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Land Acquisition Illegal If Known Owners Are Omitted, Right To Object Under S.5-A Dispensed Without Genuine Urgency: Telangana High Court
The Telangana High Court has set aside land acquisition proceedings for road widening at Liberty Cross Roads, Hyderabad, after finding that the authorities omitted the names of admittedly known co-owners from the acquisition proceedings and invoked the urgency provision under Land Acquisition Act without demonstrating genuine urgency to dispense with their right to object. [2026 LiveLaw...
Delhi High Court Grants 6-Weeks To Three Slum Clusters Near PM's Residence For Relocating To DUSIB Colony
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (August 25) granted six weeks to residents of three slum clusters located near the Prime Minister's residence in the Race Course area to vacate the premises and move to a DUSIB Colony at Savda Ghevra where alternative accommodation has been provided by the authorities. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 788]A division bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia...
3-Year LLM Course Enables Lawyers To Continue Practice While Simultaneously Pursuing Masters Program: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has observed that purpose of 3-year LL.M. course is to enable students to continue practice before Courts while simultaneously pursuing their Masters program. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 787]In doing so the court permitted a lawyer to appear in his second semester LLM exam at Delhi University after he was earlier prohibited for not completing the mandatory attendance requirement....
Delhi High Court Directs Centre To Decide In Two Months Plea Seeking Constitution Of National Nursing & Midwifery Commission
The Delhi High Court has directed the Central Government to decide within two months a plea by Indian Professional Nurses Association seeking expeditious constitution of the National Nursing and Midwifery Commission. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 786]The petitioner had sought a direction to the Centre to constitute, execute and implement the provisions of National Nursing and Midwifery Commission (NNMC)...
'Unclean Hands': Delhi High Court Dismisses PIL Challenging IFCI's NSE Share Divestment, Imposes ₹5 Lakh Costs
The Delhi High Court imposed Rs. 5 Lakh cost on a PIL litigant seeking disclosure of information on divestment of Industrial Finance Corporation of India Ltd's (IFCI) shareholding in National Stock Exchange of India Limited, observing that petitioner had suppressed pendency of another plea with overlapping issues before the Bombay High Court. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 785]The petitioner had...
Delhi High Court Directs State To Decide Representation Objecting To Biometric Attendance Of Public Prosecutors
The Delhi High Court has directed the Delhi Government to decide within four weeks a representation filed by Delhi Prosecutors Welfare Association objecting to requirement of biometric attendance of public prosecutors. [2026 LiveLaw (Del) 784]The court was hearing a plea moved by the Association seeking directions to quash Delhi Government circulars on mandatory biometric attendance of...
Voter Names Can't Be Excluded From Electoral Rolls Due To 'Political Intervention': Rajasthan High Court
Rajasthan High Court granted relief to the petitioner whose application for transferring name in the electoral roll of a ward, basis her place of residence, was arbitrarily rejected after being accepted earlier on the same day, without assigning any reasons or an opportunity of hearing.The bench of Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand held that as per Rajasthan Panchayati Raj (Election) Act,...
Interim Protection Can Be Granted To Tenant Even Before Condoning Delay In Appeal Against Eviction Is Condoned: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that an appellate court does not lose its power to grant interim protection in an appeal merely because the application for condonation of delay filed with that appeal is still undecided. An order preserving the subject matter of a proposed appeal, it held, stands apart from an order entertaining or deciding it.Dr. Justice Yogendra Kumar Srivastava...
Interest U/S 28 Of Land Acquisition Act Must Be Calculated On Enhanced Principal; Compounding Interest Impermissible: Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has held that interest under Section 28 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 is required to be calculated only on the enhanced amount of compensation and that unpaid interest cannot be added to the enhanced compensation for calculating further interestJustice Rohit W. Joshi was hearing a writ petition filed by the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation...
Legally Wedded Wife Entitled To Family Pension Despite Husband Nominating Sons Instead: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has held that legally wedded wife's entitlement to family pension cannot be defeated even if the pensioner has nominated a third person thereby excluding her. [2026 LiveLaw (Guj) 229]Referring to division bench's decision in Abedakhatun Y. Malek v. Director of Pension and Provident Funds and Others (2011), Justice Niral R Mehta in his order said:"Upon perusal of...
Allahabad High Court Strikes Down Key Provisions Of UP's 2021 Tenancy Act; 1972 Rent Law Revives To Extent Required
In a significant judgment, the Allahabad High Court on Friday struck down key provisions of the UP Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021, holding that its provisions on rent revision, rent determination and eviction are repugnant to existing Parliamentary law. A Bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Swarupama Chaturvedi held that Sections 8, 9 and 10 of the 2021 Act,...
Does Law Department Lack Administrative Control Over JDA Legal Officer? Rajasthan High Court Issues Notice, Stays Chargesheets
The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice on a plea challenging the jurisdiction of the Department of Law and Legal Affairs to initiate disciplinary proceedings against a legal officer posted with the Jaipur Development Authority (JDA), and stayed the operation of two chargesheets issued against him.The bench of Justice Anuroop Singhi was hearing a petition filed by Narendra Kumar...