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Delhi Protest Crackdown, Detentions and Violence Before Supreme Court | Here's what happened
The Supreme Court is hearing fresh petitions over alleged police brutality against lawyers, journalists and protesters in Delhi, with concerns over detentions, assaults and restrictions on movement.What happened before the court and will the complaints lead to accountability?
Kerala High Court Directs NHAI To Decide Representation Seeking Toll Deferment Over 'Incomplete' Highway Works
The Kerala High Court on Wednesday (14 October) directed the Project Director of Project Implementation unit Cochin, National Highways Authority India to dispose of the representation seeking deferment of toll collection at Nattika Toll Plaza on National Highway - 66 within three weeks.The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V.M issued the directions in a public interest litigation challenging the proposed commencement of toll collection at the Nattika Toll...
P&H High Court Rejects Woman's Plea Claiming Arrest Was Illegal As Grounds Were In Punjabi
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a petition challenging an arrest on the ground that the written grounds of arrest were in Punjabi, a language the arrestee said she could not understand. The Court held that this plea, raised for the first time later, could not establish a breach of Article 22(1) of the Constitution because the contemporaneous record showed no objection about...
Census 2027: P&H High Court Stays Communications Seeking Details Of Private School Teachers For Census Duty
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has stayed the operation of two communications issued by the authorities that sought details of teachers in private and government schools for deployment on Census 2027 duty. The stay applies only to private unaided schools.Justice Harpreet Singh Brar passed the interim order on a petition filed by the Haryana Progressive Schools Conference. The Court...
Departmental Proceedings After Retirement Barred For Misconduct Beyond 4-Year Limit Under Bihar Pension Rules: Patna High Court
The Patna HC has held that where a departmental proceeding is initiated after a government servant's retirement, Rule 43(b) of the Bihar Pension Rules bars initiation of proceedings in respect of an event which took place more than four years before such institution.A Single Judge Bench of Justice Kumar Manish was hearing a writ petition filed by Umesh Kr. Verma challenging the departmental proceeding initiated against him, its subsequent conversion under Rule 43(b) of the Bihar Pension Rules,...
Duty To Inform Or Duty To Deny? RTI Act's Quiet Turn From Answering To Evading
When Parliament enacted the Right to Information Act in 2005, it reversed a colonial-era default in the Indian administration which was inherited from the Official Secrets Act of 1923: that government functioned best behind closed files, and citizens had to justify why they deserved to see inside them. RTI inverted that logic. Disclosure to any citizen, on any public record held by a government body, became the rule while withholding it became the narrow exception, permitted only under specific,...
Mere Association With Scrapyard Proprietor Not Enough To Invoke Culpable Homicide For Death After Explosion At Premises: MP High Court
The Court said that criminal liability cannot be fastened upon a person merely because of his relationship with another accused.
Plea In Supreme Court Challenges De-Notification Of Jantar Mantar As Protest Site
A writ petition has been filed challenging the Standing Order dated October 11, whereby Jantar Mantar has been de-notified as a designated protest site and three alternative venues have been notified. The petition has been filed by advocate Swaty Singh, arguing that the relocation of protests to distant and outlying areas may render the fundamental right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression ineffective."The right to protest is not merely a right to assemble at a designated...
Indian Youth Congress Moves Delhi High Court Against De-Notification Of Jantar Mantar As Protest Site
Indian Youth Congress Chief Uday Bhanu Chib has moved the Delhi High Court challenging the decision of the Delhi Police to de-notify Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site.A similar plea has been filed before the Supreme Court by Advocate Swati Malik.Chib has filed the application challenging the decision in his pending petition seeking reconsideration of its request to hold protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar by undertaking fresh, reasoned assessment and examining whether security,...
Savarkar Defamation Case: Satyaki Savarkar Alleges 'Surveillance', Objects To Rahul Gandhi's Counsel Asking About Personal Life
Satyaki Savarkar, the grand nephew of right-wing ideologue Vinayak Savarkar has objected to his ongoing 'cross-examination' in the criminal defamation case filed by him against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and has apprehended that he is being continuously followed or kept under surveillance. Satyaki had filed a criminal defamation case against Gandhi for allegedly defaming Savarkar by delivering a speech in United Kingdom wherein he reportedly said that Savarkar has written in one of his...
Calcutta High Court Grants Interim Bail To Former Bidhannagar Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta In Corruption Case
The Calcutta High Court has granted interim bail to former Bidhannagar Mayor and former Trinamool Congress MLA Sabyasachi Dutta in a corruption case, noting that the complaint alleging a demand for money in 2018 was lodged only in 2026 without any explanation for the inordinate delay.Justice Chaitali Chatterjee (Das) granted Dutta interim bail until November 30, 2026, subject to stringent conditions, including surrender of his passport, a restriction on leaving West Bengal without the trial...