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Forgotten Proviso: What Sanjay Dave Left Unsaid About Letters Of Intent
Reflections on the Supreme Court's decision in Sanjay Dave v. Andhra Bank Ltd.[1]The forgotten provisoThe Letter of Intent (LoI) occupies an unusual position within India's insolvency framework. It is not a creature of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). The Code does not define it, regulate its contents or prescribe the consequences of refusing to accept it. Yet, in practice,...
Supreme Court Seeks Delhi Police Response On Bail Pleas Of Two UAPA Accused Jailed For 12 Years
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (June 17) issued notice on the bail petitions of two undertrials who have been in custody for more than twelve years in connection with a case under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. A Bench comprising Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. M. Panchali directed the Delhi Police to file its counter affidavit by July 20 and listed the matter for hearing on...
Bengaluru Court Passes John Doe Order Restraining Publication Of Content Against Andhra Deputy CM Pawan Kalyan Over Land Grab Allegations
A Bengaluru Court passed a John Doe order restraining publication and broadcasting of allegedly defamatory content against Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and Actor Konidala Pawan Kalyan over allegations of land encroachment. The court, in its order dated June 11, modified its earlier interim order dated June 10 to specifically include a list of impugned content sources. The court has...
NEET UG 2026 | Supreme Court Defers Hearing Of Plea Challenging NEET Retest To July
The Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred to July the hearing of a writ petition challenging the National Testing Agency's (NTA) decision to cancel and re-conduct NEET-UG 2026 for nearly 22 lakh candidates.The petition sought an interim relief of stay on the decision to re-conduct NEET-UG 2026, and a direction restraining authorities from proceeding with the proposed re-examination which...
'3-4 Senior Advocates In P&H HC Creating Havoc' : Supreme Court Asks HC Judges Not To Recuse From Ex-Judicial Officer's Plea
The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed concern over repeated recusals by judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a case concerning a former judicial officer's challenge to his dismissal from service, with Chief Justice of India Surya Kant remarking that "three or four so-called senior advocates" in the State were "creating havoc."The Court requested the Acting Chief Justice of the...
Telegram Ban Challenged : Live Updates From Delhi High Court Hearing
Telegram has approached the Delhi High Court challenging the decision of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to ban the messaging platform till June 22 to address apprehensions of circulations of fake NEET question papers.The re-examination of the NEET is to take place on June 21.The government has also ordered the platform to disable the message-editing feature until June...
Judicial Officer Moves Supreme Court Against HC Collegium Proposing Juniors' Elevation To Himachal Pradesh High Court
A judicial officer from Himachal Pradesh has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court challenging the recommendation of the High Court Collegium for the appointment of judges to the Himachal Pradesh High Court.The petition has been filed raising the grievance that junior officers have been recommended for elevation as HP High Court Judges.Mentioning the matter for urgent hearing, a...
Won't Spare If Registry Has Misplaced Files : CJI Surya Kant Takes Serious View Of Lawyer's Complaint
The Chief Justice of India on Wednesday took a serious view of a complaint alleging that the Supreme Court Registry had misplaced a case file, preventing an urgent matter from being registered and listed before the Court.The issue was raised by counsel Shubhi Shivani Jaideep, who informed the Bench that a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed on June 8 had still not been registered.“SLP was...
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...
Conviction Cannot Be Denied Merely Because DNA Test Was Not Conducted: Srinagar Court Convicts Railway Staff In Minor's Rape After 14 Years
A Srinagar Court Court held that the lapse or omission to carry out DNA profiling, by itself, cannot be permitted to decide the fate of trial for the offence of rape, and that the testimony of a prosecutrix in a sexual offence case stands on a higher footing and, if found trustworthy and reliable, does not require corroboration as a matter of rule, while convicting a railway employee...
Delayed Justice, Defeated Democracy: A Decade-Long Verdict On Supreme Court's Failings
The Wound That Democracy Cannot AffordThere is a recurring tragedy in Indian constitutional jurisprudence, one that wears the respectable garb of due process, shelter in the labyrinthine corridors of procedural complexity, and ultimately emerges, years later, as a verdict that is legally sound but democratically meaningless. The tragedy has a name: judicial delay in electoral and...