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'No Material': Karnataka High Court Upholds Order Acquitting 8 Of Rioting Inside Mosque, Attacking Persons Offering Prayers
The Karnataka High Court recently upheld a trial court order which had acquitted eight men accused of rioting and attempt to murder persons inside a mosque who were offering prayers, observing that there was no material available against the accused persons. A division bench of Justice HP Sandesh and Justice Venkatesh Naik T in its order noted:"Though PWs.1 and 2 have deposed regarding...
GNLU To Organise 'Women At Work' International Conference On Women In The Unorganised Sector
The Centre for Women and Child Rights (CWCR), Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), is organising “Women at Work: An International Conference on Women in the Unorganised Sector” on 7–8 March 2026 at the GNLU campus, Gandhinagar.The Conference is being organised in collaboration with the Gender Resource Centre (GRC) & Department of Women and Child Development, Government of Gujarat.The two-day Conference seeks to create an action-oriented platform to deliberate on the structural challenges...
Posts To Be Delivered To Family When Addressee Is Deceased: Madras High Court Asks Ministry For Clarity On Delivery To Legal Heirs
The Madras High Court has clarified that when an addressee has died, the post that was addressed to him can be handed over to his/her family, without sending it back to the sender. The bench of Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava and Justice G Arul Murugan noted that there was confusion on the category of persons who could collect the article since it had not been defined under...
S.12(5) DV Act | Disposal Of Domestic Violence Plea Within 60 Days Not Practical But Long Adjournments Must Be Avoided: Orissa High Court
The Orissa High Court has said while it may not be practical for a Magistrate to decide Section 12(1) application under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, within statutory prescribed period of 60 days, however unnecessary and long adjournments should not be given to the parties.Under Section 12(1) an aggrieved person or a Protection Officer or any other person on behalf of...
Supreme Court Monthly Digest: January 2026
Administrative Law — Doctrine of Legitimate Expectation — Policy Change — Lack of Probity and Transparency - Service/Education Law — Alteration of the "Rules of the Game" - Supreme Court found that the policy modification was prompted by an undisclosed representation from the father of a high-ranking candidate who failed to disclose his private interest - Such a change, introduced...
16th Government Law College International Law Summit 2026 | Keynote Address, Lectures, Panel Discussion, JDC 2026 & TAC 2026
The Students for the Promotion of International Law (SPIL), Mumbai, at the Government Law College, Mumbai has announced the 16th GLC International Law Summit 2026 sponsored by Rungta Steel, scheduled to be held on 6th & 7th March 2026 at the Government Law College, Mumbai.About Government Law College, MumbaiGovernment Law College, Mumbai, was established in 1855. It stands as Asia's oldest and one of India's most distinguished institutions for legal education. For generations, it has served...
Siblings Not Entitled To Compensation For 'Loss Of Love' In Motor Accident Death Claims: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court has reaffirmed that siblings of a deceased accident victim are not entitled to compensation under a separate head of “loss of love and affection”.Justice Shoba Annamma Eapen was delivering the judgment in an appeal filed by the mother and siblings of a 21-year-old man who died in a road accident in 2014. While the Court enhanced compensation under the head of loss...
Asset Reconstruction Companies In India: High-Handedness, Judicial Reckoning, And Regulatory Reform
Anyone of us who have appeared before a Debt Recovery Tribunal, a High Court, or the NCLT in a Non-Performing Asset matter has, at some point, encountered an Asset Reconstruction Company on the other side of the record. They arrived with an ambitious mandate: to clean the Indian banking system's distressed debt backlog through professional, non-adjudicatory enforcement, free from the delays that frustrated bank-led recovery for decades. The Narasimham Committee I (1991) and Narasimham Committee...
Delay In Lodging Complaint No Ground To Grant Acquittal: Karnataka High Court Upholds Order Convicting Man For Son-In-Law's Murder
The Karnataka High Court has recently observed that mere delay in lodging the complaint by the complainant cannot be a ground to acquit the accused in a murder case, as the immediate concern of the victim's family would be save the injured instead of approaching the police. In doing so the court upheld a trial court order convicting a man for murder and sentencing him to life, who had...
Another PIL Moved In Kerala High Court Seeking Removal Of 'Kerala' From Film Title 'Kerala Story 2'
A public interest litigation has been moved before the Kerala High Court seeking a direction to re-title the movie 'The Kerala Story 2: Goes Beyond', which was released last week, so as not to include the words “Kerala”/ “Keralam”.The plea is preferred by two persons, one of whom is a retired social science teacher. The other is a Muslim woman and an advocate practicing before the...
Allahabad High Court Monthly Digest: February 2026
[NOMINAL INDEX PROVIDED AT THE BOTTOM]ORDERS/JUDGMENTS OF THE MONTHSimultaneous Issuance Of Recovery & Arrest Warrants For Maintenance Arrears Is Illegal: Allahabad High Court, Says Practice Must StopCase title - Mohammad Shahzad vs. State Of U.P. And 2 Others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 50Case citation: 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 50The Allahabad High Court has held that the routine practice prevalent in...