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'Issue Of National Security': Rajasthan High Court Rejects Pleas Against Eviction Notices Issued To Mosques, Dargahs At Indo-Pak Border
The Rajasthan High Court has dismissed a batch of petitions challenging show-cause and eviction notices issued to Mosques, Madrasas and Dargahs situated within 50km of the India-Pakistan border, observing that the matter pertained to national security and was not a case of religious discrimination. [2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 279]The court was hearing a batch of pleas by various Madrasas, Mosques,...
Supreme Court Seeks Delhi Police Status Report On Probe Into Assault Of SC Advocate
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a status report from the Delhi Police regarding the investigation into the alleged assault of a Supreme Court advocate in the national capital.The Court directed that the status report, along with details of the action taken on the victim's second complaint alleging threats to withdraw the FIR, be filed by a police officer not below the rank of...
Supreme Court Upholds Lalu Prasad Yadav's Sentence Suspension In Deoghar Fodder Scam, Urges HC To Decide Appeal In 6 Months
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to interfere with the Jharkhand High Court's order suspending the sentence of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Deoghar fodder scam case, while requesting the High Court to decide his pending criminal appeal within 6 months.A bench of Justice MM Sundresh and Justice PB Varale was hearing the Special Leave Petition filed by the State...
'Mere Telephone Records Can't Prove Illicit Affair' : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittal Of Woman & 2 Men In Husband's Murder Case
Mere production of telephone records cannot substitute substantive proof of an illicit affair leading to murder, the Supreme Court has held while upholding the acquittal of a woman accused of murdering her husband along with her alleged lover and another co-accused in 2007. The Court ruled that the prosecution failed to establish an unbroken chain of circumstances necessary to sustain...
Supreme Court Takes Suo Motu Case Over NCLT Appointment Delays & Infrastructure Issues
The Supreme Court has registered a suo motu case over the delays in the appointment of members in National Company Law Tribunals and infrastructure issues.The suo motu case, titled "In Re : Appointment of Judicial and Technical Members and Inadequate Infrastructure in National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and Ancillary Issues" was registered on May 19, following the April 29 judgment in...
Violent Protest, Sloganeering Against Govt Or Expressing Dissent Not Always Sedition: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that mere participation in a violent protest, raising slogans against the government, or expressing dissent does not automatically amount to the offence of sedition.Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj and Justice Sukhvinder Kaur said,"violent protest may amount to rioting but such action of violence would not be perceived as an act of bringing in hatred...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 13, 2026
Links to the reports of July 13.Supreme Court Rejects Regularisation Claims Of 361 West Bengal Madrasah Staff'Citizenship Status Must Be Determined Through Fair Process': Supreme Court Sets Aside 27 Foreigner Declarations By Assam Tribunals'You Can't Insult Students & Get Away' : Supreme Court Denies Pre-Arrest Bail To Professor In Kerala Student Suicide CaseSupreme Court Stays Madras...
