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2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1021| RAJENDRA BIHARI LAL AND ANR. v. STATE OF U.P. AND ORS
Click the link below to read the report :'Criminal Law Not Tool To Harass Innocents' : Supreme Court Quashes FIRs Against SHUATS University VC Under UP Religious Conversion Act'Religious Gatherings Or Charity Not Offences Under UP Conversion Act' : Supreme Court Quashes Cases Against SHUATS University VCUP Anti-Conversion Law Puts Onerous Conditions, Mandate To Publish Details Of Converted...
Retirees Completing 12 Months Service By 30th June Entitled To Annual Increment For Pension Revision: P&H HC
A Division bench of the Punjab & Haryana High Court comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rohit Kapoor held that employees retiring on 30th June are entitled to the benefit of annual increment if they completed 12 months of satisfactory service. Background Facts The petitioners were employees of the State of Haryana. They sought quashing of Rule 10 of the...
No Coercive Action Against Protesters Opposing SC's Stray Dog Order: Delhi Police To High Court
The Delhi Police has informed the Delhi High Court that no coercive action will be taken against the individuals who protested and expressed dissent against the Supreme Court order directing the civic authorities to clear localities of stray dogs. The police told Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma that no coercive action is being contemplated against nine individuals against whom FIR was registered...
'Dock Identification Without Test Identification Parade Unreliable When Witness Had No Familiarity With Accused' : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court recently acquitted three persons convicted of murdering a minor, holding that the prosecution had failed to establish their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The Court extended the benefit of doubt to the accused, observing that they were strangers to the key witness and that their dock identification, unsupported by any Test Identification Parade ("TIP"),...
Chhattisgarh High Court Takes Suo Motu Cognisance Of Blocking Of Bridge Pathway, Says Encroachers' Posing Direct Challenge To State
The Chhattisgarh High Court has taken suo-motu cognisance of a news item published in a Hindi daily which reported that the Dayalband Bridge— under which 15 families were living for 40 years, along with a demarcated footpath, was blocked by few people, who, having failed to initially purchase the land, erected an iron gate and boundary wall with a threatening note stating that those...
State Should Conduct Itself In Transparent Manner, Not Show Bias In Public Employment: Madras High Court
The Madras High Court recently observed that State, as an employer, should conduct itself in a fair and transparent manner and give an opportunity to all candidates to fulfil their aspirations of securing a government job. Justice T Vinod Kumar highlighted that the State should not show favouritism and bias in favour of any candidate by altering the records. Noting that the State...
2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1018 | JANE KAUSHIK v UNION OF INDIA AND ORS
Click the links below to access the report :Supreme Court Awards Compensation To Transwoman Teacher Dismissed Over Gender Identity; Forms Committee On Transgender RightsTransgender Persons Act Reduced To Dead Letter; Inaction Seems Intentional : Supreme Court Criticises Apathy Of Union & StatesTransgender Persons Need Not Take Employer's Permission For Sex Reassignment Surgery Unless Work...
