HNLU Completes First TradeLab Project In Collaboration With UN ESCAP And CTIL, Contributes To Regional Digital Trade Reports

Hidayatullah National Law University (HNLU), Raipur, has completed its first TradeLab Project in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) and the Centre for Trade and Investment Law (CTIL), New Delhi. The project focused on digital trade regulation and resulted in HNLU's contribution to two regional publications on digital trade policy and regulatory integration. The HNLU research team contributed to the Digital Trade Regulatory...

Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : July 15, 2026

Links to the reports of July 15Supreme Court To Hear Plea To Consider Law Officers' Experience Towards 3 Year Practice For Judicial ServiceDelhi Police Arrests Two Law Students Over Ruckus In Supreme CourtRegistered Sale Deed Does Not Require Proof Of Attestation As Per Section 68 Evidence Act : Supreme CourtSupreme Court Questions Laws Barring Persons With More Than 2 Kids From Local...

Bombay High Court Directs DGP To Review CCTV Functionality, Footage Preservation In All Police Stations

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday (July 15) ordered the State's Director General of Police (DGP) to submit a report spelling out if all the police stations across Maharashtra have operational CCTV cameras and also for how much period is their data preserved by the concerned police stations. A divison bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad has asked the DGP...

1981 Acid Attack On Father | Allahabad High Court 'Anguished' As Trial Judge Ignored Homicide Charge, Awarded Son Mere 3-Yr Term

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday expressed its "deep anguish" over a Gorakhpur trial court's decision to convict a man under Section 326 of the IPC and sentence him to a mere 3 years of imprisonment for causing the homicidal death of his own father by pouring acid upon him. "…Trial Judge, by a manifest misappreciation of the evidence and a complete failure to apply the settled principles governing the offence of murder/culpable homicide, recorded a conviction only under Section...

'Though Removed From Electoral Roll, You're Entitled To Certain Benefits' : Supreme Court Asks SIR-Excluded Person To Move HC For Ration

The Supreme Court today orally observed that persons excluded from electoral rolls after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal remain entitled to certain benefits (like ration).A bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was dealing with the plea of one Mohibulla Mondal, who sought directions to prevent deletion/cancellation/suspension of his ration card following the order passed by the state's Department of Food and Supplies in June.The...

Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To Former Chhattisgarh Excise Commissioner In UP FIR Linked To Alleged ₹2,161 Crore Liquor Scam

The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to former Chhattisgarh Excise Commissioner Niranjan Das in an Uttar Pradesh FIR linked to the alleged ₹2,161 crore Chhattisgarh liquor scam.Justice Vikram D. Chauhan observed:"If the accused is otherwise found to be entitled to bail, he cannot be denied bail only on the ground of criminal history, no exceptional circumstances on the basis of criminal antecedents have been shown to deny bail to accused, hence, the Court does not feel it proper to deny...

2026 LiveLaw (SC) 680 | Deo Prasad and Another v. State of Uttar Pradesh

Supreme Court Acquits 3 Men In 1979 Murder Case, Cites Glaring Infirmities In Prosecution

Supreme Court Acquits 3 Men In 1979 Murder Case, Cites Glaring Infirmities In Prosecution

Two other accused died during the pendency of the appeal in the SC, and another accused died while the appeal was pending in the High Court.

Magistrate Can Invoke BNSS Search Provision To Recover Child Forcibly Taken Away By Father: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that a Magistrate can invoke the search provisions under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) to recover a child allegedly taken away by his father from the mother's custody by force.Upholding orders passed by a Magistrate in Malegaon directing the police to search the father's residence and subsequently restore the custody of the three-year-old child...

NHRC Directs Probe Into Missing Girls Cases In Andhra Pradesh, Seeks Details Of Police Protocol

The National Human Rights Commission has sought information from the Andhra Pradesh police about the number of children who went missing between 2022-2025, the policies followed to trace them and steps proposed to be taken by the police for tracing girls who have not yet been rescued. The order was passed on a plea by Y Balachander Reddy who had pointed to a news report dated 24.01.2024 stating that over 3000 girls went missing in Andhra Pradesh and that only very few were traced. As...

Immersion Of Giant PoP Ganesha Idols Like Lalbaugcha Raja In Natural Water Bodies Must Stop, Bombay High Court Told

Purpose is not for hurting anyone's religious feelings; issue here is of water pollution, Court was told.

'Should Country Remain Standstill'?: Supreme Court Approved UP Govt's Night Safari & Zoo Project In Kukrail Reserve Forest

The Supreme Court today approved the Uttar Pradesh government's night safari and zoological park project in the Kukrail Reserve Forest.Slamming opposition to the same, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant questioned whether the country should remain standstill, even as zoos have turned "outdated".A bench of CJI Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana was dealing with the UP government's application seeking approval for its ambitious project. The State informed that the Court had called...