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Senior Citizens Playing Cards In Their House Booked Under Gambling Act, Bombay High Court Suggests Them To Settle With Complainants
The Bombay High Court on Monday (November 24) stayed proceedings in an FIR lodged against five senior citizens booked for allegedly playing cards in their house under the Bombay Prevention of Gambling Act.The court was hearing a writ petition seeking quashing of the FIR lodged under Sections 4 (which punishes keeping of a common gaming house) and 12(A) of the Act. Section 12A states that a...
'Would Be Menace To Society If Released': SIT Opposes Before Karnataka High Court Prajwal Revanna's Plea To Suspend Sentence In Rape Case
Opposing convicted former MP Prajwal Revanna's plea for suspension of life sentence and grant of bail in a rape case, the Special Investigation Team told the Karnataka High Court on Monday (November 24) that if enlarged on bail he is not only likely to indulge in similar offences but would also be a menace to the society.Special Public Prosecutor Professor Ravivarma Kumar arguing for the...
IBC | Section 7 Application Can't Be Rejected For Curable Defects In Affidavit : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (November 24) observed that procedural defects in a Section 7 insolvency application under IBC, such as a defective affidavit, are curable and cannot be used as a basis for summary dismissal. “Mere filing of a 'defective' affidavit in support of an application would, however, not render the very application non est and liable to be rejected on that ground as it...
'Absence Of Rules Can't Justify A Ban; State Can't Go Beyond Motor Vehicles Act': Aggregators, Bike-Taxi Owners To Karnataka High Court
The Karnataka High Court today resumed hearing the appeals filed by transport aggregators [Rapido, Uber and Ola] against a single-judge order that had barred bike-taxi operations in the State until guidelines were framed under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Before a bench of Chief Justice Vibhu Bakhru and Justice C M Joshi, Ola, Uber and a group of bike taxi owners, primarily contended...
Krishna Janmabhoomi Case | Dispute In Supreme Court Over Which Suit Represents Entire Devotees
In the Krishna Janmabhoomi Shahi Idgah Mosque dispute, the plaintiffs in one suit (filed seeking the removal of the mosque from the contested site) have approached the Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad High Court allowing the plaintiffs in another suit to be treated as representatives of the entire devotees of Lord Krishna.Altogether, there are 18 suits on the issue, which the...
Police Can't Refuse To Register FIR On Land Dispossession Complaints By SC/ST Community By Terming It As Civil Dispute: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently noted that the police could not refuse to register FIR based on complaint made by members belonging to Scheduled caste and Scheduled tribe communities alleging dispossession of land, by terming it as civil disputes. Justice Victoria Gowri noted that as per Section 18A of the Schedules castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989,...
'Investigating Agency Has No Power To Debit Freeze Bank Account U/S 106 BNSS': Bombay High Court
The Bombay High Court has held that an investigating agency has no authority to debit freeze or attach a bank account under Section 106 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS). The Court observed that Section 106 merely empowers the police to seize property for the purpose of investigation, whereas attachment of proceeds of crime can be effected only under Section 107 upon an...
Delhi High Court Upholds Divorce, Says Wife's Claim Of 'Not Recalling' Overnight Stays With Another Man Invites Judicial Suspicion
The Delhi High Court recently dismissed an appeal preferred by a wife, challenging the divorce decree passed over her alleged extra marital relationship with two men.While the wife sought to explain her prolonged communications with them as 'professional relationship', the Family Court had found she failed to explain her overnight stays with them.Agreeing, a division bench of Justices...
'Right To Education Can't Be Hindered': MP High Court Orders Admission Of Type-1 Diabetic Student; Cites Examples Of Global Sporting Icons
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the Laxmi Bai National Institute of Physical Education to grant admission to a student with Type 1 diabetes in the B.P.Ed course, noting that his exclusion was arbitrary and discriminatory. The division bench of Justice Anand Pathak and Justice Pushpendra Yadav further emphasised that the right to pursue education cannot be hindered or forfeited due to...
Tax Weekly Round-Up: November 17 - November 23, 2025
SUPREME COURTIncome Tax Act | Rejection Of Settlement Application Does Not Affect Assessee's Right To Contest Assessment Order On Merits : Supreme CourtCause Title: THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX-1 SURAT VERSUS M. D. INDUSTRIES PVT LTD.Rejection of an assessee's settlement application by the Income Tax Settlement Commission without offering settlement terms does not bar the...
Dismissal Of SLP Does Not Attract Doctrine Of Merger Though Reasons Stated May Operate As Declaration Of Law Under Article 141: J&K&L High Court
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has observed that dismissal of a Special Leave Petition (SLP), whether by a speaking or non-speaking order, does not lead to merger of the impugned order with the Supreme Court's order. The Court observed that only when leave is granted and appellate jurisdiction is exercised does the doctrine of merger apply.The Court was hearing two review...