Bombay High Court Allows Lawyers Collective's Plea For Opportunity To File FCRA Compounding Application

The Bombay High Court has allowed the Lawyers Collective an opportunity to file a compounding application in relation to the offence under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010 (FCRA). The Court observed that once the requirements under Rule 21 of the FCRA Rules, 2011 are complied with, the right to seek compounding cannot be denied.Justice Milind N. Jadhav was hearing an...

Bombay High Court Grants 8-Month Interim Bail To Woman Accused In Drugs Case To Care For Newborn

The Bombay High Court recently granted eight months interim bail to a woman booked in a case under the stringent Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, after noting that her prematurely born eight-month-old daughter is in a precarious condition. Single-judge Justice Milind Jadhav noted that the applicant Pooja Lal, delivered a pre-term child on January 9, 2026. "Though this...

Karnataka High Court To Examine Section 17A PC Act Applicability To Pre-2018 Offences, Consequences Of Delay In Granting Sanction

The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (September 29) decided to examine the applicability of Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, to offences allegedly committed before the provision was introduced in 2018, as well as the consequences of a prolonged delay by the State Government in granting approval to investigate a public servant.The single judge bench of Justice V...

Motor Accident | Insurance Policy Mentioning '1+1' Covers Driver, Passenger Despite RC Showing Single Seat: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an insurance company which issued a policy recording the seating capacity of a tractor as “1+1” and received premium on that basis cannot afterwards deny liability for the death of a passenger by relying on the registration certificate, which showed the seating capacity as one person.Justice Prashant Kumar held,“The Insurance Company cannot now...

Rape | DNA Report Inadmissible Without Examining Scientific Expert Who Conducted Test: Gujarat High Court

The Gujarat High Court upheld the acquittal of a man in a rape case while observing that the prosecution did not examine the expert who conducted the DNA profiling test and in absence of such testimony the report was inadmissible in evidence. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 264]The court was hearing State's appeal against trial court order acquitting the respondent of charges under Sections 64(2)(m)...

Gujarat High Court Grants Bail To POCSO Accused Booked For 'Eloping' With Minor Girl To Help Evade Forced Marriage

The Gujarat High Court granted regular bail to a 21-year-old man booked for kindnapping and offences under POCSO Act, wherein he was accused of eloping with a minor girl after her parents had allegedly sought to get her married to a 34-year-old man. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 262]Perusing the case record and the girl's statement, Justice Hasmukh D Suthar in his order said:"Perusing the statement...

Karnataka High Court Censures RTI Applicants For Filing Thousands Of Pleas, Says RTI Must Not Be Filed 'For The Sake Of It'

The Karnataka High Court on Monday (September 28) censured several RTI applicants challenging their blacklisting by the Karnataka Information Commission (KIC), after the Commission submitted that some petitioners had filed thousands of RTI applications and appeals, including one petitioner who had allegedly filed around 20,000 applications over seven years.The Court observed that RTI...

'Afterthought': Karnataka High Court Quashes POCSO FIR Against Father, Notes Complaint Filed Days After Wife's Custody Plea Rejected

The Karnataka High Court has quashed criminal proceedings against a man accused by his estranged wife of sexually assaulting their minor daughter, holding that the complaint was a “classic example of afterthought and for personal vengeance against the husband.” Justice H.P. Sandesh noted that the criminal complaint under the POCSO Act was filed only after the wife's application...

Suo Motu Case On Delhi Rapes | Supreme Court Issues Directions To Make Public Spaces Safer; Orders Safety Audit Within 4 Weeks

The Court sought the data on Fast Track Courts from the Delhi High Court Registrar General

Preventive Detention | Not Informing Detenu Of Right To Represent To Central Govt Violates Article 22(5) Safeguard: Karnataka High Court

The Karnataka High Court has held that the failure to inform a detenu of their right to make a representation to the Central Government under Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1988 seeking revocation of detention order, violates safeguard under Article 22(5) of the Constitution of India. A Division Bench of Justice M. Nagaprasanna and Justice...

Karnataka High Court Quashes FIR Against YouTuber Drone Prathap Over 'Pond Explosion' Experiment, Says No 'Malicious Intent'

The Karnataka High Court has quashed an FIR registered against a science educator and YouTuber, Pratap N M, who runs the channel 'Drone Prathap', over a video demonstrating the reaction of sodium with water. [2026 LiveLaw (Kar) 382]The single judge bench of Justice Suraj Govindaraj opined that though it does not endorse the manner in which the experiment was conducted, the act was 'educative'...

Gujarat High Court Grants Anticipatory Bail To Man's Relatives Accused Of Instigating Him To Pronounce 'Triple Talaq'

The Gujarat High Court granted anticipatory bail to five family members of a man booked for instigating him to divorce his wife using triple talaq. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 259]The applicants booked for offences under Sections 85, 351(2) and 54 BNS and Section 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act had moved the court seeking anticipatory bail.The Act prohibits triple talaq,...