LiveLaw Explainer | What Are Principles On Admissions Under Order XII Rule 6 CPC

Order XII Rule 6 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 is a powerful procedural tool that enables courts to pronounce judgment on the basis of admissions, without requiring a full-fledged trial. The provision is intended to shorten litigation where the material facts are not genuinely in dispute and where a party's admission is sufficient to entitle the opposite party to relief.The...

Can Live-In Couples Seek Police Protection Without Fulfilling Legal Pre-Conditions?: P&H High Court Answers

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a plea filed by a couple seeking protection from alleged harassment by their relatives over their live-in relationship, holding that such protection cannot be granted in the absence of fulfillment of legally recognized conditions for live-in relationship. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 196]Justice Sandeep Moudgil noted that the petitioners were living...

Does A Recruitment Freeze Apply To Compassionate Appointments? Kerala High Court Answers

The Kerala High Court in a recent judgment held that a ban on regular appointments would not automatically act as a bar for compassionate appointments. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 330]Justice Viju Abraham referred to two decisions rendered by the Bombay High Court that took a similar view and reasoned that the compassionate employment scheme is an exemption to help a family to survive sudden...

Do Section 50 NDPS Act Safeguards Apply To Search Of Bags Carried By Accused? Kerala High Court Answers

The Kerala High Court has reaffirmed that the procedural safeguards under Section 50 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act applies only to the personal search of an individual and not to the search of plastic bags carried by the person. [Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 327]Justice A. Badharudeen, delivered the judgment in an appeal challenging the conviction and sentence...

Under What Circumstances Cancellation of An Examination Is Justified? Answers Gauhati High Court

A Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury held that cancellation of an examination is only justified when the sanctity of the process is compromised at a systemic level and it is impossible to separate tainted candidates from untainted ones; otherwise, segregation of suspicious candidates is required. Background...

Passport Impounding In Criminal And Matrimonial Cases: Legal Guide

It is often seen that in money laundering cases and matrimonial disputes particularly wherein one party residing or working in foreign country the investigating authorities seize their passport on account of pending criminal proceedings and retain it. In this article on the premises of settled law I am discussing the legality of such retention and appropriate remedies against such action...

Constructive Res Judicata Bars Grounds Omitted Due To Negligence : Supreme Court Summarises Principles

Constructive Res Judicata Applies Even To Grounds Omitted Due To Negligence, Inadvertence: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has summarised the governing principles of the doctrine of constructive res judicata, reiterating that parties are required to raise all grounds that "might and ought" to have been raised in earlier proceedings and cannot avoid the doctrine by attributing omissions...

Meenakshi Natarajan Case : Was Rejection Of Nomination Valid? Law On Disclosure Of Criminal Antecedents Explained

Was Meenakshi Natarajan legally obliged to disclose the pending case in Hyderabad? Did the Returning Officer exceed jurisdiction by rejecting the nomination?

Are TMC Rebel MPs Liable To Be Disqualified Under Anti-Defection Law?

Can the rebel MPs be deemed to have "given up party membership" by announcing their intention to form a separate faction?

Supreme Court Lays Down Principles On Promissory Estoppel, Says It Can't Be Invoked For Benefits Never Intended

The Supreme Court on Monday (May 25) observed that the doctrine of promissory estoppel cannot be invoked to claim benefit under a government policy which was never aimed to benefit a specific class of industrial unit. A bench of Justice J.B. Pardiwala and Justice K.V. Viswanathan set aside the Himachal Pradesh High Court's judgment directing the State to extend concessional electricity...

Res Judicata Principle Applies Also Between Two Stages Of Same Litigation : Supreme Court Explains 'Interlocutory Res Judicata'

The Court said that a fresh application seeking a rejection of a plaint, having the same substantive issue, is not maintainable despite being filed by a different applicant.

Bhojshala Dispute: 10 Principles From Ayodhya Judgment Applied By MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court, while deciding the dispute regarding religious character of the Bhojshala site, considered the principles laid down by the Supreme Court in the Ayodhya Judgment (M Siddiq (D) Thr. Lrs. vs. Mahant Suresh Das & Ors.).The Court has declared that the disputed historical site at Bhojshala is a Temple dedicated to Goddess Saraswati. It thus quashed an order passed...