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'Will Cooperate With Police': YouTuber Dr Sangram Patil Booked Over FB Post On PM Modi Assures Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court on Monday permitted UK-based Doctor and YouTuber Dr Sangram Patil to file an affidavit assuring that even if he is allowed to return to United Kingdom, he will continue co-operating with the ongoing investigations against him for his allegedly defamatory social media post against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders. Single-judge Justice Ashwin Bhobe...
Madhya Pradesh High Court Weekly Roundup: March 16 - March 22, 2026
Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 78 to 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 83Nominal IndexHemant Yogi v State of Madhya Pradesh 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 78Dayashankar Pandey v His Excellency, the President of India 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 79Ram Swaroop v Harimohan Singh 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 80Rameshchandra v State of Madhya Pradesh 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 81Ashok Gurjar v State of Madhya Pradesh 2026 LiveLaw (MP) 82Sarang Raghuwanshi...
Senior Citizens Act Not Retrospective, Applies Only To Post-2007 Property Transfers: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court has held that provisions of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act 2007 would be applicable only to property transfers made after the commencement of the Act. The bench of Chief Justice SA Dharmadhikari and Justice G Arul Murugan made it clear that the act cannot be given a retrospective application. The bench noted that Section 23 of the...
ED v Mamata Banerjee : Live Updates From Supreme Court Hearing
The Supreme Court to hear today ED's writ petition alleging that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and state police officers obstructed its search of the office of I-PAC, the political consultant of All India Trinamool Congress.A Bench of Justices PK Mishra and Justice NV Anjaria will hear the matter.Last week, the State opposed the maintainability of the writ petition, contending that allowing...
'Complete Absurdity': MP High Court Questions Sparse Wildlife Passage Under Proposed NH-46 Tiger Corridor, Summons Officials
The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday (March 23), summoned the National Tiger Conservation Authority and the National Board for Wildlife to explain the integrated landscape management plan proposed for the NH-46 Highway widening project, which crosses a critical wildlife corridor connecting Satpura and Melghat Tiger Reserves. The bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay...
Allahabad HC Orders Action Against 'Illegal' Advocate Chambers In Lucknow, Says Prior Notice Isn't A Must For Public Land Encroachment
Taking a serious view of massive illegal encroachments by advocates near the District and Sessions Court premises (Old High Court) in Lucknow, the Allahabad High Court has directed authorities to take appropriate action for the removal of the same. Though the Lucknow Nagar Nigam submitted that it would have to serve notices on the concerned persons to remove the encroachments, the High...
Exclusion In Section 2(2) HMA Not A License For Tribals To Practice Or Justify Polygamy Without Proven Tradition: MP High Court
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has clarified that the statotory exclusions provided to Scheduled Tribes under Section 2(2) of the Hindu Marraige Act, 1955 cannot be used to justify polygamy in absence of proven customary practices. The bench of Justice Vivek Jain observed;"The purpose of Section 2(2) of Hindu Marriage Act, 1956 is to protect the tribal traditions and beliefs. However, it cannot...
Predetermined Show-Cause Notice Vitiates Disciplinary Proceedings: Gauhati High Court Orders Reinstatement Of Police Personnel
The Gauhati High Court has held that a departmental proceeding cannot be sustained where the disciplinary authority shows a pre-determined mind at the very stage of issuing the first show cause notice, and where the enquiry is conducted in a manner contrary to law, rendering the process unfairJustice Rajesh Mazumdar observed, “…the words used in the first show cause notice like...
Punjab & Haryana High Court Stays Probe Against 32nd Avenue CEO Dhruv Dutt Sharma In Multiple FIRs Barring One Cheating Case
The Punjab and Haryana High Court last week stayed probe in multiple FIRs registered against Gurgaon's 32nd Avenue CEO Dhruv Dutt Sharma who has been accused of selling the same unit to several buyers. The high court however made clear that investigation in one FIR (FIR No.262 of 2025) lodged under IPC Sections 409(Criminal breach of trust by public servant or by banker, merchant or agent,...