'Tripling On Motorcycle Not Automatically Contributory Negligence': Chhattisgarh High Court Enhances Accident Compensation

The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the mere fact that three persons were travelling on a motorcycle does not automatically establish contributory negligence. The Court observed that, in the absence of evidence showing that tripling contributed to the occurrence of the accident, compensation cannot be reduced on that ground alone.[2026 LiveLaw (Chh) 62]Justice Sanjay K. Agrawal was...

Jharkhand High Court Refuses Bail In Tetariakhad Colliery Terror Attack Case

The Jharkhand High Court has refused to grant bail to an accused in the 2020 Tetariakhad Colliery terror attack case, holding that the prosecution materials, including the statements of protected witnesses identifying him through photographs, prima facie established his involvement. The Court also held that the appellant's case was distinguishable from those of co-accused who had been...

Supreme Court Revives POCSO Case Against School Headmistress For Not Reporting Child Sex Abuse, Says Doing Own Verification No Excuse

The Supreme Court on Thursday (July 9) ruled that a school official who receives a direct complaint of sexual assault from a child cannot avoid criminal liability of reporting the incident to authorities by conducting a private "verification" and concluding that "nothing had happened." The Court said that failure to report the incident under Section 19 of the Prevention of Children from...

Telangana High Court Grants Bail To Union Minister's Son Bandi Bageerath In POCSO Case, Restrains Him From Making Public Statements

The Telangana High Court on Thursday (July 9) granted bail to Bandi Sai Bageerath, son of Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in POCSO case taking note of the prosecution's submission that the probe was almost completed and observed that apprehension of influencing of witnesses can be curbed by imposing stringent conditions. [2026 LiveLaw (Tel) 99] Besides directing him not...

UP Goondas Act Should Not Be Misused As 'Tool Of Oppression': Allahabad High Court Quashes Proceedings Based On 2 Criminal Cases

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed the orders passed by the district authorities declaring a man a 'Goonda' under the U.P. Control of Goondas Act, 1970. It observed that the Act should not be allowed to be misused as a "tool of oppression" of innocent persons. A bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi observed that the Act is a "powerful tool for the control and suppression of...

Rajasthan High Court Imposes 3-Year Social Media Ban On Youth Booked For Morphing Minor's Photos

The Rajasthan High Court has imposed a 3-year social media ban on a youth accused of morphing images of a minor and uploading them on social media with an intention to defame her.FIR was registered against him under the relevant provisions of the BNS, POCSO Act, and the Information Technology Act. The applicant, seeking bail, argued that he was in custody since April 2026, and was ready...

2020 Bengaluru Riots: Karnataka High Court Grants Bail To Fairoz Pasha After 5 Years In Jail, Cites Parity With Co-Accused

The Karnataka High Court has recently granted bail to 2020 Bengaluru Riots accused Fairoz Pasha by reasoning that he had undergone incarceration for over 5 years and that his co-accused have already been granted the relief sought for. [ 2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 240]The Division Bench of Justices Mohammad Nawaz and G.Basavaraja held in the appeal preferred by Pasha that, on the ground of parity,...

JJ Act | FIR Against School Principal For Calling Student 'Thief' Can't Be Quashed Merely Due To Absence Of Trauma In Child: HP High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court held that the absence of clinical signs of trauma in a psychologist's report is not a ground to quash an FIR under Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act. Whether the child actually suffered mental trauma is a matter of evidence to be determined during trial, and the allegations themselves, if accepted at face value, were sufficient to disclose a prima...

Shariat Law Allowing Marriage At Puberty Violates POCSO; Prohibition On Child Marriage Applies To All Religions: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the Shariat/Muslim Personal Law permitting puberty as the competent age for a girl to marry runs clearly in the teeth of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, as well as the POCSO Act. A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Achal Sachdev further observed that the age of marriage, for every citizen of the country, irrespective of religion,...

Preventive Detention Of Person Already In Jail Vitiated If Detaining Authority Doesn't Know Case In Which He Is Incarcerated: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an order of preventive detention passed under Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988 against a person already in jail is vitiated by non-application of mind, where the Detaining Authority does not know, or wrongly knows, the case in which the detenu is in custody. It held that without...

No Evidence Of Aluminium Foil On Kaju Katli Being Harmful: Gujarat High Court Upholds Sweet Shop Owners' Acquittal For Adulteration

The Gujarat High Court has upheld the acquittal of sweet shop owners accused of food adulteration, after noting that in absence of any evidence that aluminium foil coating on Kaju Katli sample was injurious to health, the mere use of such foil for coating the sweet would not make it adulterated. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 187]Justice Hemant M Prachchhak said that the findings recorded by the trial...

Rajasthan High Court Refuses Bail To 'Myanmar Nationals' Accused Of Trafficking Rohingya Girls Under Guise Of Marriage

Rajasthan High Court denied bail to three men accused of being the residents of Myanmar and illegally importing Rohingya-origin girls to India under the false pretext of solemnizing their marriage and then selling them off. The division bench of Justice Inderjeet Singh and Justice Bhuwan Goyal observed that taking into account the facts and circumstances of the case, statements of the...