Voluntarily Acquiring Citizenship Of Pakistan Resulted In Termination Of Indian Citizenship: J&K High Court Upholds Deportation Order

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, while dismissing a 34-year-old writ petition challenging deportation orders, held that "The petitioners have acted in their own volition and acquired the citizenship of a foreign Country. Their passports and the residential permit issued in their favour are cogent, unequivocal evidence of the fact that the petitioners are not citizens of...

Andhra Pradesh High Court Weekly Digest: June 23 – June 29, 2025

Citations: [2025 LiveLaw (AP) 119 – 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 123]Nominal Index:VISWANATHAN KRISHNA MURTHY v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 119Sankarappa v. APSPDCL Chairman M D Tirupati 2 and Others: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 120Kalimela Kiran Kumar v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh and Others: 2025 LiveLaw (AP) 121Killo Subbarao and Others v. The State Of Andhra Pradesh: 2025 LiveLaw (AP)...

Samajwadi Party Moves Allahabad High Court Against Eviction Of Pilibhit District Office

The Samajwadi Party (SP) has approached the Allahabad High Court challenging the decision of the Nagar Palika Parishad, Pilibhit, to evict the Party from its district office premises. On June 27, the Party filed an urgency application before a Division Bench, apprising the Court that the Nagar Palika Parishad is set to constitute a committee the same day, which is likely to proceed...

Delhi High Court Passes Dynamic+ Injunction In Favour Of JioHotstar, Restrains Illegal Streaming Of India Tour Of England 2025

The Delhi High Court has passed a dynamic+ injunction in favour of JioStar India Private Limited and restrained the illegal and unauthorised streaming of India Tour of England 2025.Justice Saurabh Banerjee passed the dynamic+ injunction order to protect the copyrighted works of JioStar, as soon as they are infringed or created.While passing ad interim injunction order in favour of JioHotstar,...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: June 23 - June 29, 2025

Citation No: 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 211 to 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 220Nominal Index: Abdul Sattar AND M Khalid & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 211Arumugam AND Ananda. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 212Basvaraj AND K M Altaf Hussain & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 213M/s Sona Synthetics & Others AND State of Karnataka & Others. 2025 LiveLaw (Kar) 214Prabhakaran K AND State of Karnataka. 2025 LiveLaw...

Maternity Leave Of Doctor During Compulsory Service Should Be Counted As Part Of Bond Period: Madras High Court

The Madras High Court has ruled that maternity leave availed by a doctor while rendering mandatory service at Government Hospital should be counted towards their bond period.The bench of GR Swaminathan and Justice K Rajasekar noted that maternity leave is integral to maternity benefit and forms part of Article 21. The court thus held that the doctor, though was not in the service of...

Jharkhand High Court Enhances Monthly Alimony Of Wife & Autistic Child To ₹90K After RTI Reveals Husband's ₹20 Lakh Annual Income

The Jharkhand High Court enhanced the permanent alimony awarded by the family court a woman to Rs. 90,000 p.m.–including Rs. 40,000 for maintenance of her minor son who suffers from autism, rejecting the husband's argument that she was self sufficient observing that she can't do a permanent job in view of her son's condition. In doing so the court also took note of the husband's job...

Meghalaya High Court Issues Notice On PIL Concerning Tribal Certificates For Khasi Community

The Meghalaya High Court on Friday (June 27) asked the District Council Affairs Department of the State, to file a report pertaining to issuance of or its views on issuance of Scheduled Tribe certificates to Khasis opting for surnames of their father or mother and to women who choose to adopt the surname of their husbands.The division bench of the Chief Justice I.P. Mukerji and Justice...

Unfortunate That Muslim Festival Celebrated Harmoniously By Hindus & Muslims Led To Upper Caste-Dalit Clash: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court recently lamented that the festivals jointly being celebrated by Hindus and Muslims in the Yadgir district in Karnataka have led to clashes between upper caste Hindus and Dalits.These observations were made while hearing a petition filed by Madiga Dandora(an organisation of Madiga community), which stated that in Tumkur village in Vadagera Taluk of Yadgiri district,...

Telangana High Court Sets Aside Free Allotment of Government Land to International Arbitration & Mediation Centre Hyderabad

The Telangana High Court has struck down the State Government's decision to allot a land of significant market value in Hyderabad, free of cost, to the International Arbitration and Mediation Centre (IAMC).The IAMC was set up by the then CJI NV Ramana in 2021.A Division Bench of Justice K. Lakshman and Justice K. Sujana observed,“…matters involving allotment and distribution of state...

Anticipatory Bail Can't Be Denied U/S 18 Of SC/ST Act When FIR Doesn't Mention Offence Was Due To Victim's SC Status: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court has held that when an FIR does not mention that the offence against the victim, in this case rape, was because they belonged to a Scheduled caste commmunity, anticipatory bail can't be denied u/s 18 of the SC/ST Act, which bars the grant of anticipatory bail.Justice Virender Singh: “The FIR, in question, there is no reference with regard to the fact that...

Will Can Be Proved By Establishing That Signatures Of Executant, Witness Are In Their Handwritings If Attesting Witness Is Dead: Kerala HC

The Kerala High Court has clarified the procedure to be followed for providing proof of execution of documents required by law to be attested, including wills. According to the Court, Section 68 of the Evidence Act lays down the mode to be followed. Section 69 provides an alternative procedure when Section 68 cannot be resorted to.The judgment was passed by a Division Bench comprising...