeep Kumar Bhatt vs. Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India & Ors. 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 444 Kiran Suran v. Satish Kumar 2025 LiveLaw (Del) 445 AZURE...
Meghalaya High Court Directs State To Obtain Approvals To Construct Electric Hybrid Crematoriums
The Meghalaya High Court recently directed the State Government to obtain necessary approvals within four weeks, regarding construction of electric hybrid crematoria at Shillong, Tura, Jowai and Nongpoh. The said direction was passed by a division bench comprising the Chief Justice I.P. Mukerji and Justice W. Diengdoh in a PIL concerning setting up of crematoria to cremate the indigenous...
Being In Jail Doesn't Reduce Status To Chattel: Delhi HC Rebukes Jail Authority For Repeating Grounds To Deny Parole To Murder Convict
Remarking that jail authorities must show sensitivity while deciding parole, the Delhi High Court has observed that parole applications cannot be rejected on the same ground repeatedly. It further observed that once a court has applied its mind on the validity of any ground for rejecting or granting parole, in such a case jail authorities should scrupulously adhere to such order. Justice...
Civil Courts Cannot Adjudicate Disputes Over Determination Of Right To Possess Land Under Agrarian Land Reforms Act: J&K High Court
The Jammu and Kashmir High Court held that where in a suit right to possession is claimed or disputed and it is referable to the officer or the authority appointed under the Agrarian Reforms Act, the Civil Court is debarred from settling such a dispute.The petitioner had argued that lower courts erred in rejecting the suit under Order 7 Rule 11 CPC. It said that the Agrarian Reforms Act...
Jharkhand HC Expresses Dissatisfaction With State On Timeline To Fill 15K Graduate School Teacher Posts Lying Vacant For Three Years
Expressing dissatisfaction with the State on the recruitment timeline for Graduate trained school teachers to teach Classes 6 to 8 in government schools, the Jharkhand High Court has directed reduction in timeline to bare minimum ensuring that in the present academic year teachers get appointed to the posts lying vacant for three years. A division bench comprising Chief Justice M. S....
Section 348 BNSS | Court's Power To Recall, Re-Examine Witness Must Be Exercised With Great Caution: Chhattisgarh High Court Reiterates
The Chhattisgarh High Court has reiterated that Section 348 of BNSS (erstwhile Section 311 CrPC) which grants court power to summon any person or examine them, or recall and re-examine already examined person, can only be invoked to meet ends of justice, for strong and valid reasons and must be exercised with great caution. Section 348 of BNSS bestows upon the Court the power to summon, at...
Bombay HC Asks State-Appointed Panel To Finalise Guidelines For Slaughter Of 'Unuseful' Cattle Under Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act
The Maharashtra Government informed the Bombay High Court on Tuesday (April 22) that it has constituted a committee headed by a former judge of the high court to lay down guidelines for the slaughter of animals which are 'not useful' for certain purposes provided under the Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act.The Maharashtra Animal Preservation Act aims to prohibit the slaughter of cows, bulls...
Telangana High Court Quashes FIR Against BRS Leader KT Rama Rao In Defamation Case By Congress Party
The Telangana High Court has quashed an FIR registered against BRS Party President Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, which was registered against him in the month of September, 2024 on the ground that a speech made by him defamed the Congress Party.The complaint was filed by Athram Suguna, a Congress Leader from Adilabad in the Utnoor Mandal and the FIR was registered under sections 352...