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Personal-Enmity Assaults Are “Law And Order” Issue, Not Grounds For Preventive Detention: J&K&L High Court

The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has quashed a preventive detention order passed against a Poonch resident, holding that incidents arising out of personal enmity and directed against private individuals constitute a “law and order” issue and cannot, by themselves, furnish grounds for preventive detention.Justice Sanjay Dhar observed that the mere fact that a person is involved...

Patna High Court Recommends Reforms In Prison Manual, Calls For Hearing Before Remission Seizure, Safeguards For Illiterate Prisoners

The Patna High Court has recommended a series of reforms to the remission framework under the Bihar Prison Manual, 2012, including safeguards against arbitrary seizure of remission, fixed timelines for processing premature-release cases and measures to ensure that illiterate prisoners are not disadvantaged by educational or vocational criteria. A Division Bench comprising Justice...

Bail During Investigation In POCSO Case Where Child Was Assaulted By Uncle Is Too Premature: J&K&L High Court Cancels Bail

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has cancelled bail granted to an accused in a POCSO case, holding that the grant of bail during the investigation was "too premature" where the victim, a minor girl, was allegedly subjected to sexual violence in the house of her close relative by her own maternal uncle.The Court observed that the accused, being the husband of the victim's...

Bombay High Court Quashes Case Against Man Accused Of Threatening Cop After Mobile Video Shows ₹300 Bribe Demand

The Bombay High Court has quashed a chargesheet against a man accused of offences under Sections 353, 504 and 506 of the IPC, observing that mobile phone footage and WhatsApp conversations prima facie showed that the complainant-police constable had demanded ₹300 from him for returning his driving licence. The Court observed that a false case of criminal intimidation had thereafter been...

Can Civil Judge Notified As Commercial Court Hear Trademark Infringement Suits? Supreme Court Refers To Larger Bench

The Supreme Court on Monday (September 21) has referred to a Larger Bench the question whether a Civil Judge (Senior Division) notified as a Commercial Court under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 can entertain a trademark infringement suit, despite Section 134 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 expressly prohibiting institution of such suits before a court inferior to a District Court. Section 134...

Repeated Post-Release Involvement In Narcotic Offences Justifies Preventive Detention When Ordinary Law Proves Inadequate: J&K&L High Court

The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh has upheld the preventive detention of a man under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1988, holding that repeated post-release involvement in narcotic offences justifies preventive detention when the ordinary law of the land proves inadequate.The Court observed that the detaining authority had...

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...