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Kerala High Court Closes Law Aspirant's Plea For Transgender Reservation In Law Colleges After She Secures Admission
The Kerala High Court on Thursday (22 January) closed the plea by a law aspirant seeking reservation under the transgender category for admission to the Integrated Five Year LL.B Course in Government Law College, Kozhikode.Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas, closed the petition when it was informed that the petitioner has acquired admission at the Government Law College, KozhikodeThe petitioner, in...
'Foundation Has Vanished': Karnataka High Court Stays ED Probe Against Gameskraft Citing Closure Report In Predicate FIR
The Karnataka High Court in an interim order on Thursday (January 22) stayed ED's investigation against Gameskraft Technologies after a closure report was filed in the FIR registered for the predicate offence, noting that once FIR is closed the foundation for ECIR had vanished. The plea seeks quashing of ED's November 2025 Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) and all...
NDPS Act | Calcutta High Court Suspends Conviction After Noting Raiding Officer Mixed Seized Contraband
The Calcutta High Court, on Thursday (January 22), suspended the conviction of two men under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, noting that the Raiding Officer/ Office making inventory had mixed the seized contraband packets even though the law does not authorise the same. The bench of Justice Arijit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray observed,"There is no material to...
Supreme Court Rejects Taekwondo Federation Of India's Plea Against Delhi HC Bar On Acting As National Sports Federation
The Supreme Court yesterday refused to interfere with the decision of the Delhi High Court, which held that until the Union Government decides on the recognition of the Taekwondo Federation of India as a National Sports Federation (NSF), neither the Taekwondo Federation of India nor Taekwondo India will act as the NSF. To briefly state, the issue pertains to the recognition of 'Taekwondo...
No Requirement To Issue Pre-Cognizance Notice U/S 223 BNSS To Accused In Cheque Bounce Complaint: Gauhati High Court
Relying on the Supreme Court's decision in Sanjabij Tari vs. Kishore S. Borcar 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 952, the Gauhati High Court has held that a Magistrate is not required to issue notice to the accused at the pre-cognizance stage in a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act. The Court clarified that issuing such notice by invoking the first proviso to Section 223(1) of...
Student With Benchmark Disability Entitled To Fee Waiver Despite Not Being Admitted Under PwD Quota: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently came to the aid of a law student with chronic schizophrenia by directing the Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University to provide fee waiver, as long as the student was within the 40% benchmark disability. Justice Bharatha Chakravarthy noted that the Tamil Nadu Government and the university had introduced the welfare scheme, providing a fee waiver for...
Excise Policy: Court Acquits Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal In Cases Over Skipping ED Summons
A Delhi Court today acquitted former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal in cases concerning non compliance of Enforcement Directorate's summons in relation to the alleged liquor policy scam. Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate Paras Dalal of Rouse Avenue Courts pronounced the verdict. A detailed order is awaited. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had moved Court...
Staff Crunch In Govt Schools: MP High Court Asks State To Place Teachers Vacancy Data On Record
The Madhya Pradesh High Court, on Tuesday (January 20), directed the State Government to file an affidavit showing the number of teaching posts lying vacant in government schools, in a public interest litigation claiming that about 600 government schools were inadequately staffed or had no teaching staff. The division bench of Chief Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva and Justice Vinay Saraf...
Is An Insolvency Professional A 'Public Servant' Under The Prevention Of Corruption Act, 1988?
India's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), relies on Insolvency Professionals (IPs) or Resolution Professionals (RPs) as neutral persons for distressed entities and creditors to maximise the output value of stressed assets. IPs' discretion over billions in assets is fuelled with multiple corruption allegations. Hence, to invoke the stringent Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (PC...
Allahabad High Court Quashes Summons Against Directors Of Larsen & Toubro In Air Pollution Case
The Allahabad High Court recently quashed the summons against M/s Larsen & Toubro and its directors in case registered for violation of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, on grounds that the Magistrate failed to apply his mind on the documents placed before it.Applicants include Whole-time Director & Sr. Executive Vice Presidents for different branches of...
Release On Probation In Criminal Case No Ground To Reduce Punishment In Departmental Proceedings : Supreme Court
Observing that release on probation does not wipe out the stigma of conviction, the Supreme Court set aside the Madras High Court's decision that reduced a workman's punishment merely because he was granted the benefit of probation in criminal proceedings. “…the High Court has fell into error by observing that the conviction of the workman herein shall not be a disqualification and...