CLAT Results And Reality Of Legal Education: A Note To Students At Threshold

The moment has come that i have to recount the story of my CLAT 2025 result which by the way was a bad night until it was revealed the results the next day and my fate was sealedThe night of the CLAT 2025 scores was not spectacular at all; it felt more like a regular night, which was the opposite of what most people think it would be. There was no immediate understanding or feeling of release, just a silent struggle with a rank that seemed to summarize the months of hard work into a single...

Foreign Citizenship, No Assets In India No Bar To IBC Proceedings Against Personal Guarantor: NCLT Chennai

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Chennai recently held that insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, can be initiated against a personal guarantor even if he is a foreign citizen and does not own any assets in India. The tribunal said nationality and absence of property in India do not prevent the Code from applying. A coram of Judicial Member...

Madras High Court Upholds Trade Marks Registry Order Rejecting “Fresh Not Frozen” Mark

The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal filed by Freshtohome Foods Private Limited, a Bangalore-based online grocery delivery platform against a 2019 order of the Trade Marks Registry rejecting its trademark application for the brand “FRESH NOT FROZEN”. Justice N Anand Venkatesh passed the order on December 18, 2025. The court held that the proposed mark was deceptively similar to...

Supreme Court Questions Maintainability Of Telangana's Writ Petition Challenging Andhra's Polavaram Irrigation Project

The Supreme Court today questioned the maintainability of the writ petition filed by the State of Telangana against the Union and Andhra Pradesh Government, challenging the expansion of the Polavaram Multipurpose irrigation project. The bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a plea filed by the State of Telangana against the Union's extension of financial assistance...

'High-Handed Action By Officer': Gujarat High Court Directs Status Quo On Demolition Without Measurement Of Land

The Gujarat High Court on Monday (January 5) directed status quo over action of removal of alleged encroachment in Palanpur, observing that the Taluka Development Officer had acted in a high-handed manner when the area in question had not been measured and the petitioners were in possession of allotment document. The court also observed that the officer had placed reliance on a December 23,...

Bombay High Court Sets Aside Arbitral Award Passed With “Undue Haste” After Four-Year Delay

The Bombay High Court has set aside an arbitral award, holding that it was passed in undue haste after nearly four years of inaction and without giving the parties any opportunity of hearing.A Single Bench of Justice Sandeep V Marne found that the arbitrator acted with undue haste and in clear breach of natural justice. Rejecting the explanation offered for the long delay, the Court...

Rajasthan High Court Monthly Digest: December 2025

Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 To 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 430 NOMINAL INDEX Adnan Haider Bhai v State of Rajasthan, and other connected petition; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 401 Ravi v State of Rajasthan; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 402 Sayed Sarfaraj v Reserve Bank of India & Anr.; 2025 LiveLaw (Raj) 403 Rajasthan High Court Advocates' Association & Anr. v State of Rajasthan & Anr.;...

Slain BSP Leader Armstrong's Wife Seeks Transfer Of Her CBI Probe Plea From Madras High Court To Supreme Court

Wife of BSP leader and prominent Dalit activist K Armstrong, who died following an attack by armed assailants in 2024, has approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer from Madras High Court of her petition praying for CBI probe in her husband's murder case.The transfer is sought on the ground that similar issue (that is, transfer of investigation to CBI) is pending before the Supreme Court...

NCLT Admits Gensol EV's Insolvency Plea Against Mindra EV Over ₹1.61 Crore Default

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Ahmedabad has recently admitted an insolvency petition filed by Gensol EV Lease Limited, a debt ridden company that was itself admitted to insolvency in June 2025, against Mindra EV Private Limited. The plea was admitted over a default of Rs 1.61 crore after the corporate debtor failed to appear or contest the case despite being served with...

Madras High Court Rejects Minister I Periyasamy's Plea Against ED Probe, Tells Him To Approach PMLA Adjudicating Authority First

The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea filed by Tamil Nadu Minister for Rural Development I Periyasamy and his family members challenging an ECIR registered against them by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case. The bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan noted that the parties had filed the plea without...

Calcutta High Court Orders Removal Of HSIL's “A Somany Enterprise” Trademark For Non-Use

The Calcutta High Court, exercising jurisdiction through its Intellectual Property Rights Division, by an order passed by Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur, has directed the removal of the registered device mark “A Somany Enterprise” from the Register of Trade Marks on the ground of non-use.The Court allowed a trademark rectification petition filed by Somany Ceramics Limited under Sections 47 and 57 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999, seeking removal of the registered device mark “A Somany Enterprise”,...

CRS, NLU Delhi Invites Submissions For Inaugural Issue Of Law Economics And Policy Review

The Centre for Regulatory Studies (CRS) at National Law University, Delhi, is inviting submissions for its inaugural edition (Volume I) flagship journal.About the Centre for Regulatory StudiesCentre for Regulatory Studies is a pioneering institution established to address a critical national need: building robust regulatory capacity for a modern market economy. The Centre was established through the visionary leadership of Dr. M.S. Sahoo, the eminent former Chairperson of the Insolvency and...