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Can Trans Women Claim Women's Rights? Women's Group Moves Supreme Court Against Transgender Persons Act
Medical intervention, however extensive it may be, does not alter the person’s biological sex or alter chromosomes or genetics, the petitioner stated.

Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Challenge To Casual Vacancy Election In Punjab &Haryana Bar Council
The Supreme Court on Thursday (October 29) declined to entertain a petition filed by an advocate challenging the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana's decision to conduct an election to fill up the casual vacancy which arose following the recommendation for the elevation of an elected member as a Judge of the High Court.A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and...

Supreme Court Refuses Mahua Moitra's Plea To Mandate Disclosure Of Ultimate Beneficial Owners Of AIFs & FPIs
The Court observed that in the absence of an existing legal framework, it cannot issue such a direction.

Unfortunate That Ministry Of Corporate Affairs Has Hijacked NCLT Staff Appointments : Supreme Court
"The entire power of appointment must be with the NCLT President only," the CJI said.

Impress Upon Union To Provide Basic Amenities To NCLTs : Supreme Court Tells AG
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to impress upon the Union Government to ensure that basic amenities are provided to the National Company Law Tribunals (NCLTs) and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) at the earliest.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was hearing a suo motu...

Justice Sanjay Kumar Bars Advocates From Approaching Court Officers After Lawyer's Son Abuses Staff Over Phone
Justice Sanjay Kumar today barred Advocates on Record from approaching Court officers in his Court after an Advocate's son called an officer and used abusive language against her. This morning, when the mentioning was being made in Court 8, Justice Kumar called an advocate-on-record and questioned whether he had taught his son no manners on how to speak to a woman.Justice Kumar told the...

LiveLaw Breaking News Alerts: 29 October 2026
LiveLaw is introducing a new feature —'Breaking News Alerts' — designed to keep our readers instantly updated on the most important judicial developments. With real-time coverage of urgent pronouncements and orders from the Supreme Court and High Courts, this feature ensures that critical updates reach you the moment they happen. Whether it's a landmark ruling or an urgent interim...

Mumbai Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To 3 Booked For Misappropriating ₹3.92 Crore During Dharma's 'Naagzilla' Film Production
A Sessions Court in Mumbai on Wednesday (October 28) denied anticipatory bail to three individuals booked for financial irregularities to the tune of Rs 3.92 crores pertaining to the production of upcoming Bollywood film - Naagzilla.Additional Sessions Judge M Mohiuddin MA denied anticipatory bail to - Shivkumar Tiwari, Kuldeep Singh Champawat and Mahipal Karan Rathore - who were engaged as...

Copyright, Courts, And Code: Understanding AI Architecture Through Lens Of Litigation
Copyright law deals with familiar acts such as copying, storing and reproducing a protected work. Large Language Models, however, involve technically distinct processes. Each stage from training to the generation of an output serves a different technical function. Notably, training is not the same as retrieval; storing training data is not the same as learning through model parameters; and...

Uddhav Sena's Disqualification Plea Infructuous After 14th Maharashtra Assembly Term Expired : Shinde To Supreme Court
In the Shiv Sena dispute, Senior Advocate Dhruv Mehta argued today before the Supreme Court that Eknath Shinde faction MLAs cannot be declared disqualified after the Maharashtra Assembly's term has expired, opposing the Uddhav Thackeray faction's plea to have the MLAs declared disqualified under the anti-defection law.A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana...

Supreme Court Stays Punjab & Haryana HC Order Restraining Rohtak Courts From Hearing Bail Pleas In DHL Real Estate Scam Case
The Supreme Court has stayed a Punjab and Haryana High Court order restraining judicial officers in Rohtak Sessions Division from entertaining bail applications in a case involving an alleged large-scale real estate investment scam in which investors were allegedly cheated of crores of rupees.A bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice K Vinod Chandran passed the order on October 27 while...

