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Madras High Court Refuses To Discharge Former Minister MRK Panneerselvam In Corruption Case

The Madras High Court, on Tuesday (September 22), dismissed a plea filed by former Minister MRK Panneerselvam seeking discharge in a corruption case. [2026 LiveLaw (Mad) 455] Justice V Lakshminarayanan dismissed the plea. The court had previously dispensed with Panneerselvam and his family's appearance before the Principal District and Sessions Court, Cuddalore. The case against the former Minister is that he had allegedly accumulated disproportionate wealth while serving as the...

Exceptional Case: Kerala Govt Objects To Ex-DGP Tomin J Thachankarys Sentence Suspension Plea In DA Case

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (September 22) granted 2 days' time to the State to object to former Director General of Police Tomin J. Thachankary's plea to suspend his 4-year sentence in a disproportionate assets case.When the matter came up before Justice A. Badharudeen today, the public prosecutor submitted that he seeks to file a counter objecting to the sentence suspension plea in Thachankary's appeal against conviction.The prosecutor submitted that this was an exceptional case...

Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Reporter TV MD Anto Augustine Arrested In Alcohol Possession Case

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday (September 22) granted regular bail to Reporter TV Managing Director Anto Augustine, who is booked in an excise case for illegal possession of large quantities of alcohol in his residence in Wayanad.A detailed order is awaited.Dr. Justice Kauser Edappagath passed the order granting bail on conditions.The Court noted that recovery was effected in the case already and that Augustine did not have any criminal antecedents.Augustine is arrayed as the accused in a...

Defection | Tenth Schedule Disqualification Is For Being A Member, Not For Contesting Fresh Election: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a legislator who voluntarily gives up membership of his political party incurs disqualification under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution is only in respect of the House of which he is then a member, and is not thereby barred from contesting an election to Parliament. It held that Article 102(2) of the Constitution disqualifies such a person only...

Rajasthan High Court Quashes Termination Of Cooperative Bank Employees, Says Registrar Cant Undermine Societys Autonomy

The Rajasthan High Court has held that while exercising powers under Section 125 Rajasthan Cooperative Societies Act, 2001 (the “Act”), the Registrar cannot make such interference that curtails or undermines the autonomy of the society. The bench of Justice Anand Sharma was hearing a petition challenging the orders by which the petitioner's regularisation as a Class IV employee of the...

Para Asian Games 2026: Karnataka High Court Directs Reconsideration Of Womens Doubles Table Tennis Selection

The Karnataka High Court has directed the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) to reconsider the team selection process for the women's doubles events in table tennis for the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games after finding the selection method “ex-facie contrary" to well known norms of selection for double events.The Asian Para Games are set to take place between October 18 -24,...

Mobile Connection Dispute: NCDRC Refuses Compensation Enhancement, Finds No Evidence Of Loss Or Lifetime Validity Scheme

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) comprising Justice A.P. Sahi (President) and Bharatkumar Pandya (Member) dismissed a revision petition filed by an advocate seeking enhancement of compensation awarded in a dispute concerning the disconnection of his mobile connection, holding that he failed to produce documentary evidence to establish that he had subscribed to a lifetime validity scheme or suffered any loss due to the disconnection.Facts: Sanjay Dutt Sharma, a...

Why Arbitration Council Of India Still Not Taken Off?

In February 2026, the Government told Parliament what the arbitration bar already knew: the Arbitration Council of India has not been constituted as yet. The admission was brief, almost routine. It should not have been. Parliament wrote the Council into the statute book in 2019, gave it a head office in Delhi and a mandate to shape the future of Indian arbitration, and then left the chair empty for close to seven years. India has spent that time announcing its ambition to become a global...