Allahabad High Court Orders ₹50K Compensation Over 5-Day Illegal Police Detention, Praises Cops For Candid Admission Of Error

The Allahabad High Court last week ordered the State Government to pay ₹50,000 as compensation to a man who was kept in illegal police detention for 5 days, from August 15-August 19, 2026, before being produced before the concerned Magistrate. A Bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Achal Sachdev passed the order on a habeas corpus petition filed by Kamlesh Kumar, who alleged that...

'Special Police Officers' Not Covered Under Article 311 But Entitled To Minimum Safeguards Before Disengagement: J&K&L High Court

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has held that Special Police Officers (SPOs) engaged under Section 18 of the Jammu and Kashmir Police Act, 1983, are not entitled to the full procedural safeguards available to regular police officers under Article 311 of the Constitution, but are entitled to a minimum safeguard of notice and an opportunity of reply before any stigmatic order...

Dushyant Dave To Deliver 17th K.M. Bashir Memorial Lecture On Constitutional Governance And Democratic Values On September 24

The Vakkom Moulavi Foundation Trust (VMFT) will organise the 17th K.M. Bashir Memorial Lecture on September 24, 2026, at the Science & Technology Museum Auditorium, PMG Junction, Thiruvananthapuram. The event forms part of the K.M. Bashir Centennial Celebrations 2025-26 and will focus on constitutional governance and democratic values.The memorial lecture will be delivered by Dushyant...

Killing Of Chongtham Vikram Singh: Equal Protection, Unequal Belonging

On September 6, in Delhi's Ashram area, Chongtham Vikram Singh, a prolific musician from Imphal in Manipur, went out after dinner to do what thousands of Delhi residents do every night: take out the trash, walk off a meal, ask a knot of drunk men outside his building to lower their voices. He did not survive the request. That a noise complaint could end in death is, on its own, a tragedy of the kind Indian cities produce with grim regularity. What makes this one different, what has pulled...

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Police Statement That 'Sufficient Material Exists To File Chargesheet' Doesn't Mean Default Bail Can Be Granted : Supreme Court ...

Police Statement That 'Sufficient Material Exists To File Chargesheet' Doesn't Mean Default Bail Can Be Granted : Supreme Court

A prosecution's statement in an extension application that sufficient material exists to file a charge sheet cannot be treated as an admission that the investigation is complete, the Court said.

Malviya Nagar Fire: Delhi High Court Grants Interim Bail To Hotel Owner On Medical Grounds

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim bail to Lavkesh Bajaj, the owner of the hotel building in Malviya Nagar where a devastating fire killed 21 people in June.Justice Sachin Datta granted interim bail to Bajaj on medical grounds for four weeks so as to enable him to recuperate and recover adequately."....having regard to the nature of the surgery undergone by the applicant and the...

Division Of Cooperative Society Ends Delegates' Status; Retaining Old Name, Registration Number Don't Preserve Eligibility: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that when a cooperative society is divided under Section 126 of the U.P. Cooperative Societies Act, 1965, the original society also becomes a new body corporate, even if it is allowed to keep its old name and registration number. It held that upon such division, the delegates of the original society cease to be delegates under Rule 87(ix) of the U.P....

NDPS Accused Cannot Manufacture Medical Ground For Bail By Delaying Treatment, Refusing Consent: J&K&L High Court

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has dismissed a bail application filed on medical grounds by an accused in a commercial quantity NDPS case, holding that the statutory conditions under Section 37 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 must take precedence over the plea of prolonged incarceration, likely delay in trial, or the medical condition of...

Civil Suits Can Be Consolidated If Issues Are Similar And Common Evidence Sufficient To Decide: MP High Court

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that civil suits may be consolidated only when the issues involved in the suits are similar, and the common evidence is sufficient to decide those issues. [2026 LiveLaw (MP) 379]Dismissing a revision petition challenging the order that rejected the plea for consolidation, the bench of Justice Ashish Shroti observed: "Thus two suits can be, and should...

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Benefit Under Caste Certificate Nullified By Scrutiny Committee Can't Be Withdrawn Until 30 Days After Rejection Of Appeal: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that benefits granted on the basis of a caste certificate cannot be withdrawn until 30 days after rejection of an appeal challenging its invalidation by the Scrutiny Committee. The Court, relying on Section 10(5) of the Maharashtra Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-notified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Special Backward Category...