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...

Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 16 To February 22, 2026

NOMINAL INDEX Abdul Qadir And Another v. State of U.P. 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 80 Sonu And 5 Others vs. State of U.P. and Another 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 81 Jai Kumar Aggarwal vs. Directorate General Of Gst Intelligence And 3 Others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 82 Khush R Goel vs Union of India and 3 others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 83 Smt Mugga Devi And 4 Others v. Makkhan Singh And 2 Others 2026...

Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: February 23 To March 1, 2026

NOMINAL INDEXNoori And Another v. State Of U.P. And 4 Others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 92Raees vs State of UP 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 93In Re vs. Shri Hari Narayan Pandey Advocate 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 94Hasnen vs Union of India and 5 others and connected petitions 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 95Kirti Verma vs State of UP 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 96Sachin Arya @ Sachin Bhartiya And Another vs. State Of Uttar Pradesh And 4...

Madras High Court Directs Disciplinary Action Against District Collector For Remaining Ex-Parte In Govt Land Suit

The Madras High Court has called for disciplinary action against the District Collector of Ramanathapuram for failing to appear in a case, which ultimately led to an ex parte order being passed against government property. Justice N Senthilkumar remarked that when valuable government property was involved in litigation, the government could not remain a mute spectator. The court...

Single-Use Plastic Ban: Rajasthan High Court Seeks Response Of Excise Department In PIL Over Tender For 36-Micron Plastic Liquor Labels

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notice to Rajasthan Government's Excise Department in a PIL filed against issuance of a tender for procurement of around 600 crore labels of non-collectible and non-recyclable plastic 36-micron.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Baljinder Singh Sandhu sought response of the department in the petition alleging that...

High Court Issues Notice On PIL Against Rajasthan Land Revenue Amendment Act, Actions Under Section 100A Subject To Final Outcome

The Rajasthan High Court has issued notices to the State of Rajasthan, particularly the Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (“RIICO”), in relation to a PIL challenging the constitutional validity of Rajasthan Land Revenue (Amendment & Validation) Act, 2025. The division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Baljinder Singh...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest January 11 - 20, 2026

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996; Section 11(6-A) — Appointment of Arbitrators — Scope of Judicial Review — The Supreme Court or High Court, while considering a Section 11 application, must strictly confine its examination to the existence of an arbitration agreement - The use of the word "examination" indicates a limit to the court's jurisdiction, intended for a...

Financial Discipline Of Devaswom Board 'Below Par': Kerala High Court Directs Production Of Global Ayyappa Sangamam Records

The Kerala High Court on Monday (March 2) directed the production of all records relating to the Global Ayyappa Sangamam conducted on September 29, 2025.The Division Bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan V. and Justice K.V. Jayakumar was considering a suo motu petition initiated on the basis of the Sabarimala Special Commissioner's report regarding the audited accounts of the Travancore...