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S. 138 NI Act | Cheque Dishonour Sent To Drawer's Address Is Validly Served Though Received By Family Member : Supreme Court
The requirement of 'giving of notice' stands complied with once the notice is dispatched to the correct address, the Court explained.
LiveLaw Breaking News Alerts: 01 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...
LiveLaw Supreme Court Monthly Digest: August 2026
Abuse of Process of Court — Imposition of Exemplary Costs- The machinery of justice cannot be deployed as a facility to settle personal scores or salvage reputations imperiled by the parties' own actions. Where both litigants engaged in suppression, embellishment, and afterthought, and consumed institutional time of disciplinary bodies and constitutional courts for eleven years, costs...
Kerala High Court Declares Wife Exclusive Owner Of Property Bought In Joint Name With Husband Using Her Father's Money
The Kerala High Court has recently declared a woman exclusive owner of a property bought in joint names with her husband, using her father's money. [2026 LiveLaw (Ker) 540]A Division Bench comprising Justice Sathish Ninan and Justice P. Krishna Kumar delivered the judgment while partly allowing an appeal filed by the woman seeking rights over a residential property purchased in her and...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : September 30, 2026
Links to the reports of September 30 :CAPF Contempt Matter Shifted To Special Bench Of Justice Misra & Justice Bhuyan'Will Dismiss It' : Supreme Court On West Bengal Plea Against Interim Bail To Congress Nandigram By-Poll Candidate Milan PradhanSupreme Court Special Bench Criticises Manner Of CAPF Contempt Case Listing; Centre Says Request Was Made Before CJIJournalist Ajit Anjum Seeks...
'Who Judges The Judge?': Allahabad High Court Calls For Recalibration Of CJ-Centric Administration, Greater Institutional Accountability
HC also called for greater participation of puisne Judges in institutional decision-making.
Mahakumbh Fame Woman Gets Relief as MP High Court Quashes Birth Certificate Correction Order
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has granted relief to a young woman who rose to prominence during the 2025 Mahakumbh, setting aside the order by which authorities had cancelled her earlier birth certificate and altered her date of birth from January 1, 2008, to December 30, 2009. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 398]Directing the authority to reconsider her father's plea seeking correction of birth record...
Whether IPC Prosecution Can Continue After Sanction Under PC Act Was Refused: Supreme Court Reserves Judgment
The Supreme Court today (30 September) reserved its judgement in a batch of petitions by former IDBI bank officials and government nominees on the bank's board, wherein they challenged their prosecution for offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC, now the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023/BNS 2023) after sanction to prosecute them under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC Act) was...
Supreme Court Rebukes UP Police Over FIR Discrepancies, Summons Officer
The Supreme Court today(September 30) criticised the Uttar Pradesh police for registering a first information report against an unknown person in a case relating to harassment, despite the fact that the complainant had apprehended the suspect on the spot. In a case before Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva, the complainant appeared in person and alleged that despite her...
