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Delhi High Court Bar Association Hosts Third Edition Of 'Fight For Justice Awards 2025' To Honour Litigants
The Delhi High Court Bar Association hosted the third edition of “Fight for Justice Awards 2025” to honour litigants for their cases which have resulted in landmark rulings.The awards were presented by Supreme Court judge, Justice N Kotiswar Singh as the Chief Guest of the function. The award ceremony was hosted at The Stein Auditorium, Indian Habitat Centre. The organizers of the event...
Digitalisation, GIS Mapping And Tech Consultancy For Jal Jeevan Mission Are 'Pure Services', Exempt From GST: West Bengal AAR
The West Bengal Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) has held that digitalisation, GIS mapping, monitoring, data management and technical consultancy services provided to the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in connection with water supply schemes qualify as “pure services” and are exempt from Goods and Services Tax (GST) under Notification No. 12/2017. The...
'Serious Threat To Nation': Rajasthan High Court Rejects Pleas Of Life Convicts Seeking Premature Release In 1993 Train Bomb Blast Case
Rajasthan High Court dismissed the petitions filed by four convicts of the December 1993 serial train Bomb Blast cases presently serving life sentence, who had sought premature release and had challenged the rejection of their representations by the State Government. The division bench of Justice Sudesh Bansal and Justice Bhuwan Goyal observed that while exercising power of judicial review,...
If Not Punished, Sociopaths Like Him May Repeat Offence: Karnataka High Court Convicts Man For Making False Allegations Against Judges
The Karnataka High Court recently convicted one K. Dhananjay, for criminal contempt and sentenced him to four month imprisonment along with fine of Rs. 2,000 for making scandalous and unfounded allegations against judges and judicial institution as a whole. The court directed him to be taken into custody forthwith.The accused was convicted for making false and unsubstantiated allegations...
Punjab RERA Directs ATS to Refund ₹57 Lakh to Two Homebuyers In ATS Golf Meadows Life Style Project
The Punjab Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) has ordered ATS Estates Private Limited and ATS Infrastructure Limited to refund a little over Rs 57 lakh to two homebuyers, after finding that the developer did not live up to its contractual promises concering the ATS Golf Meadows Lifestyle project in Mohali .The order was passed on December 2, 2025, by a coram headed by Chairman Rakesh...
Fresh Arbitration Notice is Mandatory For Second Round Of Arbitration After Earlier Award Is Set Aside: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has held that a fresh arbitration notice under section 21 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Arbitration Act) is mandatory for initiating a second round of arbitral proceedings after an earlier arbitral award has been set aside even when the award was declared as a nullity due to invalid appointment of the arbitrator. Justice S. Manu while...
Termination Of MNIT Lecturer For Consensual Relationship With Student 'Shockingly Disproportionate': Allahabad High Court
Recently, the Allahabad High Court has set aside a 19 year old dismissal order of a professor of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad who was accused of emotional and physical harassment by an ex-student.Observing that the case could at best be of a false promise to marriage as the complainant had been in a relationship with the professor for 3 years after leaving...
Delhi High Court Protects Personality Rights Of Actor R Madhavan; Restrains Sale Of Commercial Merchandise, Obscene Material
The Delhi High Court on Monday (December 22) passed an interim injunction order protecting the personality rights of actor R Madhavan, including restrain on the sale of commercial merchandise using his image and likeness as well as takedown of obscene material. Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora passed the ad interim injunction order protecting the actor's personality rights, and...
Successive Bail Plea Maintainable Even Without Change In Circumstances: J&K&L High Court
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has held that a change of circumstances is not a prerequisite for the High Court to entertain a successive bail application where earlier bail pleas have been rejected by an inferior criminal court.Emphasising that the High Court, as a superior court, is not fettered by such technical limitations, Justice Sanjay Dhar granted bail to an accused in...
Bombay High Court Quashes ₹173.72 Cr Arbitral Award Against Thermax, Holds Arbitrator's Findings To Be Based On Lack Of Evidence
The Bombay High Court has recently set aside an arbitral award that mandated engineering giant Thermax Limited to pay ₹173 crore in favor of Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (RCF). The award primarily directed payments towards the additional costs RCF incurred for power due to failure of gas turbine generators. Considering a challenge under Section 34 of the Arbitration...
Chairman's Power Of General Supervision Can't Override Service Rules: MP High Court Quashes Order For Clerk's Out Of Turn Promotion
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Friday (December 19), set aside the orders for out of turn promotion of a Lower Division Clerk, to the post of Assistant Secretary and subsequently Secretary of the MP State Bar Council, despite scoring low marks in the examination and being unqualified. In doing so, the court observed that she was appointed to the post of Assistant Secretary and Secretary...
