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LiveLaw Celebrates 13 Years With Special Anniversary Subscription Offers
As LiveLaw marks its 13th anniversary, readers can avail special subscription offers with discounts of up to 60% across select plans. Thirteen years ago, LiveLaw was founded with the simple mission to make legal reporting more accessible, timely and reliable for the legal community. Over the years, LiveLaw has grown into one of India's most widely read legal news platforms, covering...
Representation Of People Act Doesn't Apply To Municipal Elections : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that the penal provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RPA) do not apply to municipal elections, clarifying that candidates accused of filing false affidavits in local body polls can instead be prosecuted under the Indian Penal Code where the applicable municipal law does not provide a penal provision. A Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh made the observation while deciding an appeal filed by Chandrikaben Kishor...
Magistrate Must Not Record Prosecution Evidence In Cases Exclusively Triable By Sessions Court : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 1) held that a Magistrate is not required to record pre-charge evidence under Section 244 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 before committing a complaint case involving offences exclusively triable by a Court of Sessions, setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment that had directed such an exercise“…the only requirement from the Magistrate is to see whether the offence is exclusively triable by the Court of Sessions and in doing so, no...
The Judge Who Did Her Duty
A truck left Madhya Pradesh on the night of 2 August 2022. It carried cattle and three men from Amravati in Maharashtra. Near Barakhad village, in the Seoni Malwa police area, a crowd stopped it. The crowd beat the three men with sticks and staves. Nazir Ahmed, a man of about fifty, did not survive. The other two lived to tell the court what happened.Four years later, a judge weighed the evidence. On 12 June 2026, the First Additional Sessions Judge at Seoni Malwa convicted seven men. She held...
SCAORA Condemns Threats Against MP Judge Who Punished Cow Vigilantes In Lynching Case
The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) on Wednesday strongly condemned the threats and targeted social media campaign against Madhya Pradesh Additional District and Sessions Judge Ms. Tabassum Khan, stating that judicial orders must be challenged before appellate courts and not through intimidation or vilification of judges.The judge was subjected to communal attacks after she delivered a judgment sentencing seven cow vigilantes to life imprisonment for lynching a truck...
S. 465 CrPC | Taking Cognizance Under Wrong Provision Curable Defect If Magistrate Otherwise Has Jurisdiction : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 1) held that a Magistrate's error in taking cognizance of an offence under an incorrect statutory provision is a curable defect and, this mistake, by itself, does not warrant quashing the cognizance order, provided the Magistrate otherwise has the jurisdiction to deal with the matter.“The well-settled position of law is that the error in taking cognizance under the wrong Section is, in fact a curable defect so long as the Court that has taken cognizance has...
Police Clearance Denied To Agniveer Aspirant Over SIR Deletion; Appellate Tribunal Gives Him Relief After Calcutta HC Nudge
An Agniveer aspirant whose Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) was withheld after his name was deleted from the electoral roll during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise has secured relief from the SIR Appellate Tribunal, paving the way for the processing of the certificate required for his appointment in the Indian Army.This comes days after the Calcutta High Court requested the SIR Appellate Tribunal to expeditiously dispose of the appeals filed by Akash Sarkar and his father, Faruk...
WB Assembly Passes 'Public Safety Act' Providing For Detention Up To One Year, Property Seizure For 'Anti-Social Activities'
The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed the West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026, a legislation that significantly expands the State's powers to deal with organised crime by providing for preventive detention of alleged "goondas" for up to one year, externment orders, and seizure and confiscation of properties linked to anti-social activities.The Bill, popularly referred to as the "Goonda Bill", was passed with 176 members voting in favour and 41 against,...
Remission Policy Issued Under Article 161 Overrides Statutory Policy Framed Under CrPC: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 1) held that a remission policy framed by a State Government in exercise of the Governor's constitutional powers under Article 161 of the Constitution cannot be overridden by a subsequent statutory remission policy issued under Sections 432 and 433 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Holding that Haryana's 2002 remission policy continued to remain operative despite the State's 2008 statutory policy, the Court also declared its 2021 judgment in State of Haryana...
'Rs.370 Biryani' Row : Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Regulation Of Stand-Up Comedy, Social Media Misinformation
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a comprehensive regulatory framework for stand-up comedy, podcasts, live streaming platforms and other user-generated digital content, citing the viral "Rs 370 Biryani" controversy as one of the instances demonstrating the need for constitutional safeguards in the digital age.The petition, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari under Article 32 of the Constitution, contends that while the "Rs 370 Biryani" episode should not invite...
